Story Archive
2012-12-27
Police seize a dissident lawyer and blogger who wrote on 'forbidden' topics.
2012-12-21
Bloggers, writers and activists from Vietnam, Burma, and China dominate Hellman/Hammett Awards.
2012-12-06
China’s warning follows reports that Chinese vessels cut a Vietnamese ship’s seismic cables.
2012-12-05
A report on global graft calls for transparency and accountability.
2012-12-03
Vietnam's state oil and gas company says Chinese fishing vessels cut the cables of its survey ship.
2012-11-30
The head of a non-recognized Buddhist church says religion in Vietnam will be further restricted.
2012-11-29
A rights group says new rules in Vietnam give the state more power to curb religious freedom.
2012-11-21
Police rough up a Vietnamese blogger after a court rejects his appeal against a jail sentence.
2012-11-14
The first public call for the Vietnamese Prime Minister to quit kicks up a parliamentary storm.
2012-11-01
An EU export ban on chemicals used for lethal injection has put Vietnam in a quandary.
2012-10-30
The visit to the Giac Minh Pagoda in central Vietnam’s Danang is an apparent move to highlight religious freedom.
2012-10-30
Vietnam sentences two musicians to up to six years for “anti-state propaganda.”
2012-10-24
Vietnamese villagers from two sites near the capital hold a demonstration outside a municipal building.
2012-10-22
The leader takes responsibility for Vietnam’s current economic woes.
2012-10-22
Vietnamese authorities say the official ‘destroyed property’ while seizing the land of a local family.
2012-10-17
The young Vietnamese woman had distributed anti-China leaflets and reported on official wrongdoings.
2012-10-09
Vietnamese villagers take to the streets of Hanoi to demand the return of confiscated land.
2012-10-02
Despite decades in prison, his vision of a world without oppression inspired the Vietnamese people.
2012-09-28
Moody’s agency says the government will likely be forced to save Vietnam’s failing banks.
2012-09-24
Three bloggers of a banned website get jail terms for ‘anti-state propaganda.’
2012-09-21
Vietnamese police fire on villagers blocking road work on their land.
2012-09-19
A Vietnamese parliamentarian seeks media help over his staff’s arrests amid a suspected political tussle.
2012-09-18
Vietnam promotes an image of an open economy but is intensifying a crackdown on journalists and bloggers, says a report.
2012-09-12
The U.S. House of Representatives votes to promote human rights in Vietnam and condemn the country’s rights record.
2012-09-07
Vietnam throws a journalist in prison for bribing police during an undercover investigation.
2012-09-06
The nation slips precariously down the rankings of a global competitiveness index.
2012-09-05
The former chairman of Vietnam’s largest state-owned shipping company is caught in a neighboring country.
2012-08-29
Vietnamese authorities extend the detention of a democracy campaigner and reject an appeal by a labor activist.
2012-08-27
Supporters of 17 Vietnamese social activists hold a mass candlelight vigil and a protest in Hanoi.
2012-08-22
An agreement between the two countries sets the stage for a broad Mekong trade network.
