(VOVWORLD) -A Japanese coast guard patrol ship docked at Tien Sa Port on Monday for a six-day visit to the central city of Da Nang.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam navy coordinated with over 150 press agencies and received about 1,200 journalists who wrote over 28,000 stories about naval activities last year.

(VOVWORLD) - The central province of Binh Dinh is promoting aquaculture associated with marine ecotourism as a new model for local tourism development.

(VOVWORLD) - Fishermen in Canh Duong commune in the central province of Quang Binh hosted a whale worshiping ritual and launched a new fishing season last Sunday, the first full moon of the new lunar year.

(VOVWORLD) - On Tuesday officers and soldiers from Da Lon island, Truong Sa district, Khanh Hoa province, rescued a fishing boat from Phu Yen that was fishing in the waters of Sinh Ton island commune.

(VOVWORLD) - With a 125-kilometer coastline, Quang Nam province has developed sea tourism and shipping and tried to tap the potential of its coastal industry with an orientation of multi-sectoral development toward becoming a powerful marine locality that helps ensure defense security.

(VOVWORLD) - In the first days of the Year of the Cat, fishermen in the south central provinces began a new fishing season in the fishing grounds of the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes.

(VOVWORLD) - International cruise ship Mein Schiff 5 carrying nearly 2,400 tourists docked at SP-PSA port, PhuMy commune, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, on Thursday, the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

(VOVWORLD) -The Directorate of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says that Vietnam has favorable conditions to develop large-scale marine aquaculture. The country has 90,000 hectares of marine raising area with a total production estimated at 790 thousand tons.

(VOVWORLD) -The Submarine Brigade 189 and its submarines held a flag salute ceremony on the 1st day of the Lunar New Year, January 22, and kicked start all engines as a symbolic gesture to be ready to protect national sovereignty at sea.