Social media in Vietnam carries quite a force when it comes to having a say in public affairs, and the government is well aware of that....
“How do you explain or assess that Vietnam is ranked 175 out of 180 countries in the Reporters Sans Frontiers’ 2018 World Press Freedom Index?” The...
“The human rights situation in Vietnam is worrying,” according to Commissioner for Trade of the European Union, Cecilia Malmström, after her meeting with independent Vietnamese civil...
The Prime Minister of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, announced today at a preparatory meeting for the DPRK-US summit in Hanoi that the country needs to “prove...
Some Vietnamese had sarcastically joked in the past few days that the “spirit” of Grand Lord (in some other translations, Grand Prince) Tran Hung Dao (1228-1300...
On February 18, 2019, the defense attorneys for Dang Van Hien – a farmer in Dak Nong Province who was sentenced to death in January 2018...
Foreigners often assume – wrongfully – that the last war the Vietnamese people remember fighting was the one where the Americans were involved. It is not....
The story first sounded like the twisted plot of a comedy about feudal Vietnam a few centuries back. It went like this: Three bad guys robbed...
Vietnam’s dismal human rights records in 2017 and 2018 could play a role in delaying the ratification of the much anticipated European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement...
February 3, 2019, the Vietnamese Communist Party celebrates its 89th anniversary. In a recent speech to commend the auspicious event, Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong wrote:...