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…
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…
In 2020, the Vietnamese party and government continue to increase the pressure on companies with social networking platforms such as Facebook and Youtube to strengthen censorship and remove articles and videos labeled as “anti-state.” Many social network users in Vietnam…
“While the preparation for the party’s National Congress is being carried out in an urgent, serious and meticulous manner with the highest sense of responsibility, there is also an increasing frequency of information, distorting and defamatory statements of this great…
Ho Chi Minh City’s Public Security Newspaper on October 8 quoted Vietnamese Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung as saying that Facebook has agreed to block political advertising from fan pages and accounts of “anti-state and terrorist organizations.”…
Protesters outside a court in Hanoi trying activists of the Brotherhood for Democracy on April 5, 2018 “Freedom of speech” and “speech freely“ Thien Van’s author, titled “Ensuring freedom of speech, not promoting free speech,” published on Vietnamnet.vn, July 31,…
The Central Inspection Committee of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has decided to keep the disciplinary exclusion from the party to Mr. Bui Tien Loi. It dismissed his appeal. The reason stated by this committee is that during…
The article “Voters expect the General Secretary to stay in office again – paving the way for Mr. Trong to stay?” was posted on Radio Free Asia (RFA)’s Facebook page on June 30, but it was blocked by the giant…
Famous US professor, Steve Hanke, recently told VOA that Vietnam responds “excellently” to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, he still doubted Hanoi’s Covid-19 data, saying that in Vietnam there was almost no freedom of press. The latest comment was made by…
In the context of the increasingly complicated Covid-19 pandemic, especially in Western countries, Facebook has been continuously reflected on obstructing freedom of speech in a confusing way, especially regarding the content of Covid-19 outbreak. The Verge, a well-known technology news…
