In Vietnam over the past years, the Hanoi government has increased its repression of dissident voices, vigorously arresting and sentencing harshly opposing voices who openly and bluntly criticize the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and its government. The regime has…
Platform 91 – means to maintain power The 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is taking place from January 25, 2021. The important event every four years of the party seems to have little real…
After China enacted a law allowing the country’s Coast Guard to open fire on foreign ships, the two researchers told VOA that Vietnam would soon raise their objection as well as coordinate with many countries to deal with China in…
What the US-Vietnam bilateral relationship will be and what can be expected when President Joe Biden took office? At a discussion on Thursday roundtable on January 21, 2021, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jonathan London, an American scholar from Leiden University in…
After an exciting event at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, the Resolution on human rights for Vietnam was passed at 4:30 p.m. on January 21. Most of the Congressmen representing the countries of Western Europe, Northern Europe, and Eastern…
More than a dozen days before the 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) opened, Vietnam’s Defense Ministry and Ministry of Information and Communications on January 13 strengthened their cooperation with the stated goal of ensuring…
The Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway line in Hanoi will not be put into commercial operation before the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which will take place in the remaining days of January 2021, the…
Parliament calls on the Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defenders and journalists Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, and Le Huu Minh Tuan, as well as all others, detained and sentenced in the country for merely…
A number of the state-controlled newspapers and news sites with a lot of followers in Vietnam including Tuoi Tre, Thanh Nien, Tien Phong, VNExpress on January 19 published articles reminiscent of the Hoang Sa naval war that happened 47 years…
The January 12 Reuters newsletter by author James Pearson titled “Hot news from the Super Cup- How Vietnam skirts Party speculation ban on social media” According to author James Pearson, netizens are using dodging when writing about issues that the…
