Tag: Vietnam

U.N. Special Rapporteur on religious freedom Heiner Bielefeldt gestures during a press briefing in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday, July 31, 2014. Bielefeldt said that security agents closely monitored his visit and people he wanted to meet were harassed and intimidated. He said that serious violations of religious freedom existed, while noting some improvements. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)

UN official: Vietnam violates religious freedom

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2014 5:23 pm

Washington Secrets

Ron Paul calls for ‘epidemic’ of Edward Snowden-style whistleblowers

Paul Bedard · July 28, 2014 3:22 pm

In this photo taken Saturday, July 19, 2014, a woman looks at a tree uprooted by Typhoon Rammasun in Nanning in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The strongest typhoon to hit southern China in four decades has killed more than a dozen people, the government said Sunday. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Typhoon kills 11 in Vietnam; China deaths up to 33

Washington Examiner · July 22, 2014 1:12 am

FILE - In this May 7, 2012 file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Haiyang Shiyou oil rig 981, the first deep-water drilling rig developed in China, is pictured at 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong in the South China Sea. China on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 moved an oil rig that it had deployed in a section of the South China Sea, triggering a dispute with Vietnam. Beijing deployed the massive rig in early May close to the Paracel Islands, triggering a furious reaction in Hanoi and the most serious uptick in tensions in the waters in years. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Jin Liangkuai, File) NO SALES

Energy and Environment

China moves oil rig out of waters Vietnam claims

Chris Brummitt · July 16, 2014 7:49 pm

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Truth is the cornerstone of freedom — will Americans continue to stand up for it?

Lee Ellis · July 4, 2014 12:00 pm

FILE - In this May 4, 2014 file image made from video released by Vietnam Coast Guard, a Chinese coast guard vessel, right, fires water cannon at a Vietnamese vessel off the coast of Vietnam after China deployed an oil rig in disputed South China Sea waters. Vietnam plans to build 32 new coastal patrol vessels, boosting its maritime muscle and surveillance capacities amid an increasingly tense territorial dispute in the South China Sea with its far larger neighbor China. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the government would spend US$540 million on the new coast guard and fishery patrol vessels. The decision was made Thursday, July 3, 2014, according to a government statement released later the same day. (AP Photo/Vietnam Coast Guard, File)

Chinese patrol ships arrest 6 Vietnamese fishermen

Washington Examiner · July 4, 2014 11:12 am

China says moving 2nd oil rig closer to Vietnam

Christopher Bodeen · June 19, 2014 8:42 am

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, left, and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung pose for photos before their meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday June 18, 2014. Talks between Yang Jiechi and Vietnamese officials on produced no breakthrough in the impasse over an increasingly bitter confrontation in the disputed South China Sea, a Vietnamese official said. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)

Vietnam, China make no progress in oil rig talks

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 2:00 pm

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, left, shakes hands with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh before their talks behind closed-door on the tension in the South China Sea in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday June 18, 2014. Yang's visit is the highest-level direct dialogue bewteen the two countries since tension flared following Chinese placement of an oil rig off Vietnam's coast in early May. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)

China, Vietnam affirm desire to resolve problems

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 4:54 am

Vietnamese protest outside the Chinese Embassy on Sunday, May 11, 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam, against Beijing's deployment of an oil rig in the contested waters of the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Chris Brummitt)

China-Vietnam clash could spawn new anti-China alliance

Austin Bay · June 11, 2014 3:17 pm

Vietnam accuses China of sinking fishing boat

Chris Brummitt · May 27, 2014 5:40 am

U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, gestures prior to the session on "Security Outlook" in the ongoing World Economic Forum on East Asia Friday, May 23, 2014 at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, Philippines. Locklear warns that the "risk of miscalculation" that could trigger a wider conflict in a tense territorial standoff between China and Vietnam is high and urged both nations to exercise restraint. Locklear also said Friday that the Asian neighbors should resolve their territorial conflicts on the basis of international law.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

National Security

US commander warns about China-Vietnam standoff

Jim Gomez · May 23, 2014 10:57 am