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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 10, 2015
Chinese-born Aussie senator defends Beijing over sea dispute, 1989 crackdown
A Chinese-born Australian senator on Wednesday defended Beijing's claims to a chain of disputed islands at the center of growing tensions in the South China Sea, saying the country with the most power "at the time" will emerge triumphant.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2015
Vietnam in talks with Europe, U.S. to buy fighter jets, aircraft, drones to counter China
Vietnam is in talks with European and U.S. contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defenses in the face of China's growing assertiveness in disputed waters.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2015
Vietnam takes delivery of two Russian-design missile corvettes as maritime tensions mount
Vietnam took delivery of two new missile boats on Tuesday made locally and modeled on Russian vessels, the latest move by its military to strengthen maritime defenses as tensions simmer over sovereignty in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2015
South China Sea disputes test China's peaceful rise
The South China Sea has become a critical testing ground for the changing economic, political and military relationship between China and the United States.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 26, 2015
China breaks ground on lighthouse project in South China Sea
China hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the building of two lighthouses in the disputed South China Sea, state media said Tuesday, a move that is likely to escalate tensions in a region already jittery about Beijing's maritime ambitions.
BUSINESS
May 22, 2015
Thailand, Vietnam seek more Japan investment in medical, other fields
Senior government officials of Thailand and Vietnam urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday to encourage Japanese investment in their growing industries, including in the medical and farming sectors, on top of existing railway and infrastructure development projects, Japanese officials said.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 18, 2015
Vietnam opposes fishing ban declared by China
Vietnam said it resolutely opposes a temporary Chinese ban on fishing in a some parts of the Gulf of Tonkin, a maritime area shared by the two countries, in the latest of a series of disputes in and around the South China Sea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 11, 2015
Has the U.S. learned the Vietnam War's lessons?
The Vietnamese still long for U.S. acknowledgment of the wrongs it committed when it waged the Vietnam War.
EDITORIALS
May 7, 2015
Japan should revisit Vietnam policy
Vietnam has been growing, and Japan needs to rethink its policy toward Hanoi.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2015
Forty years on, a middle class emerges in Vietnam
Four decades after the reunification of Vietnam under a communist regime, an emerging middle class is reinforcing the country's re-orientation toward a market economy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2015
Vietnam still battles Agent Orange legacy 40 years on
Tan Tri doesn't know a thing about Agent Orange. But doctors say he lives with its effects every day, when he crawls off his wooden bed and waits for someone to feed him. He is 25.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 10, 2015
China cementing reach in South China Sea by building civilian infrastructure: analysts
China's plans for islands it is creating in the South China Sea show for the first time the scale of civilian architecture it will extend across the disputed waterway, entrenching its reach in the maritime heart of Southeast Asia, experts say.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 4, 2015
America's memory wars and the Vietnam debacle
April 30 marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, as Americans remember it — the day that the North Vietnamese army captured the capital of South Vietnam and reunified their country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2015
Putin's military draws U.S. concern from Vietnam to the Americas
Russia's expanding military presence, from Vietnam to Latin America, is reviving Cold War-style tensions with the U.S.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2015
Testing Beijing, Japan eyes growing role in South China Sea security
Seventy years after its Imperial forces were kicked out of the South China Sea, Japan is quietly moving back into the region, forging security ties with the Philippines and Vietnam as both Southeast Asian nations try to cope with China's territorial ambitions.

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