Vietnam has agreed to prioritize Chinese nationals for its latest Covid-19 vaccines following complaint from China, says its embassy in Hanoi. The complaint came after the donation of 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine from China, which arrived on Sunday in Hanoi. According to Vietnam’s health ministry, the doses will be delivered to nine northern provinces for “Vietnamese people living in …

ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi applauded the poverty relief exchanges between China and ASEAN for the recovery of the Southeast Asian countries from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a video speech during the 15th ASEAN-China Forum on Social Development and Poverty Reduction held on Tuesday, he noted that the Covid-19 outbreak has been pulling the progress made by …

ASEAN is currently in the face of the worsening regional flash points, from the South China Sea to the crisis in Myanmar. ASEAN has been established since the 1967 to promote regional stability and economic growth. It has never been integrated into powerful community like the European Union and it does not aim to be one as well, however, ASEAN …

China has given its pledge to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to continue its assistance in fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic as Beijing made sure to stay committed in making its SARS-CoV-2 vaccines for the global public. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that in the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (SACFMM) held on Monday at Chongqing, …

The 40-year-old Singaporean Dickson Yeo, who spied for China in the United States is being detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for acting as a paid agent of a foreign country. The Internal Security Department (ISD) said in a press release today that it had served the detention order on Dickson Yeo on January 29 and that his continued …

ASEAN and China have come to an agreement to exercise self-restraint over the disputed South China Sea (SCS) to expand vaccine cooperation in dealing with the Covid-19 situation. The foreign ministers of China and ASEAN both committed to exercise self-restraint during the Special Asean-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (SACFMM) that was held in Chongqing, China, on June 7 to celebrate the …

State media has reported today that Vietnam has given approval for the Sinopharm vaccine from China to be used against Covid-19, which makes it the third shot to be endorsed in the Southeast Asian country that is dealing new outbreak of infections. According to the report from the official Vietnam News Agency, the health ministry has issued the decision to …

Security veteran’s group disapproves of the federal government’s delayed response yesterday when China intruded into the Malaysian airspace. The group said that Malaysia should have responded with the strongest diplomatic response. In conjunction with the reported intrusion of 16 People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) into the Malaysian Maritime Zone (MMZ), Patriot said that this violation of Malaysia’s sovereign territory …

China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) inaugurated their Year of Sustainable Development Cooperation in Beijing on Friday. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sent a congratulatory letter to the event, saying that he hoped both sides could strengthen ties in environmental protection and disaster relief, and address such pressing issues as climate change and poverty alleviation. Zhao Yingmin, the …

The arbitral court finds that China abused the sovereign privileges of the Philippines in its Exclusive Economic Zone. The Chinese offenses incorporate meddling with Philippine fishing and hydrocarbon investigation, developing fake islands, and neglecting to forestall their anglers from fishing in the EEZ of the Philippines. Incidentally, the organization of President Rodrigo Duterte wouldn’t guarantee the triumph. All things being …