After nearly 10 years from the commencement date, the Cat Linh – Ha Dong elevated railway has not been officially operated while the investment money continues to rise. This project “has tripled capital investment, 8 times extensions of construction and…
While Cambodian media reported that the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just sent a diplomatic note to the Vietnamese Embassy to request the removal of border guards camps built in the disputed border areas between the two countries, in…
China’s state-controlled CGTN News on April 18 announced: “the establishment of two important administrative units, historical, Nansha district (ie the Truong Sa or the Spratlys of Vietnam) and Xisha district (ie the Hoang Sa or the Paracels of Vietnam) is…
The East Sea (South China Sea or SCS) is “rising again” despite the COVID-19 pandemic still raging across five continents. Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Defense Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh recently spoke out about developments in the sea over…
Former Harvard Law professor, Professor Ta Van Tai, said that Vietnam is still avoiding the mention of Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s diplomatic note in 1958, a document that he thinks has caused Hanoi to “put its foot in its…
China still uses a letter from Vietnamee Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1958, saying this is evidence that Vietnam gave up its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracels) and the Truong Sa (Spratlys) in…
In the face of illegal sovereignty claims and aggressive Chinese actions in the East Sea (South China Sea), public opinion in Vietnam has repeatedly raised the issue of Vietnam’s challenging China in international courts. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)…
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on April 21 that it had “strictly dealt with” in response to what it called “Vietnam illegally claiming sovereignty in the South China Sea [East Sea in Vietnamese],” according to Reuters and The Beijing…
China’s administrative declarations and decisions, as well as legal actions on the so-called “Sansha City” and assertive actions in the field, have marked the strengthening of its claim of four groups of islands and reefs as Beijing’s new strategy to…
The situation of the East Sea (South China Sea) is still very hot by the continuous aggressive actions of China. After announcing the establishment of the “Xisha” and “Nansha” administrative bodies of the Hoang Sa (Paracels) and the Truong Sa…
