Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

The controversy in Vietnam over China’s establishment of a Confucius Institute is misplaced, argues one blogger.

Both countries see the disputed areas as vital interests, yet have taken divergent approaches in pressing their claims.

"I like Vietnam. The life and the students here make me feel like going back to my youth. I like to stay here, maybe till the day that I cannot walk myself," the 60- year-old Chinese language teacher Zhao Yuquan, when interviewed with Xinhua in early October, expressed his love for Vietnam.

Late last month, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Vietnamese counterpart, Pham Binh Minh. His message was for a full-scale improvement of relations between the two countries. Of course, it would make sense that two of the world's last remaining socialist countries would have strong relations.

HANOI — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will start a Vietnam visit Saturday to boost bilateral ties, amid disputes over territories in the South China Sea between China and other countries in the region.

Washington - Vietnam’s president on Thursday voiced firm opposition to China’s claims in the South China Sea but declined to back a Philippine bid to take the row to a UN tribunal.

A sea route for tourism between southern China and Vietnam has resumed after being closed for two years

Vietnam always highly values strengthening the strategic partnership with China, State President Truong Tan Sang told Chinese media on Tuesday, a day before he left Vietnam for China for a State-level visit.

HANOI—Vietnam and China have extended an agreement to jointly explore for oil and gas in the Gulf of Tonkin until 2016 and significantly expanded the area involved despite tensions between the two countries over large areas of the South China Sea they both claim.

The U.S. and Vietnam are cooperating to develop a fighting force that can help Vietnamese fisherman and others when they "get into trouble," Coast Guard Rear Adm. William Lee said at the annual Sea-Air-Space expo in Washington.

In 2012, the Border Guard Command of Da Nang City discovered 717 Chinese fishing boats encroaching in Vietnam’s waters, according to a report of the Border Guard Command and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Da Nang.

People in northern Vietnam have pulled down Chinese lanterns after local authorities warned they had printed on them the names of administrative units that China has illegally established within Vietnamese waters.

Prior to every Tet Lunar New Year festive season, which this year falls on February 10, hundreds of cases of firecrackers are seized by customs authorities at border gates from China, as they make their way into Vietnam.

HANOI - Under the watch of plainclothes police, midfielder Nguyen Van Phuong unleashed a powerful left-foot drive into the top corner. Dissidents cheered from the sidelines. "Down with China," some shouted. Phuong pumped his fist.