By Michael L. Gray/ The SecDev Foundation For the first time ever in Vietnam, political activists are using viral social media marketing techniques to express dissent online. A brazen campaign has seen dozens of people in Vietnam post selfie photos…
A group of legal activists on Monday (March 16) made a full report on the case of Nguyen Van Chuong, the 32-year-old death-row prisoner who is now awaiting execution even though his case, with many blatant violations of due process…
Long An Province, 10 March 2015—While the Delegation of the European Union to Vietnam and interested diplomatic missions will reflect on the new developments surrounding the death penalty case of Ho Duy Hai, according to a Delegation representative, the meeting…
The Ministry of Health on Monday reported that there was an estimated 195,000 emergency department visits in Vietnamese hospitals from 15th to 22nd February when the country celebrates its traditional new year (Tet). The most common reasons for ED visits…
427 traffic accidents took place within the first six days of the Vietnamese new year celebration (Tet), killing 246 people and injuring 415 others, the National Traffic Safety Committee said on Sunday. On the second day of the first month…
When Vo Van Minh gained the consent of Tan Hiep Phat Co. Ltd., a leading beverage company in Vietnam, to pay him 23,000 USD in exchange for his silence over a soft drink bottle with a dead fly inside, he…
The most vocal newspaper in corruption fighting, Nguoi Cao Tuoi, has been given a record fine of 32,000 USD while its chief editor has been removed from his post after a controversial inspection of the newspaper by inspectors from the…
VNRN – 158 Vietnamese bloggers domestic and abroad on Monday handed a collective letter to the local police, prosecutors, court and bar association, announcing their support for Vo An Don, defending lawyer for a victim of police brutality last April….
by Trinh Huu Long (BBC) The detention of blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (a.k.a. Anh Ba Sam) and his assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of liberty under national and international laws.
(VNRN) – Vietnam’s national police on Oct. 30 issue the investigative report in the case of blogger Anh Ba Sam, real name Nguyen Huu Vinh (Nguyễn Hữu Vinh), and Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy (Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy), accusing them of…