In July, a U.S. Navy vessel paid a rare port call to Cam Ranh Bay, a strategic Vietnamese base facing the South China Sea. Asked about Vietnam’s island building, officials at the U.S. Embassy in ...

HANOI (Reuters) - The presence of Chinese bombers on the disputed Paracel islands in the South China Sea "jeopardises peace," Vietnam's foreign ministry said on Thursday, in another sign of ...

Recently, several prominent Chinese scholars have condemned Vietnam’s island expansion activities ... force to take over Vietnam’s Johnson South Reef, in 1988, Vietnam could not resist ...

Demonstrators clashed with police in Vietnam in protests against plans for new economic zones that some fear will be dominated by Chinese investors. Police reportedly detained more than a dozen ...

The South China Sea is bound by China ... when a new port began operation. The island Vietnam has developed the most is Barque Canada Reef. As of June 2022, it was an atoll with small strips ...

AMTI said Vietnam’s midsized outposts at Namyit Island, Pearson Reef and Sand Cay ... China claims most of the South China Sea and has established military outposts on artificial islands it ...

A tropical depression near Vietnam's Spratly Islands has intensified into a storm, internationally named Pabuk, but is expected to weaken as it approaches the coastline from Phu Yen to Ba Ria-Vung Tau ...

Vietnam has begun drilling for oil in an area of the resource-rich South China Sea also claimed by China. An oil industry consultant told the BBC that a drilling ship on contract to international ...