Political, Social, Environmental, and Popular News on Vietnam
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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April 29, 2010 Roger Mitton BANGKOK It is sad to witness the unrest on the streets of this city but even sadder to see how Thailand’s ‘fraternal’ ASEAN partners are trying to exploit its troubles. Consider Vietnam. Its ruling Communist Party is openly using the political crisis in democratic Thailand to shore up ebbing support [...]
Monday, April 5, 2010
04/05/2010 HANOI—Vietnam has rejected accusations by Internet giant Google that Vietnamese computer users have been spied on and political blogs hacked into. The US-based firm last week said infected machines had been used both to spy on their owners as well as to attack blogs containing messages of political dissent. “These are groundless opinions,” Nguyen [...]
Monday, March 8, 2010
HANOI, Vietnam – A Vietnamese human rights lawyer has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for spreading propaganda against the state. Le Thi Cong Nhan was released Saturday from Prison Number 5 in northern Thanh Hoa province and was escorted by police to her home in Hanoi, said prison chief Luong Van [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
by Greg Rushford posted on January 25, 2010 Until the security police knocked on their doors last year, Le Cong Dinh, Le Thang Long, and Tran Huynh Duy Thuc represented the best-and-brightest of Vietnam’s emerging new professional generation. Dinh, 41, an American-educated lawyer, had moved in elite Vietnamese corporate and legal circles since his early [...]
Monday, January 25, 2010
An influx of wealth and privilege is shaking up this socialist country. But, as pro-democracy activists are jailed and the network of power tightens, the Communist Party’s strong hand may be turning economic progress into a social disaster. BY BILL HAYTON | JANUARY 21, 2010 On Nov. 16, 2008, two of Vietnam’s new entrepreneurs were [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Phiên tòa xét xử 4 nhà đấu tranh cho dân chủ tại Việt Nam (20/01/2010) gồm: LS Lê Công Định, TS Nguyễn Tiến Trung, Lê Thăng Long, Trần Hùynh Duy Thức
Sunday, October 25, 2009
PSN – 20.10.2009 | T.M.T. Đầu lá thư này, tôi xin nói một cách hết sức rõ ràng với quí vị rằng: tôi là một tiểu thư. Một tiểu thư chính hiệu được sinh ra và lớn lên trong một môi trường hoàn toàn truyền thống và có thể nói là rất gia giáo. Bà [...]
