The public is unlikely to be the primary beneficiary of a nationwide mandate requiring the use of E10 gasoline, at...

Perhaps the greatest tragedy of journalism in Việt Nam is that many reporters clearly understand what their profession ought to...

​Every year on May 19, the Vietnamese government commemorates the birth of Hồ Chí Minh, even though multiple historical records...

Following the Formosa disaster in 2016, the Vietnamese government learned an important lesson: social media is not merely a place...

A wrongful prison sentence can still be corrected. A wrongful execution cannot. ​While the Ministry of Public Security’s (MPS) draft...

​Historically, the state's most powerful tools for maintaining social order have been arrest, detention, prosecution, trial, and imprisonment. Common legal...

On April 6, 2026, former Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng sat in the front row of Diên Hồng Hall alongside...

Việt Nam’s land acquisition mechanism suffers from three bottlenecks, as previously established: ambiguous purposes for land recovery, opaque processes that...

While governments worldwide routinely acquire land to expand infrastructure, develop urban areas, and execute public projects, the resolution of disputes...

The Vietnamese government applies a clear double standard to the concept of a “political prisoner.”  On one hand, when the...