Natural conditions and potentials of Vung Ro Bay

Sunday, January 29, 2023, 09:56 (GMT+7)
As part of the socio-economic development master plan of Phu Yen province, in the coming time, Vung Ro will focus on developing in the direction of opening up and integrating with appropriate steps, ensuring harmony between conservation of natural marine values and sustainable development, on the basis of maximising advantages in terms of natural conditions, geographical location, cultural identity, diversity of ecosystems and regional linkages.

Applying President Ho Chi Minh’s viewpoint of “Culture lights the way for the nation” to today’s national construction and defence

Monday, January 10, 2022, 14:52 (GMT+7)
On deeply grasping the importance of culture, right after success of the August Revolution, our Party held the 1st National Cultural Conference on 24 November 1946 in Ha Noi Capital. “Culture lights the way for the nation,” said President Ho Chi Minh at the conference. His view remains valuable and needs to be perceived and effectively applied to today’s national building and defence

Hai Phong City promotes execution of Law on Militia and Self-Defence Forces

Wednesday, December 27, 2017, 07:44 (GMT+7)
Hai Phong is a harbour city, which is situated in an area of paramount importance in economic, defence and security terms in the north coast of Vietnam. On deeply grasping the Party’s strategic guideline on building the Militia and Self-Defence Forces, particularly since the promulgation of the Law on Militia and Self-Defence Forces in 2009, Hai Phong City has paid constant attention to leading and instructing the establishment of “robust, widespread” Militia and Self-Defence Forces, making it become one of the most prominent localities in the 3rd Military Region in this aspect

A snapshot of Vietnamese Sea and Islands

Tuesday, September 01, 2015, 08:38 (GMT+7)
According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982, Vietnam’s waters include: internal water, territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and a continental shelf of 200km wide from baseline. Geographically, Vietnam’s seas and islands cover a wide range of area which can be sorted into main regions as: the Gulf of Tonkin, the Gulf of Thailand, Paracel and Spratly archipelagos, and some other islands and archipelagos.

Vietnam asks Taiwan to stop lighthouse construction

Wednesday, August 26, 2015, 08:47 (GMT+7)
Vietnam resolutely opposes Taiwan’s construction of an illegal lighthouse in Ba Binh Island, part of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago, said the Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Le Hai Binh

Vietnam’s exercise of its sovereignty over Paracels and Spratlys since 1975

Tuesday, July 21, 2015, 13:18 (GMT+7)
Since the April 30th 1975 victory, the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam has controlled all its territories, including Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys). Accordingly, together with the organizing of forces to control and protect seas and islands, the State of Vietnam released various legal normative documents on Hoang Sa and Truong Sa

China must immediately halt construction on Vietnamese islands: Spokesman

Friday, May 29, 2015, 09:54 (GMT+7)
Vietnam demands China to immediately stop the construction currently underway on Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh said with regard to China’s erection of two lighthouses on Truong Sa islands

The Cairo Declaration (1943) and Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel Archipelagos

Friday, March 27, 2015, 17:04 (GMT+7)
With the aim of taking back all the islands in the Pacific Ocean that had been occupied by Japan since the beginning of World War I (1914), on November 27th 1943, in Cairo, Egypt, three countries, namely the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the Republic of China held an international conference whose outcome was the Cairo Declaration

The exercise of Vietnam’s sovereignty over Paracel and Spratly Islands in French colonial period (1884-1945)

Monday, March 02, 2015, 10:15 (GMT+7)
Since signing the June 6, 1884 Treaty with the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty, France had represented Vietnam in all of its external relations and protected Vietnam’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. This is manifested in the signing of Land Delimitation Treaty and the Supplemented Treaty between France and the Chinese Qing Dynasty in 1887 and 1895 respectively. Within the framework of those commitments, Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Paracel (Hoang Sa) and the Spratly (Truong Sa) archipelagoes was exercised by France