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.
On Sunday, 10 June 2018, thousands of people took to the streets in major Vietnamese cities—Nha Trang, Binh Thuan, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City, among others. Academics, independent journalists, and overseas Vietnamese signed petitions to join in their protest against the Draft Law on the 99-year (...)
An Arab spring has started to emerge in Vietnam,” said Pham Chi Dung , a former member of the ruling Communist Party, following the largest and most widespread protests in years.
Over the weekend of June 9-10, tens of thousands of Vietnamese took to the streets across the country to protest two (...)
HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese court on Thursday upheld a 10-year jail sentence for a prominent blogger convicted of publishing propaganda against the state, her lawyer said, the latest move in a crackdown on critics of the one-party state.
Despite sweeping economic reform and increasing (...)
Abstract: Enhancing and Mobilizing Structural and Organisational Power of Offical Unions to Better Protect the Rights and Interests of Workers in Vietnam
The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) has a high membership level and has long been officially recognized as part of the (...)
From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
In April 2012, Nengyong Yang, a farmer in Laos, was cutting a tree in his field, preparing to plant corn. As Nengyong was hacking away, a bomb lodged in the trunk of the tree (...)
PRESS RELEASE
Academics call on the Vietnamese Government to respect Academic Freedom
In March 2014, in an unprecedented act which angered the academic community, Vietnam’s Hanoi University of Education suddenly announced the revocation of the Master’s degree in Language and Literature which it (...)
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 (...)
“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 (...)
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 (...)
National Assembly deputies from southern Dong Nai Province have called for a renewed Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) report prepared for two controversial power plants intended to be built in the southern province.
Historian Duong Trung Quoc said there were many conflicts among (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
We posted on ESSF an article (n° 20158) by Michael Karadjis on the tensions between Vietnam and China titled China, Vietnam and the islands dispute: What is behind the rise of Chinese nationalism?
It’s original publication on Links website initiated a debate were are reproducing below as well. (...)
Vang Pao, the Laotian general who marshalled a CIA mercenary army to fight a “secret war” against communist insurgents in the remote mountains of Laos in the 1960s, has died aged 81. Although Vang Pao’s supporters portrayed him as a father figure uniting all his people, the Hmong (an ethnic (...)
February 2, 2011 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Over the last year or so, tensions have been heightened in the dispute over two island groups in the South China Sea (also known as the East Sea in Vietnam), involving rival claims to some or all of the islands by Vietnam, (...)
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 (...)
Mr. Mark Kent, was correct when he said that the recent sentencing of Messrs. Tran Huynh Duy Thuc (16 years imprisonment), Nguyen Tien Trung (7 years), Le Cong Dinh and Le Thang Long (5 years) harms “the reputation of Viet Nam”. He was correct not because he is the Queen’s ambassador, and even (...)
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnamese scholars disbanded the country’s first independent think tank to protest a government decree that went into effect Tuesday restricting the right to conduct and publish research.
The Institute of Development Studies, whose members include some of the country’s (...)
Government Suppresses Peaceful Protests for Religious, Cultural, and Land Rights
(New York)- The Vietnamese government should immediately free Khmer Krom Buddhist monks and land rights activists in prison or under house arrest for the peaceful expression of their political and religious (...)
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