The oil rig is operating near the Tonkin Gulf that Vietnam and China are negotiating for demarcation
Several witnesses told Norwegian media they saw the rotor blades separating from the helicopter while still in the air.
More Chinese vessels posing as fishing boats had approached Ba Ke (Bombay Castle) Shoal in the southern province of Ba...
Tam Dao 05 weighs 18,000 tons and can drill to a depth of nine kilometers
China claims 90 percent of the South China Sea, its claims overlapping with those of Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and...
Vietnam's Coast Guard said they would "make announcements" if the oil rig's activities violate Vietnam's sovereignty.
On April 20, 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and...
Iran blamed the ship's captain for allowing the vessel to drift 25-30 miles (40 to 48 kilometres) off course...
Petrovietnam Gas Joint Stock Corp, the country's second-largest listed firm by market value, rose as much as 2...
Vietnam has kept a close eye on the path of a giant oil rig that bedeviled Sino-Vietnamese relations last year...
The Ministry of Transport has rejected a request by a Chinese city seeking entry for a caravan of 1,000 tourist cars...
Without causing much of a stir, China has been quietly dumping sand onto reefs and rocks in waters claimed by Vietnam...
Vietnam criticized China's latest "unilateral actions" in the East Sea and urged Beijing to "make practical contributions to peace and stability...
Japanese photojournalist Murayama Yasufumi says he could not stand idly by when China sent a giant oil rig and a menacing...
China deployed another oil rig, this time into waters under dispute between Vietnam and China, Le Hai Binh, the spokesman for the...