Coast Guard said oil smuggling has been rife in Vietnam’s southwestern waters since 2015.
Air force source refused to comment on the issue of the nine officers onboard the plane
It was the first armed vessel caught smuggling in southwestern waters, according to authorities
The delivery is part of of a plan to provide Vietnam with six patrol vessels
Cockpit recorders have been found and retrieved.
The US says it will continue to beef up Vietnam's Coast Guard fleet.
China’s oil rig Haiyang Shiyou – 981, illegally placed in Vietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone, was moving north-northwest...
10 Chinese vessels reportedly surrounded Vietnamese boats and damaged their fishing nets earlier this month
A Chinese ship tasked with guarding that nation's illegally positioned oil rig, rammed Vietnamese coast guard vessel CSB 2016 on Sunday...
The National Assembly, Vietnam’s parliament, has endorsed plans to spend VND16 trillion (US$756.8 million) to support Vietnamese coast guard...
The Pentagon chief will also pay a courtesy visit to the General Secretary of Vietnamese Communist Party as well as the...
"All will be quiet on the South China Sea front this year," says Carl Thayer.
The killing of a crew member of a Vietnamese tanker by pirates marks a deadly escalation in Southeast Asian hijackings and...
U.S. President Barack Obama skipped a visit to Asia in October last year because of a partial government shutdown at home....
Beneath the surface of the South China Sea off the tropical Chinese resort island of Hainan, an underwater tunnel guides submarines...