From Concert Hall to Prison Cell: A Case Study of Việt Nam’s Arbitrary Criminalization
In the final days of 2025, the prosecution of Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà, director of the unit behind the music program “Về ...
In the final days of 2025, the prosecution of Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà, director of the unit behind the music program “Về ...
Since former Minister of Public Security Tô Lâm became General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam in August 2024, the ...
Việt Nam witnessed a series of dramatic developments in 2025. In the spirit of “looking back at the past to ...
Key Events Court Upholds 11-Year Sentence Against Trịnh Bá Phương on Dec. 27;Việt Nam Tests Power Consolidation With Tô Lâm Nomination;Ministry ...
In contrast to the turbulence of 2024—defined by the death of former General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng and unprecedented upheavals ...
Discussing the reach of the Ministry of Public Security’s power might seem like a tired topic to some. Yet, the ...
Key Events Last-Minute Speaker Purge Mars International Vietnam Studies Conference;New Seat Plan Boosts Central, Military and Police Power in Việt Nam’s ...
The Vietnamese government has long been implementing a national project to digitize and store citizens’ data for administrative purposes. The ...
Bảo Khánh wrote this article in Vietnamese and published it in Luật Khoa Magazine on April 29, 2025. Đàm Vĩnh ...
Huỳnh Kha wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luat Khoa Magazine on Mar. 5, 2025. Thúc Kháng translated it into ...
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