The recent strike of hundreds of Grab drivers reveals new conflicts in the relationship over this no-new economic model. On December 7, hundreds of Grab drivers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City called on each other to shut down…
How many times did you fight when you were in school? Do not say no. I don’t believe it. I am used to be considered a kind of “people of the family,” did well from child to adulthood, all day…
On December 1, 2020, ASEAN and the EU officially upgraded their partnership to a strategic level, an event announced by international, regional, and Vietnamese media, at a time when Vietnam was still in its rotating chairmanship of the block of…
An event-related to Vietnam’s education that has been discussed by both mainstream media and social media netizens over the past week involves Dong Do University in Hanoi – one of the earliest established non-public universities in Vietnam. According to the…
Facebook and YouTube are “complicit” with Vietnam in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale,” according to the latest report by Amnesty International. These giant tech companies, the report says, allow themselves to be “tools of Vietnamese officials” and to…
China’s policy on the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea) became more aggressive after Xi Jinping became China’s highest leader in November 2012. We can gauge the magnitude of this aggression by considering how, after coming to…
The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is scheduled to take place in January 2021. About 1,600 delegates nationwide will elect the new Party Central Committee of 180 members. In addition to the difficulty in electing…
After the shamed cassation hearing of the 17-member council, which the public named disparagingly as “the board of cutting boards,” the ordinary people, the jurisprudence, National Assembly (NA)’s members spoke up, the lawyer submitted a series of testimonies about Ho…
In recent days, the domestic public is outraged by the fact that the owner of a food shop in Bac Ninh province has brutally beaten and abused staff for a long time, including a 14-year-old boy. Domestic media reported that…
Recently, Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly (NA) attracted the attention of public opinion when its member speaking publicly at the parliament advised the Minister of Public Security that the number of police officers was too large. “Sorry Minister, the…
