In meetings with Vietnamese leaders on July 29, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will seek to strengthen ties with Hanoi while the two countries monitor China’s activities in the South China Sea (Vietnam calls it the East Sea) with increasing…
The candidate nominated by President Joe Biden to be the next US ambassador to Vietnam during a Senate hearing on July 13 pledged to promote security ties with Hanoi, but he would also seek fair trading with Vietnam and urge…
Over the past years, Vietnam has constantly sought to trade, learn technology, and acquire education and technology from Western countries, but seek to deny the values of democracy and human rights that these countries bring. It is easy to see…
The presence of legislators for the Hoang Sa (Paracels) in Vietnam’s highest lawmaking body National Assembly should be considered a legitimate need, bringing many benefits and meeting the expectations of the people, said Saigon-based human rights lawyer Dang Dinh Manh.…
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,…
Young Dang Quang hurriedly joined the crowd of people in Saigon, after the last working day of 2020 to get home to welcome the New Year’s Eve 2021. Sharing with RFA without wasting time when we contact, Dang Quang said…
Thông cáo báo chí, ngày 16/9/2020 Vào ngày 14/9/2020, Toà án cộng sản Hà Nội đã kết án 29 dân oan Đồng Tâm, với hai bản án tử hình cho hai người con của cụ Lê Đình Kình là các…
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…
Recently, US Representative Alan Lowenthal, representative of District 47, California, shared at a seminar on human rights in Vietnam that he was implementing the procedure to officially adopt young prisoner of conscience Nguyen Van Hoa. “I am very impressed with…
At the session titled “Human rights institutions, and sanctions“, Ms. Desi Hanara, coordinator of the ASEAN Parliament for Human Rights (APHR), made a presentation about efforts to send letters to the Vietnamese Prime Minister requesting the release of the prisoner…
