The Central region is struggling to cope with natural disasters, floods have caused so many suffering and losses to the land between the two ends of the country. However, the fighting and power struggle for the 13th National Congress is…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on October 18 called on Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to “put pressure” on the Vietnamese government during his first visit here for Hanoi to “improve its human rights record.” Prime Minister Suga officially visited Vietnam…
As many as 128 people have died or gone missing, the Central region is receiving a tropical depression that could become a storm, the Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper reported on the evening of October 19. In Quang Binh, the water…
On October 14, the German daily TAZ published an article questioning “The drug smuggling case from Berlin is probably related to To Lam.” The following is the translation: There is evidence that a relative of Vietnam’s ambitious Minister of Public…
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…
