Vietnam has demanded China’s respect and not violated Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone, Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Thi Thu Hang said. Le made the above statement in response to reporters’ question about Vietnam’s response to an announcement by China’s Hainan Maritime Security Service that military exercises would begin in the Baltic Sea from March 5-15. ###: China Announces Military Exercises In Disputed Waters With Vietnam Part of the exercise area is well within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982), the spokesman said. Vietnam has…
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Beijing warns ships to stay away as exercises last until March 15 China has been conducting military exercises for more than a week in Vietnam’s Baltic (South China Sea) in an area between the southern province of Hainan and Vietnam. China claims much of the disputed waterway, which carries important shipping routes, and has built artificial islands and airfields on some of its reefs and islets, much to widespread concern in the region and in the United States. ###: Vietnam Expresses Concern Over China’s Possible Weapons Use in Disputed Waters In a statement late Friday, the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration…
Vietnam recorded 202,180 coronavirus infections across the country on Sunday, in addition to 65,445 recoveries and 87 virus-related deaths. According to the Ministry of Health, the latest cases, including eight imported and 202,172 domestic broadcasts, were discovered in 61 provinces and cities. The country had documented 173,258 locally transmitted infections on Saturday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. ###: Vietnam’s number of coronaviruses surpasses 4M Since the fourth wave of virus broke out on April 27, 2021, the country has detected 4,427,225 community transmissions in all of its 63 provinces and cities. More than 2.67 million of them have recovered from COVID-19.…
Police in the city of Ha Long in northern Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province Friday arrested a man from Ho Chi Minh City after he attempted to rob a local bank with a backpack believed to contain bombs. At about 2 p.m. Friday, the man in question entered the Bai Chay branch of the Vietcombank in Ha Long City and shouted that there were bombs in the red backpack he was carrying, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. “I have two bombs, give me the money or I’ll blow it up,” a witness told the robber. The man then climbed onto the…
Putin says military operation is going according to plan He warns the west against no-fly zone in Ukraine No need for martial law – Putin says Kremlin says West is acting like bandits President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Western sanctions against Russia were akin to a declaration of war and warned that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would have catastrophic consequences for the world. Putin reiterated that his goal was to defend Russian-speaking communities through the “demilitarization and de-Nazification” of the country so that Russia’s former Soviet neighbor would become neutral and no longer…
Maintaining FIT awards for those who missed the deadline and re-implementing nuclear power projects were some of the issues raised by foreign investors at the Vietnam Business Forum 2022. Associate members of the Vietnam Business Forum (VBF) include the Singapore Business Association, Australian Business Association, Swiss Business Association, Taiwan Business Association, Thai Business Association, Hanoi Young Business Association, Indian Business Association, Hong Kong Business Association, and Canadian Business Association in Vietnam. They suggested that the Vietnamese government continue to develop renewable energy, improve energy efficiency and promote energy storage technology through batteries and hydrogen energy. ###: Investors Seek Renewable Energy…
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) announced on March 4 that it will launch the Vaccinated Travel Strip (VTL) – the quarantine-free travel schedule – for tourists from Vietnam and Greece from March 16. The decision comes after Vietnam announced it will reopen all borders to international tourism on March 15, the VOV reports. ###: Vietnam to resume visa waiver for foreigners from March 15 “With the launch of the VTL from Vietnam, we will restore two-way quarantine-free travel with Vietnam, which was a popular destination for many Singaporeans pre-COVID,” the CAAS said in its statement. It said those…
The daily number of COVID-19 in Vietnam rose to a new high of 125,587 cases on Friday, up 6,797 cases from the previous record on Thursday, the health ministry reported. The new infections, registered in 63 sites across the country, include 125,568 domestically transmitted and 19 imported cases. ###: COVID-19 Vaccines for Children: 7 Million Doses of Pfizer Will Be Delivered to Vietnam This Month The capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 21,395 cases on Friday, also the new daily record, followed by central Nghe An province with 6,657 cases and northern Bac Ninh province with 6,011 cases. On…
Russia on Saturday declared a partial ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridors from the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, Russia’s defense ministry said. “From 10 a.m. Moscow time (7 a.m. GMT), the Russian side is declaring a ceasefire and the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha,” Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying. Russian forces have blocked the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, the mayor announced on Saturday, as Moscow and Kiev planned to hold new talks this weekend. While Russian forces besieged Mariupol for days, they also cut off…
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed the Ministry of Health to begin the process of turning the country into a life with Covid-19 and treating it as endemic even as cases increase. According to a report on the government’s website, the prime minister has ordered officials during the March 3 cabinet meeting to investigate how other countries have taken the move. The prime minister said March and the coming months will remain difficult and unpredictable as the country battles the virus and the fallout from the conflict in Ukraine. Given the emergence of several COVID-19 variants worldwide, including Omicron,…