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Vietnam Tycoon Arrest Sends Stocks Plunging as Tensions Surface
By Bloomberg News on August 21, 2012 More from Businessweek Vietnam’s arrest of a high-profile banking tycoon triggered the largest stock market drop in almost four years amid investor concern that it signaled wider vulnerabilities in the country’s financial system. Nguyen Duc Kien, who helped found Asia Commercial Bank, Vietnam’s fourth-biggest lender by market value,…
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In KonTum, Vietnam, Catholics pray in private homes since the communist government seized their church
AsiaNews, August 16, 2012 by Nguyen Hung The authorities in Hiếu Đạo confiscated the building 30 years ago and have not returned it yet. Nevertheless, the number of believers keeps on growing through conversions. “We are convinced that God will return the altar to us,” local bishop tells AsiaNews. Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) –…
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Vietnam sends more bloggers to prison
Just the day after the People’s Court of Dak Nong Province had sent blogger Dinh Dang Dinh to prison, the People’s Court of Ha Noi sentenced Le Thanh Tung to 5 years of imprisonment followed by 4 years of house arrest for “propaganda against the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.” He was detained since…
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Vietnamese blogger gets six years in prison
August 10, 2012 Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the six-year jail sentence that a court in the central province of Dak Nong imposed on the blogger Dinh Dang Dinh two days ago on a charge of anti-government propaganda. “The same charges keep on being brought against Vietnam’s bloggers,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Article 88 of…
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Vietnam workers kept like slaves at factory in Russia
August 10, 2012 By Oxana Vozhdaeva BBC Russian.com Workers showed the BBC skin rashes they said were the result of poor hygiene The BBC has found disturbing evidence of Vietnamese textile workers being kept in slave-like conditions at a Vietnamese-run factory in Russia. Staff at Vinastar, a medium-sized business in the village of Savino south-east…
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Malaysia urges ASEAN to unite over South China Sea
August 13, 2012 KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia’s foreign minister urged Southeast Asian countries on Sunday to settle their overlapping claims in the South China Sea before bringing them up with Beijing. Anifah Aman’s comments, following an hour-long meeting with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, imply that Malaysia wants ASEAN to present a more united front against…
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Viet Nam: Halt crackdown on freedom of expression
7 August 2012 Vietnamese authorities are increasingly cracking down on freedom of expression. © HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/GettyImages Viet Nam’s government must halt its ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said today after mass arrests during a peaceful protest in the capital Ha Noi. On 5 August, authorities in the capital…
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Vietnam detains anti-China demonstrators
Margie Mason Vietnam detains anti-China demonstrators ADD NAME OF ONE OF THE PROTESTERS WHO WAS ARRESTED – FILE – In this Sunday, July 1, 2012 file photo, about 200 protesters march through the capital’s streets, in Hanoi Vietnam, following China’s recent announcement that it will open nine oil and gas lots to international bidders, even…
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Tensions Rise Over South China Sea
Beijing Resents U.S. Involvement in the Long-disputed Area, Summons U.S. Official to Express ‘Dissatisfaction’ BEIJING—China summoned a U.S. diplomat to refute a State Department accusation that Beijing is hampering diplomatic efforts to defuse long-simmering tensions over the disputed South China Sea. The Foreign Ministry said on its website late Saturday that it summoned the U.S.…
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China protests US State Department remarks on South China Sea
By Reuters, August 4, 2012 BEIJING – China’s Foreign Ministry has called in a senior U.S. diplomat to protest remarks by the U.S. State Department raising concerns over tensions in the disputed South China Sea. In a statement released late on Saturday, China’s Foreign Ministry said Assistant Foreign Minister Zhang Kunsheng summoned the U.S. Embassy’s …
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