(VOVWORLD) - Experts reiterated the significance of respecting international regulations in settling disputes in the East Sea at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Since early July, a Chinese survey vessel and its armed escorts have encroached on Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. Vietnam has called on China to obey international law to maintain order, peace, and stability in the East Sea, and together with the international community has opposed China’s transgressions to protect Vietnam’s legitimate rights in the East Sea.

(VOVWORLD) -Assistant Secretary David Stilwell Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the US Department of State has delivered a statement on US policy in the Indo-Pacific region and implementation of the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018, or ARIA.

(VOVWORLD) -China’s deployment of survey vessel group Haiyang Dizhi-8 to the Tu Chinh reef (Vanguard Bank) in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) has violated international law, Associate Prof. Ryan Martinson of the US Naval War College said in an article recently published on the Republic of Korea’s m.newsprime.co.kr website.

(VOVWORLD) - China’s vessel Haiyang Yizhi 8 and its escorts encroaching in Vietnamese waters have revoked a backlash internationally. China’s activities have put the region and the world at risk and triggered a negative reaction.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam owns convincing evidence affirming its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago in the East Sea, said a Russian expert in foreign policy, defense and security

(VOVWORLD) - China's claims of sovereignty over most of the areas in the East Sea are invalid in legality and its unilateral actions in the sea are illegitimate, according to lawyer Bernard Insel, a Belgian expert of international maritime law.

(VOVWORLD) - China’s survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi-8 and its escorts have conducted regular oil exploration activities and expanded operations in the Tu Chinh-Vung May or Vanguard Bank region of Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. The Chinese vessels’ activities have seriously violated Vietnam’s sovereignty and jurisdiction rights as defined in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to which Vietnam and China are both signatories.

(VOVWORLD) -An exhibition titled “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – Historical and Legal Evidence” displaying maps and documentation on the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos opened in Long An specialized school on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Once again, Vietnam demands China to immediately stop its violations, withdraw its survey vessel group Haiyang Dizhi 8 from Vietnam’s territorial waters and not to repeat similar actions, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said.