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  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has voiced its protest against China’s unilateral promulgation of a ban on fishing in the East Sea, the Vietnam News Agency reported.   Ministry spokesperson Luong Thanh Nghi on Friday told the press that Vietnamese representatives had met with Chinese side to protest...

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  The state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) said despite "complications" last year, it was business as usual for it in the East Sea. Phung Dinh Thuc, the chief executive of PetroVietnam, which explores and drills oil in the sea, said at a press conference Monday that thanks...

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Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung talks at the National Assembly meeting Friday. Vietnam holds sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands and will assert sovereignty through peaceful measures, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the National Assembly Friday. According to Dung, the country has...

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President Truong Tan Sang (L) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Nov 12, 2011. Vietnamese and Chinese leaders agreed at a meeting on Saturday that the East Sea territorial disputes will be solved through peaceful talks. Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang and his Chinese counterpart...

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President Truong Tan Sang (L) meets with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Hawaii on Nov. 10, 2011. Vietnam always attaches importance to relations with the United States as a leading strategic partner, President Truong Tan Sang said Thursday during his meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Honolulu,...

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  More agreements between related parities are needed to prevent conflicts in the East Sea, experts said at an international conference recently organized in Hanoi. According to a report published in Saigon Tiep Thi early this week, at the third international conference on the East Sea, Professor Leszek Buszynski...

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Picture by the Vietnam News Agency showing live fire drills June 14 on Phan Vinh Island in the Truong Sa (Spratly) Island chain in Vietnam's East Sea. An international conference on the East Sea, also known as South China Sea, opened in Hanoi Friday, with the participation of experts from countries throughout the world....

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Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (L) and Philippine President Benigno Aquino agreed to boost maritime cooperation in the East Sea. Vietnam and the Philippines have agreed to boost maritime cooperation for the purposes of maintaining peace, security and free navigation of the East Sea. During his three-day state visit to...

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Vietnam foreign ministry’s spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi. Vietnam had denied claims made in the foreign media that it has withdrawn from the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) by recently agreeing with China on ground rules to resolve sea issues. At the foreign ministry’s periodical press...

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A Google map wrongly following China's bogus claims to much of the East Sea, including Vietnamese territory and waters. Google’s web mapping service has again falsely depicted Vietnamese territory as belonging to China. In August 2010, Google Maps fixed errors that depicted parts of Vietnamese land territory as...

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