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Category: Politics

  • Rogue blogs signal tension as Vietnam tries to fix economic woes

    Stuart Grudgings Reuters4:06 p.m. CDT, October 9, 2012 (Reuters) – When one of Vietnam’s richest and best-connected bankers was arrested in August, a move that sent the country’s stock market tumbling, a little-known blog broke the news hours ahead of state media. It was the first sign that the Quan Lam Bao website could be…

  • Vietnam political battles heat up as economy falters

    AFP, August 26, 2012 HANOI: The arrest of one of Vietnam’s top banking tycoons reflects a wider power struggle among the Communist rulers over how to tackle the country’s deepening economic troubles, experts say. Flamboyant multi-millionaire Nguyen Duc Kien, a shareholder in some of Vietnam’s largest financial institutions and a founder of Asia Commercial Bank…

  • U.S. and Vietnam Hold 5th Political, Security and Defense Dialogue

    June 20, 2012 From left: Ambassador David Shear, Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Vikram Singh participate in the 5th Political, Security and Defense Dialogue on June 20 in Hanoi, Vietnam. As part of the fifth annual U.S.-Vietnam Political, Security, and Defense Dialogue, Vice Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh…

  • Vietnam: The most repressive country in Southeast Asia

    In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Dustin Roasa, a long-time observer based in Cambodia, describes Vietnam as “the most repressive country in Southeast Asia” now that Burma has released hundreds of political prisoners and restored a modicum of freedoms (press, opinion, political campaigning, and honest voting) thus opening the way for a return to…