After praising the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) as great one, General Secretary cum President Nguyen Phu Trong compared the party’s document to the literatural epitaph. Mr. Trong’s internal anti-corruption campaign made him officially praised by the Vietnamese media as…
On Feb17 every year- the first day of China’s invasion of Vietnam’s northernmost region which lasted ten years (1979-1989), Vietnamese people are aching with the question: who remembers, who forgets? Like every year, on this day, independent civil society organizations…
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which has just celebrated the 90th anniversary of its establishment this month, has existed longer than many people thought, especially with rivals during the Vietnam War (1945-1975). When the communist regimes in Eastern Europe…
Two activists Nguyen Quang A and Trinh Ba Phuong called on independent investigators and journalists to take action to clarify the case, or at least pressure the Vietnamese government to provide trustful information on the case, and stressed that last…
Mr. Vuong Dinh Hue has just been appointed as the Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, replacing Mr. Hoang Trung Hai who has stopped his post because of wrongdoing at Thai Nguyen Iron and Steel Company. There is an opinion…
It has been a month since Vietnam’s police raided Hoanh hamlet, Dong Tam commune, My Duc district, Hanoi city. Vietnam’s legal protection system has probed and detained 26 people identified as suspects in the case of “murder, possession – illegal…
Hanoi has just had a new secretary of the Party Committee, when Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue was transfered by the Politburo to head the party organization in the capital city. Hue replace Hoang Trung Hai. The decision to…
On Feb 11, the European Parliament (EP) will vote on the Free Trade Agreement with Vietnam (EVFTA). This is an important vote to determine whether the agreement will go into effect. There have been many voices from international human rights…
Reacting to the decision of Slovakia’s Government to expel a diplomat in Vietnam’s Embassy in Bratislava for participating in the abduction of Mr. Trinh Xuan Thanh in Germany, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an emailed statement to…
The title of an article in the Vietnamese newspaper of author Nhi Le said that the Communist Party “increasingly deserves to become a nation” has caused a lot of controversy on its social networks. Nhi Le is a former deputy…
