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.…
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…
Some lawyers and journalists expressed concern over the possibility that Dak Lak police acted “arbitrarily” when arresting Dr. Pham Dinh Quy, a lecturer at Ton Duc Thang University in charge of slander. Reply to BBC News Vietnamese, lawyer Phung Thanh…
Military forces in most progressive countries in the world are tasked with defending their homeland against foreign invasions and protecting the people against the dangers of great disasters to the country and human lives. The army in a multi-party country…
Defend the Defenders, Press Release, October 2, 2020 For immediate release According to Defend the Defenders’ statistics, as of September 30, 2020, Vietnam’s communist regime is holding at least 258 prisoners of conscience in prisons or other forms of detention.…
The package of installing slogans with only 11 words in Vietnam’s northern province of Hoa Binh was approved worth approximately VND11 billion ($470,000). To insert the words “Đời đời nhớ ơn Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh vĩ đại/Eternal gratitude to…
Mr. Nguyen Quoc Anh, former director of Bach Mai Hospital, and his two subordinates former Deputy Director Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hien and former Chief Accountant Ms. Trinh Thi Thuan of the hospital were arrested probed for being involved in the…
The case of the Party Secretary of Dac Lak sending police officers to Ho Chi Minh City to kidnap Dr. Pham Dinh Quy (lecturer Ton Duc Thang University), and taking him to Dac Lak in the middle of the night,…
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,…
Officers, civil servants, and public employees who are being treated for a serious illness, cognitive loss, or who are receiving treatment for serious illness at the hospital … will not be disciplined for their wrongdoings. That is the content of…