(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.

(VOVWORLD) - 95 maps and 4 atlases confirming Vietnamese sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos are on display in Binh Thuan province in the south central coastal region of Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang has repeated Vietnam’s protest against the operation of a Chinese oil survey vessel and escort ships in Vietnam’s exclusive zone and continental shelf as a violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty.

(VOVWORLD) - An Indian scholar has condemned China’s intimidation of smaller countries in an attempt to force them to abandon their legitimate legal rights.

(VOVWORLD) - An established Indonesian observer has called on the international community to condemn China’s unilateral provocative actions that violate international law regarding EEZs and continental shelves of East Sea claimant countries from Southeast Asia.

(VOVWORLD) - Maintaining peace, stability, and freedom of navigation and aviation, respect for the rule of law, sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction as defined in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are shared interests and a joint responsibility of the international community. Professor Dr. Pham Quang Minh, Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, has more to say about the issue.

(VOVWORLD) - There has been widespread international condemnation of China’s illegal activities in the Tu Chinh reef, internationally known as Vanguard Bank, in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East Sea.

(VOVWORLD) -Members of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) must adhere to this convention and object to violations of the document, an Australian expert has said while talking about China’s ongoing infringement upon Vietnam’s waters.