Vietnam: End Crackdown on Bloggers and Activists-Human Rights Watch, January 12, 2017 (New York) – The Vietnamese government engaged in a broad crackdown on freedom of speech, opinion, association, assembly, and religion in 2016, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2017. Rights bloggers and activists faced constant police intimidation and harassment, were subject to incommunicado detention, and imprisoned […]
Vietnam’s Religious Law: Testing the Faithful-Vietnam’s new Law on Belief and Religion sparks worry about freedom of religion in the communist country. By Luke Hunt, The Diplomat, January 12, 2017 NHA TRANG — In a provincial church in Nha Trang, on Vietnam’s southern coast, a steady stream of parishioners arrive for Saturday evening mass. This chapel is typical of the […]
Từ vai trò là nạn nhân, Đài Loan chuyển thành kẻ gây ô nhiễm môi trường-The China Post, 09 tháng 1 2017 (Bản dịch của Vũ Quốc Ngữ) Vào tháng Tư năm 2016, một tòa án tối cao bác bỏ kháng cáo để tăng mức phạt đối với Công ty phát thanh Mỹ (Radio Company of America – RCA), sau khi nó gây ra một trong những thảm họa ô […]
Vietnamese Activist Released 79 Months Ahead of 13-Year Term End, Forced to Live in Exile in France-By Defend the Defenders, January 12, 2017 Vietnam’s authorities have decided to release political dissident Dang Xuan Dieu, who was serving a 13-year jail sentence, 79 months before the official end of his term and forced him into exile in France. Mr. Dieu, whose term was to end in July 2023, will take a flight […]
Vietnam’s Next Environmental Hotspot-Less than a year after a major pollution crisis, trouble is brewing in the Mekong Delta. By Nguyen Minh Quang, The Diplomat, January 10, 2017 While waiting to see how Hanoi handles the existing environmental crisis in Ha Tinh province, it’s worth a look southward to see how Vietnam’s government and people are responding to […]
Forty Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Picked up off Taiwan’s Coast-Radio Free Asia– January 10, 2017 Taiwan authorities arrested 46 people last week when the coast guard sized a fishing boat off the country’s coast in what the coast guard said is its largest single bust of Vietnamese ‘boat people’ attempting to reach the island. A Vietnamese woman working in Taiwan told RFA’s Vietnamese Service […]
Hanoi-based Human Rights Activist Told He Cannot Travel Abroad until April 2018-By Defend the Defenders, January 10, 2017 Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will not allow local human rights activist, Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu, to travel abroad at least until April 2018. Mr. Ngu, chief executive officer of the independent human rights organization Defend the Defenders, has been banned from traveling abroad due to […]
Hydropower in China impacts the flow of the Mekong River-Science Daily, January 09, 2017 Summary: The hydropower projects in China have caused major river flow changes to the Mekong River since the year 2011. An analysis of river flows in Northern Thailand indicates that the hydropower operations considerably increased dry season flows and decreased wet season flows. Furthermore, the study shows that the dry […]
Vietnamese Church stands up for pollution victims-The bishop and clergy of the Diocese of Vinh have been battling to assist fishing communities in Ky Anh province who lost their work because of an ecological disaster caused by the Taiwanese-owned Formosa steel mill. La Croix International, January 9, 2017 A forbidding 10 km long brick wall, topped with barbed wire and punctuated […]
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