US warns Beijing of `self-isolation` in South China Sea
Beijing`s claim to nearly the entire South China Sea has angered Southeast Asian neighbours and pitted it against the United States.
Jun 04, 2016, 07:29 AM IST
After five decades, Australian soldiers killed in Vietnam War come home
The Australian government last year announced that it would fund a repatriation programme for the fallen soldiers.
Jun 02, 2016, 12:34 PM IST
China pushes `patriotic` tours in South China Sea: Report
Tourists have been allowed to travel to non-militarized areas of the South China Sea since 2013.
May 27, 2016, 12:22 PM IST
Vietnamese dissident a reluctant tourist during Obama visit
Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Quang A spent much of Tuesday as a tourist with plainclothes cops - eating fish noodle soup, visiting a temple and a fortune teller – returning home just as President Barack Obama took off from Hanoi aboard Air Force One.
May 25, 2016, 15:02 PM IST
Obama implores Vietnam to embrace human rights
The visit is Obama's first to the country and the third by a sitting president since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
May 24, 2016, 16:11 PM IST
US President Barack Obama urges Vietnam to improve human rights to guarantee progress
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Vietnam to improve its human rights record to guarantee sustainable economic progress and greater political stability for its future.
May 24, 2016, 15:26 PM IST
Barack Obama calls for peaceful settlement of South China Sea disputes
US President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for territorial disputes in the South China Sea to be "resolved peacefully" as Vietnam baulks at Chinese actions in the bitterly contested waters.
May 24, 2016, 12:14 PM IST
US, Vietnam agree to allow Peace Corps into Vietnam for first time
The United States and Vietnam on Tuesday signed an agreement allowing the U.S. Peace Corps to work in the country for the first time.
May 24, 2016, 10:21 AM IST
Russia unfazed as US lifts ban on arms sales to Vietnam
The lifting of a decades-old US arms embargo on Vietnam will not affect Russia's weapons sales to the southeast Asian country, an official said on Monday.
May 24, 2016, 00:47 AM IST
Barack Obama banishes Vietnam war era with lifting of arms ban
US President Barack Obama on Monday scrapped a Cold War-era ban on weapons sales to Vietnam.
May 23, 2016, 17:15 PM IST
US lifts arms decade-long arms embargo on Vietnam, announces Barack Obama
President Barack Obama, who is on a three day visit to Vietnam, on Monday announced the US is lifting a decade-long arms embargo on the country.
May 23, 2016, 15:38 PM IST
US lifts arms embargo on Vietnam
President Barack Obama is on a three day visit to Vietnam.
May 23, 2016, 15:14 PM IST
Obama, bound for Vietnam, seeks to turn old foe into new partner
Four decades after a war with Vietnam that deeply divided opinion in America, Obama aims to boost defense and economic ties with the country's communist rulers.
May 22, 2016, 21:12 PM IST
Vietnam parliamentary elections start
Over 69 million voters across Vietnam on Sunday are casting their ballots in the parliamentary elections.
May 22, 2016, 12:39 PM IST
At least 13 dead in Vietnam bus smash
At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured in a horrific road accident involving two passenger buses and a truck in southern Vietnam on Sunday, state media reported.
May 22, 2016, 12:17 PM IST
Veteran Vietnam dissident released ahead of Obama visit: church
Nguyen Van Ly, a priest who has spent much of the last two decades either in jail or under house arrest, was released Friday morning.
May 20, 2016, 13:30 PM IST
US President Barack Obama to visit Vietnam
US President Barack Obama will visit Vietnam from May 22 to 25, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
May 11, 2016, 17:47 PM IST
China scrambles fighters as US sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef
China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a US navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China denounced as an illegal threat to peace which only went to show its defence installations in the area were necessary.
May 10, 2016, 21:14 PM IST
Obama weighs historic decision on whether to lift Vietnam arms ban
US President Barack Obama is considering whether to lift a three-decade-old arms embargo on Vietnam, US officials say, as he weighs calls to forge closer military ties with Hanoi against concerns over its poor human rights record.
May 10, 2016, 13:35 PM IST
China sends advanced warships to contested south China Sea
China is sending some of its most advanced naval assets to the South China Sea for a scheduled exercise this month. Those include a new guided missile destroyer.
May 04, 2016, 21:21 PM IST
