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  • Vietnam’s Decree Silent On Local Offices for Foreign Internet Companies - RFA 17 July 2013 A new decree spelling out legal requirements for foreign Internet companies operating in Vietnam does not contain a clause from an earlier draft version compelling them to open offices inside the one-party Communist state.
  • Edward R. Royce’s Letter to Obama on Vietnamese President’s Visit - Edward R. Royce Chairman of Committee on Foreign Affairs U.S. House of Representatives July 18, 2013 The President The White House Washington, DC20500 Dear Mr. President: I urge you to make human rights a top priority during the upcoming visit of President Truong Tan Sang of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • Jailed blogger on hunger strike for nearly four weeks - Civil Rights Defenders 19 July 2013 A prominent imprisoned Vietnamese blogger, Nguyen Van Hai, more known under his pen name Dieu Cay, is on hunger strike since four weeks. Hai who is serving a 12 years prison term for his peaceful activism reportedly started his hunger strike on 26 June in protest against prison conditions.
  • VIETNAM: Pro-democracy blogger Dieu Cay is on hunger strike - PARIS-GENEVA, 19 July 2013 (OBSERVATORY & VCHR) – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), together with the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), express deep concern for the health of human rights defender Mr. Nguyen […]
  • GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS INCREASE IN NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE SEEKING ASYLUM IN AUSTRALIA - By Jane Norman and staff, ABC News | Updated July 17, 2013, 4:51 pm Immigration Department figures show a sharp rise in the number of Vietnamese people seeking asylum in Australia. Yesterday a boat carrying 84 people – mainly Vietnamese – was intercepted in waters 50 kilometres away from the Kimberley town of Broome. 
  • Buddhist leader Thich Quang Do calls on President Obama to press Vietnamese leader on democracy for Vietnam - For the upcoming visit of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang to Washington D.C. PARIS, 18.7.2013 (IBIB) – The Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Quang Do has written to the United States’ President Barack Obama, calling on him to raise issues of democracy and human rights in his coming meeting with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang on […]
  • Sir Graham raises Vietnam human rights concerns with EU foreign affairs chief - 17/07/2013 | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party. ALDE Party President Sir Graham Watson MEP has written to EU foreign affairs High Representative Baroness Catherine Ashton together with other MEPs from across political parties to raise concerns about human rights abuses and internet censorship in Vietnam.
  • Fresh Appeal for Long-Serving Vietnamese Political Prisoner’s Release - 2013-07-16 | Reported by An Nguyen for RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Written in English by Rachel Vandenbrink.  The son of one of Vietnam’s longest-serving political prisoners, Nguyen Huu Cau, who is in weak health, has warned that his father could die in prison as a new petition was sent to President Truong San seeking his freedom. “He […]
  • Internet Censorship Is Taking Root in Southeast Asia - By Charlie Campbell  July 18, 2013 World Times. com Every time Le Anh Hung starts to write he thinks of his three young children. The 38-year-old has already been imprisoned twice for blogging about human rights and corruption from his home in Hanoi and lives half-expecting another fateful knock at the door. And yet “I’m not scared,” he […]
  • Time to admit wrong in Vietnam - The Washington Times | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 By LT. COL. DOMINIK GEORGE NARGELE, U.S. Marine Corps, retired Once again there is a communist show trial going on in Vietnam. The distinguished lawyer, Le Quoc Quan, who has American ties, was arrested in December after he wrote a column for the BBC’s website in which he argued for […]