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Some pictures of Yongshu Island taken on 10-June-2015. Enjoy!
The area is 2.79 km².
The airstrip is over 3100 meters long and 50 meters wide.

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Subi's area is now estimated to be 3.87 square kilometers.
A straight segment on the western side can accommodate an airstrip more than three kilometers long.
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The terrain preparation at this segment resemble that at Yongshu a few months ago, indicating there may be another airstrip in the making at Subi.
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Documents proving Vietnam’s sovereignty of Truong Sa, Hoang Sa presented
A copy of imperial records of the Nguyen Dynasty asserting Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos has been donated to the Foreign Ministry’s National Boundary Commission by cultural researcher Ho Tan Phan.

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The documents report the Nguyen Dynasty’s activities to exploit natural resources on the two archipelagos as well as their surveys and landmark planting there.

The copy of imperial records called “Royal Annals of Dai Nam” was collected and published by Japan’s Keio University.

The annals were originally compiled by the court’s historiography office between 1821 and 1939. However; only first part of the chronology from King Gia Long to King Dong Khanh, were engraved into wooden prints, while the rest were hand-written in six copies for preservation.

The records were lost during the war time.

Since 1961, Keio University researched, collected, photocopied the annals and published documents into 20 volumes with 8,181 pages.

Phan highlighted that thanks to concerted efforts made by the Japanese university, Royal Annals were restored and serve as valuable evidence of Vietnam’s sovereignty of Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagos.

Throughout the annals, Japanese researchers and the international public are able to gain a deeper understanding about Vietnamese history from 16th century to the of the 20th century, he added.

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Documents proving Vietnam’s sovereignty of Truong Sa, Hoang Sa presented
A copy of imperial records of the Nguyen Dynasty asserting Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos has been donated to the Foreign Ministry’s National Boundary Commission by cultural researcher Ho Tan Phan.

20150604103053-1.jpg


The documents report the Nguyen Dynasty’s activities to exploit natural resources on the two archipelagos as well as their surveys and landmark planting there.

The copy of imperial records called “Royal Annals of Dai Nam” was collected and published by Japan’s Keio University.

The annals were originally compiled by the court’s historiography office between 1821 and 1939. However; only first part of the chronology from King Gia Long to King Dong Khanh, were engraved into wooden prints, while the rest were hand-written in six copies for preservation.

The records were lost during the war time.

Since 1961, Keio University researched, collected, photocopied the annals and published documents into 20 volumes with 8,181 pages.

Phan highlighted that thanks to concerted efforts made by the Japanese university, Royal Annals were restored and serve as valuable evidence of Vietnam’s sovereignty of Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagos.

Throughout the annals, Japanese researchers and the international public are able to gain a deeper understanding about Vietnamese history from 16th century to the of the 20th century, he added.

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why the book are written in Chinese character? It should be witten in Vietnamese language
 
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why the book are written in Chinese character? It should be witten in Vietnamese language

In the past, in Vietnam, Chinese Han Zi characters ware used for writing our official documents, like Japanese used Han Zi until now.
 
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Pictures at China’s other islands – Hughes, Hughes, Johnson South and Cuarteron.

Intensive construction of facilities is on-going. They each has a 5-meter by 40-meter concrete ramp leading to a 2nd/3rd story of a large new building. The ramps allow the relocation of equipment to an elevated location in the event of a typhoon.

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Below is a pic dated 13-Feb-2015 that shows a 4,000-ton CCG ship in Luconia Shoals. It is stationed 3.5 km from an elevated coral sediment called Luconia Breakers. A smaller Malaysian Navy patrol vessel is seen anchored 2.7 km northwest of the Chinese ship.

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the gals look more like models than anything...
 
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