Adopting Prisoners of Conscience – practical work!

Recently, US Representative Alan Lowenthal, representative of District 47, California, shared at a seminar on human rights in Vietnam that he was implementing the procedure to officially adopt young prisoner of conscience Nguyen Van Hoa. “I am very impressed with…
VTV should apologize to street vendors!

On August 15, 2020, on the VTV website, there was a short video titled “Street vendors struggling to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic to make a living, in which street vendors were called “parasites.” This reportage was immediately met with angry…
More high-ranking officers of Vietnam’s army disciplined

One former commander and a former deputy commander of the 4th Corps with the rank of lieutenant-general of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) have just been warned by the Central Inspection Committee for violations in land management and use. Six…
COVID-19: Vietnam to use a domestic vaccine or buy from Russia?

Vietnam health officials recently said that the development of the COVID-19 vaccine locally-made has initially had positive results. Speaking at the COVID-19 vaccine workshop, organized by the Ministry of Health on the morning of July 22 in Hanoi, Acting Health…
Arbitrary quarantine measures affect people’s lives

Quoting Mr. Nguyen Duc Sam, chairman of the People’s Committee of Phong Binh commune, Gio Linh district, Quang Tri province, Vietnam’s media on August 14 reported that district officials promptly quarantined 2 F1 people of the disease transmitted by the…
Sanctions – tools to promote human rights for activists

At the session titled “Human rights institutions, and sanctions“, Ms. Desi Hanara, coordinator of the ASEAN Parliament for Human Rights (APHR), made a presentation about efforts to send letters to the Vietnamese Prime Minister requesting the release of the prisoner…
Decoding a communication phenomenon

The problem to decipher here is what is behind VTV1’s decision to show the movie about the war of China’s invasion on February 17, 1979, at the golden hour of VTV1? Is this the “pivot” of the Communist Party of…