(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.