China intensifies “gray–zone tactics” The recent event has caused many concerns when more than 200 Chinese marine militia ships were discovered near Ba Dau (Whitson Reef), a reef in the East Sea (South China Sea) that Vietnam also claims. The…
State President Nguyen Phu Trong has just reported to Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly (NA) on the summary of his work for the 2016-2021 term. Accordingly, in the past five years, the state president signed the decision to promote…
Although still affirming to promote the development of renewable energy and gradually reduce the proportion of coal-fired power according to the general trend of the world, the draft of the power sector development planning for the 2021-2045 period of Vietnam’s…
Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong who is also the general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam has recently admitted that during his presidency, Vietnam sometimes failed to publicize the incidents in theEast Sea (South China Sea) due to…
The Philippines faces the threat of territorial encroachment from China Recently, the Philippines has criticized China’s “aggressive” actions after Beijing sent more than 200 ships to the South China Sea (Vietnam calls it the East Sea). Manila also asked Beijing…
The US-China dialogue ends in tense The first US-China dialogue since Biden took office ended in tension, mutual accusations by both sides and no joint statement has been made. Many people made different comments about China’s “diplomacy of warriors” with…
The Vietnamese government was named by international media as one of the four countries that prevented the United Nations (UN) from making a tough statement on Myanmar after the coup last month. Speaking to BBC News Vietnamese on March 18,…
In the trend of the world to step up the fight against climate change, many international corporations are withdrawing from coal power plant projects, which are considered to cause a lot of pollution and increase gas emissions. Vietnam’s coal power…
Most of the corruption and bribery cases involving foreigners in Vietnam have been discovered and publicized by foreign agencies and organizations. From the case of Australian company Securency bribing State Bank of Vietnam (SBV)’s officials to win a contract to…
On March 18, the Vietnam Fatherland Front held a second consultation conference to prepare a preliminary list of officials from central agencies to run for the National Assembly (NA) of the 15th tenure and named the candidates for the three…