Vietnam’s Sea and Islands

The Vietnamese Embassy in India concurrently Nepal and Bhutan launched a movement "Towards the homeland’s sea and islands" on June 26th.

A project to provide free summer lessons for students in Ly Son island district was launched at Ly Son high school in the central province of Quang Ngai on June 15th.

China, as a big country in the region and the world, needs to act responsibly and constructively in the maintenance of peace and stability in the region as well as in the East Sea on the basis of complying with international law, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang has said.

As scheduled, "Vietnam’s Hoang Sa and Truong Sa - Historical and legal evidence" exhibition will be held in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang from August to November 2017.

Having a long coastline stretching from north to south, the S-shaped country of Vietnam has many attractive, untouched and beautiful beaches.

Indonesia sent 40 Vietnamese fishermen back to Vietnam from Soekarno Hatta international airport in Jakarta on May 23rd.

Senior officials of ASEAN and China convened the 23rd consultations in the Chinese province of Guizhou on May 19th to review their cooperation across the fields and outline specific tasks for the near future.

Overseas Vietnamese in Germany, who have visited people and soldiers on Truong Sa Island, gathered at the Dong Xuan Trade Center in Berlin to establish "Truong Sa Club".

An exhibition on Vietnam’s sea and island cultural heritage is taking place in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province, from May 9th to 14th, as a highlight of the framework of the 6th Quang Nam Heritage Festival 2017.

The northern Hoa Binh provincial Department of Information and Communications has coordinated with Luong Son district People’s Committee to organize the exhibition “Hoang Sa, Truong Sa - Historical and legal evidences”.

During its working visit to Spratly Islands from April 16th-24th, the delegation led by Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc, Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee and Chairwoman of the city People’s Council, attended the national flag salute and reviewed the guard of honour for forces on the islands.

An exhibition displaying maps and documents about Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos opened in Hoi An city, the central province of Quang Nam, on April 21st.

The coast guards of Vietnam and China conducted a joint fishery patrol on shared fishing grounds in the Tonkin Gulf from April 18th-20th, Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) daily reported.

A delegation from Ho Chi Minh city led by Huynh Cach Mang, Deputy Chairman of the city People’s Committee, on April 20th visited cadres, soldiers and people working and living on Big Spratly island belonging to the Spratly archipelago.

The Ovation of the Seas cruise ship has docked at Tan Cang Cai Mep Port in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province to start its four-day tour of the southern and central region of Vietnam.

Spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry Le Thi Thu Hang on April 9th stressed Vietnam’s consistent stance on settling disputes in the East Sea by peaceful measures in line with international law.

In addition to the inherent beauty of the sea and sky, Binh Ba Island in Cam Ranh city, Khanh Hoa province, also has a hill of poetic reeds, which appears in March onwards.

Vietnam resolutely protests against Taiwan (China)’s live-fire drill in waters around Ba Binh in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and demands that Taiwan not to repeat such activity, stated Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Le Hai Binh on March 30th.

An exhibition titled “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa - Historical and legal evidence” opened in Dak Ha district, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum.

A photo exhibition on youth for homeland sea and islands has taken place at No. 2 Le Thai To street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, from March 16th - 20th.

A great requiem ceremony for heroic martyrs sacrificed for the sovereignty over the sea and islands of the nation was organized in Prague on March 14th.

On March 15th, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum held a press briefing on the organization of an exhibition entitled “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – Historical and Legal Evidence” in all districts in 2017 and 2018.

A great requiem ceremony for 64 heroic martyrs sacrificed in the fight to protect Vietnam’s sovereignty over Truong Sa Island was organized by the Vietnamese Buddhist Association in Warsaw, Poland, on March 12th.

A requiem ceremony of the Vietnamese community was held to honour heroic martyrs who sacrificed themselves for independence and territorial integrity, the sea and islands of the nation, in Tu An pagoda in Berlin, Germany, on March 12th.

The overseas Vietnamese community celebrated a solemn requiem for martyrs sacrificed for the nation and dead compatriots in Khanh An Pagoda, Udon Thani city, Udon Thani province, northeastern Thailand on March 8th.

The Overseas Vietnamese Association in France has officially launched two projects of Truong Sa affection and giving strength for students to go to school during the 2017-2019 period.

(CPV) – “The role of oceans and fisheries is very important in the APEC region for food security,” Mr. Patrick Edward Moran, a delegate of the United States, Chairman of the 8th Ocean and Fisheries Working Group Meeting, talked to the reporter of the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper on February 26th 2017.

A Chinese bank branch established in the so-called Sansa city on Phu Lam island in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago is illegal, stated Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh.

An exhibition featuring maps and documents affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes opened in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on January 13th.

The Quang Ngai provincial People’s Committee has agreed with the policy of upgrading a coastal road in Ly Son island into walking street.