(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam Sea and Island Week and Month of Action for Environment was launched on Monday in Nha Trang city in response to World Environment Day (June 5) and World Oceans Day (June 8).

(VOVWORLD) - A fishing boat in the central province of Quang Ngai on Tuesday rescued 75-year-old American man who was adrift off Vietnam's waters.

(VOVWORLD) - An art program themed "Homeland's Seas and Islands" called for people to connect more with nature and join hands to protect natural resources and the environment.

(VOVWORLD) -Brigade 162 of Naval Region 4 on Monday launched the Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign until the end of August.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam is deeply concerned about and resolutely opposes the illegal survey operations conducted by China’s Haiyang Dizhi 26 in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf as established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Foreign Ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Ly Son island district in Quang Ngai province is promoting the implementation of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2021-2025 period.

(VOVWORLD) - The administration of Quang Tri Province, central Vietnam has approved a research project under which researchers will explore the carbon storage capacity of seagrass beds and suggest effective and sustainable solutions to the management, restoration, and exploitation of seagrass meadows in the province.

(VOVWORLD) -For the past five years, Fisheries Surveillance Detachment No. 2 of Vung Tau city has trained search and rescue operations, carried out ship maintenance and repairs, and explained maritime laws to fishermen, said the detachment’s Party Committee Secretary Ngo Dang Hoai on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -Working Group No. 21 of more than 270 members have just returned from their voyage to Truong Sa (Spratly) island district, Khanh Hoa province, and the DK1 Platform on Vietnam’s southern continental shelf.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has full legal basis and ample historical evidence to assert its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and the Truong Sa (Spratly), in accordance with international law as well as sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over maritime zones established following the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982), Deputy Spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry Doan Khac Viet said on Thursday.