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  • Envoy nominee open to lifting arms ban to Vietnam

    By MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press Updated 3:45 pm, Tuesday, June 17, 2014  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama‘s nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to Vietnam said Tuesday it may be time for Washington to consider lifting a ban on the sale and transfer of lethal weapons to the former American enemy. Ted Osius told his…

  • China Aggression Sounds Wake-Up Call for Vietnam Makers

    By Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen June 17, 2014 For more than eight years, Luong Thi Kim Oanh bought cases of thread from China for her garment factory in Hanoi. Last month, rattled by an anti-China riot in her country, she placed her first order from South Korea. “I used to buy 90 percent of my thread…

  • Vietnam vs. China: The Captain Who Went Down With His Ship

    T. Dean ReedWriter, The Reed Report May 22, 2014 The young Vietnamese naval officer, Lt. Commander Nguy Van Tha, opened fire on the Chinese warships. Only the last engine on his corvette, the Nhat Tao, was working and he was unable to avoid devastating return fire. As three other Vietnamese ships escaped the Paracel Islands,…

  • Protestors torch factories in southern Vietnam as China protests escalate

    By Euan McKirdy, CNN updated 2:17 AM EDT, Thu May 15, 2014 (CNN) — Anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam have turned violent with demonstrators setting on fire a number of factories in a southern Vietnamese industrial park. Properties in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks (VSIP) I & II in Binh Duong were targeted Tuesday by thousands of…

  • Vietnam’s anti-China protests force Foxconn shut down

    By Alanna Petroff @AlannaPetroff May 16, 2014: 8:14 AM ET ONDON (CNNMoney) Foxconn has temporarily shuttered a factory in Vietnam after violent anti-China protests hit the nation. The Vietnamese protesters are angry about China’s deployment of an oil rig into waters that both countries claim as sovereign territory. Protesters were torching factories in a southern…

  • Anti-China rage spreads from Vietnam to Ratchada .

    The Bangkok Post May 16, 2014 Writer: Achara Ashayagachat & Thanida Tansubhapol The protest in Bangkok comes amid violent anti-China protests in Vietnam, in which mobs have looted and burned what they believe are Chinese-owned factories. One Chinese worker has been reported killed. The… Please credit and share this article with others using this link:http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/410002/anti-china-rage-spreads-from-vietnam-to-ratchada.…

  • Freed Vietnam dissident urges legal overhaul

    AFP, May 6, 2014 Washington (AFP) – A prominent Vietnamese dissident who was freed after an international campaign called Tuesday on Hanoi to overhaul its laws, saying that human rights will only improve through fundamental reforms. French-trained lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu, the son of a Vietnamese revolutionary leader, was sentenced in April 2011 to…

  • Vietnam arrests 2 dissident bloggers for criticizing government

    Arrests of Nguyen Huu Vinh and Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy were the first reported since last June The Associated Press Posted: May 06, 2014 1:09 AM ET Last Updated: May 06, 2014 1:09 AM ET Vietnam has arrested two democracy activists for posting articles critical of the government on the Internet, signalling a continued crackdown…

  • Vietnam releases two dissidents from jail amid trade talks with US

    Agence France-Presse in Hanoi April 15, 2014 Vietnam has released two more high-profile dissidents as it negotiates a free-trade deal with Washington that may not be approved unless Hanoi improves its human rights record. Vi Duc Hoi and Nguyen Tien Trung were released over the weekend with 11/2 years and nine months of their sentences…

  • Vietnam dissident released, arrives in US

    By Associated Press, Published: April 7 WASHINGTON — A prominent Vietnamese dissident whose father was an associate of the nation’s founding president Ho Chi Minh arrived in the U.S. Monday after being released from prison by Vietnam, the State Department said. Cu Huy Ha Vu arrived on a flight to Washington with his wife. He is a legal…