English Speakers In Vietnam Got A Taste Of Censorship Over An Article On Pollution
February 20, 2019, a few foreigners living both inside and outside of Vietnam were sharing the news that an English ...
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Vietnam, Where A Folk Hero And His Incense Burner Became A Political Dilemma
Some Vietnamese had sarcastically joked in the past few days that the “spirit” of Grand Lord (in some other translations, ...
Death-Row Inmate Dang Van Hien May Get A Second Chance At Life
On February 18, 2019, the defense attorneys for Dang Van Hien – a farmer in Dak Nong Province who was ...
Vietnam-China Border War 1979: When Vietnamese People Refused To Forget
Foreigners often assume – wrongfully – that the last war the Vietnamese people remember fighting was the one where the ...
Vietnamese Police Continue Questioning People Over Facebook Activities
The police force in Ben Tre Province, Vietnam seemed to have been quite busy in the last few months, going ...
Robbery Unwittingly Exposes Potential Corruption In Vietnam
The story first sounded like the twisted plot of a comedy about feudal Vietnam a few centuries back. It went ...
Vietnam: When Workers’ Rights Face Resistance From A Socialist Government
Vietnam’s dismal human rights records in 2017 and 2018 could play a role in delaying the ratification of the much ...
Vietnamese Communist Party Turns 89, And The People May Have Had Enough
February 3, 2019, the Vietnamese Communist Party celebrates its 89th anniversary.In a recent speech to commend the auspicious event, Secretary ...
Vietnamese Police Questioned University Student Over Facebook Postings
On February 1, 2019, the Domestic Security Bureau of Ben Tre Province interviewed Tran Ngoc Phuc, a 21-year-old student of ...
EU Parliament’s Members Ask Vietnam To Release Activist Hoang Duc Binh, Reiterate Human Rights Benchmark for EV-FTA
February 1, 2019, a group of nine EU Parliament’s members from different political parties, jointly sent a letter to Vietnam’s ...