November 4, 2011
Vietnam's deputy defense minister Nguyen Chi Vinh It is a basic principle of Vietnamese policy to not let its relationship with any country affect the interests of a third country, deputy defense minister Nguyen Chi Vinh said in an interview published in the Tuoi Tre newspaper Friday. Vinh made the statement in response to a question [...]
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October 28, 2011
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 Vietnam had denied claims made in the foreign media that it has withdrawn from the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) by recently agreeing with China on ground rules to resolve sea issues.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 briefing Thursday, spokesman Luong [...]
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October 16, 2011
Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang (L) meets with his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday Eight cooperation agreements covering national defense, trade, and oil and gas between Vietnam and Sri Lanka were signed Friday during President Truong Tan Sang’s visit to the South Asian country. Besides witnessing the memorandums of understanding signed between related [...]
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October 15, 2011
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the Vietnam-Germany Economic Forum in Ho Chi Minh City on October 12 German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Vietnam’s growing economy offers many opportunities for German investors, especially in infrastructure, hi-tech and education sectors. She made the statement at the Vietnam-Germany Economic Forum in Ho Chi Minh City on October [...]
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September 17, 2011
Vietnam and Germany have signed a cooperation and partnership agreement that will tighten ties between the Europe Union and Vietnam, the German Embassy said in a statement. The agreement was signed under the auspices of the EU’s General Affairs Council’s meeting on Monday in Brussels. Werner Hoyer, the Minister of State at the German Foreign [...]
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September 8, 2011
Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo High ranking Chinese politician diplomat Dai B i ngguo is visiting Vietnam from Monday to Friday this week for the fifth session of the Steering Committee for Vietnam-China Bilateral Cooperation .  The People’s Republic of China (PRC) State Councilor will chair the meeting with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien [...]
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September 1, 2011
Vietnam and China's deputy defense ministers discussed defense cooperation in Beijing last Sunday. Vietnam and China agreed on various measures to strengthen their defense cooperation at a dialogue between the countries’ deputy defense ministers in Beijing, Vietnam News Agency reported Tuesday. At the meeting on Sunday, Vietnam’s deputy defense minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and his [...]
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May 31, 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 [...]
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March 18, 2011
Boats in Ha Long Bay, a famous tourist spot in Vietnam Travellers could soon be able surf in Bali, shop in Singapore and eat spicy street food in Thailand before crossing into Cambodia and cruising the Mekong in Vietnam – all on a single tourist visa. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is working [...]
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December 7, 2010
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a luncheon in Hanoi in July. Her back-to-back visits to Vietnam this year articulated the rising US commitment to bilateral relations. Hillary Clinton’s back-to-back visits to Hanoi articulated the rising US commitment to US-Vietnam relations. Clinton’s recent announcement “The US is back in Southeast Asia,” struck a [...]
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