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The National Assembly separately accepted the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai for violating anti-corruption rules. Parliament also appointed three deputy prime ministers, with newly appointed Communist Party chief To Lam to step away from the presidency later this year.
MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) -- The Philippines and China clashed in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Sunday over what Manila said was a resupply mission for fishermen, the latest in a series of sea and air confrontations in the strategic waterway.
Vietnam is becoming an important new player in the global semiconductor industry, a decoupling beneficiary of the US-led chip wars against China.
US Customs and Border Protection have detained nearly US$43 million in shipments of electronics equipment from India since October under a 2022 law banning goods made with forced labour, according to agency data, representing a new focus for the trade enforcement agency.
Far from easing tensions, mutual recriminations heightened the temperature in choppy waters. Both sides pandered to their domestic base. Maritime incidents worsened alarmingly, ranging from the use of lasers, dangerous manoeuvres, ship collisions, and water-cannon blasting to a physical scuffle that resulted in injuries to sailors. Flashpoints flared up at the Second Thomas, Scarborough, and Sabina Shoals. Chinese vessels sighted in Philippine waters increased. Beyond the West Philippine Sea, they were also spotted in the Philippine Sea in the east and Basilan and Sibutu Straits in the south. Close calls also occurred in the sky, with People’s Liberation Army aircraft dropping flares in the path of a Philippine Air Force plane patrolling in the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal.
HO CHI MINH CITY -- Southeast Asian nations lead the world in apparent disaster readiness, according to a new Gallup survey analysis, potentially providing examples for other poorer nations threatened by climate change to follow.
Some two and a half years after Russia launched its “special military operation” against Ukraine there appears to be little thought given to how the conflict could realistically end. Currently, both parties claim that their goal is “victory.”
“Asean has, to some extent, increased Vietnam’s diplomatic room for manoeuvring when dealing with China,” said Huong Le Thu, deputy director of the International Crisis Group’s Asia programme. “Vietnam’s initial hope was to set its territorial disputes with China in the context of a multilateral dispute” between Beijing and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, she said.