The UN has just released a 2020 report on government intimidation and retaliation cases in Vietnam, under which there are at least 16 cases involving government detention, confiscation of identity documents, and interrogation or follow up from 2019 to present.…
A seminar on the topic “From a discussion about Hill of Dinh to the Future of Da Lat” organized by the Đô Thị (Urban) newspaper and Save Heritage Vietnam on September 12 in the context of the public interest, especially…
Today’s netizens are talking about rumors that Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh will replace Nguyen Duc Chung as the chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee. Meanwhile, newspapers simultaneously reported about Nguyen Duc Chung applying for bail to…
It seems that the trial of 29 Dong Tam villagers was “closely directed to the end of certain leaders” – that is the judgment of Lawyer Ngo Ngoc Trai when attending the trial that many observers judged that there will…
The Vietnamese police (the perpetrator has been identified as Senior Lieutenant Colonel Dang Viet Quang – Thoibao.de reported this before the trial: see here) used the German Heckler & Koch MP5 gun to shoot death of Mr. Le Dinh Kinh…
The severe punishment against three generations of Dong Tam communal leader Le Dinh Kinh is a sentence that many people uttered after hearing the sentence pronounced by the Trial Panel with two death sentences imposed on Mr. Le Dinh Kinh’s…
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Quy Vuong on September 14 said that Vietnam had “prevented attempts of “riot, terrorism, sabotage” and vows “not to allow the formation of opposing political organizations in the country,” according to the official…
Nguyen Si Binh For the Vietnamese, the phrase mediation and reconciliation has been heard a lot in the past, starting in the mid-century years, repeated every year until now but does not show anything new. Immediately after the 1975 event,…
Vietnam has just selected the Israeli company Controp as a supplier of surveillance systems for the new ships of its Coast Guard, Israel’s media cited the information from Controp on Sept 11. Control is a manufacturer specializing in photoelectric and…
China’s growing military actions in the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea) have pushed Hanoi and New Delhi closer together in an increasingly close military partnership seen as a counterbalance to China. The recent Chinese launch of…
