Southeast Asia has been facing the brunt of IUU fishing from the perspective of external trade as well. In 2008, the European Commission (EC) announced new regulations to fight IUU fishing and decided ...

The South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI) a project of the Peking University Institute of Ocean Research, recently released Automatic Identification System (AIS) data showing more than 300 ...

Across the square from the Catholic church in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, Merrilee and I put our feet on a low wall and the owner of the shop brought us egg coffees. We were early and the city awoke around ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago: Stay in his small village, helping his parents carry on the family’s centuries-old tradition of making ...

Plastic pollution, largely from Asia, chokes the world’s oceans. A mat of plastic garbage fouls a boat propeller in the Mekong River Delta near Can Tho, Vietnam. Some 60 percent of the plastic that ...

Vietnam has accused Chinese law enforcement of a "brutal" attack on a Vietnamese fishing vessel on Sunday in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, claiming the lives of crew members were put at ...

China has long been infamous for incorporating maritime militias into its fishing industry to assert its sovereignty claims. With the world’s largest fishing fleet, comprising 370,000 non-powered and ...

Vietnam on Wednesday protested to China over what it said was an attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat three days ago in contested South China Sea waters that injured several fishermen. The Vietnamese ...

April 9 (UPI) --The Pentagon said Thursday it was "greatly concerned" over reports a Chinese coast guard vessel rammed and then sank a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea late last week. In ...

Vietnam and China have for years been embroiled in a dispute over the potentially energy-rich stretch of water, called the East Sea by Vietnam. Vietnam has lodged an official protest with China ...