Being chosen for the position of Vietnam’s State President at the age of 53, Mr. Vo Van Thuong will be the youngest head of state of the Communist country. When sitting in the Presidential chair, Vo Van Thuong will mainly…
Vietnam’s state-controlled media is not really just 800 newspapers and outlets that ordinary people call the “mainstream press.” In fact, the so-called “mainstream press” is just a “servant” press, they only dare to say what the party’s Central Commission for…
When Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh spoke at a national press award ceremony in June, he called for building a professional journalism and media industry while continuing to act as a “sharp ideological weapon” to protect the ideological foundation…
The event that singer Khanh Ly sang the song “My Mother’s Wealth/Legacy,” a song in the collection of Ca khúc Da Vàng by musician Trinh Cong Son, is stirring up fierce debates in the country. Those who opposed Khanh Ly…
The heads of the two propaganda departments of Vietnam and China recently held a telephone conversation, “committed to implementing the consensus” between Hanoi and Beijing, and at the same time promoting cooperation in theoretical research, propaganda media, and press. Head…
Perhaps “great success” is a descriptive phrase of the foreseeable outcome in the closing speech of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). It is not just a “tradition” but more than that saw by the…
Journalist Manh Kim announced on Facebook the content of a directive document of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)’s Central Committee on Propaganda and Education titled “Excerpt of the press work of the 34th week, the Press Publishing Department, the…
On September 8, the trial took place the second day with an important concession from the judge that the lawyers were allowed to contact their clients after they filed their complaint on the previous day. Also on September 8, the…
The head of the Ho Chi Minh City Propaganda Department has just asked the public not to go too far about the million-dollar fortune of national legislator Pham Phu Quoc’s family, causing public discontent. The fact that the foreign press…
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…
