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Sharing News Articles in Việt Nam Could Incur a US$1,140 Fine
Many readers frequently share, screenshot, or quote passages from news articles on social media. Recently, however, internet users have been...
Việt Nam’s Special Land Policies: The Beneficiaries are Not Ordinary Citizens – Part 3
For years, land disputes in Việt Nam have been profoundly unequal contests, pitting ordinary citizens struggling to protect their homes...
Việt Nam’s Special Land Policies: Setting Dangerous Legislative Loopholes for Misconduct – Part 2
Resolution 29/2026 not only moves ahead of the Penal Code, but it also creates an excessively broad mechanism for exemption...
The Special Land Policies: Does the National Assembly Set a Dangerous Legal Precedent? – Part 1
In recent months, two legal issues have dominated public debate: land policy and amendments to the Penal Code. The former...
Việt Nam’s Legal ‘Revolution’: The Public-Private Battle for Justice
“Having passed through a sea of mulberry fields,What one witnesses is enough to break the heart.” Under Resolution 24/2026/QH16, passed...
Vietnamese Scammers Fuel Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Epidemic
Recent months have seen a surge in police action against Vietnamese nationals involved in transnational online fraud rings across Southeast...
Has Việt Nam’s Piracy Era Finally Reached Its End?
Many who grew up in Việt Nam are deeply familiar with pirated Windows copies, cracked games, and illegal streaming websites...
The Death Penalty in Việt Nam: Systemic Failures and Wrongful Convictions
A wrongful prison sentence can still be corrected. A wrongful execution cannot. While the Ministry of Public Security’s (MPS) draft...
The Land Question in Việt Nam: When ‘Public Property’ Clashes with ‘Ownership by the People’
Journalist Thúc Kháng argued in a recent article in The Vietnamese Magazine that the root of the conflict between citizens...
Việt Nam’s Penal Code Reform: The Contradictions of the New Leniency Policy
Less than a year after the June 2025 amendments, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has once again replaced the...
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