HANOI, Vietnam – Japan will provide Vietnam new patrol vessels, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday on the last stop of his four-nation tour to boost his country's trade and security ...

SANYA: China and Vietnam conducted a joint mission in the Beibu Gulf between Vietnam and China's Hainan Island from August 18 to August 20 to patrol fishing waters in the two counties' "common fishery ...

Vietnam’s Vice Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh told Reuters on Monday at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that the country expects to receive patrol boats from Japan early next year. This is the ...

HANOI, April 1 (Reuters) - The United States has delivered six patrol boats worth $12 million to Vietnam's Coast Guard, the U.S. embassy in Hanoi said on Monday, amid warming ties between the former ...

The coast guards of Vietnam and China began their joint patrol on the waters adjacent to the demarcation line in the Gulf of Tonkin on Wednesday. This is the second joint patrol this year and the ...

This afternoon, with 419 out of 420 deputies present voting in favor, the National Assembly officially passed the Law on ...

Vietnam is in talks with European and U.S. contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defenses in the face of China's ...

Vietnam and China have concluded two days of joint naval patrols in the Gulf of Tonkin, including a port call to China, as the two sides remain locked in a heated spat over disputed territory in the ...

HAI PHONG, Vietnam (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter pledged $18 million on Sunday to help Vietnam buy U.S. patrol boats, shortly after touring a Vietnamese coast guard vessel that was hit ...

U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius is seen in front a a statue of late Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh during the inauguration ceremony of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in Hanoi ...