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The Hankyoreh
April 28, 2018
“The fact that North Korean and South Korean visitors were able to go back and forth over the Gyeongui railway line land route and the East Sea route without any major issues during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February is proof that there are no major issues with military guarantees on normalÃâà...
Nhan Dan Online
April 28, 2018
Vietnam supports the full and effective implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and the early finalisation of an effective and legally-binding Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC), he said. At the meeting, the ministers of 10 ASEAN member states expressed theirÃâà...
Viet Nam News
April 28, 2018
Concerning the East Sea issue, both sides highlighted the importance of maintaining peace, stability, security, safety and freedom of navigation and overflight in the waters. They affirmed that disputes ought to be peacefully resolved in line with international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on theÃâà...
The Guardian
April 26, 2018
The mousse, labeled “Spring of the People” in a publicity photo, features islands known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in Korea, which lie about halfway between the east Asian neighbours in the Sea of Japan, which Seoul refers to as the East Sea. “It is extremely regrettable,” a Japanese foreignÃâà...
VnExpress International
April 26, 2018
The Senate of Canada has approved a motion which condemns China for its “aggressive and expansive behavior” in the South China Sea, known in Vietnam as the East Sea. The proposal describes China's activities in the sea area as “escalating and hostile behavior” and urges all parties to the dispute toÃâà...
VnExpress International
April 26, 2018
Vietnam's foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday that China has seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty by installing military jamming equipment on outposts in Truong Sa, Spratly Islands off the South China Sea, commonly known as the East Sea in Vietnam. Le Thi Thu Hang told the press that theÃâà...
VnExpress International
April 25, 2018
Vietnam's foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday that China has seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty by installing military jamming equipment on outposts in Truong Sa, Spratly Islands off the South China Sea, commonly known as the East Sea in Vietnam. Le Thi Thu Hang told the press that theÃâà...
VnExpress International
April 20, 2018
The waterway is known as the East Sea in Vietnam. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in London for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, also declined to confirm the interaction between the Australian warships and the Chinese military, Fairfax media reported. “As they have done for manyÃâà...
VnExpress International
April 20, 2018
Vietnam's foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed any activities in the East Sea without Hanoi's consent as illegal, regarding recent reports of new Chinese military aircraft in the region. Activities conducted in the Spratly and Paracel Islands without Vietnam's authorization are "completely invalid and illegal,"Ãâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
April 19, 2018
Cooperation among coast guards of countries is necessary to deal with challenges in enforcing the law in the East Sea, a Malaysian officer has said. Malaysia ... He said that the lack of forces and facilities and the invasion of foreign fishing vessels have posed more challenges in the East Sea, adding thatÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 9, 2018
Japan on Saturday commissioned a brand-new unit of its Self-Defense Forces (SDF), its first such specialized marine detachment for amphibious warfare since World War II, to be deployed on islands extending over 1,000 kilometers from Kyushu toward Taiwan that Tokyo believes are vulnerable to attacksÃâà...
Aberdeen Evening Express
April 8, 2018
Rescuers based in the North-east were called out twice yesterday after receiving reports of emergencies. An RNLI crew in Peterhead launched a search vessel at just before 1.30pm after the Coastguard reported an empty lifejacket and debris off Rattray Head. After a two-hour search, the crew recoveredÃâà...
Business Insider
April 3, 2018
Vietnam and China have been embroiled in maritime disputes in parts of the busy waterway, where China claims 90 percent of the potentially energy-rich maritime territory, which Vietnam calls the East Sea. "The East Sea is forecast to continue to have uncertainty this year ... affecting the company's effortsÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
April 1, 2018
Without sufficient sediment to replenish the land, the delta will sink beneath the East Sea – a problem compounded by unsustainable groundwater pumping and rising sea level. Laos considers the Mekong primarily as a resource to be harnessed for hydropower, mostly for export to Thailand, to generateÃâà...
Nhan Dan Online
April 1, 2018
He said that his country will grasp opportunities to bolster collaboration for mutual benefits, and work to address appropriately disagreements to maintain peace and stability in the East Sea and continuously develop the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in a stable andÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 31, 2018
SEOUL • South Korea has summoned Tokyo's ambassador to protest against new educational guidelines requiring high school students to be taught that disputed islands belong to Japan. Seoul has controlled the islets in the Sea of Japan, also known as East Sea, since 1945, when Tokyo's brutal colonialÃâà...
Asia Times
March 31, 2018
Plans to open joint border checkpoints between China and Vietnam in May belie unresolved tensions between the two countries. Despite scrapping a marine oil-drilling project in a disputed area after Chinese “threats,” Hanoi maintains its claim to what it calls the “East Sea,” or what the Chinese call theÃâà...
The Interpreter
March 30, 2018
This has been the case for a decade now. Between 2008 and 2012 Vietnam concluded major arms deals of submarines, frigates, and fighters, among other assets, from Russia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States, and Japan. But Beijing's adventurism in the South China Sea (East Sea for Vietnam)Ãâà...
The Straits Times
March 30, 2018
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea summoned Tokyo's ambassador on Friday (March 30) to protest over new educational guidelines requiring high school students to be taught that disputed islands belong to Japan. Seoul has controlled the islets in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) since 1945, when Tokyo's brutalÃâà...
VnExpress International
March 28, 2018
Dozens of Chinese naval vessels are exercising this week with an aircraft carrier in a large show of force off Hainan island in the South China Sea, known in Vietnam as the East Sea, satellite images obtained by Reuters show. The images, provided by Planet Labs Inc, confirm a Chinese carrier group hasÃâà...
VnExpress International
March 26, 2018
The Vietnam Fisheries Society has issued a statement protesting against a Chinese fishing ban in the East Sea, internationally known as the South China Sea, saying it violates Vietnam's sovereignty. China's Ministry of Agriculture has announced it is adjusting a ban in Vietnam's territorial waters from MayÃâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
March 19, 2018
He wished that the FESS would partner with ministries and agencies concerned to continue raising public awareness of the East Sea, contributing to strengthening Vietnam's arguments in the cause of safeguarding sea and island sovereignty for the sake of peace and stability in the East Sea.
VnExpress International
March 19, 2018
Australia and its ASEAN neighbors vowed to boost defense ties while stressing the importance of non-militarization in the disputed South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, at a summit on Sunday. Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at the three-day meeting in Sydney, alsoÃâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
March 16, 2018
Minister Ryacudu said he has gone around to ASEAN defence ministers so that each country that faces the East Sea patrols around 230 kilometres. Indonesia is focusing on the Sulu Sea and the Malacca Strait as well as cooperating with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia and theÃâà...
VnExpress International
March 16, 2018
During the talks, the prime ministers exchanged views on regional and international issues, and agreed on the importance of maintaining peace, stability, security, safety and freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea. Both sides also stressed thatÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 16, 2018
The United States is the world's last remaining superpower. Russia has declined to a lesser state status but a rising China has been making moves in the South China Sea and even into the Indian Ocean. In response to China's expanded focus and amid concern that Beijing is becoming a seafaring threat,Ãâà...
Nhan Dan Online
March 16, 2018
Speaking at the event Dr. Le Hai Binh, Vice President of DAV, said that for regional countries, fishing in the East Sea brings about more than simple economic benefits. It strongly affects the socio-economic stability and survival of hundreds of millions of people living along coastal areas. Fishery is alsoÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 14, 2018
Since the incident occurred, China has aggressively asserted its claims to the Spratlys and the rest of the South China Sea—which Vietnam refers to as the East Sea—based on its so-called “nine-dash” demarcation line that encompasses some 90 percent of the waters, including territory contested byÃâà...
Asia Times
March 14, 2018
This brings up the long-simmering issue between Seoul and Tokyo over the barren islets of Dokdo/Takeshima in the East Sea/Sea of Japan. These rocks were the first bit of Korean territory that Imperial Japan seized as it subjugated the Korean Peninsula in the early part of the 20th century. Now occupiedÃâà...
Malay Mail
March 8, 2018
Meanwhile, Vietnam has long called the area the East Sea. In response to Muein, historian Zaharah Sulaiman suggested an international effort to rename the South China Sea as the Champa Sea, which she noted was its regional name prior, after the ancient Kingdom of Champa. But since the Kingdom ofÃâà...
KFGO
March 8, 2018
The flag depicts a map of the undivided Korean peninsula, including the disputed islands - known as Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese - in the Sea of Japan, known to Koreans as the East Sea. North Korea's delegation to the Paralympics said on Thursday it "does not accept the fact that DokdoÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 7, 2018
The missile was airborne for 40 minutes before falling into the Sea of Japan, also known as East Sea. “Panghyon in Kusong city is the area where the second economy's industry is concentrated, including missile-related research, development, and parts manufacturing,” a resident of North Pyongan whoÃâà...
NPR
March 6, 2018
The site is heavy with symbolism. It's the same port city where U.S. combat troops first landed to support South Vietnam's fight against the communist north in March 1965. It's also the closest Vietnamese city to the disputed islands and waters of the South China Sea — or the East Sea, as Vietnam calls it.
VnExpress International
March 4, 2018
But the arrival on Monday of the USS Carl Vinson also illustrates Hanoi's complex and evolving relationship with Beijing over the disputed South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea. For months now, Vietnamese envoys have been working to ease the concerns of their giant Chinese neighbourÃâà...
Viet Nam News
March 3, 2018
They also underlined the need to fully and effectively implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and soon achieve a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC). Modi affirmed that India would continue to promote the implementation of its “Act East Policy” to boost co-operationÃâà...
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
North Korea has urged South Korea to join forces in rejecting Japan's claims to a tiny set of disputed islets in the Sea of Japan, called the East Sea by the Koreas. Both Koreas consider the two islands and their surrounding rocks—known collectively as Dokdo in Korean, Takeshima in Japanese and theÃâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
February 20, 2018
ASEAN and China officially approved the draft framework of the COC in the East Sea in August 2017 after four years of negotiations. The move was the first step of the pragmatic negotiation process for the effective and legally-binding COC, contributing to maintaining peace and stability in the region.
VnExpress International
February 15, 2018
The waters is known as the East Sea in Vietnam. Following criticism that the Trump administration's commitment to the Asian region has been distracted by North Korea, reporters were flown onto the ship Wednesday as it sailed through the sea. In a rapid series of take-offs and landings, F18 fighter jetsÃâà...
VnExpress International
February 13, 2018
China has started building the world's largest test site for unmanned ships -- a technology with both civilian and military applications -- off a port in the disputed South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, state media said Tuesday. The test area is being constructed off the southern port city ofÃâà...
VnExpress International
February 12, 2018
A British warship will sail from Australia through the disputed East Sea (known internationally as the South China Sea) next month to assert freedom of navigation rights, a senior official said Tuesday in a move likely to irk Beijing. China claims nearly all of the resource-rich waterway and has been turningÃâà...
VietNamNet Bridge
February 10, 2018
A low pressure system will enter the East Sea over the next three days and is likely to develop into the second storm to affect Vietnam this year, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting. Low pressure area to enter East Sea, develop into storm, social news, vietnamnet.
VietNamNet Bridge
February 9, 2018
According to CSIS, the East Sea is one of the world's five most productive fishing zones, accounting for about 12 percent of all fish caught in 2015. More than half of the world's fishing vessels operate in these waters. All claimants bordering the East Sea should be involved in the creation and management ofÃâà...
Asia Media International
February 8, 2018
DYLAN RAMOS WRITES – In early January, a tanker carrying 32 people and nearly a million barrels of condensate — an ultra-light, highly flammable oil — was struck by a Chinese bulk freighter east of Shanghai. The freighter, Sanchi, caught fire and burned for nearly a week as it floated into Japan'sÃâà...
VnExpress International
December 31, 1999
The territorial dispute with Beijing over the East Sea, known internationally as the South China Sea, remained a security challenge despite an improvement in bilateral ties, the Philippine defense chief said on Monday as he accepted three maritime surveillance planes from Japan. Delfin Lorenzana, in aÃâà...
VnExpress International
December 31, 1999
China's air force has held another round of drills in the disputed South China Sea (which Vietnam calls the East Sea) and the Western Pacific after passing though Japan's southern islands, the air force said on Sunday, calling such exercises the best preparation for war. China is in the midst of an ambitiousÃâà...
Cornwall Live
December 31, 1999
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Korea JoongAng Daily
December 31, 1999
The Hupo Deunggisan Skywalk, a new bridge that extends out to the East Sea, is ready to welcome travelers from across the country Thursday. This bridge will be popular for those who enjoy thrills as it is 50 meters (164 feet) above the surface of the water, and extends 135 meters into the East Sea.
