07:17 | 16/01/2021
Defense Minister of Japan Nobuo Kishi on January 14 has hailed the UK’s plan to dispatch an aircraft carrier strike group to waters in the western Pacific.
16:10 | 14/01/2021
China launched several anti-ship ballistic missiles in the South China Sea last August. However, according to Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, the fire did not fall into the sea but hit moving ships.
06:43 | 13/01/2021
Nguyen Thanh Tong, former Vice President of the Vietnamese Community in France, has just published "Homeland's Sea and Islands" - a photo book with nearly 200 pages. The book consists of unforgettable memories of the 2016 visit to Truong Sa archipelago and DK1 rigs.
07:31 | 09/01/2021
Vietnam and China agreed to step up negotiations on the delimitation of the waters beyond the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin and cooperation for mutual development in the Bien Dong Sea (South China Sea).
11:45 | 01/01/2021
China has just announced a series of exercises in the Bien Dong Sea that lasted from the end of December 2020 to early January 2021.
07:13 | 31/12/2020
The PLA Navy is holding three 10-day exercises simultaneously after year of delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
14:56 | 30/12/2020
The Chinese government has just announced the draft maritime law and plans to pass it soon. This may be a warning sign of increasing maritime encroachments from China ships to countries in the Bien Dong (South China) Sea and the East China Sea in the coming time.
07:54 | 27/12/2020
China's ongoing campaign in the South China Sea (known in Vietnam as Bien Dong Sea) - the vital waterway, in spite of the COVID-29 pandemic, has prompted blowback from Southeast Asia and beyond.
16:48 | 25/12/2020
The U.S. Navy has knocked back a Chinese claim that their forces chased a U.S. warship from disputed waters in the Bien Dong Sea (South China Sea).
09:30 | 21/12/2020
The year 2020 has seen many countries become more outspoken about the Bien Dong Sea (known internationally as the South China Sea) through diplomatic notes exchanged at the UN.
18:44 | 18/12/2020
According to the Spokesperson for Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vietnam is verifying information about the abnormally high concentration of radiation iodine-129 on Bien Dong Sea.
09:39 | 17/12/2020
Delegates in the 10th ASEAN Maritime Forum (AMF), held December 15 commented that maritime cooperation within ASEAN and ASEAN-led mechanisms have reaped significant outcomes despite COVID-19.
07:16 | 15/12/2020
The ASEAN Maritime Forum (AMF) provides a platform for ASEAN to review maritime cooperation over the past decade and suggest orientations and measures to further boost cooperation in the near future.
08:47 | 08/12/2020
Beijing has spent years turning islands and reefs in the South China Sea (called Bien Dong Sea in Vietnam) into military bases and airstrips - but such China-invaded territory could be vulnerable to be attacked and nigh indefensible in the event of war.
07:44 | 07/12/2020
The UK is planning to send an aircraft carrier strike group to the western Pacific as soon as early 2021, while India is eyeing the development of a third aircraft carrier.
07:57 | 28/11/2020
The first of China’s new Type 075 landing helicopter dock (LHD) appears to have recently embarked on a second round of sea trials—this time in the South China Sea (called Bien Dong Sea in Vietnam).
23:22 | 27/11/2020
Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has joined forces with Europe and made a veiled swipe at China overnight.
14:57 | 24/11/2020
U.S. national security adviser Robert O’Brien on Monday assured the Philippines and Vietnam, countries that Washington would fight to keep the Indo-Pacific region free and open.
08:55 | 20/11/2020
China’s exercises in the western part of the Leizhou Peninsula from November 17-30 do not affect Vietnam’s waters.
13:22 | 19/11/2020
Chinese game “Panda’s tour around the world” was removed from Google Play and App Store as it included a map showing China's illegal claims over the Bien Dong Sea (South China Sea), also known as the so-called "nine-dash line".
