Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
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.
, by TURNER George
ConocoPhillips and Perenco try to stop £140m levy from sale of oilfields in key case for tax avoidance by multinationals
Two multinational oil companies have launched a pre-emptive legal strike, seeking to stop Vietnam from collecting taxes on the profits made in a major oil deal.
An (...)
, by PETTY Martin
HANOI (Reuters) - The Vietnam of today wasn’t what Le Hieu Dang had hoped for when he joined the Communist Party 40 years ago to liberate and rebuild a country reeling from decades of war and French and U.S. occupation.
The socialist system of the late revolutionary Ho Chi Minh has been (...)
, by SAUL Heather
“The extent of the public mourning was unscripted, as hundreds of thousands lined up over four days outside Giap’s house to pay their respects in an outpouring of grief.” The death of wartime General Vo Nguyen Giap has triggered public mourning in Vietnam as 150,000 people lined up to pay (...)
, by Kyodo News
HANOI — Vietnam’s state-run English-language newspaper Viet Nam News published an opinion ad Tuesday objecting to planned nuclear reactor exports by Japan.
The ad, sponsored by Days Japan, a monthly photojournalism magazine edited by Ryuichi Hirokawa, states that “the Japanese people are opposed (...)
, by ARUTCHELVAN S.
It was a great and emotional experience to visited Vietnam for an 8 day study tour in April 2011 as part of a 7 member PSM team. Vietnam has been the inspiration of many since the seventies. Many activists in the world today were inspired by the great Vietnamese revolution which ousted the (...)
, by Est-West Center
Vietnamese and Americans joined together in Hanoi last December for a happy celebration, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the entrance into force of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement signed in December, 2001. The gathering of current and former trade negotiators, diplomats, and (...)
, by Mainichi Shimbun
The governments of Vietnam and Japan will restart discussions in September on the provision of Japanese nuclear power technology to the Southeast Asian nation, it was revealed on Aug. 29.
Government officials from both nations are scheduled to meet again on Sept. 8 and 9 in Tokyo to work out (...)
, by TORODE Greg
With apologies to John Lennon, imagine that the Chinese fishing trawler captain now in detention in Japan was not a lone individual, but one of several hundred fishermen captured and held over the past 18 months or so. Imagine, too, that some of their boats had been rammed and sunk by Japanese (...)
, by HUU Ngoc
A French travelogue has likened The Story of Kieu, a Vietnamese literary gem, to the famous French novel Justine où Les Malheurs De La Vertu (The Misfortune Of Virtue).
In an article included in an unfinished manuscript he sent to his Vietnamese friends shortly before his death, Georges (...)
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