A document declassified by the White House on Jan. 12 shows that Vietnam is among the countries in Southeast Asia that Washington wants to promote security cooperation in its Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy with the goal of containment of…
Many politicians around the world have repeatedly called on the Vietnamese government to respect human rights and stop all arrests and persecution of dissidents. The letter from the eight US congressmen to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of…
No decree for the Labor Code 2019 has been issued by the government so far. Vietnam’s revised Labor Code was passed by the National Assembly, on November 20, 2019, with an almost absolute approval rate of 90.6% and took effect…
The US State Department and the European Union (EU) both voiced a “harsh” sentence and called for the release of three members of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Vietnam (IJAVN), who were convicted at the trial on January 5. In…
From mid-November 2020, when COVID-19 showed signs of rapid recurrence in Myanmar, then to Thailand and other countries, jobs and lives of Vietnamese migrant workers in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos continue to be severely affected. Citing Thailand’s Ministry of the…
As of the last day of 2020, political prisoner Tran Huynh Duy Thuc may have held a hunger strike on the 38th day according to family information in November. Ms. Tran Thi Dieu Lien, an older sister of political prisoner…
During 2020, there are numerous events with great concerns about the world and Vietnam. A number of guests of BBC News Vietnamese at the end of the year shared their views. From Kent, UK, BBC World Service journalist Nguyen Giang…
On the morning of December 22, 2020, speaking at the third meeting of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Standing Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Tran Quoc Vuong, declared the fight against corruption aims…
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hits many countries around the world. While other countries are concerned about the fight against the epidemic, China still carries out aggressive and threatening actions in the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the…
Recently, many regional and international news agencies simultaneously reported on the US determination of Vietnam’s “currency manipulation” at the same time commenting on the consequences and impacts on the market and bilateral trade, as well as predictions about Washington’s next…
Mr. Hieu and nearly 200 other crew members are being held at Tanjung Pinang camp in the Riau archipelago in eastern Indonesia, some for several months and some who have not returned to their motherland for 2-3 years, although the…
Cybersecurity investigators at Facebook have just spotted a group of hackers suspected of spying for the Vietnamese government for a long time, naming a technology company in Ho Chi Minh City. Reuters reported on December 12 of the US-based social…
This year’s International Human Rights Day takes place in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic raging around the world, while in Vietnam, the government has increased its repression and arrests of activists, bloggers, and voices criticizing the communist government. According…
On December 1, 2020, ASEAN and the EU officially upgraded their partnership to a strategic level, an event announced by international, regional, and Vietnamese media, at a time when Vietnam was still in its rotating chairmanship of the block of…
Mr. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Vietnam’s leading democracy activist serving a 16-year prison term, has been on hunger strike since November 24 to protest the Supreme Court’s failure to respond to his remaining request to waive his penalty, and he…
Facebook and YouTube are “complicit” with Vietnam in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale,” according to the latest report by Amnesty International. These giant tech companies, the report says, allow themselves to be “tools of Vietnamese officials” and to…
China’s policy on the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea) became more aggressive after Xi Jinping became China’s highest leader in November 2012. We can gauge the magnitude of this aggression by considering how, after coming to…
The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is scheduled to take place in January 2021. About 1,600 delegates nationwide will elect the new Party Central Committee of 180 members. In addition to the difficulty in electing…
Vietnam-US warm relations US National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien just visited Hanoi on November 20-22. According to the announcement of the Vietnamese side, this visit is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the US-Vietnam diplomatic relations and to highlight…
Diplomatic missions of two of the world’s leading powers located in the Vietnamese capital have recently spoken on their official Facebook pages, revolving around the views of the Communist Party of China (CPC). On November 20, the Facebook page of…
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which Vietnam just signed on November 15, 2020, in Hanoi, is the third largest multilateral free trade agreement that the country is a party to, after the CPTPP agreement and more recently EVFTA with…
Military drills and missile shootings The summer of 2020 saw strong activity by both the US and Chinese navies in the East Sea (South China Sea). Two groups of US aircraft carriers operated together in the South China Sea at…
China’s revised Coast Guard bill gives the country’s Coast Guard forces the right to use state-of-the-art weapons to destroy ships of foreign countries encroaching on China’s waters. Returning to Saigon from an international seminar on the East Sea (South China…
China can take advantage of the signed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP ) to achieve its strategic goals in the region, including as a springboard for its Belt and Road Initiative, according to a senior economist from Vietnam. Talking to…
Since winning more than 270 electoral votes, President-elect Joe Biden has contacted leaders of allied countries, pledging to mend partnerships that have been dented over the past few years, and reasserted the US’s commitment to mutual security agreements which have…
