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Vietnam's founding president Ho Chi Minh's famous September 2, 1945 speech - part of which was taken from the US Declaration of Independence - launched a new era of struggle to end nearly a century of French colonial rule and later fight off American intervention and reunify Vietnam.
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Navy officers marching in the parade
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Northern Vietnamese female paramilitants
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Retired general Nguyen Quyet is helped by soldiers upon his arrival at the upper floor of the mausoleum of late president Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnamese policewomen
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Jeff Head

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Diplomat said:
The Philippines and Vietnam have agreed to ink a strategic partnership agreement by the end of the year to bolster bilateral ties, officials from both countries have said.

According to Agence-France Presse, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario
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that the deal could be signed on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit in November which will be held in Manila.

The idea of a strategic partnership between the two countries is not new. It dates back to May 2014, when Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung began publicly expressing their desire to move forward with a proposal to elevate ties to that level.

Since then, the two countries have been exploring how to make this a reality. Aquino and his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang agreed to convene a Joint Working Committee to make progress towards the partnership, and both parties have been working on a draft of the joint statement for a while now.

A strategic partnership between Manila and Hanoi would seem to make sense on a number of levels. In addition to the often-cited convergence of views on the South China Sea, where both countries have been working hard to counter China’s growing assertiveness, both countries are also looking to collaborate more in maritime affairs more generally as well as strengthening the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and boosting their economic partnership.

The deal, once concluded, would make Vietnam the Philippines’ second strategic partner; the other is Japan, a relationship which has seen an uptick especially in the defense realm. The Philippines also has a formal alliance with the United States that has gotten a boost over the past few years, particularly with the inking of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) in 2014.

The end of 2015 target seems plausible given the progress both sides have made thus far, including the work on the draft joint statement – parts of which had been leaked earlier this year. That being said, other such deadlines have come and gone before. Vietnam had reportedly initially wanted the signing to occur in April this year around the time of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur, and it has previously been thought that it would then occur around May or June.
 

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Cops on alert for possible Isis attack in Kuala Lumpur

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Police are on alert and have increased patrols in Jalan Alor and surrounding areas in capital city Kuala Lumpur following credible information on a potential terrorist attack following the arrests of several militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) in the past month.

"Yes, we are on alert. More policemen have been sent to the ground," a Kuala Lumpur police source told The Malaysian Insider.

"It is believed to be retaliation for the crackdown against the militants."

I think it is inevitable that at some stage we will sadly see that happening considering Kuala Lumpur is known to be a transit hub.
 

Jeff Head

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Thailand, FFG Narusean class with the new Mk-41 for ESSM with Jas-39, Saab 340 Erieye AEW.

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Those Narusean FFGs are well armed.

Thailand got a good deal with the Chinese hull and all western sensors and armament.

1 x 127mm DP gun
1 x 8 cell Mk-141 with 32 ESSMs
2 x 30mm auto cannons
8 x Harpoon SSMs
2 x 3 324mm Torpedo launchers
Pad and hanger for a Super Lynx

Very capable frigates.
 

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First Yak-130s arrive in Bangladesh
Possible they replace or in part A-5 recently retired used as trainer and for light attack.

Bangladesh took delivery of its first batch of Yak-130 trainer/light attack aircraft in late September.
The first six of 16 aircraft were delivered on 20 September aboard a Volga-Dnepr An-124-100 transport aircraft, which landed at Zahurul Haque air base, according to a post on the Armed Forces of Bangladesh's Facebook page.
The six aircraft were originally scheduled to be delivered in June, Irkut official Viktor Lychaev told media earlier, without explaining the reason for the delay. Rostec Corporation in September confirmed that contract stipulated delivery of 14 aircraft in 2015 and the final two in 2016.
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Bangladesh, which originally planned to buy 24 aircraft but settled on 16 due to budget restrictions, is financing the purchase via a USD1 billion credit agreement signed with Moscow in 2013.

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Malaysian Army chief bullish on AV8 deliveries

The Malaysian Army expects deliveries of the IFV-25 variant of the AV8 Gempita armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) to be completed by either the end of 2015 or in early 2016, according to Malaysian Army Chief General Raja Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor.
Gen Raja Affandi told IHS Jane's that the delivery completion date would depend on the finances available due to payment being made as each vehicle is delivered by manufacturer Deftech.
He said the programme was still within the army's planned schedule for deliveries of the AV-8 and AFV-30 variant and would start once all IFV-25s had been delivered.
The IFV-25 variant is fitted with a one-person FNSS Sharpshooter turret armed with a stabilised ATK Armament Systems M242 25 mm dual-feed cannon and an FN MAG 58M 7.62 mm co-axial machine gun (MG). Of the 257 vehicle order of 12 variants, 46 vehicles will be in this configuration.
The AFV-30 variant - of which 68 have been ordered - mounts a Denel Land Systems (DLS) two-person LCT-30 turret with a DLS stabilised 30 mm GI-30 external dual-feed linkless cannon and an FN MAG 58M MG.
Of the remaining 10 variants, the most significant number is the anti-tank version - of which 54 have been ordered - with a Denel LCT turret fitted with the GI-30 and two Denel Dynamics Ingwe laser-guided missiles either side.
Gen Raja Affandi also said that some minor changes within the AV8 have been requested as a result of experience with the vehicles already delivered and in service but that these did not affect the production Schedule.

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FORBIN

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Myanmar Air Force nice pictures !

A-5, F-7M and Mig-29 three fighters/attack aircrafts in service 32, 30 and 21 announced 12/16 JF-17 in order
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F-7M
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K-8 trainer, light attack 18 + 38 in order
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