Story Archive
2019-03-20
Activist and Facebook commentator Le Minh The is jailed for “dividing the people from the (Communist) Party.
2019-03-18
The ruling was predictable in one-party Vietnam, but such an outburst is rare.
2019-03-15
After spreading in China, authorities in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos try to contain the disease.
2019-03-15
NGO accuses Vietnam of using draconian laws to suppress peaceful dissent.
2019-03-12
Government subordination of human rights to the 'interests of the state' opens the door to violations, a rights group says.
2019-03-08
Traffic volume increases, but operators say they need more time to recoup investment.
2019-03-06
Blogger on hunger strike, religious leader given sub-par medicine
2019-02-28
Nguyen Van Hoa is serving a seven-year term for filming protests over a 2016 chemical waste spill on Vietnam's coast.
2019-02-27
Big U.S. aircraft purchase by Vietnamese carriers underscores booming business relationship.
2019-02-26
Most are watched by police at their homes, while those who manage to leave are closely followed, sources say.
2019-02-25
Nguyen Hoang Quoc Hung was jailed for nine years for calling on workers at a footwear factory to strike for better working conditions and pay.
2019-02-22
The letter follows calls for the US president to intervene in Beijing’s growing influence over Hanoi.
2019-02-19
They want U.S. help curbing Beijing’s “wrong-headed ambition” to control waters around Vietnam.
2019-02-19
Hoang Duc Binh has never confessed his guilt and won't 'accept' his 14-year prison term, they say.
2019-02-14
Local official says 92 of 124 evicted families accept government payout, but evictee representative disagrees.
2019-02-13
Truong Duy Nhat’s lawyer says he was in contact with him two days before disappearance.
2019-02-12
Group targeted fishermen who had did not have work permits or proper documentation.
2019-02-11
Former student and blogger Phan Kim Khanh is serving six years for ‘spreading propaganda against the state.’
2019-02-09
Truong Duy Nhat, a contributor to RFA's Vietnamese Service, vanished in Bangkok after fleeing Vietnam to apply for political asylum.
2019-02-06
Helen Nguyen hopes to raise awareness of her husband Michael Nguyen’s case by meeting with congressmen.
2019-02-05
Truong Duy Nhat vanishes after fleeing Vietnam to Thailand to seek political asylum.
2019-02-04
Police never provided a search warrant or an order for Duong Thi Lanh’s arrest, her husband says.
2019-01-30
Video depicts alleged attack, though police and alleged victims have differing accounts
2019-01-29
Meanwhile, another activist jailed for 'subversion' suffers a stroke behind bars with authorities giving no word to his family.
2019-01-25
Brotherhood for Democracy member Nguyen Van Vien and Chau Van Kham, an Australian citizen, were picked up on Jan. 13, with no formal notification of their arrests yet made.
2019-01-23
The U.N. Human Rights Council hears conflicting accounts from Hanoi and its critics.
2019-01-17
Victims of forced eviction in the Loc Hung community sent a petition to three government offices but were rejected by two.
2019-01-10
Those forced from their homes in the Catholic Church-owned settlement include disabled veterans of the former South Vietnamese army, sources say.
2019-01-09
Hoang Duc Binh is suffering rashes from poor hygiene and life in a dark cell has damaged his sight.
2018-12-28
Huynh Truong Ca had posted online articles and livestreamed videos calling for change in one-party communist Vietnam.
