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:...
On January 30, 2019, The People’s Court of Hoa Binh Province found Dr. Hoang Cong Luong guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced him to 42-month-imprisonment. The...
Yesterday evening, January 29, 2019, Facebookers in Vietnam were circulating a video clip showing a gentleman lying on the ground while another, older man in police...
Today, January 28, 2019, a driver in Hanoi who was supportive of the movement to fight against illegal BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) toll booths in Vietnam, Ha Van...