HANOI (PNA/VNS) — Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance Department (VSFD) staff has reported high-capacity Chinese vessels in waters around the Haiyang Shiyou-981 rig, which is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters. They said the vessels had bulbous bows and were accompanied by two Chinese coast-guard ships. Together with Chinese fishing vessels, they kept on hampering Vietnamese vessels, occasionally throwing stones and bottles. China still has a fleet of between 110-115 ships around the rig, including about 40 coast-guard […]





