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Chinese military aircraft makes first public landing on disputed island

(Reuters) A Chinese military aircraft has for the first time publicly landed at a new airport on an island China…

Philippines, Vietnam reaffirm strategic partnership: Commit to step up Maritime Security Cooperation

IN his maiden foreign visit as Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose Rene D. Almendras paid a courtesy call to newly-appointed…

World Bank: Philippines and Vietnam have strongest growth prospects in ASEAN countries

Growth in developing East Asia and pacific has remained resilient and is expected to ease only modestly during 2016-18, according…

Vietnam gets new PM with tough task and big shoes to fill

The country's parliament approved a new prime minister, after a 10-year reign of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Former bureaucrat…

New Vietnam Prime Minister sworn in

Hanoi, Vietnam (AFP)---Vietnam's new prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc was formally voted in and handed a five-year term by lawmakers Thursday to…

Vietnam seizes Chinese oil tanker: state media

HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) -- Vietnam's coast guard has seized a Chinese oil tanker which it claims intruded into Vietnamese waters,…

Military spending rises again in 2015

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) -- Rising tensions worldwide helped push up military expenditure in 2015, the first increase after four years…

Philippines, Vietnam top ASEAN growth

Growth prospects for export-oriented economies in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, will be weaker in 2016 and…

Menorca and family in Vietnam, contrary to his lawyers’ claim that he is nowhere to be found

    (Eagle News) –  Expelled Iglesia Ni Cristo member Lowell Menorca II and his family have been spotted in…

China deploys fighter jets to disputed Woody Island in South China Sea

Washington, United States (AFP)---China has deployed fighter jets to the same contested island in the South China Sea to which…

71-year old Trong re-elected as general secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party

  (Reuters) -- The 12th National Congress of the Vietnam's ruling Communist Party concluded in Hanoi on Thursday (January 28)…

Philippines, Vietnam affirm commitment to strengthen strategic partnership

The Philippines and Vietnam on Tuesday signed a joint statement on the establishment of strategic partnership particularly on economic, agricultural,…

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