Key Events * Police Arrest Eight Villagers Who Oppose Land Seizures for Road Construction * Vietnam Human Rights Network Honors Three Political
It has become widely recognized that the Vietnamese government is steadily eroding the right to free speech and expression. This
Key Events * Quang Binh Man Convicted of ‘Abusing Democratic Freedoms’ for Running Facebook Page Denouncing Corruption * Hanoi Denies Hoang Thi
What happened? On July 24, 2012, China established a prefecture-level city called Sansha City (in Vietnamese: Thành phố Tam Sa)
Since the beginning of its history, the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) has been portraying itself as a group of nationalists
What is this day about? Almost a century ago, a newspaper called Thanh Nien published its first issue [https://baotintuc.
The “On This Day” series introduces contemporary Vietnamese history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by explaining political events that
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The “On This Day” series aims to introduce contemporary Vietnamese history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by explaining political
Our newest section on The Vietnamese Magazine, the “On This Day” series, aims to introduce contemporary Vietnamese history of the
“…it is like destroying forest in other people’s backyards, not in ours.” – A quote from an informant working for
The Vietnam Briefing, which is released every Monday morning Vietnam time, is a look at Vietnam’s political developments of
“The dream for authoritarian regimes is to reap the fruits of electoral legitimacy without running the risks of democratic uncertainty.
Vietnam has been consistently categorized as “not free” and “authoritarian” by many organizations, such as Freedom House [https://freedomhouse.org/
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