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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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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…
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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…
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Vietnam: Turning Point?
Asia Sentinel Written by David Brown MON,02 JUNE 2014 Sudden shocks have a way of resetting the agenda It’s been more than a month since China’s deep water oil drilling rig Haiyang 981 dropped anchor in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone. Beijing’s deployment of the US$1 billion rig and an armada of escort vessels shocked the Vietnamese…
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Canadian PM: Communism, the deadliest ideological plague
Toronto, Ontario 30 May 2014 Prime Minister Stephen Harper today delivered the following remarks at the Tribute to Liberty Dinner in Toronto: “Thank you very much. “Thank you, Senator Ngo for that kind introduction, and thank you all, ladies and gentlemen, for that very warm welcome. “Distinguished guests, colleagues from the Parliament of Canada, ladies…
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Vietnam’s thought control
The Phnom Penh PostMon, 16 September 2013 Roger Mitton There was a time when it was possible to buy genuine wartime propaganda posters in Vietnam. Most date from what the Vietnamese call the American War, and one example, a large diptych of two women, adorns the wall near my desk. The serene-looking woman on the…
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Vietnam Crony Communists Resist Constitution Backlash
By Bloomberg News – Apr 8, 2013 12:38 AM ET While filming a documentary about Ho Chi Minh as his compatriots battled U.S. forces in the 1960s, Tran Van Tan observed how the Communist leader’s embrace of a simple lifestyle endeared him to Vietnam’s poor. Five decades later, Tan says the Communist Party’s leaders are…
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Franz Jessen, EU Ambassador: Vietnam should respect human rights
Tuesday Jan 15, 2013 Earlier today the EU Ambassador to Vietnam, Franz Jessen, expressed his concerns over the sentencing of 14 bloggers and journalists (activists) in Nghe An province on 9 January to prison terms ranging form 3 to13 years, for acts related to the exercise of freedom ofexpression. Ambassador Jessen recalled the fundamental right for all…
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Vietnam’s economic woes: where to from here?
Jan 10, 2013 9:00am by beyondbrics By Jake Maxwell Watts and Nguyen Phuong Linh In both the developing and industrialised worlds, economic growth rates, like bad news, can be entirely relative. Vietnam’s respectable-sounding GDP growth of 5.08 per cent in 2012 was in fact a painful fall from 5.9 per cent in 2011 and marked…
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Does Hanoi deal with Beijing for its people, or for itself?
January 12th, 2013 Author: Hai Hong Nguyen, UQ China’s recent aggression in the South China Sea has provoked civic protests in the two largest cities of Vietnam. Participating in these protests were nationally well-known personalities, scholars, young people and students. In successive meetings with their Chinese counterparts, Vietnamese officials have agreed that they would not allow…
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