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Vietnamese journalists, apart from their routine work on the mainland, volunteer to cross rough seas every year to reach islanders and soldiers so as to give in-depth coverage of their hard life there.

PSNews - As announced bu the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) programme, Vietnam ranks first among Southeast Asian countries regarding primary school student learning outcomes.

Vietnam's digital economy is expected to reach US$14 billion in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 16%, and will likely reach US$52 billion in 2025, re-accelerating to nearly 29% in compound annual growth rate, according to a report from Google, Temasek and Bain & Company.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently approved a project  to raise public awareness of safeguarding sovereignty and sustainable development of Vietnam’s seas and islands. 

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) plans to launch a communication campaign to promote the non-use of plastic bags as a prelude to its sea turtle conservation programme on Ly Son Island in 2018.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy and the Vietnam People’s Navy will conduct a joint patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin in December, announced spokesperson of the National Defence Ministry of China Wu Qian.

PSNews-On May 30, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung chaired a meeting at the Government Headquarters to review the implementation of the Prime Minister's Directive on prevention, mitigation and halt of Vietnamese fishermen exploiting maritime resources in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of other nations.

Imagine having your left foot almost cut off while on a boat out at sea. Imagine the pain and hopelessness of the situation.

Time magazine has picked 13 places around the world with the bluest water, including this island in southern Vietnam.

PSNews-The results of monitoring and analyzing seawater along Thua Thien Hue province’s coastal area by the provincial authorities show that the phenomenon of yellow water in Chan May port area, Loc Vinh commune, Phu Loc district, has resulted from the development of algae species, called Gonyaulax polygramma.

The number of tourists visiting Da Nang city by sea has increased 30 percent since the beginning of this year.

Mong Tay Island is part of the Maldives of Vietnam and offers the opportunity of a holiday on a real desert island in one of the most remote uninhabited tropical places on the planet.

The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China's upcoming defense budget as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power around the globe.

PSNews-Local function forces have cleaned up the sea and beaches, collecting and moving away some 9 tonnes of wastes and clotted oil pushed ashore by waves to the coastline of Nui Thanh district, Quang Nam province, said Tran Van Anh, Director of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The central coastal city of Da Nang has issued a planning for the economic development of sea and island areas to 2020 with the aim to optimise the locality’s strength and potential to create socio-economic development breakthroughs.

A new illustrated version of a popular 1968 children’s poetry book, entitled Goc San Và Khoang Troi (The Yard Corner and Sky Interval), will be released in Hanoi on January 16.

Two Philippine nationals were rescued at sea and brought ashore at Dong Tac fishing port in the south central coastal province of Phu Yen on January 9.

Meanwhile, another cable fired up early this year to boost Vietnam's internet speed has been experiencing issues too.

Vietnam along with Thailand, China, India and Indonesia, participated in the fifth sea festival 2016 in Cambodia from December 23-25.