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Vietnam opposes illegal Chinese buoys installation at Spratlys

The foreign ministry has publicly rejected China’s recent illegal installation of light buoys in Vietnamese waters. “The installation of light buoys at entities [in waters around] the Spratly Islands without Vietnam’s approval is a violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the islands, and thus has no legal value,” deputy spokeswoman of …

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Children victimized by online sex abuse: police

Of 135 cases of online child abuse handled by police in the first quarter of this year, 116 were related to sexual harassment. In such cases, most of the predators involved either showed children pornographic videos and/or asked the children to have sex with them, said Lieutenant Le Nhat Thinh …

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Vietnam demands China withdraw vessels from its waters

Vietnam demanded that China pull its survey ship Xiangyanghong 10 and other vessels out of Vietnamese exclusive economic zone on Thursday. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other Vietnamese authorities have dialogued with China multiple times, and [the Vietnam side has] performed appropriate measures in accordance with Vietnamese and international …

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Two more Vietnamese confirmed dead in China car accident

Two more Vietnamese were confirmed dead in a car crash in China last weekend, bringing the total number of Vietnamese casualties in the incident to 11, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said. Besides the 11 Vietnamese casualties, two Vietnamese and the Chinese driver were injured when a seven-seat car fell off a …

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Erosion eats up Mekong Delta houses

An Giang and Dong Thap provinces in the Mekong Delta have recorded five serious cases of river erosion in a week, causing locals and businesses to instantly lose properties. On Wednesday morning, four houses in An Giang’s Chau Phu District collapsed into the Xep Ka Tam Pong River in less …

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South Korea to launch homegrown rocket after delay

South Korea to launch homegrown rocket after delay

South Korea will launch its homegrown Nuri rocket on Thursday, officials said, a day after it was forced to postpone due to a technical glitch just hours before lift-off. It will be the third launch of the Nuri, which successfully put test satellites into orbit last year after a failed …

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