Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

In the wake of a major maritime ruckus last spring, hopes of a deal between China and Vietnam are rising in the South China Sea.

As US power wanes and China's waxes, other countries start looking for allies

China's vice President Xi Jinping, likely to take over as top leader late next year, will visit Vietnam for three days from Tuesday in what could be a test of how he handles festering territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

NANNING- Like millions of other ordinary rural folk in China, the farmer never dreamed that he could marry a foreign woman.Neither did he know the risk.

Vietnam on Thursday jailed two Falungong practitioners for beaming radio broadcasts into China, their lawyer said, where the movement is banned and labelled an "evil cult".

Chinese leaders like to talk about their country's "peaceful rise" - and Europe's financial traumas are giving Beijing plenty of scope to assume the role of a benign new force on the world stage.

BEIJING — China and Vietnam on Tuesday held "candid" talks about who controls the islands in potentially oil-rich waters claimed by both nations, the official Xinhua news agency said.

A group gathered Tuesday at the Chinese Consulate to protest China's influence on it's neighbouring countries, in this case the detainment and scheduled trial of two Falun Gong human rights advocates in Vietnam. The two were to face trial this week for broadcasting news signals into China regarding the persecution of their fellow practitioners.

In the first eight months of this year, Vietnam's goods import from China is estimated to have increased by over $3 billion from the same period last year, to touch $15.2 billion, according to the general Department of Vietnam Customs.

Vietnamese law firm Bross & Partners has discovered that the Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand has been patented by a Chinese company for 10 years.

BEIJING - China and Vietnam have agreed to speed up negotiations on South China Sea related disputes and work out a mutually agreeable solution as early as possible.

Vietnam's first alumina refinery will sell its material through tenders rather than directly to China's Yunnan Metallurgical Group under a 30-year sales agreement between the two firms, sources at Yunnan and the Vietnamese firm said on Thursday.

Vietnamese police detained at least 15 people on Sunday in a crackdown on an anti-China rally in central Hanoi, after protesters defied orders to stop a rare series of rallies over a territorial spat.

Hanoi - Nearly two-thirds of labourers working at one of two controversial Chinese-run bauxite mines in Vietnam's Central Highlands do not have permits, local media said Friday.

Police in southern Vietnam have charged three men and one woman for allegedly trafficking people to China to sell their kidneys.