VOV.VN - A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on April 8 Vietnam is following with keen interest the latest developments in the Whitsun Reef of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago where China has deployed vessels.

Citizen protection is a priority in Vietnam's external policy in particular as well as in the policies of the country’s Party and State in general, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang.

The south-central province of Binh Thuan has asked localities to promptly complete the installation of Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) on all fishing vessels and acquire the necessary data as part of efforts to tackle illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has urged localities to adopt drastic measures to fight irregular, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

A shortage of personnel has been creating problems for coastal areas in supervising fishing boats, an agricultural official told a conference on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing held recently in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa.

VOV.VN - A low-pressure zone is currently building up in the East Sea area and is likely to develop into a tropical depression over the course of the next 24 hours, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.