There is a view that the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), with the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, has won the hearts of the people since Vietnam went through a war to restore peace. Southeast Asian political journalist David Hutt…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on April 23 told Southeast Asian partners that China is taking advantage of the world being busy with the Covid-19 pandemic to promote territorial ambitions in the East Sea (South China Sea). Pompeo made…
The United Nations warned on April 21 that the world is at risk of famine “of a scale as mentioned in the Bible” due to the COVID-19 pandemic. David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program (WFP) on April…
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted a feature of Chinese diplomacy “under the reign” of Xi Jinping – that is, aggressive, arrogant, rude features different from a hidden China along with the previous generation of modest and courteous diplomats. China has…
Vietnam has just been in the last day of the 15 days of social isolation and now faces the question: should it be strictly quarantined or loosened in order to reactivate its economic engine? Earlier this week, the image of…
The Covid-19 pandemic quickly increased the number of hungry people in big cities while the government’s bailout policy was not fast enough and wide enough to cover it. That was the time when the role of civil society was promoted.…
Covid-19 has crept into every corner of the world, making millions of people across 5 continents infected. Hundreds of thousands of people died. Fortunately, the majority of patients have escaped death from the disease but the journey to life is…
Leading U.S. manufacturers of protective equipment told the White House that China banned them from exporting the products they produced from China amid the heightening of the Covid-19 pandemic and Beijing manipulate protective equipment market, according to the New York…
Vietnam has been hailed of having effective anti-pandemic campaign thanks to determination and high concentration of the government and its ability to mobilize the entire society to join in fighting the pandemic. Meanwhile, a political observer attributed that success to…
The World Bank said that Vietnam “has started to suffer from the unpredictable volatility” of the current global financial market because of Covid-19 pandemic and economic growth is likely to decline to 4.9% as well as “increasing the poverty rate…
