January 20, 2018
US Exit from Trade Pact Was Followed by Sweeping Vietnam Rights Crackdown: HRW
Vietnam rights activist Tran Thi Nga (C), 40, stands as her appeal against a nine-year sentence for anti-state propaganda is rejected by a court in the northern province of Ha Nam, Dec. 22, 2017. RFA, January 19, 2018 Vietnam responded to the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal with “a renewed crackdown […]
January 20, 2018
Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change in Vietnam
by Nhan Quyen • [Human Rights]
Climate change threatens Vietnam’s economic transformation. Quick action could prevent the worst of the damage. The Diplomat, January 20, 2018 Since introducing economic liberalization reforms in the 1980s, Vietnam has steadily been reconstructing its fledgling economy from the ruins of the long-running war that consumed the Indochina Peninsula for almost two decades. Over the last […]