The year 2021 shows the Hanoi government’s crackdown on dissidents, which international human rights activists and monitors consider to be the worst in recent years amid the pandemic and the neglect of the West world. The government’s crackdown on dissenting…
The recent case of an 8-year-old girl being abused to death by her father’s mistress in Vietnam is causing public outrage and voices have emerged that say this case shows the need to be more public about human rights in…
After being internationally praised for being the eighth in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2021, Vietnam finally faces a very strong outbreak due to the impact of the Delta variant, which is contagious and spreads very quickly. As of December…
On December 29, the Vietnamese government announced that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021 increase only by 2.58%, lower than the 2.91% rate of 2020 and also the lowest increase in the past decade. The General Statistics Office…
Indonesia has invited officials in charge of maritime security from Vietnam and other countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to meet early next year to discuss how to respond to China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea.…
Deputy Minister of Vietnam’s Defense Ministry, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong, has just led the Defense Ministry delegation to Cambodia to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Phnom Penh in December…
Compared to the world, the cancer incidence in Vietnam is at an alarming rate (up 9 ranks) according to the data announced by the Vietnam Cancer Society at the annual Scientific Conference on Cancer Prevention and Control in Thua Thien-Hue.…
Hanoi’s strategic importance to the United States and its allies is said to have allowed the Communist Party more opportunity to silence dissidents. With three trials of Vietnam’s most prominent human rights and land rights defenders in recent days and…
The German frigate Bayern is about to visit Vietnam in January 2022 on a six-month trip to the Asia-Pacific. The ship has just arrived in Singapore and is currently staying in the island nation for two weeks over Christmas, before…
As many as 188 investment projects of Vietnam are still valid in Cambodia with a total registered capital of $2.85 billion. The above information was given at the meeting of President Nguyen Xuan Phuc with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen…
