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Rising Tensions in South China Sea Risk Military Confrontation between China and USA
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This picture taken from a Vietnam Coast Guard ship on May 14, 2014 shows a Vietnam Coast Guard ship (2nd R, dark blue) trying to make way amongst several China Coast Guard ships near to the site of a Chinese drilling oil rig (R, background) being installed at the disputed water in the South China Sea off Vietnam’s central coast. Vietnam National Assembly’s deputies gathered for their summer session are discussing the escalating tension with China over the South China Sea’s contested water. AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam
Vietnam PM says considering legal action against China over disputed waters
Manila, Reuters—Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said his government was considering various “defence options” against China, including legal action, following the deployment of a Chinese oil rig to waters in the South China Sea that Hanoi also...Caption:
Policemen ask people to leave a street near to the Chinese embassy in Hanoi on May 18, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/HOANG DINH Nam)
Vietnam stops anti-China protests after riots, China evacuates workers
Hanoi, Reuters—Vietnam flooded major cities with police to avert anti-China protests on Sunday, while Beijing evacuated thousands of citizens after a flare-up over disputed sovereignty in the South China Sea sparked rare and deadly rioting in Vietnam last week. China...Caption:
A Vietnamese seaplane, left, sits on the taxi way at an airforce base in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, before heading out to the sea area between Vietnam and Malaysia where a Malaysian airliner vanished, Sunday, 9 March 2014. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)
Malaysian jetliner may have turned back before vanishing
Kuala Lumpur and Phu Quoc Island—A missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner may have turned back from its scheduled route before vanishing from radar screens, military officers said on Sunday, deepening the mystery surrounding the fate of the plane and the 239 people...Caption:
This photo taken on December 26, 2011, shows the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER that disappeared from air traffic control screens Saturday (AP Photo/Laurent Errera)