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  • Vietnam Listed Among 49 Countries ‘Not Free’ In 2017 Freedom House Report - by Defend the Defenders, February 3, 2017 Vietnam is among a group of 49 countries graded “not free” – a status unchanged from previous years, according to the “Freedom in the World 2017” report released by independent U.S. watchdog organization Freedom House. The report, which grades 195 countries (87 rated “free,” 57 “somewhat free” and […]
  • Freedom House: Việt Nam vẫn chưa có tự do - RFA | 01.02.2017 Feedom House, một tổ chức giám sát độc lập ở Hoa Kỳ công bố phúc trình về tự do toàn cầu với 195 quốc gia trên thế giới, trong đó Việt Nam vẫn giữ nguyên vị trí một nước không có tự do và không có dấu hiệu cải thiện. Trong số […]
  • Biển Đông: Một thử thách đối với tân Ngoại trưởng Mỹ - RFA | 01.02.2017 Tân Ngoại trưởng Hoa Kỳ Rex Tillerson, cựu Chủ tịch điều hành của tập đoàn dầu khí ExxonMobil, từng có những phát biểu mạnh về việc Trung Quốc xây đảo nhân tạo ở Biển Đông. Trước đó Exxon Mobil lại ký thỏa thuận hợp tác dầu khí với Việt Nam. Thực tế […]
  • Anti-Vietnamese sentiment likely to run high ahead of Cambodian elections - www.channelnewsasia.com, February 2, 2017 PHNOM PENH: Anti-Vietnamese sentiment is expected to run high in Cambodia as elections approach, with political parties likely to use nationalistic rhetoric as a vote-winning tool. In a few months, commune council elections will take place and next year, a general election is due, which could put pressure on Cambodia’s racial […]
  • Cambodia’s Hun Sen Rejects K5 Project Accusations - Radio Free Asia, February 2, 2017 Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at his political rivals on Thursday as he defended a failed plan to secure the country’s border after the 1979 fall of the Khmer Rouge. Known as K5, the plan has been described as an attempt to build a kind of “Berlin […]
  • Rainsy targets leaders, Vietnam - www.khmertimeskh.com, January 30, 2017 Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has kept up his attacks on ruling party leaders by recalling a period after the Khmer Rouge regime and accusing Vietnam of ordering Khmer leaders such as Hun Sen and Heng Samrin to kill their own people. This was to be done through the K5 plan, drawn […]
  • Sold into slavery at age of six, the Vietnamese boy freed after he was arrested on a hash farm in Lanarkshire - It comes after police said yesterday that a 16-year-old was smuggled to Scotland through Russia and then used by a crime gang possibly in a cannabis farm www.dailyrecord.co.uk, February 2, 2017 A Vietnamese human trafficking victim forced to work in a Scottish cannabis farm has given a searing insight into the hell of being enslaved. […]
  • Laos: America’s lesser known human and political disaster in Southeast Asia - The Washington Post, February 2, 2017 Fredrik Logevall is professor of international affairs and history at Harvard University. His book, “Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam,” won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History. The struggle for Indochina lasted three decades and caused massive bloodshed and physical destruction in […]
  • Catholic Priests in Central Vietnam Still Harassed by Plainclothes Cops - Radio Free Asia, February 2, 2017 Plainclothes police in the central Vietnamese city of Hue blocked a group of Roman Catholic priests from attending a church service on Thursday, one of the priests said. Rev. Phan Van Loi told RFA’s Vietnamese Service that local officers resumed monitoring his activities after the five-day Tet holiday, Vietnam’s […]
  • Đức Tăng Thống Thích Quảng Độ kêu gọi ‘vô úy’ hóa giải 42 năm Phật Giáo bị hãm hại - SBTN | 31.01.2017 Hòa Thượng Thích Quảng Độ, Đệ Ngũ Tăng Thống của Giáo Hội Phật Giáo Việt Nam Thống Nhất, vừa cho công bố một thông điệp đầu xuân Đinh Dậu 2017. Trong thông điệp, ông kêu gọi người Phật Tử Việt Nam dùng đức vô úy (không sợ hãi) để hóa giải 42 […]