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  • UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE CONCERNED WITH THE CONVICTION OF THREE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN VIET NAM

    PRESS RELEASE BANGKOK  (29  August 2014) – The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR)  is concerned that a court in Viet Nam has convicted and imprisoned three  human  rights  defenders for their peaceful human rights work. On 26 August  2014, the Dong Thap Provincial People’s Court sentenced Ms. Bui Thi Minh  Hang,  Ms. …

  • Statement by Senator John McCain in Hanoi, Vietnam

    Washington, D.C. ­– U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today [August 8, 2014] delivered the following statement at a press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam: “I am Senator John McCain, and it is always a pleasure to be back in Vietnam. I am joined by my colleague Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. “We have come to…

  • UN Official: Vietnam Violates Religious Freedom

    HANOI, Vietnam — Jul 31, 2014, 1:24 PM ET A U.N. official who went to Vietnam to assess religious freedom in this Southeast Asian country said Thursday that security agents closely monitored his visit and people he wanted to meet were harassed and intimidated. Heiner Bielefeldt, the U.N. special rapporteur, told journalists he concluded that…

  • UN Envoy Accuses Vietnam of ‘Serious Violations’ of Religious Freedom

    RFA 2014-07-31 A special U.N. envoy on a mission to Vietnam has accused the authoritarian government of “serious violations” of religious freedom and said the country’s police harassed and intimidated people he had wanted to meet in the course of his investigations. Heiner Bielefeldt, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion, acknowledged that…

  • Vietnam’s Angry Feet

    By TUONG LAI Published: June 6, 2013 HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — LAST month, Vietnamese courts imposed heavy sentences on two patriotic students in their early 20s who had been charged with “speaking ill of China.” These charges touched the most sensitive nerve in the nation’s psyche — our patriotism and spirit of nationalism…

  • Australia: Press Vietnam to Respect Rights

    Bilateral Dialogue Planned for July 28 in Hanoi July 24, 2014 (Sydney) – Australia should use the upcoming Australia-Vietnam human rights dialogue to press the Vietnamese government to make concrete and measurable improvements in its abysmal human rights record. These include promptly releasing all political prisoners and ending restrictions on the rights to freedom of…

  • Vietnam joins PH in slamming China’s new ‘expansionist’map

    BY E.J. CARLEON – JUNE 28, 2014 POSTED IN: FEATURED, PHILIPPINE NEWS, PHILIPPINES, WORLD MANILA, Philippines – Vietnam joined the Philippines in slamming the new vertical map published by China recently; increasing the crude territorial demarcation 9 dash lines to 10, and inordinately encroaching into the exclusive economic zones of its neighboring countries in the…

  • Iraq, Libya and Vietnam are worst in index that measures nations’ contribution to humanity

    By TRAVELMAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 18:01 EST, 23 June 2014 | UPDATED: 02:46 EST, 24 June 2014 Ireland is the ‘goodest’ country in the world, according to a new survey which measures what 125 nations contribute to the planet and humanity.  The UK made it to the seventh place in the overall index but was crowned as the best country in…

  • Vietnam ranks 147 out of 165 countries in economic freedom

    Vietnam’s economic freedom score is 50.8, making its economy the 147th freest in the 2014 Index. Its score is 0.2 point worse than last year, reflecting declines in freedom from corruption, monetary freedom, and business freedom that outweigh improvements in labor freedom and fiscal freedom. Vietnam is ranked 33rd out of 42 countries in the…

  • Vietnam’s Role in Japan’s Southeast Asia Strategy

    Japan is calibrating its cooperation with Vietnam in order to support Abe’s larger agenda. By Clint Richards June 04, 2014 Vietnam’s economic freedom score is 50.8, making its economy the 147th freest in the 2014 Index. Its score is 0.2 point worse than last year, reflecting declines in freedom from corruption, monetary freedom, and business…