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A while back, when I was visiting my mother's ancestral village in Thai Binh province, North Vietnam, it occurred to me that, after a barrage of questions from distant relatives, not once did...
13 Nov 2011
It may be fuelling online rage and diplomatic intrigue, but recently released YouTube footage showing a Vietnamese ship harassing a Chinese Marine Surveillance vessel in the South China Sea is...
13 Oct 2011
China and Vietnam have agreed to seek a long-term resolution to a territorial dispute in the South China Sea that has stoked tensions between the two countries.
5 Jun 2011
US Defence Secretary Dr Robert Gates yesterday warned of possible naval clashes in the South China Sea unless a fast regional solution could be found to ease rising tensions.
On many levels, the Sino-Vietnamese border is no place for the faint-hearted.
A 1,350km arc that traverses jungle and mountains, it stretches from the Gulf of Tonkin to a high...
Given the history of hostility between Vietnam and its former enemies China and the US, they make strange bedfellows. Yet Hanoi is now the stage for an increasingly elaborate diplomatic tango....
Environment is the big loser
Excerpt from Richard M. Nixon's presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, on August 8, 1968:
If ever there was a valuable lesson for governments of the day, it is the Watergate scandal. In so many ways, the events 33 years ago this month that led to the downfall of an American president...
In To Kill Or Be Killed, two assassins wait to fulfil their assignment in a lopsided flat. There are 90 minutes to go before their target arrives.
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