Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry said on April 19 that China announced the establishment of the Xisha and Nansha districts to manage the Hoang Sa (Paracels) and the Truong Sa (Spratlys) in the East Sea (South China Sea). “Vietnam has repeatedly affirmed…
Since Xi Jinping became President in 2013, Beijing has been trying to promote his new slogan: “Chinese Dream” in Chinese characters. Liu Ming Fu, former Chinese army colonel, said: “President Xi Jinping’s dream is a stronger nation with a mighty…
Diplomatic tensions between the Czech Republic and Russia have increased after the Prague government removed the statue of Marshal Ivan Konev, the hero of the Soviet Union on April 3, 2020, to place in the museum. The Russian government immediately…
The continuous developments after the incident in which 3 Chinese maritime vessels sunk Vietnamese fishermen on April 2 showed that the United States seemed to be the most powerful country to defend Vietnam while Vietnam gradually faded away from the…
The shipment of 450,000 protective suits fastly exported from Vietnam to the US is becoming a topic of debate among the Vietnamese community about whose “credit” really belongs to the supply of medical equipment to the United States amid Covid-19…
Vietnam has been hailed of having effective anti-pandemic campaign thanks to determination and high concentration of the government and its ability to mobilize the entire society to join in fighting the pandemic. Meanwhile, a political observer attributed that success to…
The US was “deeply concerned” about reports of China’s sinking a Vietnamese fishing vessel near the Paracel Islands (the Hoang Sa) in the South China Sea (East Sea), US State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on April…
On the afternoon of April 4, US President Donald Trump rebuked Colonel Brett Crozier, the dismissed commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, for sending sailors ashore to visit Vietnam causing them to be infected with Coronavirus. “Now I…
Since the worldwide outbreak of Covid-19, many countries have been releasing prisoners to prevent the risk of disease spread in prisons. International organizations have also called for the release of vulnerable prisoners but so far Vietnam has not taken any…
The World Bank said that Vietnam “has started to suffer from the unpredictable volatility” of the current global financial market because of Covid-19 pandemic and economic growth is likely to decline to 4.9% as well as “increasing the poverty rate…
