National Assembly member Phan Nguyen Nhu Khue, head of Propaganda Department of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee, on October 7, at a meeting to collect opinions of voters in District 2 before the parliament’s 10th session, has promised voters…
13 officers and soldiers out of 21 people in the rescue team of Rao Trang 3 Hydropower Plant (Thua Thien Hue Province) have now lost contact after a landslide at 0 am dawn on October 13, with a forest ranger…
Karl Marx is considered an influential scholar, although many of the communist regimes that followed his doctrine have ceased to exist. In the past few weeks, while preparing for the 13th National Congress, both political-ideological leaders of the Communist Party…
The police violently suppressed An injustice group in Thu Thiem, on October 5, 2020, resumed trips to Hanoi to request the central government agencies to quickly settle the land dispute in Thu Thiem. The reason that motivated them to depart…
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…
