(VOVWORLD) - Experts on Asian security have commented on the September 16 note verbale addressed to the UN by France, Germany, and the UK (E3), who expressed their opposition to China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea (called the East Sea in Vietnam).

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Defense held a video training conference on Friday on the Law on the Vietnam Coast Guard which was adopted in 2018 and came into force last July.

(VOVWORLD) - France, Germany, and the UK expressed their opposition to China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea (called the East Sea in Vietnam) in a note verbale addressed to the UN on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang has reiterated Viet Nam’s consistent view that all activities conducted in its Hoang Sa (Paracel) or Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago without its permission violate Vietnam’s sovereignty over the two archipelagos.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and China will mark 20 years of signing their Land Border Treaty and 10 years of implementing three legal documents on land border in Vietnam’s border city of Mong Cai on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang on Thursday commented on Chinese media’s video clips posted about China’s recent drills and deployment of fighters to Subi reef in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

(VOVWORLD) - China has recently stepped up its illegal claims in the South China Sea (known as the East Sea in Vietnam) while the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic. But a number of countries have voiced their support for freedom of navigation, rejected China’s claims in the East Sea, and called for international law to be upheld.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang has repeated Vietnam’s full legal grounds and historical evidence asserting its sovereignty over Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos.

(VOVWORLD) -Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian has opposed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Twitter on Tuesday condemning Chinese maritime claims in the East Sea as unlawful and dangerous.

(VOVWORLD) - The US has rejected China’s claims as inconsistent with international law, said Kelly Craft, US Ambassador to the UN in a letter sent Monday to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.