by Pham Doan Trang & Will Nguyen, September 2020 Summary: On January 9, 2020, between 1 and 3 AM, thousands of police from special task, riot, criminal, and investigative units cordon off Dong Tam in coordination with local ground forces…
Vietnam is now one of Israel’s largest markets for weapons and surveillance technology. But those defense exports are used by Hanoi’s repressive communist regime to silence its own population Vietnam’s dictatorship has lasted for decades. Its longevity and repression mean…
The two-day first-instance hearing of the Triều Đại Việt (Vietname Dynasty) ended September 22 with a total of nearly 200 years in prison for 20 defendants. The person who suffered the heaviest sentence was Mr. Nguyen Khanh (born in 1964…
Head of the Central Commission for Propaganda and Education Vo Van Thuong attended the founding congress of the Vietnam Philosophy Association in Hanoi on September 20, although he admitted that Vietnamese philosophy could not be compared with Greek-Rome philosophies, deep…
Former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has just suddenly reappeared on television when he gave an interview to VTV, in which he praised the contribution of the Central Economic Commission, which he said as “the strategic advisory body of the…
The UN has just released a 2020 report on government intimidation and retaliation cases in Vietnam, under which there are at least 16 cases involving government detention, confiscation of identity documents, and interrogation or follow up from 2019 to present.…
A seminar on the topic “From a discussion about Hill of Dinh to the Future of Da Lat” organized by the Đô Thị (Urban) newspaper and Save Heritage Vietnam on September 12 in the context of the public interest, especially…
Today’s netizens are talking about rumors that Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh will replace Nguyen Duc Chung as the chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee. Meanwhile, newspapers simultaneously reported about Nguyen Duc Chung applying for bail to…
It seems that the trial of 29 Dong Tam villagers was “closely directed to the end of certain leaders” – that is the judgment of Lawyer Ngo Ngoc Trai when attending the trial that many observers judged that there will…
The Vietnamese police (the perpetrator has been identified as Senior Lieutenant Colonel Dang Viet Quang – Thoibao.de reported this before the trial: see here) used the German Heckler & Koch MP5 gun to shoot death of Mr. Le Dinh Kinh…
