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Life of Vietnamese Activist in Danger Due to Gross Mistreatment in Prison
PRESS RELEASE October 27, 2014 The Vietnamese government should immediately cease the ill-treatment, physical and psychological abuse of Dang Xuan Dieu while in arbitrary detention. News reports of Dang Xuan Dieu being forced to sleep and eat next to his excrement; denied access to adequate food, clean drinking water and regular showers; and subjected to…
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Fixing the United States’ Human Rights Misstep With Vietnam
By selling weapons to Vietnam, the United States is selling out activitsts October 8, 2014 Author(s): John Sifton Published in: The Diplomat The United States government made a mistake this month in relaxing a ban on lethal arms sales and transfers to Vietnam — a non-democratic, one-party state with an abysmal human rights record. The U.S. move,…
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Torpedoes Don’t Kill People. Hanoi Kills People.
Why we shouldn’t be selling arms to Vietnam. BY JOHN SIFTON OCTOBER 3, 2014 The Obama administration announced on Oct. 2 that it was relaxing a decades-old ban on sales of lethal military equipment to Vietnam. The United States will now allow the Pentagon and U.S. companies to provide Vietnam with “maritime security-related defense articles.” The…
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Vietnam’s Blogosphere: The Battleground for Rival Factions of the Ruling Communists
The Time – Dec 27, 2012 Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party is not looking back on a good year. The country’s economy is in trouble; the authoritarian leadership is split; and what appear to be rival Communist Party factions, seeking to rouse the dissenting voices of social media for their own ends, have unleashed a wave…
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State secrets revealed in Vietnam
By David Brown Asia Times, Dec 22, 2012 One afternoon in mid-December, Colonel Tran Dang Thanh shared his views on foreign affairs with an audience of deans and professors drawn from Hanoi’s many universities. Like all Vietnamese Communist Party business, Thanh’s comments were considered state secrets. However, unbeknownst to Thanh, who teaches at Vietnam’s top…
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Drama over Vietnam’s PM a hopeful sign of change
Jonathan London says unprecedented call for PM to quit shows elite power also has its limits Tuesday, 20 November, 2012, 12:00am It is not every day that a Vietnamese national assemblyman publicly confronts a sitting prime minister and Politburo Standing Committee member live on national TV, suggesting that the latter resign. Yet that was what…
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Vietnam’s Prime Minister urged to resign
Posted 14 November 2012, 22:08 AEST Vietnam’s embattled Prime Minister on Wednesday faced an unprecedented call in the communist-dominated parliament to step down over mistakes in his stewardship of the troubled economy. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (Credit: AFP) It is believed to be the first time ever that a Vietnamese prime minister has…
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Vietnam’s Search for Stability
By Alexander L. Vuving October 25, 2012 On October 15, Vietnam’s Communist Party concluded its longest meeting ever, admitting big mistakes in preventing and remedying corruption. Central to the meeting’s discussions was the mismanagement and nepotism committed by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who eventually escaped punishment. The half measures encapsulate the entrenched nature of corruption…
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Vietnam’s Prime Minister Survives Challenge
Wall Street Journal on-line, October 15, 2012 By JAMES HOOKWAY ReutersProtesters are growing more daring. Above, security forces confront anti-China demonstrators in Hanoi in July. HANOI—Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung survived a leadership challenge Monday as he struggles to stabilize the country’s foundering economy, but he and other top leaders now face growing pressure…
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Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese poet, died on October 2nd, aged 73
Oct 13th 2012 THE poems were under his shirt, 400 of them. The date was July 16th 1979, just two days—he noted it—after the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. Freedom day. He ran through the gate of the British embassy in Hanoi, past the guard, demanding to see the ambassador. The guard couldn’t…
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