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This section contains articles on Vietnam and the former French Indochina as a whole (as well as the Sino-Indochinese crisis). Articles specificaly on Cambodia and Laos are placed in these national sections.
In a country in which traditional motorbike services, colloquially known as xe om, are a popular mode of transport, Grab Vietnam found a ride-hailing and food delivery market that was fertile ground for the taking.
In Vietnam, at the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, a market for (...)
• Vietnam eyes a higher international standing but its response to Myanmar’s political unrest has undermined its global ambitions
• Vietnam’s leaders likely have domestic political, economic considerations that are holding them back from speaking against the junta
On August 25, 2017, Vietnam and (...)
A recent government declaration marks a paradigm shift for the LGBT community in Vietnam
Hoang Quan was riding high after the Vietnamese Ministry of Health announced its explicit support for people like him. In early August of this year, the ministry became the first high-ranking governmental (...)
NGOs, governments and the United Nations have criticised ‘tax evasion’ charges leveled against Nguy Thi Khanh.
International groups are increasing pressure on the Vietnamese government to release anti-coal campaigner Nguy Thi Khanh, the director of civil society organization the Green (...)
(Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities stopped several pro-democracy supporters from attending an event in Hanoi in support of Ukraine on March 5, 2022, following the Russian invasion, Human Rights Watch said today. The Ukrainian Embassy was holding “a charity bazaar dedicated to raising funds (...)
While worker grievances about abuses and exploitation since 2015 have fallen on deaf ears with the renewal of a bilateral Vietnam-Saudi Arabia labour pact (2019-2024), a recent announcement from the official state media seems to appease recent bad publicity about labor export. It reveals an (...)
Vietnam has a single state-led union federation, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL). However, the 2019 Labour Code legalised worker organisations (WOs) not affiliated to the VGCL. This is the first time the country has allowed any formal freedom of association. WOs are (...)
The recent corruption scandal involving Viet A Corp’s inflation of Covid-19 test-kit prices and payment of kickbacks shows that Vietnam’s intensified anti-corruption efforts have quite some way to go.
Since 2016, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has been conducting an intense (...)
Migrant workers ate and slept in factories swarming with Covid, sealed off from outside world
For weeks, Hoang Thi Quynh* worked and slept inside a garment factory in Tien Giang province, in southern Vietnam. She would start her shift at 7.15am and then, after a day spent sewing sportswear (...)
Bridging the gap between international commitments and national legislation
Since the 1980s, Vietnam has ratified a number of international human rights instruments and labour standards. However, Vietnam has neither signed nor ratified any instruments or labour standards related to domestic (...)
Yoeung Kaiy said police raided his home without a warrant and confiscated 100 copies of the guide.
Vietnamese Authorities Detain Ethnic Khmer Krom Publisher of Book on Indigenous Rights Yoeung Kaiy displays a copy of his book detailing the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous (...)
As International Women’s Day nears, female activists in Vietnam are appealing for global attention to the persecution they often face
Just before midnight on October 6, 2020, police raided the boarding house of Pham Doan Trang, a prominent Vietnamese author, journalist, and human-rights (...)
South Korea and Taiwan have been consistently praised as models for coping with Covid-19. But Vietnam, a much poorer nation with a population of 97 million, has done at least as well – despite attracting far less attention. This is partly because the Party’s tight control over official data (...)
On 7 December, Grab drivers in Hanoi went on strike to oppose the company significantly raising the level of commission it takes. Workers gathered outside Grab’s main Vietnam office and rode around the streets of the capital. A similar strike occurred in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s biggest (...)
Vietnamese authorities say they are cracking down on a growing number of migrants crossing the border illegally from neighboring China, in an apparent reversal of previous trends.
Police in the border area of Lang Son in northern Vietnam, across the border from the southwestern Chinese (...)
My country seemed to have all the ingredients for a coronavirus disaster, so what has it done right?
On the evening of 7 March 2020, I received an email from the manager of the office building where I work in central Hanoi. It said the father of Nguyen Hong Nhung, the 17th Covid-19 patient in (...)
• All flights and train services to and from Da Nang have been suspended, Vietnam’s government says
• With the new infections, Vietnam has reported 431 coronavirus cases, with no deaths
Vietnam has suspended all flights and public transport to and from Da Nang for 15 days from Tuesday (...)
In February, garment workers at Praegear Vietnam launched a strike to demand the factory implement measures to protect workers against the coronavirus. In response, local union officials organised training and talks by medical experts, and the company introduced such things as free masks, (...)
The phone rings and a doctor picks up. “Sir, we’ve run out of ventilators. What do we do when more patients come?” Soon after, a grim medic explains that the disease they are battling kills three in four victims. There is no vaccine or treatment.
Such talk has become commonplace in the time of (...)
Last November, the Vietnamese National Assembly took a long-awaited decision on a demand that came from both inside and outside the country: the authorisation – at an enterprise level – of worker representative organisations from 2021. The measure, included in a reform of the labour code, was (...)
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