VOV.VN - In its external policy, Vietnam always considers Japan to be a strategic, long-term and leading important partner, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc told Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide during their phone talks on May 11.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology has welcomed collaboration efforts with the Akademik Oparin research vessel from the Russian Academy of Sciences which came to conduct a joint scientific survey in the East Sea.

Deputy Foreign Minister and head of Vietnam's ASEAN SOM Nguyen Quoc Dung attended the 34th ASEAN-US Dialogue held in the form of videoconference on May 6.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on May 5 voiced grave concerns over China’s unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East China Sea and the East Sea, during a meeting of the G7 foreign ministers in London, the UK.

The international community has voiced protest against China's new moves in the East Sea, including its enforcement of a fishing ban on the sea area covering part of the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.

About 12-14 storms could hit the East Sea this year, with around half expected to directly affect Vietnam’s mainland, a meteorologist has said.

VOV.VN - Vietnam on April 29 rejected China’s unilateral fishing ban in waters that include parts of Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf and Hoang Sa (Paracel) islands in the East Sea.

International public opinion has criticized the Coast Guard Law of China, saying that China uses the law to legalise its coast guard force’s use of violence to serve the country’s unilateral sovereignty claim in the East Sea (also known as the South China Sea).

VOV.VN - Pham Quang Hieu, assistant to the Foreign Minister and Dato' Amran Bin Mohamed Zin, deputy secretary general for Bilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, on April 28 co-chaired the second version of the Senior Officials' Strategic Dialogue via an online platform.

VOV.VN - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his confidence that an official visit to Vietnam by Chinese State Councillor and Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Wei Fenghe will make positive contributions to the relations between both nations.