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China Seeks to Calm Anger Over Passports
Wall Street Journal By CRIS LARANO in Manila and NGUYEN PHAM MUOI and NGUYEN ANH THU in Hanoi China appeared to seek to assuage angry neighbors over a passport design they consider provocative, one day after the U.S. said it would raise the issue with Beijing. A map printed in new Chinese passports depicts as…
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Asean Human-Rights Pledge Leaves Critics Cool
The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2012 By CHUN HAN WONG PHNOM PENH—Southeast Asian leaders signed their first-ever joint declaration on human rights, a landmark in a region whose governments are often criticized for curtailing freedom—but rights groups dismissed it as inadequate. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ declaration—adopted at the 10-member group’s summit in…
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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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Wealthy Vietnamese Face Backlash as Economy Worsens
ASIA NEWS, Updated Updated August 23, 2012, 8:00 p.m. E.T. By JAMES HOOKWAY The arrest this week of Vietnamese banking and soccer mogul Nguyen Duc Kien comes amid a growing backlash against Vietnam’s wealthy tycoons, as the country struggles with an economy that is going from bad to worse. Some of Vietnam’s Communist leaders have…
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