A Vietnamese political expert predicted that General Secretary cum President Nguyen Phu Trong will retire from the 13th Party Congress in 2021, and Tran Quoc Vuong is the leading candidate to become General Secretary. Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong, born in…
An individual initiative, making a call to remove China from the UN’S Security Council after a month, has so far attracted nearly 35,000 signatures. Dr. Le Trung Tinh, the author of the petition, said that as of May 15, 2020,…
Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just summoned Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh in connection with the ongoing dispute in an undemarcated border area between the two countries, close to Vietnam’s border with An Giang province and the…
At the May 2020 briefing meeting of the Ministry of Defense held in Hanoi on June 1, Vietnamese Defense Minister Ngo Xuan Lich recently warned about “complicated developments in the Eat Sea (South China Sea)” and asked the army “to…
Japanese anti-corruption policy experts told BBC News Vietnamese that Japan has become more active in recent years in investigating alleged bribes abroad. The comment came in the context of Japanese media saying a Japanese company, Tenma Vietnam, twice bribed a…
In a rare event in Vietnam’s press, Ho Chi Minh City’s Women Newspaper, published on May 29, ran an article detailly responding to the Press Department of the Ministry of Information and Communication, after being deprived of the right to…
China will face severe consequences and major disadvantage if unilaterally and illegally announces an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the East Sea (South China Sea), according to Tran Cong Truc, a former head of the Vietnamese Government Border Committee.…
Mr. Luong Huu Phuoc (55 years old, a resident in Dong Xoai city, Binh Phuoc province) died in the yard of the province’s People’s Court’s headquarters on the morning of May 29 after the court upheld his prison sentence in…
On May 27, the US Ambassador to Hanoi hosted an online discussion with special speaker Bonnie Glaser, Asia Senior Advisor and China Power Project Manager at the Center for Strategic and International Studues (CSIS) in Washington DC. The topic of…
Press release, May 26, 2020 In recent years, Vietnam’s communist regime has intensified persecution against the unsanctioned Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), a civil professional organization of independent writers working for freedom of press in Vietnam.Since the Association was…
