“I have lost my license to practice law forever, with no apparent recourse available,” Vo An Don, one of Vietnam’s most well-known lawyers in recent years, lamented...
A colleague recently showed me a picture of a document entitled “Personal History” that her friend had sent over. This person was applying for a new...
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:...
The Head of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Committee – Vo Van Thuong – declared, during his concluding remarks at the committee’s year-end congress on December...
On October 23, 2018, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong took the oath of office as the new president of Vietnam. He was the only candidate introduced...
Today| marks the 73rd year since Ho Chi Minh stood at Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945, and proclaimed that all people shall enjoy their...
In June 2018, many were shocked to witness the largest demonstration in Vietnam since the end of the war in 1975, where thousands of people marched...
No other foreign politicians have thus far achieved what John McCain was able to do in Vietnam in the recent decades. In a country where he...