The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is about to open on January 25, 2021 and last one week. On this occasion, a number of observers of Vietnam’s politics from abroad and at home share some…
More than a dozen days before the 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) opened, Vietnam’s Defense Ministry and Ministry of Information and Communications on January 13 strengthened their cooperation with the stated goal of ensuring…
The Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway line in Hanoi will not be put into commercial operation before the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which will take place in the remaining days of January 2021, the…
After many plenums of the party’s Central Committee on the work of party personnel, the 15th Plenum- the last of the 12th tenure, ended quickly with a day and a half of working after having identified “special cases” for the…
In the first weeks of January 2021, Vietnam’s state-controlled media reported about a case of “spending VND27 billion ($1.16 million) to buy the position of “deputy director” at a ministerial department. It is worth noting that the press considered these…
Activist Dinh Thi Thu Thuy was sentenced to 7 years in prison at the first-instance hearing carried out by the People’s Court of Hau Giang province on January 20 as the trial panel found her guilty of “conducting anti-state propaganda”…
A number of the state-controlled newspapers and news sites with a lot of followers in Vietnam including Tuoi Tre, Thanh Nien, Tien Phong, VNExpress on January 19 published articles reminiscent of the Hoang Sa naval war that happened 47 years…
Political analyst Le Hong Hiep describes that the decisions on the “quadruple personnel- four highest-ranking” and the institutional changes made at the 15th Plenum of the Central Committee will have important implications for the party and Vietnam’s main political prospects…
The January 12 Reuters newsletter by author James Pearson titled “Hot news from the Super Cup- How Vietnam skirts Party speculation ban on social media” According to author James Pearson, netizens are using dodging when writing about issues that the…
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, on January 14, told the artists at the 10th Congress of the Vietnam Union of Literature and Art Associations for the 2020-2025 term, that these associations need to continue customary fully and deeply…
The 15th Plenum of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s Central Committee was closed on Sunday morning, January 17, after a day and a half of work, ended earlier than its schedule planned until Monday, January 18. The Party’s official…
“The national strategy to attract and appreciate talents” announced by Vietnam’s Ministry of Home Affairs has just been published by the media saying that a new good institution ensures a sustainable foothold for talented people. Professor Nguyen Dinh Cong, former…
The 15th Plenum of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) began to take place in Hanoi on January 16, and the candidates for the four highest posts (Four Pillars) were nominated for the official election of the 13th National Congress.…
The 15th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is expected to open this weekend. This is the last meeting of the Central Committee before the 13th Party National Congress which opens on January 25.…
At the meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on the morning of January 12, 2021, Chief of the Supreme People’s Procuracy Le Minh Tri proposed to enact the Law on Property Registration, considering it as a tool…
If there is a prediction on personnel for the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), based on leaked information in the past few days, it is very likely that Professor Nguyen Phu Trong will accept himself…
Prisoner of conscience Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison on charges of “carrying out activities to overthrow the people’s administration,” is on the 47th day of a hunger strike in Prison camp No. 6…
On January 10, 2021, more than 6,000 troops from various armed forces had a live drill in preparation for the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam in the capital city of Hanoi. In addition to the four…
Voters in Binh Dinh province have sent recommendations to the Ministry of Transport, asking “Continue to implement non-stop toll collection and direct investors to have a plan to reduce ticket prices through BOT toll stations to support businesses and people…
On the morning of January 8, 2020, the Higher People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City held the appeal hearing of four members of the unsanctioned group Hiến Pháp (Constitution) who appealed the verdict given by the People’s Court of…
There is a plan to propose Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong and Nguyen Xuan Phuc to continue in the four highest-ranking leaders group (Four Pillar) after the 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), according to some…
The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) has voiced concerns about Vietnam’s use of “vaguely defined laws” to arbitrarily arrest more and more journalists, bloggers, and defenders of human rights. OHCHR’s press release released on January 8,…
On December 14, 2020, the Supreme People’s Court in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and the UN Development Program (UNDP) organized a consultation workshop on the draft evaluation report five years of implementing the 2014 Law on Organization of…
January 9, 2021, is exactly a year since the Hanoi government sent forces of more than 3,000 riot policemen to attack Dong Tam commune, suburban Hanoi, killing 82-year-old communal leader Le Dinh Kinh, and arresting and probing 29 other land…
Journalist Le Ha, in charge of the independent television channel “Vietnamese TV,” on the evening of January 6, told RFA that a 37-year prison sentence was pronounced by a Vietnamese court to three members of the “Independent Journalists Association of…
