Story Archive
2019-11-07
Hanoi's mission says will work with Britain to repatriate remains of the 39, all Vietnamese, "at the earliest time.”
2019-11-07
Activist and blogger Nguyen Ngoc Anh is also sent back when his own appeal fails the next day.
2019-11-06
Nguyen Ngoc Anh was sentenced in June to six years in prison for posting online material criticizing Vietnam's government.
2019-11-05
Prosecutors show no evidence of links to terrorism, though, a US-based Vietnamese democracy advocacy group says.
2019-11-04
Predictions of major inundation in southern Vietnam are overstated, two Vietnamese scholars say.
2019-10-31
Phan Van Loi gets five years in prison for illegally sending workers abroad.
2019-10-30
The central provinces that sent most of the Vietnamese found in a London truck have a history of labor exports, legal and illegal.
2019-10-29
Coastal provinces of Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Thua Thien-Hue all have families fearing the worst as the investigation proceeds.
2019-10-25
Rights activists say Thinh Nguyen should never have been picked up by police to begin with.
2019-10-25
Relatives tell RFA a young man and woman had made the passage and are unaccounted for.
2019-10-24
Vietnam belongs back on Countries of Special Concern list, Nghe An priest tells U.S. diplomat.
2019-10-23
Ha Van Thanh had joined a protest march of victims of an April 2016 toxic waste spill and fled Vietnam two years later, fearing arrest.
2019-10-21
Nguyen Van Duc Do is serving an 11-year prison term for criticizing the government's handling of a 2016 chemical waste spill that devastated Vietnam's central coast.
2019-10-18
Ha Van Nam must go back to jail to serve his full term for role in a protest that blocked traffic at a BOT toll station in Bac Ninh.
2019-10-17
New funeral campaign aims to “civilize” groups with “excessive” funerary traditions.
2019-10-16
Nguyen Hoang Nam was sentenced in 2018 to four years in prison for trying to join a friend for worship services.
2019-10-15
Some Vietnamese believe that Hanoi's one-party Communist government has failed to take a strong enough stance on the issue.
2019-10-14
'Abominable,' produced jointly by Chinese and US animation studios, includes a scene showing China's 9-Dash Line demarcation of disputed waters.
2019-10-14
Dissident blogger Huynh Truong Ca needs urgent medical care, his family members say.
2019-10-11
Nguyen Ngoc Anh endures abuse as prison authorities try to coerce him to give up appeal.
2019-10-09
The recommendation comes amid frustration over Hanoi’s tepid response to incidents in the disputed waters.
2019-10-09
Truong Duy Nhat’s lawyer says authorities forced him to postpone a meeting with his client so an investigator could be present.
2019-10-07
The temple’s 79-year-old abbot threatens to set himself on fire to make the attackers leave the scene.
2019-10-03
Foreign Ministry declares that there is “no dispute” over Vanguard Bank.
2019-09-30
Nguyen Duc Quoc Vuong was arrested for “making, storing, distributing or disseminating information, documents and items against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.”
2019-09-27
Father says Dien “looks very ill and weak” but won’t stop protest over mistreatment of political prisoners.
2019-09-25
The move shows Vietnam's government is listening to public concerns over China's influence, some sources say.
2019-09-23
Vu Thi Dung and Nguyen Thi Ngoc Suong must now serve their full terms of six and five years, respectively, for their postings on Facebook.
2019-09-20
Vietnam may be afraid to push back, fearing damage to bilateral relations, some experts say.
2019-09-19
Rights groups point to growing interference in religion and other freedoms and call for a strengthened US response.
