The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was adopted 30 years ago in Montego Bay, Jamaica, marking an enormous success of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son has stressed the significance of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in an article on the occasion of the convention’s 30th anniversary, which falls on December 10. 

The Korean Peninsula has become tense since the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced the imminent launch of a long-range rocket carrying earth-observation satellite.

(VOV) - Vietnam has protested China’s recent violations of its sovereignty and asked the neighbour to respect its sovereignty.

The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has raised its objection over an incident when Chinese fishing vessels broke off the cable of the group’s seismic survey ship, the Binh Minh 02.

(VOV) - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi insists that his newly approved Constitutional Declaration will be invalid once a new constitution is approved by a referendum.

(VOV) - Palestinians are hopeful of raising their status when the 193-member UN organization will vote on Palestine’s application to be an observer member state on November 29.

The central city of Danang has received a collection of 90 maps published between 1826 and 1980, 10 of which indicate the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes belong to Vietnam.

ASEAN leaders are fully aware that this is the moment when extraordinary efforts are needed at both regional and national levels, in order to create breakthroughs towards building an ASEAN Community by 2015.

(VOV) - Ten years after ASEAN and China signed the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC), bilateral and multilateral dialogues have been organised to solve the contentious issue. Yet, peaceful settlement remains a major challenge.