Story Archive
2013-04-05
The lenient sentence is seen as a move to appease public anger.
2013-04-04
Embassy officials helped traffickers avoid police, a rights group says.
2013-04-04
Observers say the recommendation is a bid to quell public anger.
2013-04-02
Supporters take to the street in protest of his trial.
2013-03-28
One of the two women who escaped says she is still in fear of her captors.
2013-03-27
They say their husbands are innocent of attempted murder charges ahead of their trial next week.
2013-03-25
Poet Nguyen Huu Cau’s health is deteriorating rapidly in prison, his daughter says.
2013-03-25
Chinese vessels had chased the boat from a disputed area the week before.
2013-03-21
Authorities step up harassment of a dissident family and bar an activist from medical treatment.
2013-03-19
Police warn the United Buddhist Church of Vietnam youth leader he could face prosecution.
2013-03-18
Family members of a murder victim say the son-in-law of a powerful official is at fault.
2013-03-13
An activist blogger in Vietnam says information by online activists will promote democracy in the one-party state.
2013-03-12
The report by Reporters Without Borders also criticizes private-sector help to authoritarian regimes.
2013-03-11
UBCV patriarch Thich Quang Do urges revisions to the constitution aimed at ending one-party rule.
2013-03-08
Ta Phong Tan receives the US award in absentia while serving a prison sentence for propaganda against the state.
2013-03-05
Defense ministers from the two countries hold talks in Hanoi.
2013-02-26
The journalist struck out at the Communist Party for accusing reformers of corrupting morality.
2013-02-25
A sign at a Chinese eatery snubbing foreigners stirs up ugly debate.
2013-02-19
Police block activists from laying wreaths for soldiers on a sensitive anniversary.
2013-02-15
A watchdog group says Vietnam's downward trend in press freedom is among the worst in the world.
2013-02-13
Rights groups say Vietnam is holding over 30 bloggers and netizens for speaking out.
2013-02-06
A prominent Vietnamese blogger's critical note to the authorities finds its way out of prison.
2013-02-06
The democracy activist had served three years of his five-year sentence for subversion.
2013-02-04
Vietnam imprisons the group after a court convicts them of aiming to overthrow the government.
2013-01-31
A Vietnamese-American activist is back in U.S. after nine months of detention in Vietnam.
2013-01-30
Authorities send the opposition member home after nine months of detention.
2013-01-28
The group is one of the largest accused of plotting to overthrow the Vietnamese government in years.
2013-01-26
Another Vietnamese blogger critical of the government is arrested.
2013-01-23
An official call for amendments prompts Vietnamese intellectuals to suggest an alternative constitution.
2013-01-22
The Vietnamese Communist Party chief is granted a private audience with the head of the Catholic Church.
