VIETNAMESE Ambassador Lai Thai Binh joined 25 foreign envoys in Manila to mark the ninth anniversary of the 2016 South China ...

Beijing ‘must be prepared to respond’, and it might be headed for confrontation with Vietnam over land reclamation, analyst ...

Vietnam recently deployed a ship to intercept a Chinese survey vessel operating off its east coast, according to ship tracking data. The Chinese vessel spent much of the second half of June within ...

Some Asia-Pacific nations on Friday expressed serious concern over rising tensions in the South China Sea, where China and ...

US-Vietnam trade deal rekindles China tensions. Trump shakes Beijing truce by singling out transshipment in first Asian pact. A container is loaded onto a ship at Vietnam's Hai Phong port.

China's exports gained momentum in December, with imports also showing recovery, though strength at the year-end was in part fuelled by factories rushing inventory overseas as they braced for ...

Tensions in the South China Sea were among the issues discussed at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, a three-day military diplomacy event that ended on Saturday, although the Philippines stayed away.

A US aircraft carrier and strike group have entered the South China Sea as part of what the 7th Fleet said was a scheduled operation amid rising tensions with China over a potential Taiwan visit ...

China's claims in the South China Sea, a conduit for $3 trillion in annual ship-borne commerce, overlap with the exclusive economic zones of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Beijing signals strong opposition. At Thursday’s briefing, He Yongqian, a spokeswoman for China’s Ministry of Commerce, said Beijing is closely reviewing the details of the US–Vietnam deal ...