Last updated: Tuesday, January 3, 2012
People prepare to bury a beached whale in Quang Nam Province in October 2010.
The Bac beach in central Vietnam has become a cemetery for more than 500 beached whales.
Traditionally, the whale is seen as a holy protector by local fishermen. The beach in Quang Nam Province, which boasts the UNESCO heritage site of Hoi...
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Last updated: Friday, November 11, 2011
One of the five sea turtles being released into the sea
Authorities in the south central province of Binh Thuan on Sunday released five endangered sea turtles, previously caught by local fishermen, into the sea.
The name of the sea turtle species was not known, but an official at the provincial Department of Agriculture and...
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Last updated: Saturday, June 4, 2011
International experts condemn China for disrupting Vietnam’s legal marine activities and urged the country to be better prepared for the next encounter
Fishermen unloading tunas in the central province of Binh Thuan. On Sunday, Vietnam condemned China for increasing regional...
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Last updated: Monday, May 30, 2011
This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago.
On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan University,...
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Last updated: Friday, April 15, 2011
A rest stop that will soon be submerged by the sea in Ca Mau Province
As sea levels rise the world over, Vietnam’s own Amazon is threatened by severe erosion and submersion.
Ca Mau Cape in the southernmost province of Ca Mau is blessed with a unique submerged ecosystem said...
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Last updated: Saturday, January 15, 2011
A woman fishes in the Mekong River in Laos in September 2010.
Though Zeus warned Pandora never to open the box given to her, the temptation proved too strong and Pandora forever unleashed into the world misery, suffering and sorrow.
Today, much like this mythical Greek tragedy, the decision-makers of the Mekong sub-region...
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Last updated: Saturday, January 8, 2011
A fisherman has lost everything to repeated illegal Chinese harassment and detainment, but says fishing in Vietnamese waters is his livelihood and his birthright
Fisherman Mai Phung Luu looks at the sea in the central province of Quang Ngai. Luu is eager to go out to sea again...
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Last updated: Tuesday, October 12, 2010
VnnNews – For months, concern has been growing over China’s aggressiveness in claiming a major portion of the East Sea as its own lake, most recently through the deployment of a flotilla of some of its most modern warships into the Spratly archipelago on a three-week military exercise.
East Sea dispute must be resolved...
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Last updated: Monday, September 27, 2010
VnnNews – Ghenh Rang, 3km south of the poetic Quy Nhon City, has some of the most fantastic vermilion twilight skies in the country.
VnnNews – Ghenh Rang, 3km south of the poetic Quy Nhon City, has some of the most fantastic vermilion twilight skies in the country.
A time to remember in Quy Nhon
Travelling to the land of martial...
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Last updated: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Vice Admiral Nguyen Van Hien told fishermen to not worry about China’s ban of fishing in the East Sea. They can still continue their job at the protection of the navy.
Vice Admiral Nguyen Van Hien.
VnnNews – Vice Admiral Nguyen Van Hien, commander of the naval forces, told fishermen to not worry about China’s...
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