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Vietnam continues to clear rubber plantations due to lack of Chinese demand
30.06.2014 (Rubber World) - Ha Noi, Vietnam - VietnamNet reports, "According to Vuong Quoc Thoi, Director of the Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 1,300 hectares of rubber plantations in the province have been cleared. Thoi said the latex rubber price has dropped dramatically in the world market due to the oversupply. Thailand has marketed 200,000 tons of reserved latex rubber. Meanwhile, China, which consumes 50 percent of Vietnam’s rubber exports, has cut down its import volume. ...
Christenverfolgung 2.0. Katholische Blogger in Vietnam
30.06.2014 Josef Bordat (Blog jobo72) - ...1. Christenverfolgung in Vietnam. Zunächst muss man sagen, dass die derzeitige Christenverfolgung ein weltweites Phänomen ist. Vor allem in der islamischen Welt, also dort, wo der Islam die Religion der Mehrheit ist, also in Nordafrika, auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, im Nahen und Mittleren Osten, auch in Indonesien und auch in der Türkei – überall dort haben es Christen schwer. Vietnam ist nun eines der nicht vom Islam dominierten Länder, in denen Christenverfolgung besonders schlimm ist. Nicht ganz so schlimm wie in Nordkorea, wo die Verfolgung – nicht nur von Christen – seit Jahren am schlimmsten ist, aber doch zunehmend und besorgniserregend. Vor allem, weil es die gesamte Menschenrechtslage im Land betrifft ...
Vietnam: Release of woman labour rights activist positive but scores remain behind bars
30.06.1024 (Amnesty International) - The early release of Do Thi Minh Hanh, a woman labour activist and prisoner of conscience, in Viet Nam is a positive step but authorities must now follow up and release the scores of other peaceful activists still behind bars, Amnesty International said. ...
The human rights side of EU-ASEAN relations
29.06.2014 By Theodoros Benakis (NewEurope) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, most commonly known by its acronym ASEAN, is widely described as an economic union of 10 Southeast Asian countries. But it’s not only economic.
According to Rafendi Djamin, the country’s representative to the ASEAN, intergovernmental commission on human rights, there are a number of human rights elements. ...
Q. and A.: Edmund Malesky on Vietnam and China
30.06.2014 By Edward Wong (The New York Times) - Edmund J. Malesky, an associate professor of political economy at Duke University, has spent years studying the politics of Vietnam. More recently, he has been working on a governance project involving China. His scholarship on the two countries, both ruled by Communist parties with close ties, has given him a basis for a comparative perspective on the nations’ politics and political economies. ...
Vietnam's economy suffers from China row
30.06.2014 By Manabu Ito, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Vietnam's continued struggle with China over territorial claims in the South China Sea is beginning to take a toll on the Southeast Asian nation's economy, threatening to push its robust growth lower. ...
Amid active territorial disputes, China's president tells others to pursue peace
29.06.2014 William Wan (The Sydney Morning Herald ) - Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping deployed an unusual defence on Saturday of China's foreign and military policies: the celebration of an obscure, decades-old treaty called the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. To many Asian leaders, China's foreign policy of late has been anything but aimed at peaceful coexistence. China has engaged in volatile confrontations with several neighbours over claims in the South China Sea. ...
China says it will never seek regional hegemony
29.06.2014 The Associated Press (The Asahi Shimbun) - BEIJING--Chinese President Xi Jinping said June 28 his country will never seek hegemony no matter how strong it becomes, even as his neighbors worry about Beijing's actions in several territorial disputes. ...
Build strong border defences, Xi Jinping tells Chinese military
28.06.2014 (indiatimes) - BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the military to build a strong and solid border defence network to protect territorial land and water frontiers to deter "bullying" by foreign powers. ...
Vietnam: inhaftierte Arbeiteraktivistin Do Thi Minh Hanh freigelassen
28.06.1024 (Forum Vietnam 21) - Do Thi Minh Hanh, 29, eine Arbeiteraktivistin in einem schlechten Gesundheitszustand ist am Donnerstag aus der Haft entlassen, nachdem sie vier Jahre von einer siebenjährigen Haftstrafe wegen Unterstützung der streikenden Arbeiter im Gefängnis sitzen musste. Es wurde kein Grund für die vorzeitige Freilassung von Do Thi Minh Hanh genannt, die im Februar 2010 zusammen mit zwei anderen Aktivisten zu hohen Gefängnisstrafen verurteilt wurde. ...
Vietnamese Labor Activist Jailed For Backing Strikes is Freed
27.06.2014 (RFA) - Vietnamese authorities have freed a young labor activist in poor health after she had served four years of a seven-year sentence for leafleting in support of striking footwear workers, and just months after her mother had toured the U.S. and Europe to lobby for her release. ...
Scandale en Chine : Les hommes achètent leurs épouses au Vietnam (Vidéo)
27.06.2014 (aufeminin.com) - En Chine, les femmes sont beaucoup moins nombreuses que les hommes. Pour se marier, certains Chinois ont trouvé une solution : acheter leurs futures épouses de l’autre côté de la frontière, dans les régions défavorisées du Vietnam. ...
Laos agrees to studies for second Mekong dam
27.06.2014 By Kaweewit Kaewjinda (Reuters) - BANGKOK - A Laotian official said on Friday his government would allow environmental assessments before proceeding with construction of a dam on the Mekong River that activists and neighbouring states say could hurt the livelihoods of fishermen and farmers. Officials from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam agreed on Thursday to the consultation process for the dam, which is still in the planning phase ...
Vietnam reported over 30 million Internet users in 2013
27.06.2014 (TransWorldNews) London - Vietnam has good potential for development of B2C E-Commerce. The country has the fastest growing middle and affluent class in the South East Asia region and one of the most engaged online audiences, spending close to 30 hours per month online. Furthermore, a larger share of Internet users in Vietnam visits retail websites than in any other South East Asian countries, ahead of the worldwide average. ...
Australian Pham Trung Dung sentenced to death in Vietnam: reports
27.06.2014 (The Age) - State-controlled media say a court in southern Vietnam has sentenced an Australian citizen to death for possessing more than four kilograms of heroin. ...
Vietnam Seeks to Step Out of China's Economic Shadow
26.06.2014 Trung Nguyen (VOA) - WASHINGTON — The lychee harvest is in full swing in Vietnam's northern Hai Duong province, but local officials say fewer Chinese traders have come to buy the sweet and juicy fruit this summer due to concerns about anti-China sentiment. ...
Human Rights Watch: Folter breitet sich in Asien aus
26.06.2014 (Deutsche Welle) - In vielen asiatischen Ländern wird regelmäßig gefoltert. Die Täter vor Gericht zu bringen ist jedoch schwierig - und in manchen Staaten sogar fast unmöglich, sagt Phil Robertson von Human Rights Watch im DW-Interview. ...
HRW: Torture is an 'expanding scourge' in Asia
26.06.2014 (Deutsche Welle) - In several countries across Asia, torture is used on a regular basis. Bringing perpetrators to justice is notoriously hard, especially in nations where the practice is state-sanctioned, HRW's Phil Robertson tells DW. ...
Asean Lawmakers Blast Human Rights Commission
26.06.2014 Written by Our Correspondent (Asia Sentinel) - Commission, they say, has failed to bring any improvement whatsoever for basic rights. A group of Southeast Asian lawmakers has issued a blistering statement saying the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ human rights commission has failed to bring any discernible improvement to or provide any protection for basic rights since its inception in 2009 and must be radically changed to strengthen its independence. ...
Vietnam mantiene pena de cárcel contra un bloguero
26.06.2014 (ABC News) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Un tribunal del centro de Vietnam respaldó el jueves una condena de dos años de prisión contra un conocido bloguero disidente por escribir en Internet críticas al gobierno comunista. Truong Duy Nhat fue condenado por "abusar de las libertades democráticas" en marzo para dañar los intereses del estado. ...
09.06.2014 By Nguyen Thi Lan Anh (RSIS Commentaries) - China’s act of locating its oil rig in contested waters in the Paracels is more than a dispute over sovereignty. It is also a dispute about international law of the sea. ...
An Arms Race Explodes in Asia-Pacific
26.06.2014 Written by Keith Leong (Asia Sentinel) - China leads the expansion although the US remains by far the biggest spender
The Asia-Pacific region is now well and truly in an arms race like no other. China alone is said to have quadrupled its military spending since 2000. Indeed, in 2013 Asian countries spent a combined US$322 billion on military budgets compared to US$262 billion in 2010. ...
Vietnam Upholds 2-Year Jail Term Against Blogger
26.06.2014 (ABC News) - AP - A court in central Vietnam has upheld a two-year jail sentence against a well-known dissident blogger for posting online criticism of the communist government. Truong Duy Nhat was convicted of "abusing democratic freedoms" to infringe upon the interests of the state in March. ...
Haftstrafe für kritischen Journalisten
26.06.2014 (NZZ) - (ap) Ein Journalist muss wegen kritischer Online-Kommentare in Vietnam zwei Jahre Haft verbüssen. Seine Strafe wurde am Donnerstag von einem Gericht in Danang im Zentrum des asiatischen Landes bestätigt. ...
Quand les Chinois vont acheter leur femme au Vietnam
26.06.2014 Par Lucile Quillet (Le Figaro) - La Chine manque de femmes, politique de l'enfant unique oblige. Et certains hommes n'hésiteraient pas à aller chercher des fiancées, moyenant bon prix, dans les régions pauvres de l'autre côté de la frontière. Plusieurs milliers de jeunes filles seraient victimes de ce trafic d'êtres humains. ...
Vietnam: des jeunes femmes mariées de force à des Chinois - L'actu en vidéos
26.06.2014 (L'Express) - Des femmes et jeunes filles issues des minorités ethniques au Vietnam sont amenées clandestinement de l'autre côté de la frontière et mariées de force à des Chinois. ...
New Chinese map gives greater play to South China Sea claims
25.06.2014 (asiaone) - AP - BEIJING - China has unveiled a new official map of the country giving greater play to its claims on the South China Sea, state media said on Wednesday, making the disputed waters and its numerous islets and reefs more clearly seem like national territory. ...
Vietnam, China Spar Over Vessel-ramming Near Oil Rig
25.06.2014 Tra Mi (VOA) - Vietnam and China on Tuesday traded accusations that each had rammed a vessel owned by the other near a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters. ...
The Vietnamese priest-blogger fighting for religious freedom
25.06.2014 Paolo Affatato (Vatican Insider) - Reporters Without Borders have included the Redemptorist Anton Ngoc Than in their list of “100 information heroes”. Vatican Insider interviews the man himself. The campaign for human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam is gaining momentum on the web. ...
Vietnam; el sacerdote bloguero y paladín de la libertad religiosa
25.06.2014 Paolo Affatato (Vatican Insider) - El redentorista Anton Ngoc Than, que fue incluido por la Ong “Reporteros sin fronteras” entre los «100 héroes de la información», cuenta su vida. La campaña por los derechos humanos y por la libertad religiosa en Vietnam corre por las autopistas virtuales de la red ...
25.06.2014 Cristian Martini Grimaldi, Seoul (ucanews) - In political terms, Asia has it all: the world’s largest functioning democracy (India), the world’s most ruthless totalitarian state (North Korea) and everything in between, from centrally controlled authoritarian fortresses (China, Laos, Vietnam) to wannabe democracies (Indonesia) to amorphous muddles where vote buying and corruption are rife, and a political appointment is seen as nothing more or less than a ticket for the gravy train (Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines). Which of these systems -- or non-systems -- is most likely to prevail across the continent? ...
Vietnams Sorge: Chinas bedrohlicher Aufstieg
25.06.2014 Rodion Ebbighausen, z.Zt. Danang (Deutsche Welle) - Der Konflikt im Südchinesischen Meer weckt in Südostasien tief verwurzelte Ängste: vor einer chinesischen Dominanz: Wie schwierig der Umgang mit der neuen Großmacht ist, zeigt ein Besuch in Vietnam. China betreibe im Südchinesischen Meer eine neue Form der expansiven Außenpolitik, die bald auch in anderen Regionen Anwendung finden könnte, da sind sich die Asien-Experten einig. ...
Civil Society Representatives Speak at the UNHRC
24.06.2014 (Vietnam UPR) - Geneva - The Vietnamese civil delegation, representing 10 independent CSOs in Vietnam, on June 24 spoke at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Plenary Session on June 20, a first time for independent civil society. ...
Vietnamese women being trafficked for forced marriages, say rights groups
25.06.2014 By Cat Barton (The Malay Mail Online) - LAO CAI, June 25 — When Kiab turned 16, her brother promised to take her to a party in a tourist town in northern Vietnam. Instead, he sold her to a Chinese family as a bride. The ethnic Hmong teenager spent nearly a month in China until she was able to escape her new husband, seek help from local police and return to Vietnam. ...
China blames Vietnam anew in sea clash
25.06.2014 Reuters (abs-cbn) - BEIJING - Beijing on Tuesday called for peace to return to disputed waters in the South China Sea after Hanoi released footage showing Chinese vessels ramming into a Vietnamese boat. Vietnamese state media VTV reported on Monday (June 23) that seven Chinese vessels rammed into the left flank of one of its boats, leaving its hull heavily damaged. ...
Christians in Vietnam Church Center Beaten, Locked Up in Massive Raid
24.06.2014 By Our Vietnam Correspondent (Morning Star News) – Blaring police loudspeakers awoke Bible school students at a Mennonite church center in southern Vietnam at about 11 p.m. the night of June 9, a prelude to a night of violence and detention that would seriously injure 20 people. Police called for the owner of the compound in Binh Duong Province to let them in for an “administrative search.” ...
Business and Politics in the South China Sea: Explaining HYSY 981’s Foray into Disputed Waters
24.06.2014 By: Erica S. Downs (Brookings) - At 9:00 A.M. on May 9, 2012, Chinese executives and government officials gathered at the headquarters of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to celebrate the commencement of drilling by HYSY981, the country’s first home-grown deepwater semisubmersible drilling platform. HYSY 981 was part of China’s 863 Program, an initiative launched in March, 1986 to narrow the technological gap between China and the world’s most advanced economies ...
What’s Happening in the China Sea and Why You Should Care (+Interactive Map)
24.06.2014 By Karen Cheng (The Epoch Times) - The South China Sea hosts one of the world’s most important trade routes due to its proximity to China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines, which are many of the world’s most dynamic economies. Roughly a third of global crude oil and half of global liquid natural gas trade passes through the South China Sea. ...
Deutschland ist nicht gut genug
24.06.2014, von Johannes Pennekamp (FAZ) - Irland ist das beste Land der Welt – Deutschland schafft es nicht unter die besten zehn Länder und muss sich hinter Frankreich und Kanada auf Rang 13 einreihen. Das ist das Ergebnis einer neuen Erhebung, des Good-Country-Index, den die Initiatoren am Montag in Berlin vorgestellt haben. Der Index soll messen, wie viel Gutes die Länder für die Welt tun. In der Rangliste, die insgesamt 125 Staaten erfasst, liegen die Vereinigten Staaten auf Rang 21. Ganz am Ende der Liste stehen Aserbaidschan, der Irak und Vietnam. Schlusslicht ist Libyen. ...
Aquino, Abe to discuss new China strategy
24.06.2014 By Nikko Dizon, Philippine Daily Inquirer (INQUIRER.net) - TOKYO—President Aquino and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are expected to examine China’s island-chain defense strategy as they open talks here on Tuesday to explore security cooperation in the face of Beijing’s increasing aggressiveness in asserting its territorial claims in the South China Sea. ...
Chinese ships ram, damage Vietnamese vessel
24.06.2014 (The Manila Times) - HA NOI: A ship belonging to the Viet Nam Fishing Surveillance Department was deliberately rammed and seriously damaged by two Chinese ships illegally operating in Vietnamese waters. ...
Jet lands at wrong airport; Crew suspended
24.06.2014 By AFP (Emirates 24/7 News) - Vietnam's aviation authority has suspended the crew of a plane operated by budget airline VietJet Air after a flight bound for the tourist hub of Da Lat landed at another airport more than 100 kilometres away. ...
200 Passagiere stranden auf falschem Flughafen
23.06.2014 (Stern) - Am falschen Ort angekommen sind rund 200 Passagiere eines Linienfluges in Vietnam: Ihre Maschine der Billiglinie VietJet Air landete am vergangenen Donnerstag am Flughafen der Stadt Cam Ranh anstatt wie geplant im 130 Kilometer entfernten zentralvietnamesischen Dalat, teilte die vietnamesische Luftfahrtbehörde am Montag mit. Mehrere Angestellte der Fluggesellschaft sowie Fluglotsen seien daraufhin vom Dienst suspendiert worden. ...
Vietnam Vows Stand Against China as Sea Collisions Continue
24.06.2014 By John Boudreau and Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen (Bloomberg News) - Vietnam accused Chinese ships of ramming one of its fishing boats yesterday, saying relations between the two countries have been “deeply damaged” by the their standoff over a disputed oil rig in the South China Sea. A high-level meeting between Vietnamese leaders and China’s top foreign policy official on June 18 failed to ease the daily sea skirmishes near the oil rig. ...
Man who set himself on fire in East Manatee dies; suicide note suggests it was protest of China
24.06.2014 By Mark Young (Bradenton Herald) - MANATEE -- The 71-year-old Vietnamese man who set himself on fire Friday in an apparent suicide attempt died Monday morning, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. The act was an apparent protest of a Chinese state-owned oil rig being placed into waters contested by Vietnam in the South China Sea -- an area of growing tension among the two countries where Chinese and Vietnamese fishing vessels often cross paths. ...
Rights Advocates Criticize Vietnam on UPR Rejections
23.06.2014 Tra Mi (VOA) - Vietnam's rejection of 45 key recommendations in its U.N. human rights review has drawn criticism from activists. Last week, Vietnam agreed to accept 182 of the 227 recommendations from its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the Human Rights Council. Hanoi said its decision demonstrates Vietnam's seriousness, openness and determination in promoting and protecting human rights. ...
Social media and blogging give voice to Vietnam’s citizens
23.06.2014 By Edward Barbour-Lacey (Asian Correspondent) - Currently in Vietnam, most news sources are state run. This includes newspapers, news sites, and TV channels. The government has a firm hold on the media and works hard to formulate stories in the manner it best sees fit. But there is a growing movement online that is challenging this social order and causing much worry for the government.
The ever changing nature of the Internet makes it hard for a country like Vietnam, without the human and financial muscle of a place like China, to police its citizens fully online. ...
Vietnam: Innerer Wandel durch äußeren Konflikt
23.06.2014 (Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung) - Der Konflikt zwischen Vietnam und China um die Rohstoffe im südchinesischen Meer könnte Vietnam mehr Demokratie bringen, so die Einschätzung der Stiftungsexperten im Hintergrundbericht. Zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppe, Intellektuelle und Oppositionelle nehmen die Auseinandersetzung mit dem großen Nachbarn zum Anlass, um die Abgrenzung von China zu propagieren. Eine Hinwendung zu westlichen Partnern, wie den USA, müsste allerdings von politischen Reformen begleitet werden. ...
Beijing 'setting precedent' in South China Sea
23.06.2014 Gabriel Domínguez (Deutsche Welle) - China has sent four more oil rigs into the South China Sea amid mounting regional tensions. Analyst Ian Storey tells DW Beijing is likely to deploy more rigs in the future as it intends to assert its "historic rights." In a DW interview, Ian Storey, an analyst at the Singapore-based Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), tells DW the deployment of the rigs highlights Beijing's determination to assert jurisdictional claims in the South China Sea and that the international community only has very limited options to stop it. ...
US Withholds Judgment on China Oil Rigs
23.06.2014 Victor Beattie (VOA) - WASHINGTON — The United States says it will withhold judgment for now on the intended destination of four new Chinese oil rigs in the disputed South China Sea. It appears that Beijing is stepping up its exploration for oil and gas two months after positioning a giant drilling platform in waters also claimed by Vietnam.
Carl Thayer, professor emeritus at Australia’s University of New South Wales, who returned from a meeting on South China Sea disputes in Vietnam, says the more rigs China puts in place, the more difficult it will be for Hanoi to monitor them. ...
"Business as usual" in Vietnam
23.06.2014 Rodion Ebbighausen (Deutsche Welle) - Nach anti-chinesischen Protesten in Vietnam stand die Investitionssicherheit des südostasiatischen Landes in Frage. Ein Besuch in der Region zeigt, dass die Lage wieder unter Kontrolle ist. Die Besichtigung ist nur mit Begleitung der vietnamesischen Behörden möglich. Der Reporter der Deutschen Welle wird jederzeit von Beamten des Außenministeriums, einem Mitarbeiter der Wirtschaftszone und der Polizei begleitet. ...
Blogger Josef Bordat wird in Radio Horeb über die Bloggerverfolgung in Vietnam sprechen
23.06.2014 (Forum Vietnam 21) - In der diesjährigen Überprüfung der Menschenrechtsbilanz (UN Universal Periodic Review) in Genf erhielt Vietnam von 106 internationalen Delegationen 227 Empfehlungen. Am 20.06.2014 hat Vietnam in der 26.Sitzung der UPR in Genf 45 der 227 Empfehlungen abgelehnt. Die Ablehnung Hanois spiegelt die miserable Lage der Menschenrechte in Vietnam wider, wo Religionsfreiheit, Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit nicht existieren dürfen.
Der Blogger Josef Bordat begleitet seit Anfang 2013 die Menschenrechtssituation in Vietnam publizistisch (wir berichteten). In der Sendung „Standpunkt“ von Radio Horeb am Sonntag, den 29.06.2014 wird Dr. Josef Bordat über "Christenverfolgung 2.0. Katholische Blogger in Vietnam" sprechen. ...
Japan-Vietnam: lures, rewards and bribes
23.06.2014 By Brian La (Asia Times) - Ho Chi Minh City - The recent suspension of Japanese aid to Vietnam will do little to uproot the systemic corruption that has long fueled and plagued bilateral relations. With growing strategic relations aimed at jointly counterbalancing China and burgeoning commercial ties, the suspension is expected to be short-lived and only a minor setback to the broad warming trend. ...
Child workers in Vietnam face further exploitation
23.06.2014 Monash University (Phys.org) - Vietnamese children as young as 11 are working for up to 18 hours a day in harsh and abusive conditions, often unpaid and denied communication with their families, a study shows.
The study, led by Professor Susan Kneebone of Monash University's Castan Centre for Human Rights law in collaboration with the children's foundation Blue Dragon, looks at the causes and consequences of child labour migration in Vietnam. ...
Mapa: China instala 4 plataformas petrolíferas más en las aguas en disputa
22.06.2014 (RT) - China ha desplegado 4 torres petrolíferas en el Mar de China Meridional, zona reclamada por Vietnam, dos meses después de instalar dos plataformas de perforación (una gigante y otra más pequeña) en aguas disputadas. ...
‘China wants to seize more sea’
22.06.2014 (The Manila Times) - DA NANG: Vietnam and regional countries should raise world alarm about China’s nine-dash claim to much of the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea), retired French general Daniel Schaeffer told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on the Paracel and Spratly archipelagos here. Schaeffer, an expert on Chinese issues at France’s Asia Research Center, said China wanted to seize more sea within the U-shaped line claim it had marked out and then force other countries in the region to recognize the claim. ...
Vietnam – das heimliche Pulverfass
22.06.2014 Von Eva Dou und Richard C. Paddock (The Wall Street Journal Deutschland) - HANOI — Anfang Mai bekamen einige vietnamesische Netzaktivisten für mehr Demokratie in Vietnam unerwartet Anrufe von einem ehemaligen leitenden Polizeioffizier. Die Blogger planten für den 11. Mai eine Demonstration gegen die von China installierte Bohrplattform in Küstengewässern, die von Vietnam beansprucht werden. Man werde die Proteste dieses Mal zulassen, sagte der Ex-Polizist, der einst den Rang eines Generals bekleidet hatte. So beschreibt es Nguyen Van Dai, der Organisator der Demonstration, der seine Aktivitäten für mehr Demokratie in Vietnam bisher mit vier Jahren Gefängnis bezahlt hat. ...
"Eines Tages werden sie uns angreifen"
21.06.2014 Von Angela Köckritz (Zeit Online) - Schiffe patrouillieren, Bürger demonstrieren: China und Japan streiten um eine Inselgruppe. In der Region entbrennt der Nationalismus. ...
China sends four oil rigs to South China Sea amid regional tensions
21.06.2014 (The Asahi Shimbun) - BEIJING/HONG KONG--China has sent four more oil rigs into the South China Sea in a sign that Beijing is stepping up its exploration for oil and gas in the tense region, less than two months after it positioned a giant drilling platform in waters claimed by Vietnam. ...
Vietnam gets first private non-profit university
21.06.2014 Arno Maierbrugger (Investvine) - The government of Vietnam has approved in principle the establishment of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV), that country’s first private, non-profit institution of higher education. FUV will be based upon the Fulbright Economics Teaching Programme (FETP), established in Ho Chi Minh City in 1994 and since affiliated with Harvard’s Vietnam programme. ...
20.06.2014 (Vietnam Committee on Human Rights) GENEVA – At the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today, Vietnam rejected 45 key recommendations made by member states to improve human rights protection and uphold the fundamental rights of its citizens in Vietnam. The Council was examining the Working Group’s report on Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held on 5 February 2014. ...
Peking schickt weitere Ölplattformen in Südchinesisches Meer
20.06.2014 (Tiroler Tageszeitung) - Peking (APA/AFP) - Inmitten der Territorialstreitigkeiten mit Vietnam hat China weitere vier Ölplattformen in das von beiden Ländern beanspruchte Südchinesische Meer geschickt. ...
Beijing ignores Hanoi (and Manila), builds three new drilling rigs in South China Sea
20.06.2014 By NH (AsiaNews) - Hanoi - Within the next two years, Beijing plans to build three more oil rigs off the Spratly and Paracel islands in the South China Sea, an area at the centre of a fierce territorial dispute with Hanoi and Manila. ...
La Chine envenime sa querelle maritime avec le Vietnam
20.06.2014 Par Patrick Saint-Paul (Le Figaro) - Pékin achemine une nouvelle plateforme pétrolière en mer de Chine méridionale à proximité d'îlots revendiqués par Hanoï. ...
Südostasiens heißer App-Markt setzt Blackberry Messenger und Whatsapp zu
20.06.2014 Von Newley Purnell (WSJ) - Die Fülle kostenloser Messaging-Programme, die auf Samudras Telefon-Bildschirm blinken, ist typisch für Südostasien. Und sie veranschaulicht gut, warum sich die Region gerade zu einem heißen Schauplatz im Wettbewerb der App-Anbieter entwickelt. Viele der rund 600 Millionen Menschen, die dort leben, nutzen noch einfache Handys und werden erst in Zukunft auf ein Smartphone aufrüsten. Deshalb ist Südostasien für viele Tech-Konzerne ein kritischer Wachstumsmarkt. ...
Vietnam breaks up anti-China demonstration
20.06.2014 (asiaone) - HANOI: Vietnamese authorities broke up a small anti-China protest in Hanoi and detained several people on Thursday, activists told AFP, a day after high-level talks over an oil rig in disputed waters ended in deadlock.
Around a dozen activists briefly waved banners and shouted “Chinese oil rig get out of Vietnam!” and “silence is cowardice” — a dig at Hanoi’s handling of the dispute — before police forced them to disperse. ...
Four Civil Society Representatives Arrive in Geneva for the HRC’s Plenary Session on Vietnam’s UPR
20.06.2014 (Vietnam UPR) - GENEVA, 19/6/2014 - Four Vietnamese civil society activists have arrived in Geneva to begin a two-week campaign in Europe for human rights in Vietnam. Most significantly, the Delegation is scheduled to speak at the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Plenary Session on June 20, a first time for independent civil society. ...
China sending four oil rigs to South China Sea amid regional tensions
20.06.2014 (GMA News) - BEIJING - China is sending four oil rigs into the South China Sea in a sign that Beijing its stepping up its exploration for oil and gas in the tense region, less than two months after it positioned a giant drilling platform in waters claimed by Vietnam. ...
Navíos chinos en aguas disputadas del mar de China oriental (Tokio)
20.06.2014 (Terra) - Dos barcos de guardacostas chinos penetraron este viernes en aguas territoriales de unos islotes deshabitados administrados por Japón y que China reclama, anunció Tokio. ...
The informal meeting of the ASEAN Sea
20.06.2014 René L Pattiradjawane, Jakarta (The Jakarta Post) - Being a vassal state of China, it is not easy for Vietnam to maintain an equal relationship with its giant neighbor. The shadows of the northern Middle Kingdom will always undermine Hanoi’s political gesture in finding viable political and security solutions on the overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea. ...
Michael Green: Concerns about China's rise boost support for U.S. rebalance to Asia
20.06.2014 By Yoichi Kato/ National Security Correspondent (The Asahi Shimbun) - A top Asia expert at an influential Washington-based think tank said an overwhelming number of “strategic elites” in the Asia-Pacific region support the U.S. rebalance policy because they are concerned about China's growing influence. ...
Grant Associates to design landscape for new Vietnamese-German University in Binh Duong Province
19.06.2014 By Kat Byles (Bristol Post) - British landscape architecture firm Grant Associates working with Boston architects Machado and Silvetti Associates, Inc. have won an international competition to design the Vietnamese-German University Campus in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam. ...
Vietnam hopes to sign free trade agreement with Eurasian Economic Union by yearend
19.06.2014 (ITAR-TASS) - MOSCOW. Vietnam hopes to sign a agreement on free trade zone with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) by the end of this year, Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Fam Suan Shon told ITAR-TASS on Thursday. ...
Chinese Media: In Vietnam, Yang Calls 'Prodigal Son' to Return Home
19.06.2014 By Shannon Tiezzi (The Diplomat) - Chinese media portrayed Yang Jiechi’s trip to Vietnam as a diplomatic and moral victory for China. On Thursday, China said that it would move a second oil rig into the waters off Vietnam’s coast, where the two countries have been engaged in a protracted dispute since early May. ...
China unfazed by standoff with Vietnam
20.06.2014 (The Statesman) - Unfazed by a diplomatic standoff with Hanoi, China today said it was deploying another oil rig close to Vietnam, even as it expressed willingness to work with the Asean to promote a code of conduct in disputed waters of the South China Sea. ...
Hanoï-Pékin l’impossible dialogue en mer de Chine
19.06.2014 Michel de Grandi (Les Echos) - Après les émeutes anti-chinoises de fin mai, la Chine et le Vietnam tentent de renouer le dialogue
Les couteaux sont rentrés. Pour la première rencontre depuis les émeutes de fin mai , la Chine et le Vietnam essaient de renouer un dialogue que l'installation d’une plate-forme pétrolière dans les eaux revendiquées par le Vietnam a subitement interrompu. ...
China Moves Second Oil Rig Into Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone
19.06.2014 By Ankit Panda (The Diplomat) - On Thursday, China said that it would move a second oil rig into the waters off Vietnam’s coast, where the two countries have been engaged in a protracted dispute since early May. China’s Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) posted a notice on its website stating that this new rig will be installed between June 18 and 20. Its final location will be at 17°14.1′ North latitude and 109°31′ East longitude off the coast of Vietnam. ...
Philippines, U.S. to hold naval drills near disputed shoal in South China Sea
19.06.2014 (Yahoo News UK) - MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine and American troops are set to hold naval exercises this month near a disputed shoal, which will almost certainly anger China with tension already high in the South China Sea. ...
China moving 2nd oil rig closer to Vietnam
19.06.2014 (CBSNews) - BEIJING -- China said Thursday it is moving a second oil rig closer to Vietnam's coast, showing its determination to press its territorial claims and continue searching for resources in disputed waters despite a tense confrontation with Vietnam over another oil rig to the south. ...
Republic Of Vietnam Issues "Rebuttal" To China's Position Paper On Current South China Sea Standoff
19.06.2014 (Reuters) - WASHINGTON - PRNewswire-USNewswire -- As of today, June 19, 2014, the Republic of Vietnam Pro-temp Leadership Committee made public a document analyzing the claims made by the People's Republic of China and distributed at the UN on June 9, 2014, regarding "The Operation of the HYSY 981 Drilling Rig: Vietnam's Provocation and China's position." This is a rebuttal, point by point, ...
On the frontline in the South China Sea: A diary by South-East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley
19.06.2014 (ABC News) - South-East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley spent nearly a week travelling to a giant Chinese oil rig deployed between the Vietnamese coast and the Paracel Islands in the disputed South China Sea. ...
Diplomatie nach der Wasserschlacht
19.06.2014 Marco Kauffmann Bossart, Rangun (NZZ) - In Hanoi haben China und Vietnam ihre unterschiedlichen Standpunkte im Streit um ressourcenreiche Seegebiete bekräftigt. Auf beiden Seiten herrscht tiefes Misstrauen. ...
Chine: les vétérans du Vietnam dans un nouvelle bataille, contre Pékin
19.06.2014 (directmatin.fr) - Marginalisés et incompris, les vétérans chinois de la guerre du Vietnam --celle, peu connue, lancée en 1979 par la Chine contre son voisin-- risquent la prison et les coups dans un combat imprévu, celui contre les autorités. ...
Yang's Visit Underlines China-Vietnam Standoff
19.06.2014 By Shannon Tiezzi (The Diplomat) - Even while Vietnam and China continue to trade barbs over the placement of a Chinese oil rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi arrived in Hanoi Wednesday for a visit. Yang’s meetings with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh as well as Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung marked the highest-level exchanges between China and Vietnam since the crisis began in early May. ...
Vietnam Devalues Dong First Time in a Year to Spur Exports
19.06.2014 By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen (Bloomberg News) - Vietnam’s central bank devalued the dong for the first time in a year to help spur exports and vowed to ensure the stability of the currency as tension rises over a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters. ...
Philippines seeks quick ruling on suit with China
18.06.2014 AP (Washington Post) - MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines wants an international tribunal to issue a decision as quickly as it can on a Manila complaint that questions the legality of China’s massive territorial claims in the South China Sea because the disputes continue to escalate. ...
No Breakthrough in Vietnam, China Talks
18.06.2014 (ABC News) - Talks between a top Chinese diplomat and Vietnamese officials on Wednesday produced no breakthrough in the impasse over an increasingly bitter confrontation in the disputed South China Sea, a Vietnamese official said. ...
China scolds Vietnam for "hyping up" South China Sea oil rig row
18.06.2014 By Ho Binh Minh and Ben Blanchard (Reuters) - China's top diplomat scolded Vietnamese officials during talks in Hanoi on Wednesday for "hyping up" a row over a Chinese oil rig drilling in disputed waters in the South China Sea, in tough comments that suggest relations will remain rocky. State Councilor Yang Jiechi also told his hosts that the rig's activities in waters also claimed by Vietnam were "completely legal", China's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily briefing in Beijing. ...
Nominado abierto a levantar embargo a Vietnam
17.06.2014 Associated Press Por Matthew Pennington (Metro) - WASHINGTON — El nominado por el president Barack Obama a embajador en Vietnam dijo el martes que era hora de que Washington estudie la posibilidad de levantar la prohibición a la venta y transferencia de armas su antiguo enemigo. ...
Physical Attacks Against Vietnamese Bloggers on the Rise
17.06.2014 By Endalkachew Chala (EFF) - On May 25, 2014, a Vietnamese blogger and human rights activist, Tran Thi Nga, was seriously injured during a violent attack in Hanoi, a local human rights organization reported. The assailants attacked Tran Thi Nga in front of her children and chased her before beating her with a metal pole. The blogger sustained serious injuries to her knee, arm, and back ...
Un syndicat libre annonce qu’il entame des activités publiques au Vietnam
17.06.2014 (Églises d'Asie) - Un communiqué diffusé le 9 juin 2014 vient de rendre publique l’apparition d’un syndicat libre et le début de ses activités sur la scène sociale du Vietnam. Son nom officiel est le Syndicat libre des travailleurs vietnamiens. Il se présente lui-même comme une organisation de la société civile dont le but est de contribuer à la défense des intérêts des travailleurs du Vietnam. ...
Consejero de Estado chino viaja a Vietnam para limar tensiones bilaterales
17.06.2014 (EFE) - Pekín - El consejero de Estado chino Yang Jiechi, principal responsable de Asuntos Exteriores en el Ejecutivo, viajará mañana a Vietnam para reunirse con el canciller vietnamita, Pham Binh Minh, un encuentro que se produce en medio de fuertes tensiones bilaterales por la soberanía de las islas Paracel. ...
Political prisoners transferred away from family
16.06.2014 (VNRN) – Prisoners of conscience in Vietnam have been transferred away from their families, a pattern that has come to the fore with the most recent move of Le Quoc Quan (Lê Quốc Quân) from Hanoi to Quang Nam province 760km (470 miles) away. ...
Vietnam hears blogger’s appeal in secret, affirms prison term
13.06.2014 (VNRN) – Without prior notice, Vietnam on June 9 held a surprise appellate hearing on the case of a convicted blogger that is so secret even his family didn’t know about it until they visited him afterwards in prison in Hanoi, according to activists. The closed appeal affirmed the 15-month sentence against blogger Pham Viet Dao, 62, a former Vietnamese Communist Party member and government official. He had been convicted under Article 258 of Vietnam’s penal code for allegedly “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the State.” ...
17.06.2014 Quratul-Ain Bandial (The Brunei Times) - ASEAN must continue to press China for a code of conduct (CoC) in the South China Sea, despite setbacks and stalled negotiations, said an international relations expert yesterday.
“That just goes to show the region needs a CoC.... hitting another boat should be off limits, and a CoC could prevent territorial disputes turning into open conflict,” said Dr David Arase ...
China fears spur Philippine naval upgrade
16.06.2014 (Channel NewsAsia) - ULUGAN BAY: As fears grow that China is on an aggressive South China Sea territorial grab, a sleepy Philippine village is being transformed into a major naval base that may host US warships. ...
Philippines against South China Sea construction
16.06.2014 By Louise Watt (Taiwan News) - BEIJING (AP) -- China rejected a suggestion by the Philippines on Monday for a regionwide ban on construction in the South China Sea after Beijing began building a school on a rugged outpost it created to strengthen its claims to disputed waters. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said he will propose that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations call for such a moratorium. ...
Philippines calls for freeze on actions in South China Sea
16.06.2014 (Channel NewsAsia) - MANILA: The Philippines on Monday called on nations with overlapping claims in the South China Sea to halt all action that could provoke tensions in the area, amid fears of China's expansionism. ...
China, Trying to Bolster Its Claims, Plants Islands in Disputed Waters
16.06.2014 By Edward Wong and Jonathan Ansfield (The New York Times) - BEIJING — The islands have all that one could ask of a tropical resort destination: white sand, turquoise waters and sea winds. But they took shape only in the last several months, and they are already emerging as a major point of conflict in the increasingly bitter territorial disputes between China and other Asian nations. ...
China Aggression Sounds Wake-Up Call for Vietnam’s Manufacturers
16.06.2014 By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen (Bloomberg News) - For more than eight years, Luong Thi Kim Oanh bought cases of thread from China for her garment factory in Hanoi. Last month, rattled by an anti-China riot in her country, she placed her first order from South Korea.
More Vietnamese businesses may have to consider alternatives as the country prepares to file a legal suit challenging China’s claims to the disputed waters. ...
China’s Information Warfare Campaign and the South China Sea: Bring It On!
16.06.2014 By Carl Thayer (The Diplomat) - China’s action in internationalizing its dispute with Vietnam does not represent a change in its long-standing policy that maritime disputes can only be settled bilaterally through direct consultations and negotiation of the parties directly concerned. A day after China submitted its position paper, Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that China rejected United Nations arbitration of its dispute with Vietnam. Why then did China take its dispute with Vietnam to the United Nations? ...
Libération de deux militants chrétiens de la province du Nghê An après trois années de détention
16.06.2014 (Églises d'Asie) - Le 11 juin dernier, on a appris la libération de deux prisonniers politiques, le jeune Nông Hung Anh et Mme Dang Ngoc Minh. Ils faisaient partie du groupe des 17 chrétiens, militants d’action sociale, arrêtés à des dates diverses, à partir du mois d’août jusqu’à la fin de l’année 2011. Nông Hung Anh était le seul protestant du groupe, composé, pour le restant, de catholiques. ... Mme Dang Minh Ngoc est une mère de famille catholique. ...
China’s ‘mobile territory,’ strategic weapon: Oil rig
16.06.2014 By Amando Doronila, Philippine Daily Inquirer (INQUIRER.net) - The Philippines last week fired off a new diplomatic protest against China after confirming Chinese land reclamation on McKennan (Hughes) Reef in the Spratly Islands, which is within Manila’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). ...
Top Chinese diplomat to visit Vietnam this week as tension rises in the South China Sea
16.06.2014 By The Associated Press (canada.com) - HANOI, Vietnam - A top Chinese diplomat will visit Vietnam this week after China's deployment of a giant oil rig off Vietnam's coast in May increased tensions. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh will discuss the oil rig when they meet ...
China Aggression Sounds Wake-Up Call for Vietnam’s Manufacturers
16.06.2014 By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen (Bloomberg News) - More Vietnamese businesses may have to consider alternatives as the country prepares to file a legal suit challenging China’s claims to the disputed waters. “It will force Vietnam’s businesses to look into other markets where the political risk is absent, and that’s a good thing,” said Chua Hak Bin, a Singapore-based regional economist at Bank of America Corp. ...
South China Sea disputes: what is in it for Europe?
15.06.2014 by Bruno Hellendorff (European Geostrategy) - ... China claims 80% of the South China Sea, including the Paracels, wrestled from Vietnam in 1974, and the Spratleys, considering its sovereignty and related rights and jurisdiction in the South China Sea ‘supported by abundant historical and legal evidence’. Vietnam and the Philippines, for their part, vocally contest the position of China, and defend their own, overlapping claims based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a convention to which all regional countries are parties. ...
China erige escuela en isla de aguas disputadas
15.06.2014 (Telemetro) - China comenzó a construir una escuela en una isla remota en el Mar del Sur para los hijos del personal militar y otros, expandiendo el puesto que creó hace dos años allí para fortalecer sus reclamos de soberanía sobre las aguas e islas disputadas. ...
Tensions between Vietnam and China over islands
15.06.2014 By Ruairidh Duncan (kettlemag) - Only a few days ago Le Thi Tuyet Mai set herself on fire outside Ho Chi Minh City’s reunification palace. The burning woman stopped traffic in the city as the police frantically tried to douse the flames. Before her Self-immolation the sixty-seven year old Buddhist woman surrounded herself with handmade banners denouncing Chinese actions in the South China sea, specifically the illegal oil exploration by Chinese vessels within what she regards to be Vietnamese territorial waters. ...
The Haiyang 981 Confrontation: The Danger Of Convoluting Everything Into Sovereignty Disputes
05.06.2014 By Huy Duong and Tuan Pham (Eurasia Review) - Inflating the South China Sea maritime disputes unreasonably beyond any possible EEZ that might be allocated to tiny disputed islands hampers regional security and co-operation. Much of the tensions could be resolved by applying UNCLOS’s dispute settlement procedure to matters relating to maritime delimitation and cooperation in disputed areas. ...
Inhaftierter Blogger Le Quoc Quan heimlich verlegt
15.06.2014 (Forum Vietnam 21) - Informationen aus vietnamesischen Dissidentenkreis zufolge ist der Menschenrechtsaktivist Le Quoc Quan vorgestern, 13.06.2014, stillschweigend vom Hauptstadtgefängnis in ein Gefängnis in der Provinz Quang Nam in Zentralvietnam verlegt worden. Seine Familienangehörigen in der Hauptstadt Ha Noi waren von der Nachricht überrascht, da sie ihn zwei Tage zuvor besucht haben und von einer Verlegung keine Rede war. ...
Berufungsgericht bestätigt Gefängnisstrafe für Blogger Pham Viet Dao
15.06.2014 (Forum Vietnam 21) - Der Blogger, Schriftsteller und Ex-Parteimitglied Pham Viet Dao (Bild) muss für 15 Monate hinter Gitter. In einer Verhandlung unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit am Montag 09.06.2014 bestätigte ein Berufungsgericht die Haftstrafe des Bloggers. Ein Gericht der ersten Intanz hat ihn mit der Begründung verurteilt, er habe dutzende Artikel veröffentlicht, die die politische Führung des Landes verunglimpfen und sorge dafür, dass die Bevölkerung das Vertrauen in diese verliert. ...
China building school on remote island outpost to boost claim to disputed southern waters
15.06.2014 By The Associated Press (canada.com) - BEIJING, China - China is building a school on a remote island in the South China Sea to serve the children of military personnel and others, expanding the rugged outpost it created two years ago to strengthen claims to disputed waters and islands. ...
Binh Duong: allanamiento de la policía contra una comunidad cristiana menonita, golpes y arrestos
14.06.2014 (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Ming City (AsiaNews/EDA)- La policía vietnamita sin una orden de allanamiento ni autorizaciones, irrumpió en una casa de oración privada, al interior de la cual estaban reunidos un grupo de 76 fieles de la Iglesia menonita. El allanamiento sucedió en la noche entre el 9 y el 10 de junio pasado en Thai Hoa, distrito de Ben Cat, en la provincia meridional de Binh Duong, en el norte de Saigón ...
Taiwan firms in Vietnam up and running
14.06.2014 (The China Post) - TAIPEI -- Over 90 percent of Taiwanese businesses that suffered damage during last month's anti-China riots in Vietnam have resumed operations, a Taiwanese business group said Friday.
“Taiwanese businesses have tried very hard to resume operations and are not considering withdrawing their investment,” said Hsu Yu-lin (許玉林), the chairman of the Bing Duong (平陽) Taiwan Business Association's reconstruction committee. ...
During a raid, Binh Duong police beat and arrest members of a Mennonite Christian community
14.06.2014 (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews/EdA) - Vietnamese police raided a private prayer home without a warrant. A group of 76 members of the Mennonite Church were present. The raid took place on Monday night in Thai Hoa, Ben Cat District, in the southern province of Binh Duong, north of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). ...
China claiming another reef; PH files new protest
14.06.2014 By Tarra Quismundo, Philippine Daily Inquirer (inquirer.net) - The Philippines has filed a new diplomatic protest against China over its land reclamation on McKennan (Hughes) Reef in the Spratly group of islands, which is indisputably within the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). ...
Keep the lid on Pandora’s box or Asia will pay dearly
09.06.2014 By Gideon Rachman (The Financial Times) - The rise in tensions in the region is now so palpable that senior political figures are sounding the alarm. A few days ago, at the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, I heard Yun Byung-se, South Korea’s foreign minister, warn that the increase in tensions in Asia means that “it looks like Pandora’s box is being opened”.
To make his case, Mr Yun listed an alarming spate of incidents during the past month: a near collision between Chinese fighter jets and a Japanese surveillance aircraft, “the first such incident in recent history”; a physical confrontation between Vietnamese and Chinese vessels in the South China Sea, the first since the two nations went to war in 1979; North Korea firing shells at a South Korean ship and threatening a fourth nuclear test, “in a way nobody has ever imagined”. ...
Naciones de Asia se muestran los dientes en el mar de China Meridional
13.06.2014 Por Richard Heydarian (IPS) - SINGAPUR - La decisión de China de instalar la moderna plataforma petrolífera HYSY981 a la zona económica exclusiva de 200 millas náuticas pertenecientes a Vietnam, intensificó las disputas territoriales en el mar de China Meridional e hizo temer por una escalada militar en uno de los cursos de agua más importantes del mundo. ...
Peking taktiert an mehreren Fronten
13.06.2014 Johnny Erling aus Peking (derStandard.at) - Peking verschafft sich im territorial umstrittenen Südchinesischen Meer immer mehr Vorteile: mit dem Bau künstlicher Inseln als neuen Stützpunkten, mit juristischen Finessen am Internationalen Gerichtshof (ICJ) in Den Haag und bei den Vereinten Nationen - oder einfach nur mit dem Recht des Stärkeren. ...
Big Potential for Vietnam's IT Services
13.06.2014 By Will Greene (Forbes) - Vietnam plays a small role in global IT services today, but it has big potential to contribute more in coming years. Many Vietnamese IT companies and policymakers want to develop the human capital necessary for future success. However, they face challenges that will require clever solutions. ...
Dengue pandemic threat with monsoons:Vietnam
13.06.2014 (BioSpectrum Asia) - The deadly disease that has killed six and infected 10,000 people so far this year is expected to create havoc with the onset of monsoons in Vietnam, unless due precautions are taken ...
Vietnamese human righteffort nearly zero
13.06.2014 (VRNs) - Saigon- Since the latest Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, from the beginning of this year up to now, the effort on Human Right in Vietnam is nearly zero.
On June 9th, Binh Duong Police attacked the Mennonite Protestant Church’s theology training establishment. The pastor Nguyen Manh Hung said: “At 11 pm on June 9th 2014, there were roughly from 300 to 500 people including polices, night-watchmen, and gangsterscoming to destroy the gate of the Mennonite Protestant Church in D10, My Phuoc, Ben Cat, Binh Duong. ...
High-seas standoff continues between China, Vietnam
13.06.2014 Manabu Ito, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Sino-Vietnamese tensions remain elevated a month and a half since China positioned an oil rig in contested waters in the South China Sea, and with more than 100 ships from both sides plying the area as of Thursday, no end of the discord is in sight. China has two if not three cordons of ships deployed in the area around the rig, according to Vietnam's Coast Guard and fisheries surveillance force. ...
Vietnam, Japan stand up to China
13.06.2014 (INQUIRER.net) - UNITED NATIONS — Vietnam and Japan are standing up to China in their maritime disputes, with Hanoi going to the United Nations for world help in expelling a Chinese oil rig from its waters and Tokyo summoning Beijing’s ambassador for a stinging rebuke over “dangerous” flights by Chinese jet fighters in Japanese airspace. ...
New reality for Vietnam-China relations
12.06.2014 Written by Huong Le Thu (Asia Sentinel) - So much for the ‘peaceful rise’
The deployment of China’s HD 981 oil drilling rig is undoubtedly the most serious incident in Sino- Vietnamese relations since the normalization of ties in 1991. What was considered a positive relationship based on 16 “golden words” in Chinese translated into long-term, stable, future-oriented, comprehensive cooperation relations and four “goods” – good neighbors, good friends, good comrades and good partners – is being seriously challenged. ...
Asian Nations Bare Teeth Over South China Sea
11.06.2014 Analysis by Richard Heydarian (IPS) - SINGAPORE - China’s early-May decision to dispatch the state-of-the-art oil rig, HYSY981, into Vietnam’s 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), has intensified ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea, raising fears of uncontrolled military escalation in one of the world’s most important waterways. ...
Taiwan-Vietnam mediation commission set to meet twice a month
13.06.2014 By James Lee (Taiwan News) - Taipei, June 13 (CNA) Taiwan and Vietnam are scheduled to hold regular joint mediation sessions twice a month to tackle the issue of compensation for damages suffered by Taiwanese businesses during last month's anti-Chinese riots, a Taiwanese economics official said Friday. ...
China: Kein Interesse an internationaler Schlichtung
12.06.2014 (FreieWelt.net) - Im Streit um Hoheitsrechte im Südchinesischen Meer will China nicht einlenken. Auch die Übergabe einer Dokumentation an den UN-Generalsekretär ändert daran nichts – im Gegenteil. Mit der Übergabe der Dokumentation ist ausdrücklich keine Anerlennung der internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeits verbunden. ...
Des membres de l’Eglise mennonite brutalisés par la police
12.06.2014 (Eglises d'Asie) Un groupe important de cadres responsables et d’étudiants de l’Eglise mennonite du Vietnam vient d’être la cible d’une très brutale opération policière. Celle-ci a été menée par un groupe comprenant des membres de différents services de la Sécurité publique.
Les faits se sont produits dans la nuit du 9 au 10 juin 2014, dans la commune de Thai Hoa, district de Bên Cat, province de Binh Duong. Il s’agit d’une province créée à la fin du siècle dernier, au sud-est du Vietnam, immédiatement au nord d’Hô Chi Minh-Ville. ...
Does China Care About its International Image?
12.06.2014 By Dingding Chen (The Diplomat) - China’s global image faces challenges — but if asked to choose between its national interests and preserving its national image, China would choose the former.
A recent poll conducted by the BBC World Service shows that China’s international image is not that great around the world. ...
China und Japan drohen sich mit Kampfjets
12.06.2014 (NZZ) - (dpa/afp) China und Japan haben sich mit Kampfjet-Manövern einen riskanten Schlagabtausch im Territorialstreit im Ostchinesischen Meer geliefert. Peking und Tokio liessen Flugzeuge in einem von beiden Ländern beanspruchten Gebiet in nur 30 Metern Entfernung aneinander vorbeifliegen, wie die Verteidigungsministerien beider Länder bestätigten. ...
Philippine group protests Chinese reclamation
12.06.2014 (Taiwan News) - MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- About 200 members and supporters of the Akbayan Party protested peacefully Thursday at the Chinese Consulate in Manila on the 116th anniversary of Philippine independence from Spanish colonialism to "assert sovereignty" over the disputed area. ...
Vietnam spars with China at UN in maritime spat
12.06.2014 (The Star) - UNITED NATIONS, United States, June 11, 2014 (AFP) - Vietnam has hit back against China at UN headquarters in New York, ordering Beijing to withdraw an oil rig and stop "interfering" with maritime safety in an ongoing territorial row. The Vietnamese mission asked its position paper to be circulated to the General Assembly after China sought support at the United Nations on Monday. ...
China aims to set record straight in row with Vietnam
12.06.2014 (The Star) - Beijing: Beijing’s efforts to garner support at the United Nations in its territorial row with Hanoi reflect its maturing diplomacy as well as its determination to clarify facts and defend interests, observers said. ...
Japan protests China's near-miss flybys over East China Sea
12.06.2014 Martin Fackler (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Tokyo: Japan protested to Beijing on Wednesday after Chinese fighter jets flew within 30 metres of Japanese military planes in airspace claimed by both nations. Similar flybys in the same area took place several weeks ago. ...
Chinese fighters buzz Japan planes over East China Sea, Tokyo says
12.06.2014 (dalje.com) - Chinese fighter jets buzzed Japanese military planes in airspace that both countries claim as their identification zone, prompting Tokyo to summon the Chinese ambassador Thursday in protest. A Chinese SU-27 fighter flew to within 30 metres of a Japanese YS-11 EB plane ...
Australia backs Japan's collective defence shift
12.06.2014 (Channel NewsAsia) - TOKYO: Australia on Thursday backed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's drive to expand the use of Japan's military, hailing it as a "more normal defence posture", a day after Tokyo and Canberra stepped up ties. ...
Sea Dispute Spotlights Plight of Vietnamese Fishermen
11.06.2014 Trung Nguyen (VOA) - Vietnamese captain Dang Van Nhan has been left idle in his hometown of Da Nang following the sinking of his ship in the South China Sea last month. Shortly after the ramming incident with a Chinese ship, contributions began pouring in from all over the country. But they have not been enough to help him build a new $200,000 fishing boat that would get him back to work. ...
Vietnam Faces Limited Options in China Sea Dispute
11.06.2014 Marianne Brown (VOA) - HANOI — Vietnam has curbed the violent anti-China protests that swept the country after a Chinese oil rig began drilling in contested waters. But authorities have not dropped their opposition to the Chinese operation, sending boats to harass the drilling, considering waging a legal case in international courts to resolve the dispute, and courting regional allies like the Philippines. ...
Vietnam launches UN bid over dipsute with China
11.06.2014 (Press TV) - Vietnam has filed a document with the United Nations (UN), asking China to withdraw an oil rig from disputed waters in the South China Sea. The controversial oil rig is located about 32 kilometers (20 miles) away from Paracel Islands and 278 kilometers (173 miles) off Vietnam’s coast. ...
China uses Vietnamese textbook to back claim in South China Sea dispute
11.06.2014 By Hilary Whiteman Hong Kong (CNN) -- China is using photocopied pages from a geography textbook for Vietnamese ninth-graders published 40 years ago to help win international support for its claim to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. ...
Paracel Islands a flashpoint in regional tensions between China and Vietnam
11.06.2014 Clifford Coonan in Beijing (The Irish Times) - A largely unpopulated archipelago administered by China but claimed by Vietnam, the Paracel Islands have become the flashpoint in an increasingly aggressive territorial dispute between the two neighbours, ideological allies as fellow communists but with stark divisions. China claims 90 per cent of the 3.5 million sq km South China Sea. ...
ASEAN zwischen Peking und Washington
11.06.2014 Rodion Ebbighausen (Deutsche Welle) - Südostasien ist eine wirtschaftliche und strategische Schlüsselregion für die Volksrepublik China und die USA. Wachsende Spannungen drohen die Staatengemeinschaft zu zerreißen. Die in den internationalen Medien oftmals wenig beachtete Region zählt etwa 600 Millionen Einwohner und gehört zu den dynamischsten Wirtschaftsräumen der Welt.
Anfang Mai verlegte China eine Ölbohrplattform vor eine Inselgruppe im Südchinesischen Meer, auf die sowohl China als auch Vietnam Ansprüche erheben. ...
China errichtet künstliche Inseln vor den Philippinen
11.06.2014, von Christian Geinitz, Peking (FAZ) - Während der Konflikt mit Vietnam um eine chinesische Bohrinsel nicht zur Ruhe kommt, schafft Peking gegenüber Manila offenbar Fakten. Die Landgewinnung nahe der Spratly-Inseln erinnert an die Inseln vor Dubai.. ...
China’s Vietnam veterans engage in new battle
11.06.2014 Tom Hancock, AFP (The Brunei Times) - YIYANG, China - MARGINALISED and misunderstood, Chinese Vietnam veterans – who fought in a little-celebrated war against their southern neighbours – risk beatings and prison in a new battle with government officials. ...
Japan seeks to affirm maritime ties with Vietnam
11.06.2014 (NHK) - Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says he hopes Japan and Vietnam can reaffirm cooperation on maritime issues when he visits the country next month. ...
UN 'will mediate in China-Vietnam row'
11.06.2014 (BBC) - The United Nations says it is willing to mediate in the territorial row between China and Vietnam. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric called for both sides to resolve the dispute peacefully and legally. ...
Vietnam Says China Sent Six Warships to Rig in Disputed Seas
11.06.2014 (Bloomberg) - Vietnam said China again shifted an oil rig it has placed in disputed waters, with six warships guarding the structure as the two communist countries continue their South China Sea stand-off. ...
Vietnam urges China to withdraw oil rig from South China Sea
11.06.2014 (South China Morning Post) - Beijing's refusal to discuss the dispute is provocative and raises 'serious concerns', says Vietnam’s UN ambassador. Vietnam’s UN ambassador urged China on Tuesday to withdraw its oil rig and more than 100 ships from the South China Sea to create “an environment” for negotiations on the disputed waters.. ...
Web of containment tightens on China
11.06.2014 By Richard Javad Heydarian (Asia Times) - MANILA - The Philippines and Vietnam, confronted with an increasingly assertive China, are putting aside past rivalries and inching closer to becoming full-fledged brothers in arms in the South China Sea. ...
Is Japan Planning to Create an Anti-China "Asian NATO"?
08.06.2014 Rich Smith (The Motley Fool) - China has an aircraft carrier -- and it's making the neighbors nervous.
Across Southeast Asia today, plans are afoot from Taiwan to South Korea, and from Australia to the Philippines to Japan, to boost military spending to counterbalance an increasingly bellicose Chinese navy. ...
Malaysia Tries Appeasement With China
09.06.2014 Written by Philip Bowring (Asia Sentinel) - It was disastrous for Vietnam and it won’t work any better for KL
China is winning the battle over ownership of the South China Sea. Blatant aggression is succeeding here as surely as it did for Putin in Crimea – and with far less historical, ethnic or geographical justification. ...
Chine-Vietnam: escarmouches répétées en mer de Chine méridionale
09.06.2014 (RFI) - Le conflit maritime est toujours très vif entre la Chine et le Vietnam. Dans un argumentaire publié dimanche 8 juin 2014, dans leur journal officiel, les autorités chinoises défendent le droit d’exploiter la plate-forme de forage pétrolière aux abords des îles Paracels, en mer de Chine : des eaux pourtant revendiquées par Hanoï. ...
10.06.2014 (Forum Vietnam 21) - Der Konflikt zwischen Vietnam und China um eine Ölplattform in umstrittenen Gewässern beschäftigt jetzt die Vereinten Nationen. China bringt seinen Inselstreit mit Vietnam vor die Vereinten Nationen. Die UN-Generalversammlung soll sich mit dem Konflik um eine Bohrinsel in der Nähe des Paracel-Archipels im Südchinesischen Meer befassen. Medien zufolge schickte der chinesische UN-Botschafter Wang Min ein Positionspapier über die Bohroperation im Südchinesischen Meer an UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon und bat ihn darum, dieses an die Mitglieder der Generalversammlung weiterzureichen. ...
US recommends removal of Vietnam ships, China oil rig in South China Sea
10.06.2014 Written by Jeffrey Tan (The Edge) - KUALA LUMPUR - The US government has recommended the withdrawal of Vietnamese vessels and removal of Chinese oil rig in the South China Sea. The presence of the vessels and oil rig has escalated tension between Vietnam and China over territorial claims in the region. ...
China ‘Internationalizes’ South China Sea Dispute
10.06.2014 By Zachary Keck (The Diplomat) - China effectively internationalized its dispute with Vietnam over an oil rig in the South China Sea on Monday by submitting its claim against Hanoi to the UN Secretary General. On Sunday China’s Foreign Ministry released a statement entitled, The Operation of the HYSY 981 Drilling Rig: Vietnam’s Provocation and China’s Position, which criticized Vietnam’s alleged provocations over the oil rig and provided the “most comprehensive outline to date of China’s claims to the Paracel Islands.” ...
China says it wants to counter Vietnam’s ‘slander’ on S.China Sea
10.06.2014 By Ben Blanchard (Reuters) - BEIJING - China said on Tuesday that it wanted to counter Vietnam's "slander" to the world about what was happening in disputed areas of the South China Sea, after Beijing asked the United Nations to circulate documents outlining its position. A senior US diplomat called on China to provide evidence to back up its claim to 90 percent of the sea, believed to be rich in energy and minerals. ...
In About-Face, U.S. Supports Vietnam in Oil Dispute With China
10.06.2014 (TheStreet) - TAIPEI - The U.S. fought Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s and has long had a frigid relationship with its government, but now the U.S. is all but explicitly backing the Communist government as they both try to check the expansion of China. The unspoken alliance against Beijing's expansion in the 3.5 million square-kilometer (1.4 million square mile) South China Sea marks a U.S. policy shift favoring the Southeast Asian country, where the U.S. lost more than 58,000 people in the war before full pullout by 1973. ...
China, Vietnam Take Sea Dispute to UN Chief
10.06.2014 William Gallo (VOA) - WASHINGTON — China and Vietnam, which are involved in a tense standoff in the South China Sea, are pleading their case to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. ...
Palace rebuffs China over 'clumsy farce' remarks
10.06.2014 By RG Cruz (ABS-CBN) - MANILA - Malacanang on Tuesday rebuffed China for its snide remarks about the recent sports matches between Philippine and Vietnamese troops on the Vietnamese-held island of Southwest Cay. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said: "We wish to gladly inform China that we just celebrated yesterday the 13th Filipino-Chinese Friendship Day ...
China's State Enterprises Told to Stop Investing in Vietnam
09.06.2014 By Dexter Roberts (Bloomberg Businessweek) - It’s one more sign of how far China has to go before it starts treating its state enterprises more like normal commercial businesses, as its leaders pledged last November. Government-owned companies have been told to freeze temporarily any plans for new business in Vietnam, reports the South China Morning Poston June 9. ...
Schiffe gerammt: China wirft Vietnam Provokation auf hoher See vor
09.06.2014 (Spiegel-Online) - Peking - In Ostasien spitzt sich ein gefährlicher Territorialstreit zu: Peking wirft Vietnam vor, chinesische Schiffe mehr als tausendmal gerammt zu haben. Vietnam fühlt sich von einer chinesischen Ölbohrinsel nahe seiner Küste provoziert. ...
Why China Should Be Worried About This Game Of Beach Volleyball
09.06.2014 By Hayes Brown (ThinkProgress) - It was a friendly game of beach volleyball, complete with beers and a side-game of soccer. But Sunday’s match between Vietnamese and Filipino troops on a small island in the South China Sea could have Beijing concerned about the future of its territorial claims in the region. The Spratly Islands are a small chain of islands that are in and of themselves barely inhabitable mounds of dirt, floating in the South China Sea. What has the countries surrounding the islands intensely interested in their fate, however, is the estimated stores of minerals and energy-wealth under the ocean floor surrounding them. ...
09.06.2014 (Radio Australia) - China has denounced Vietnam and the Philippines for playing soccer and volleyball on a disputed island in the South China Sea, calling it "a clumsy farce" and demanded both countries stop causing trouble. ...
China bezichtigt Vietnam der Massenkarambolage
09.06.2014 (Hamburger Abendblatt) - Da hat jemand genau mitgezählt: Im Streit um eine Ölplattform im Südchinesischen Meer sollen vietnamesische Schiffe 1416 Mal chinesische Regierungsschiffe gerammt haben. Peking dreht den Spieß um: Im Streit um eine chinesische Ölplattform vor der Küste Vietnams sieht sich nun China als Opfer gezielter Karambolage durch vietnamesische Schiffe. Wenige Tage zuvor hatte Vietnam der chinesischen Marine vorgeworfen, mutwillig gegen seine Schiffe zu fahren.Nach Angaben aus Vietnam versenkte ein chinesisches Schiff ein vietnamesisches Fischerboot. Die zehnköpfige Besatzung sei gerettet worden. ...
Beijing pushes Manila, Hanoi closer
09.06.2014 Reuters (The Japan Times) - BEIJING/MANILA – China has accused Vietnam of ramming its ships more than 1,000 times in a disputed part of the South China Sea and said while it wants good relations with its southern neighbor, it would not abandon principles to achieve that.
The accusation came after Vietnamese and Philippine troops got together Sunday on a Vietnamese-held island in the disputed Spratlys to play soccer and volleyball ...
Trente ans de prison pour un ancien magnat de la banque au Vietnam
09.06.2014 (Yahoo! Actualités) - Nguyen Duc Kien, un des hommes les plus puissants du Vietnam lorsqu'il était aux affaires, a été condamné lundi 9 juin à trente ans de prison. ...
Bankier in Vietnam wegen Betrugs zu 30 Jahren Haft verurteilt
09.06.2014 (T-Online) - HANOI (dpa-AFX) - Einer der reichsten Männer Vietnams mit einer Schwäche für Fußball ist wegen Betrugs zu 30 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Er wurde am Montag in Hanoi zusammen mit acht Komplizen unter anderem wegen Betrugs und Unterschlagung verurteilt. ...
09.06.2014 Adam Minter (Korea JoongAng Daily) - For China’s autocrats, history is a weapon. This past weekend, for example, a Chinese general told Southeast Asian nations that their territorial claims in the South China Sea were irrelevant because “China has had indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea for around 2,000 years,” reported the state-owned CCTV network. Don’t like it? Then learn to “respect history” as China’s defense minister told his Vietnamese counterpart in late May, after Vietnamese protesters turned violent in response to Chinese incursions into what Vietnam considers its territory. In this context, history is the rhetorical equivalent of a dismissive wave of a hand that brings an end to a pointless conversation. ...
Vietnam banking tycoon given 30-year jail term
09.06.2014 (Yahoo! Finance) - A Vietnamese court on Monday sentenced a disgraced banking tycoon to 30 years in jail over a multi-million dollar scandal that shocked the nation's already fragile financial markets. ...
China tells PH off on reef reclamation, says ‘it’s none of your business’
08.06.2014 By Tarra Quismundo (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - It’s none of your business. That was China’s response to the Philippines’ report of the discovery of further Chinese land reclamation on reefs in the West Philippine Sea. ...
Im chinesischen Meer: China baut sich künstliche Kampfinsel
08.06.2014 (Bild) - China startet die nächste Offensive, seine Machtansprüche zu manifestieren. Eine fest installierte Kampfinsel soll Ländern wie Vietnam und den Philippinen verdeutlichen: Hier haben wir das Sagen!
Das Vorhaben: Ganz in der Nähe der von allen drei Ländern beanspruchten Spratly Inseln am Johnson Riff hat die chinesische Regierung eine künstliche Insel anlegen lassen – samt Flughafen und Hafen. ...
08.06.2014 By John Kemp, Reuters (Gulf-Times) - Territorial disputes over tiny islands and reefs in the South China Sea are poisoning relations between China and its neighbours in Southeast Asia. In 2009, Vietnam and Malaysia submitted a joint claim to the continental shelf under UNCLOS. In 2013, the Philippines requested binding arbitration in its territorial dispute with China at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. China has refused to accept arbitration. ...China plans artificial island in disputed Spratlys chain in South China Sea07.06.2014 Kristine Kwok and Minnie Chan (South China Morning Post) - China is looking to expand its biggest installation in the Spratly Islands into a fully formed artificial island, complete with airstrip and sea port, to better project its military strength in the South China Sea, a Chinese scholar and a Chinese navy expert have said. ...‘Made in China’ now a toxic label
07.06.2014 By Kate Galbraith / Foreign Policy (The San Diego Union-Tribune) - China’s environmental crises are starting to drive foreign companies and expats away, along with their money and talent. Pollution numbers are piling up, and they’re scarier all the time. Nearly one-fifth of farmland is polluted, an official government study found in April, and so is three-fifths of China’s groundwater. No wonder the tea in my cupboard isn’t branded as “Grown in China” or that a Chinese food giant just bought a big stake in Israel’s largest food producer, which specializes in dairy goods — in part because Chinese consumers are looking for safer cheese products, a Shanghai analyst told the Financial Times. ...
China sends more ships to Vietnam waters
07.06.2014 (The Manila Times) - HANOI: Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance Department (VSFD) staff yesterday reported high-capacity Chinese vessels in waters around the Haiyang Shiyou-981 rig, which is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters.
They said the vessels had bulbous bows and were accompanied by two Chinese coast-guard ships. ...
SDF transport ship arrives in Vietnam
07.06.2014 Jiji Press (The Japan News) - DA NANG, Vietnam — The Maritime Self-Defense Force’s transport vessel Kunisaki arrived Friday at the central Vietnamese port of Da Nang to join a U.S. Navy-led humanitarian training exercise. ...
07.06.2014 Patrick Zoll, Tokio (NZZ) - Japans Selbstverteidigungsstreitkräfte sollen wie eine normale Armee agieren und Alliierten zu Hilfe eilen können. Das Vorhaben von Ministerpräsident Abe stösst allerdings auf Widerstand.
Shinzo Abe hat vergangene Woche am Sicherheitsforum Shangri-La-Dialog in Singapur ein düsteres Bild der Sicherheitslage in Ostasien gezeichnet. ...
Boats and brinksmanship up close in the South China Sea
06.06.2014 By Euan McKirdy (CNN) - Vietnam Coast Guard 8003, South China Sea (CNN) -- To be at the front line of a "cold war" is, these days, a rare thing -- particularly when that front line is a remote chain of islands in the South China Sea, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest landfall. ...
Pentagon: Chinese military spending exceeds $145 billion, drones advanced
06.06.2014 (The Asahi Shimbun) - WASHINGTON--Chinese military spending exceeded $145 billion last year as it advanced a program modernizing an arsenal of drones, warships, jets, missiles and cyber weapons, the Pentagon said on June 5, offering a far higher figure than Beijing's official tally. The Pentagon's estimate, using 2013 prices and exchange rates, was 21 percent above the $119.5 billion figure announced by China. It was detailed in an annual report to Congress that cited steady progress in Chinese defense capabilities. ...
Vietnam Urges 'Practical US Actions' in S. China Sea
06.06.2014 Tra Mi (VOA) - WASHINGTON — Vietnam is calling on the United States to take a larger role in protecting the peace and settling conflicts in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. ...
Philippine gov't fears China reclaiming more land
06.06.2014 Tarra Quismundo, TJ Burgonio, Philippine Daily Inquirer (ANN) - A new diplomatic protest to be lodged if the Chinese activities at Gavin and Calderon reefs proved to be land reclamation, as on Mabini Reef
Expressing concern, Philippine President Aquino said Chinese ships were seen moving around other reefs in the West Philippine Sea possibly to reclaim land, ...
05.06.2014 Von Matthias Lohre (Die Zeit) - Das kommunistische Vietnam fördert die Unterhaltungsindustrie und gehört doch zu den brutalsten Gegnern der Meinungsfreiheit. Internetaktivisten riskieren viel. ...
China extends protective zone around disputed oil rig
05.06.2014 By Daniel J. Graeber (UPI) - HANOI, Vietnam -- Chinese authorities have expanded a zone of protection around an oil rig in the South China Sea by about 45 percent, a Vietnamese official said. ...
Vietnam veröffentlicht Video von Angriff
05.06.2014 (n-tv) - Ein neues Video zeigt nach Darstellung vietnamesischer Staatsmedien einen gefährlichen chinesischen Angriff auf ein vietnamesisches Fischerboot. ...
China bent on pushing ‘expansion agenda’—DFA chief
05.06.2014 By Matikas Santos (INQUIRER.net) - MANILA, Philippines — Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario sees China’s “expansion agenda” in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) as the reason why it continues its “aggressive, provocative” acts and why it is does not want a legally binding Code of Conduct (COC) to be concluded. ...
05.06.2014 von Sascha Daniel Wölck (Jungle World) - Der Konflikt zwischen Vietnam und China um Gebiete im Südchinesischen Meer hat zu gewalttätigen antichinesischen Protesten in Vietnam geführt. Ihre genauen Ursachen sind umstritten, der Konflikt besteht allerdings schon lange. Vom amtierenden Ministerpräsidenten Vietnams, Nguyen Tan Dung, erhielt ich eine SMS. Darin drückte er seine Liebe zur vietnamesischen Bevölkerung aus und bat darum, dass man sich von Provokateuren nicht zu Dummheiten hinreißen lasse. Meine Enttäuschung war mäßig, als sich zeigte, dass diese Nachricht in dieser oder ähnlicher Form durch alle nationalen Mobilfunknetze ging. ...
Chinas Provokationen in der Außenpolitik sind kühl kalkuliert
04.06.2014 Von Andrew Browne (The Wall Street Journal Deutschland) - Noch bis vor kurzem hielten die meisten Beobachter Chinas aggressives Vorgehen im Südchinesischen Meer für das Ergebnis einer eher zufälligen Außenpolitik – angetrieben von rivalisierenden Behörden mit ganz unterschiedlichen Interessen, in denen sich oft die besonders aggressiven Vertreter durchsetzten.
Die jüngsten Maßnahmen Chinas haben die Nachbarländer und die USA erheblich alarmiert. Dazu zählt die Entscheidung, eine Bohrplattform in Gewässern zu platzieren, die auch von Vietnam beansprucht werden. Nun erscheint Chinas Politik nicht länger als das Ergebnis eines politischen Durcheinanders, sondern einer gezielten Planung, sagen chinesische wie ausländische Sicherheitsexperten. ...
G7 concerned by Asian maritime tensions
05.06.2014 By AFP (The Economic Times) - BRUSSELS: Leaders of the Group of Seven industrialised nations said today they were deeply concerned by tensions in the East and South China Sea. ...
South China Sea disputes may disrupt trade in Asia
05.06.2014 Raul Dancel, The Straits Times (ANN) - In a news briefing here yesterday, US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker criticised China's decision to tow a deep-water oil rig 300km from Vietnam's shores. Such actions "are provocative and raise tensions, and we're very concerned about that", she said. ...
Ein Moment, ein Foto und ein ganzes Leben
04.06.2014 Von Christoph Giesen (Süddeutsche Zeitung) - Vor 25 Jahren fotografierte Jeff Widener den Mann, der beim Massaker am Platz des Himmlischen Friedens in Peking eine Panzerkolonne stoppte. Die Aufnahme vom "Tank Man" machte Geschichte. Der Journalist muss damit klarkommen. ...
China-Vietnam Conflict in The South China Sea
04.06.2014 By EconMatters (ZeroHedge) - China is on a roll upsetting neighbors from all directions in its aggressive stance towards territorial claims.
In the East China Sea, tension and hostility from the row with Japan over a group of uninhabited islands, (known as Diaoyu in China, Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyutai in Taiwan) has dialed up: Last November, China created a new air-defense identification zone to include Diaoyu, and would require any aircraft in the zone to comply with rules set by Beijing. ...
Hague tribunal asks China to defend sea claims
04.06.2014 By Jim Gomez (ABC News) - MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A Hague-based tribunal has asked China to submit evidence defending its territorial claims in the South China Sea within six months despite Beijing's refusal to respond to a Philippine complaint questioning the legality of Beijing's claims. The tribunal issued a statement Tuesday giving China until Dec. 15 to submit written arguments and evidence against the Philippine complaint, which questioned the validity of China's so-called "nine-dash" territorial claim. ...
04.06.2014 by Adam Minter (The Japan Times) - SHANGHAI – For China’s autocrats, history is a weapon. This past weekend, for example, a Chinese general told Southeast Asian nations that their territorial claims in the South China Sea were irrelevant because “China has had indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea for around 2,000 years,” reported the state-owned CCTV network. ...In China, these repeated references to history are so common, and so easy to ignore, that they become most noticeable when they’re suddenly absent. Think of someone who falls asleep in front of a noisy television, only to be awakened by the silence left when someone else shuts it off. That’s how it feels to be in China during the annual period of paranoia that occurs around the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. ...
Chinese, Vietnamese Coast Guard Boats Collide
04.06.2014 By Ankit Panda (The Diplomat) - The stand-off between China and Vietnam over the former’s decision to place an oil rig in disputed waters in the South China Sea escalated on Tuesday when a Chinese coast guard ship rammed a Vietnamese coast guard ship. The Vietnamese vessel allegedly suffered several “gashes” in its metal hull according to the Wall Street Journal. No Vietnamese sailors were injured and the boat did not sink. ...
Vietnam’s Role in Japan’s Southeast Asia Strategy
04.06.2014 By Clint Richards (The Diplomat) - On Sunday, Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and his Vietnamese counterpart Gen. Phung Quang Thanh agreed to increase their countries’ defense cooperation. The Japan Times reported that Onodera told Thanh “that Japan supports Vietnam’s handling of its recent standoff with China, that the use of force to change the status quo should not be tolerated and that the issue should be resolved through dialogue.” ...
Prosecutors Forbidden From Leaving Russia Without State Permission, Activist Say
04.06.2014 (The Moscow Times) - Russian prosecutors have been ordered to hand over their international passports and seek special authorization for vacationing abroad, with travel permitted to only a handful of countries such as China and Vietnam, a human rights activist said. ...
Blogging for Freedom in Vietnam
03.06.2014 By Emily Parker (The New Yorker) - A few years before his arrest, in 2012, I exchanged e-mails with the Vietnamese blogger Le Quoc Quan, a Hanoi-based lawyer who first started blogging in 2005. He told me that his first post, just a sentence long, read: “Oh my fatherland of Vietnam, I want to say something to you!” ...
Chinese ships fire water cannon, ram Vietnamese boats: report
03.06.2014 Keira Lu Huang (South China Morning Post) - Incidents took place in disputed South China Sea waters near controversial oil rig, according to China National Radio’s military channel. A Chinese ship fired water cannon at a Vietnamese vessel near a controversial South China Sea oil rig on Sunday, in the two nations’ latest confrontation in disputed waters. ...
As sabers rattle, Vietnamese businesses fret
03.06.2014 By Chris Brummitt (AP) - HANOI, Vietnam -- Like thousands of other factory owners in Vietnam, Nguyen Van Phuc relies on China for the expertise and raw materials needed to keep his production line humming. But spiking tensions between Hanoi and Beijing over maritime territorial claims are threatening that relationship and his bottom line. His Chinese suppliers no longer accept cash on delivery, fearing an even sharper deterioration in relations would leave them out of pocket, so Phuc must now pay more from a third-party supplier. ...
Japan suspends aid to Vietnam over bribery case
03.06.2014 (The Japan Times) Kyodo HANOI – Japan told the Vietnamese government Monday it would suspend official development assistance over bribery allegations surrounding a Japan-funded Hanoi urban railway project, the embassy in Hanoi said. Specifically, loans for the first phase of constructing the project’s No. 1 railway line will be frozen, the embassy said. ...
Japan Halts Loans To Vietnam On Alleged Corruption
03.06.2014 (Bernama) - HANOI - The Japanese government will suspend extending fresh yen loans to Vietnam after a new bribery scandal involving a Japanese consulting firm and Vietnamese railroad authority came to light. It is the second time for Japan to halt yen loans to Vietnam due to a payoff scandal following the first case in 2008, Japan's Jijij Press reported. ...
Anti-China Riots Spoil Vietnam Dollar Bond Rally
03.06.2014 By Lilian Karunungan (Bloomberg) - Vietnamese dollar bonds are missing out on a developing-nation rally on concern a territorial dispute with China that has sparked deadly riots will deter foreign investment. The securities gained 0.5 percent in May ...
Businesses bracing for breaks in China-Vietnam trade network
03.06.2014 Manabu Ito, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- With Sino-Vietnamese tensions still running high a month after a territorial dispute flared up in the South China Sea, companies operating in Vietnam are making contingency plans for a disruption of the logistics network linking the two sides. "In the worst-case scenario, we'll have to consider manufacturing without China," says Hitoshi Fujiwara, a Fuji Xerox director who handles the Japanese company's Vietnamese business ...
Un vétéran de la révolution vietnamienne annonce sa conversion au christianisme
02.06.2014 (Églises d'Asie) - Tô Hai, compositeur célèbre, militant révolutionnaire de la première heure, avait fait connaître son retrait du Parti communiste vietnamien, dans un livre resté célèbre ...
Chine - Vietnam : frères ennemis
02.06.2014 Par Stéphane Pambrun, à Pékin (Jeune Afrique) - En dépit de leur proximité géographique et culturelle, les deux pays sont au bord de la guerre. À cause d'un simple différend territorial en mer de Chine méridionale ? Pas seulement.
Depuis la guerre de Corée, dans les années 1950, la Chine n'a connu qu'un seul conflit armé : c'était contre le Vietnam. Une guerre marquée par deux épisodes majeurs, en 1979 et en 1988, qui aboutit à une humiliante défaite de ses troupes. ...
Tensions bubble up as China starts drilling
02.06.2014 Author: David Brown (East Asia Forum) - In the aftermath of rioting directed against factories operated by Chinese and other East Asian companies on 12–13 May, Vietnam’s media and blogs were filled with speculation about the cause. Some opined that Chinese agents were behind the riots, while others guessed that it was provocateurs deployed by the regime. ...
Report: Vietnam needs break from China
02.06.2014 By Daniel J. Graeber (UPI) - HANOI, Vietnam - An annual report from the Vietnam Center for Economic and Policy Research says Vietnam's economy is expected to slow down because of ongoing tensions with China over an oil rig operating in disputed waters in the South China Sea. ...
02.06.2014 By Zachary Keck (The Diplomat) - A number of Vietnamese officials have now threatened to bring legal action against China over their territorial dispute in the South China Sea. Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh reiterated the prime minister’s statement on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore over the weekend. He also stated that China has asked Vietnam not to pursue legal action. “They [China] have asked us several times not to bring the case to international court,” Vinh told reporters on the sidelines of the annual security forum. ...
Australian defence minister backs US on China’s ‘destabilising’ actions
02.06.2014 (The Guardian) - Australia’s defence minister David Johnston has backed comments by his US counterpart Chuck Hagel accusing China of "destabilising" actions in the South China Sea. ...
How bad is Vietnam's debt crisis?
02.06.2014 Elisabeth Rosen (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- The Vietnamese government could be close to approving the first-ever sale of a local bank to foreign buyers. The size of this deal would likely be negligible, but the deal would still go down as a major moment in the country's efforts to clean up Southeast Asia's most precarious banking sector. ...
Schlagabtausch zwischen China und USA über Pekings Machtansprüche
01.06.2014 (Die Welt) - Singapur - Mit Rhetorik wie im Kalten Krieg haben die USA und China sich überraschend deutlich gegenseitig der Destabilisierung im Südchinesischen Meer bezichtigt. Streitpunkt sind Chinas Territorialansprüche im Südchinesischen Meer. Peking beansprucht Inseln vor den Küsten von Nachbarländern und hält Länder wie Vietnam und die Philippinen, die dagegen protestieren, mit seiner mächtigen Marine auf Distanz. ...
Vietnam expects Japan coast guard ships next year
01.06.2014 (The Asahi Shimbun) - SINGAPORE--Vietnam expects to take delivery of coast guard ships from Japan early next year, the country's vice defense minister said on June 1, as Hanoi looks to boost its defenses amid a territorial row with China in the South China Sea. ...
Japan, Vietnam discuss maritime disputes
01.06.2014 (NHK) - The defense ministers of Japan and Vietnam say territorial disputes in the East China and South China seas should be resolved peacefully. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and his Vietnamese counterpart, Phung Quang Thanh, met in Singapore on Sunday on the sidelines of the Asia Security Summit. ...
China Hits Back at US, Japan for ‘Provocative’ Remarks
01.06.2014 AFP (jakartaglobe) - China strongly denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and United States Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Sunday for “provocative” remarks accusing Beijing of destabilizing actions in contested regional waters. ...
La posible alianza entre los rivales marítimos de China irrita en Pekín
01.06.2014 (Yahoo Noticias) - Pekín (EFE) - China reaccionó hoy con indignación a los intentos de Estados Unidos, Japón y los países del sureste asiático por hacer causa común contra el régimen comunista en las disputas marítimas por los archipiélagos Paracel, Spratly y Diaoyu/Senkaku, que comienzan a tomar un cariz internacional. ...
Canadian PM Says Communism’s Promise of Utopia Created ‘Hell on earth’
01.06.2014 By Omid Ghoreishi (Epoch Times) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a lengthy speech, laying out in no uncertain terms his own thoughts on communist regimes. ...