On October 14, the German daily TAZ published an article questioning “The drug smuggling case from Berlin is probably related to To Lam.” The following is the translation: There is evidence that a relative of Vietnam’s ambitious Minister of Public…
In recent days, the international community continues to speak up about the Vietnamese government’s arrest of activist Pham Doan Trang. On Friday, October 9, 2020, Assistant Secretary of the United States for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor posted on Twitter…
Ho Chi Minh City’s Public Security Newspaper on October 8 quoted Vietnamese Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung as saying that Facebook has agreed to block political advertising from fan pages and accounts of “anti-state and terrorist organizations.”…
On October 7, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security confirmed that it had “arrested” independent journalist Pham Doan Trang in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City on October 6. The short announcement posted on the ministry’s Electronic Information Portal said that…
A series of articles in many languages, from many news agencies around the world, simultaneously reported and analyzed the detention of dissident journalist Pham Doan Trang, who was charged with “conducting anti-state propaganda.” With this allegation, Ms. Pham Doan Trang…
Dr. Le Thu Huong, a senior researcher of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, commented on Vietnam-China relations in the context of increasing tensions in the East Sea (South China Sea), without eliminating the risk of military conflict in the sea.…
October 4, 2020 To:MK Benjamin GantzDefense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister For decades, Vietnam has been governed by a dictatorial regime of the “Communist Party of Vietnam”(CPV). Citizens who dare to criticize the CPV are attacked by security forces, arrested,…
Several observers of politics and human rights comment to the BBC on how international, including the European Union and the US, has more effective sanctions on human rights violations in Vietnam. The Magnitsky Act on human rights sanctions can become…
The Vietnamese government is adding laws to prevent individuals from investing in real estate abroad in order to obtain foreign passports, after a series of scandalous cases of National Assembly’s members. According to Nguoi Lao Dong on September 27, 2020,…
Thai youth and protesters in Hong Kong The state media of Vietnam proved not inferior to international news agencies in the speed of updating information related to the protests of tens of thousands of Thai people and young people, which…
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.…
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…
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…
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is under treatment in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned with brain-damaging chemicals of the “Novichok” type. This is the statement of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on September 2. Novichok is a nerve agent that…
National Day September 2 is also the day when many people reflect on which socialism the country is heading to and what is the country’s future in a few years or decades. Can the Pearl of the Far East be…
The Malaysia Coast Guard shooting and killing a Vietnamese fisherman has raised concerns about the impact of the incident on relations between ASEAN countries – as well as ASEAN’s relationship with China, according to South China Morning Post. The event…
On Aug 28, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a press conference to officially announce that he would resign due to his poor conditions. According to the head of the Japanese government, he decided to resign because he did not…
Al Jazeera media report series based on classified Cyprus government documents revealed that the island country facilitates “easily corrupted” foreign politicians to buy EU’s citizenship. Recent trends show that many Vietnamese officials seek a safe way out with a passport…
Vietnam is not included in the list of 10 countries participating in this year’s Rim of Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) in Hawaii, although it was invited by the US. RIMPAC, the largest international naval exercise in the world organized by the…
Vietnam has informed India of the escalating tensions in the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea), reported Press Trust of India (PTI), as China is increasing its military presence there with the deployment of ships, fighters and…
More than 7,000 American citizens have been scammed by a group of Vietnamese online, in which online shoppers across the US paid a total of nearly $1 million to buy dry hand-washing products but never received the goods, the US…
After US Senators and Representatives strongly proposed that the administration of President Donald Trump punish Vietnamese officials who violate human rights, local activists expressed sympathy and support for Washington to take practical sanctions. Over the past weeks, a number of…
Vietnam health officials recently said that the development of the COVID-19 vaccine locally-made has initially had positive results. Speaking at the COVID-19 vaccine workshop, organized by the Ministry of Health on the morning of July 22 in Hanoi, Acting Health…
At the session titled “Human rights institutions, and sanctions“, Ms. Desi Hanara, coordinator of the ASEAN Parliament for Human Rights (APHR), made a presentation about efforts to send letters to the Vietnamese Prime Minister requesting the release of the prisoner…
