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US Senate passes resolution to support ASEAN in the East Sea Dispute
SRES 524 IS http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/sres524/text 112th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 524 Reaffirming the strong support of the United States for the 2002 declaration of conduct of parties in the South China Sea among the member states of ASEAN and the People’s Republic of China, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES…
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Vietnam’s Government Stopped Catholic Journalist from Traveling Abroad with Ailing Mother
Compiled bo DVOV, August 3, 2012 In the morning of August 2, 2012, J.B Nguyen Huu Vinh, a journalist associated with the Catholic news media, was prevented from taking his ailing mother to Singapore for medical treatment. As soon as Mr. Vinh and his mother arrived at Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi, two public security…
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Pastor’s Sentence Upheld
Radio Free Asia July 31, 2012 A Vietnamese court rejects a priest’s appeal as three bloggers await trial on similar charges An appeals court in Vietnam upheld an 11-year jail sentence imposed on a pastor of a banned church for “undermining unity” in the one-party state ahead of a trial next week of a group…
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Stanford Law School’s Allen Weiner files petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of seventeen Vietnamese social and political activists
Stanford Law School July 25, 2012 STANFORD, Calif., July 25, 2012—Allen Weiner, director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law at Stanford Law School, today filed a petition with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) in Geneva contesting the illegal arrest and on-going detention of seventeen Vietnamese social and political…
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Vietnam Blogger’s Mom Self-Immolates Before Trial
HANOI, Vietnam July 31, 2012 (AP) The mother of a prominent Vietnamese blogger has died after setting herself on fire ahead of her daughter’s trial next week, police said Tuesday. An officer in the southern province of Bac Lieu said 64-year-old Dang Thi Kim Lieng died Monday afternoon on the way to the hospital in…
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Calming the South China Sea
By Gareth Evans The Straits Times CANBERRA – The South China Sea – long regarded, together with the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula, as one of East Asia’s three major flashpoints – is making waves again. China’s announcement of a troop deployment to the Paracel Islands follows a month in which competing territorial claimants…
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The mother of a popular Vietnamese blogger and government critic died Monday in a rare self-immolation protest
Reported by RFA’s Vietnamese service. Translated by An Nguyen. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. The mother of a popular Vietnamese blogger and government critic died Monday in a rare self-immolation protest, concerned over the plight of her daughter who is to stand trial for criticizing the state, according to a family member. Dang Thi…
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Your New Human Rights Councilor; Vietnam invents a U.N. procedure to silence critics.
Opinion 31 July 2012 The Wall Street Journal Online Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Security Council’s latest fumble on Syria might represent the U.N.’s biggest failure of the last month, but it’s hardly the only one. So as a reminder of all the little things the U.N. also gets wrong, we…
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Harsher crackdown on dissidents prompts act of despair
Reporters Without Borders, July 30, 2012 Dang Thi Kim Lieng, the mother of the jailed blogger Ta Phong Tan, died after setting fire to herself today outside the headquarters of the People’s Committee in Bac Lieu, Tan’s home province, in an act of despair about her dissident daughter’s trial next week in Ho Chi Minh…
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Imprisoned blogger’s mother died after setting herself on fire
BBC, July 30, 2012 23:59:04 The mother of a prominent Vietnamese blogger has died after setting herself on fire in protest against her daughter’s detention. Her daughter, Ta Phong Tan, is due in court in Ho Chi Minh city next week to face charges of anti-government propaganda. Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-30/imprisoned-bloggers-mother-sets-herself-on-fire/4165138
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