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Min Aung Hlaing’s Việt Nam Visit Signals Deepening Ties Between Two Authoritarian Governments
Key Events Min Aung Hlaing’s Visit Highlights ASEAN’s Divisions Over Myanmar Myanmar’s military-backed president, Min Aung Hlaing, arrived in Hanoi on Sept. 4 for a three-day visit to rebuild regional…
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Police Get More Power, Citizens Face Bigger Fines Under New Cybersecurity Decrees
Key Events Việt Nam’s New Cyber Rules Can Cost Citizens Months of Income Việt Nam has introduced three decrees that sharply expand the government’s authority over online speech, personal data,…
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State TV Tried to Cover Up the Death of Đỗ Ngọc Phương Thùy. Gen Z Asked Even More Questions.
Key Events The More VTV Tried to Explain This Fatal Crash, the Less Convincing Its Story Became Việt Nam’s national broadcaster presented its Aug. 17 report as a definitive account…
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Police Cleared Gen Z’s “Justice Tree.” Then the Internet Made It Impossible to Erase
Key Events Young Vietnamese Move Memorial Online After Police Clear Tributes From Hanoi Crash Site A fatal traffic crash in central Hanoi has become a test of public trust after…
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Việt Nam’s Crackdown on Independent Voices No Longer Stops at Its Border
Key Events Crackdown on Vietnamese Dissent Is Going Global Việt Nam’s campaign against independent journalism and dissident voices is increasingly reaching beyond the country’s borders, using convictions in absentia, wanted…
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Praising Hồ Chí Minh in a Book Can Put an Entire Publishing Network at Risk: Public Denunciation of Vietnamese Writers Persists
Key Events Việt Nam Expands Crackdown on Writers Over Historical Narratives Freedom of expression in Việt Nam is facing a renewed ideological crackdown in which online denunciation campaigns can rapidly…
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‘Not Worth Commenting On’: How Việt Nam Dismisses Human Rights Watch as Book Crackdown Deepens
Key Events Việt Nam Calls HRW Claims ‘Not Worth Commenting On’ Việt Nam has made its position on Human Rights Watch (HRW) unmistakable: It does not treat the organization as…
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State Media Quietly Erases Reports of Party Plan to Monitor Officials’ Social Media
Key Events News Outlets Quietly Remove Reports on Party Online Surveillance Several Vietnamese state-controlled news outlets have quietly removed or altered reports stating that Communist Party authorities had ordered closer…
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Hồ Chí Minh Book Controversy Widens after Arrest of FPT Co-founder Nguyễn Thành Nam under Article 117
Key Events Online Denunciations Widen Fallout as Police Expand Hồ Chí Minh Book Probe The arrest of FPT co-founder Nguyễn Thành Nam has escalated a dispute over a book about…
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Việt Nam’s Police Seek Immunity for Themselves and Criminal Protection for the Party
Key Events Việt Nam’s Police Seek More Power — and More Protection for the Communist Party The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is using the draft amended Penal Code to…
