Political, Social, Environmental, and Popular News on Vietnam
Saturday, May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010Sunday, June 20, 2010
19 tháng 6, 2010 Tổng thanh tra Chính phủ Trần Văn Truyền cho báo trong nước hay một số trung ương ủy viên và đại biểu Quốc hội có tài sản lớn trong tay. Ông Truyền nói chuyện với một nhóm phóng viên tại cuộc gặp bên hành lang Quốc hội. Trao đổi ngắn chủ [...]
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Cách đây không lâu, độc giả Mai Công Chửng có nêu ra câu hỏi: “CÔNG AN NHÂN DÂN mà lại CHỈ BIẾT CÒN ĐẢNG, CÒN MÌNH?” Câu trả lời thì quá hiển nhiên: Công An là công cụ của Đảng, xem Đảng là trên hết, chỉ biết phục vụ và bảo vệ cho Đảng. Còn [...]
Saturday, May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010 SIU student’s parents struggled after escaping Communist country A hail of bullets killed Quoc Pham’s aunt and injured one of his sisters when his family got onto a boat in southern Vietnam to flee the Southeast Asian country in 1979. But the chaos following the Communist takeover at the end of the [...]
Saturday, May 22, 2010
May 20, 2010 When the pilot version of the go.vn site (www.goonline) was launched this week, it caused a bit of an international dust-up with one major social network and the netizens of Vietnam. Seems like Facebook can’t cut a break any where in the world these days! According to an AFP wire, some believe [...]
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Apr 28, 2010 New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam HANOI – A headline in a local paper here seems to say it all: “The Main Method is to Use Love.” The story: Women and Children trafficking activities along the Vietnam- China border. One of these “love methods” went something like this: A man from the [...]
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2010-04-20 Vietnam’s growing economic divide aggravates unrest. HANOI—Around 60 protesters, including farmers who fought in the Vietnam War on the side of the country’s communist government, staged a protest in central Vietnam, where they were blocked by security forces with raised firearms, protesters said. “It’s true that the provincial People’s headquarters welcomed its people with [...]
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Is it Vietnam Flag or China Flag? What flag is red and has a yellow star in the middle? Click to enlarge: Source: zhong5
Saturday, February 6, 2010
04 Feb 2010 // // // Hanoi – An article by former Vietnamese Communist Party head Le Kha Phieu in Thursday’s state-controlled media criticized the party for “corruption, bureaucracy and individualistic ideology” and calls for more democracy within the party ranks. Phieu, 78, was general secretary of the party from 1997 to 2001. The general [...]
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sun Jan 24, 2010 HANOI (AFP) – One of the world’s most influential Buddhist monks made a plea for religious freedom in Vietnam Monday after his followers were forced from two temples. Devotees of French-based Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh say they have gone underground in Vietnam since last month when they were driven [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Vào ngày 9-12 vừa qua, phái đoàn ngoại giao EU ghé thăm các tăng thân Bát Nhã đang lưu trú nơi chùa Phước Huệ và đã bị một số đông người tự xưng là Phật tử kéo đến gây rối và cản trở trong 2 buổi nói chuyện cả sáng lẫn chiều.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
November 17, 2009 HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country’s communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks. Facebook has more than 1 million users in Vietnam, and the number has been growing quickly [...]
Sunday, October 4, 2009
A historical figure speaks the truth about Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Communist Party. He is an 84 yo colonel ex communist party member and now resides overseas. He urges all communist party members to wake up and give back Vietnam to the Vietnamese people. Vietnam belongs to the Vietnamese people and not the [...]
