(VOV) - Parties involving in the East Sea disputes need to maintain an environment of peace, security and cooperation in the sea to exploit marine resources and protect the sea environment sustainably.

(VOV) - Vietnam has asked China to sign an agreement under which the naval forces of the two countries are not allowed to use force or threat to use force in settling disputes in the East Sea.

(VOV) - Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks with US President Barack Obama during his visit to the US. This summit is expected to increase mutual understanding and trust fostering both cooperation and competitiveness for global peace and stability.

Vietnamese and Chinese experts discussed the sea area off the Tonkin Gulf during the third expert-level negotiation round in Hanoi on May 29-30. 

(VOV) - An international peace conference will be held in Geneva next week on the initiative of Russia and the US to try to put an end to the prolonged crisis in Syria. There are signs that the conference will not yield the hoped-for results because of a lack of international consensus.

(VOV) - Vietnam has been implementing necessary measures to protect its fishermen in the East Sea, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has said.

(VOV) - Recent attacks on soldiers in France and the UK have put those countries on high alert and efforts are being made to clarify the reason behind those attacks.

(VOV) - Korean researchers provided valuable insight into the current East Sea-related disputes at a workshop held in Busan city on May 27.

(VOV) - A conference opened in London on May 23 to discuss the future of Europe in the global economy.

(VOV) - Despite beautiful diplomatic words and handshakes, the three-day visit to India by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has achieved very limited results. 

(VOV) - Relations between Russia and US have been strained by the arrest and expulsion of a US Embassy official in Moscow suspected of trying to recruit a Russian agent with a large amount of money. 

(VOV) - A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on May 15 criticised China’s 2013 fishing ban in the East Sea, including some of the waters of Vietnam.

(VOV) - A Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson has voiced Vietnam’s concern about the news that China on May 6 dispatched 32 fishing vessels to the area of the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

(VOV) - Two years ago, on May 2, the US jubilantly celebrated the death of Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist leader who masterminded the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington D.C, Al Qaeda branches in Pakistan and other countries continue to threaten security in the US and US interests around the world.

(VOV) - An international seminar on the sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos was held in the central city of  Quang Ngai on April 27.

Vietnam will adopt every suitable and necessary peaceful measure to defend sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction as well as its legal and legitimate national interests in the East Sea in accordance with the UN Charter, international law and the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 UNCLOS).

(VOV) -Working teams representing Vietnam and China have completed the third round of less contentious negotiations on cooperation at sea in Beijing.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Luong Thanh Nghi has described a recently-released map of the People’s Republic of China and China’s 12th five-year-plan for national oceanic development as totally valueless.

An international seminar spotlighting Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa ( Paracel) and Truong Sa ( Spratly) archipelagoes will take place from April 27-29 in Ly Son island district, home to the Hoang Sa Flotilla, which safeguarded the two archipelagoes hundreds of years ago. 

(VOV) - Vietnam is keen to resolve East Sea disputes, including those related to its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, through peaceful means in accordance with international law.

(VOV) - The US was shocked by a twin bombing in Copley square in the centre of Boston city, where tens of thousands of people and athletes from 96 countries were attending a marathon.

A representative from the Foreign Ministry’s National Boundary Commission on April 12 opposed China’s plan to bring tourists to Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.

The ASEAN Foreign Ministers reached a high consensus on the bloc’s viewpoint on the East Sea issue at their meetings on April 10-11, agreeing that the matter is the bloc’s mutual concern as it relates to peace, stability and security in the entire region.

(VOV) - After 7 years of negotiations, the United Nations has finally endorsed the historic Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), breaking a deadlock over the global trade of conventional weapons.

(VOV) - An East Sea workshop held in Paris on March 31 captured great attention from experts and researchers, especially Vietnamese postgraduates in France.

(VOV) - Vietnam has presented a report on claiming its territorial waters in the East Sea as well as legal documents proving its sovereignty over specific areas in the East Sea.

(VOV) - The People’s Committee of Hoang Sa (Paracel) island district in Danang City has launched its e-portal at: www.hoangsa.danang.gov.vn.

(VOV) - Syria’s political crisis has reached a turning point when President Bashar Al Assad’s government was voted out of the Arab League (AL) and Syria’s representative in the AL now is the opposition party.

(VOV) - The fifth summit of the emerging economies, BRICS, opened in Durban, South Africa, on March 26, aiming to chart a new course for common development goals.

Vietnam on March 25 protested China’s recent chase and firing at its fishing boat in the waters of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, and demanded the Chinese side to investigate the incident.