Political, Social, Environmental, and Popular News on Vietnam
Saturday, May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010Monday, May 10, 2010
10/05/2010 VietNamNet Bridge – If porn is your passion, you’ll find plenty of it online, reports Tien Phong newspaper after members of its staff spent many nights on the Internet to investigate the ‘black world’ of nude chat, online strip tease and “online love.” Porn chat When night falls, chat rooms begin operating. Porn chat [...]
Friday, May 7, 2010
May 7, 2010 With their boats docked and livelihoods in limbo, frustrated families meet with BP officials and hope for answers. Reporting from Buras, La. About 2,000 Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants in this remote bayou community — mostly families that have staked their American livelihoods on shrimping and fishing — have found themselves isolated by [...]
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
March 30th, 2010 By now, you may have seen the Google blog post talking about the targeted attacks against the computers of Vietnamese speakers and others. The botnet, which McAfee identified while investigating Operation Aurora, has commandeered these computers in what appears to be a politically motivated attack. McAfee has been sharing the results of [...]
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
March 30, 2010 In January, we discussed a set of highly sophisticated cyber attacks that originated in China and targeted many corporations around the world. We believe that malware is a general threat to the Internet, but it is especially harmful when it is used to suppress opinions of dissent. In that case, the attacks [...]
Saturday, March 20, 2010
2010-03-19 Huu Loan wrote about love and war. HANOI—Huu Loan, a Vietnamese poet best known for an autobiographical epic of love and the cruelty of war, has died at the age of 95 in his home village in the northern province of Thanh Hoa. His most famous work, “The Purple Color of Sim Flowers” (in [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
If you make a visit to any of the Vietnamese websites right now, you probably will see an article and/or pictures of “hotgirl” Elly Tran on their websites. She is the new internet sensation in Vietnam and maybe other countries too. So, what is a “hotgirl”? We know that they are young Vietnamese girls and [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thứ tư, 21/10/2009 Việt Nam đã trao công hàm cho đại sứ Trung Quốc phản đối việc nhân viên vũ trang nước này có những hành động vô nhân đạo đối với ngư dân Việt Nam, người phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao Việt Nam Nguyễn Phương Nga cho biết. “Chiều 21/10, Bộ Ngoại giao Việt [...]
