In recent days, the international community continues to speak up about the Vietnamese government’s arrest of activist Pham Doan Trang. On Friday, October 9, 2020, Assistant Secretary of the United States for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor posted on Twitter…
Dr. Le Thu Huong, a senior researcher of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, commented on Vietnam-China relations in the context of increasing tensions in the East Sea (South China Sea), without eliminating the risk of military conflict in the sea.…
Several observers of politics and human rights comment to the BBC on how international, including the European Union and the US, has more effective sanctions on human rights violations in Vietnam. The Magnitsky Act on human rights sanctions can become…
Standing for election and campaigning for election are political activities that are familiar to people in almost every country in the world. However, this does not happen in communist countries. Politicians have to convince people to vote for themselves and…
Vietnam is not included in the list of 10 countries participating in this year’s Rim of Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC) in Hawaii, although it was invited by the US. RIMPAC, the largest international naval exercise in the world organized by the…
More than 7,000 American citizens have been scammed by a group of Vietnamese online, in which online shoppers across the US paid a total of nearly $1 million to buy dry hand-washing products but never received the goods, the US…
After US Senators and Representatives strongly proposed that the administration of President Donald Trump punish Vietnamese officials who violate human rights, local activists expressed sympathy and support for Washington to take practical sanctions. Over the past weeks, a number of…
The problem to decipher here is what is behind VTV1’s decision to show the movie about the war of China’s invasion on February 17, 1979, at the golden hour of VTV1? Is this the “pivot” of the Communist Party of…
US President Donald Trump said on August 6 that he “enjoyed Vietnamese leaders” because “they are very nice to us,” one year after he called Vietnam “the worst trade abuser.” Speaking at the Whirlpool Group’s washing machine factory in Ohio…
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned upside down the political, economic and social situation of the world. Particularly how changes have occurred and continue to occur in the US and affect Vietnam will be the subject of this article. First of…
