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Meeting Delay a Sign of Cooling U.S.-Vietnam Ties
THe Associated Press, December 11, 2012 (HANOI, Vietnam) — The U.S. and Vietnam, former enemies who share concerns about China‘s rise, are finding that one issue — human rights — is keeping them from becoming closer friends. Stress between the nations is clear from a delay in an annual meeting between Washington and Hanoi on…
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Dispute Flares Over Energy in South China Sea
By JANE PERLEZ Published: December 4, 2012 BEIJING — China and two of its neighbors, Vietnam and India, were locked in a new dispute on Tuesday over energy exploration in the South China Sea, a signal that Beijing plans to continue its hard line in the increasingly contentious waterway. Vietnam accused a Chinese fishing boat…
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Indian navy prepared to deploy to South China Sea
The Indian navy is prepared to deploy vessels to the South China Sea to protect India’s oil interests there, the navy chief said on Monday amid growing international fears over the potential for naval clashes in the disputed region. India has sparred diplomatically with China in the past over its gas and oil exploration block…
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China Seeks to Calm Anger Over Passports
Wall Street Journal By CRIS LARANO in Manila and NGUYEN PHAM MUOI and NGUYEN ANH THU in Hanoi China appeared to seek to assuage angry neighbors over a passport design they consider provocative, one day after the U.S. said it would raise the issue with Beijing. A map printed in new Chinese passports depicts as…
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Empty Office Towers Show Dreams Turned to Rubble
By Bloomberg News – Nov 26, 2012 3:09 AM ET From afar, the gleaming metal and glass edifices of Hanoi’s EVN Tower illustrate Vietnam’s rapid economic development. Up close, the rubble-strewn entrance and missing windows tell another story: one of loose lending and property speculation that now hangs over the country’s banks. State-run monopoly Vietnam…
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Press Freedom in Vietnam Fades from View
Monday, 19 November 2012 Former BBC Correspondent barred from conference As Vietnam’s annual East Sea Conference gets underway this week, Bill Hayton, former BBC correspondent in Hanoi, who was invited to attend by the Foreign Ministry’s think tank to attend, has been banned from entry by the Ministry of Public Security. “Vietnam is a country…
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The four sectors committing corruption most
Last update 21/11/2012 13:28:43 (GMT+7) VietNamNet Bridge – According to the survey released by the Government Inspectorate and the World Bank on November 20, the four sectors that are judged to commit corruption the most include traffic police, land management, customs and construction. The survey entitled “Corruption from the perspective of the people, businesses and…
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Indecision and Infighting: That’s the Asean Way
By MARK MCDONALD View From Asia November 20, 2012, 11:23 pm HONG KONG — Southeast Asian leaders have failed — again — to make any headway on resolving the dangerous territorial disputes over various islands in the South China Sea. At their regional summit meeting this week, they could not even agree to set up…
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Civil society denounces adoption of flawed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: AHRD falls far below international standards
Monday, 19 November 2012 Disregarding the deep concerns expressed by senior United Nations officials, human rights experts and hundreds of civil society and grassroots organisations at the national, regional and international levels, ASEAN leaders nonetheless adopted yesterday an “ASEAN Human Rights Declaration” that undermines, rather than affirms, international human rights law and standards. The document…
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Obama wades into thorny Asian territorial row
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — President Barack Obama’s attendance at an annual summit of Southeast Asian leaders on Tuesday thrust him right in the eye of the region’s most stormy dispute: the long-raging rivalry between China and five neighbors for control of strategic and resource-rich waters in the South China Sea. The inability to resolve these…
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