Vietnamese Activist Released 79 Months Ahead of 13-Year Term End, Forced to Live in Exile in France-By Defend the Defenders, January 12, 2017 Vietnam’s authorities have decided to release political dissident Dang Xuan Dieu, who was serving a 13-year jail sentence, 79 months before the official end of his term and forced him into exile in France. Mr. Dieu, whose term was to end in July 2023, will take a flight […]
Vietnam’s Next Environmental Hotspot-Less than a year after a major pollution crisis, trouble is brewing in the Mekong Delta. By Nguyen Minh Quang, The Diplomat, January 10, 2017 While waiting to see how Hanoi handles the existing environmental crisis in Ha Tinh province, it’s worth a look southward to see how Vietnam’s government and people are responding to […]
Forty Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Picked up off Taiwan’s Coast-Radio Free Asia– January 10, 2017 Taiwan authorities arrested 46 people last week when the coast guard sized a fishing boat off the country’s coast in what the coast guard said is its largest single bust of Vietnamese ‘boat people’ attempting to reach the island. A Vietnamese woman working in Taiwan told RFA’s Vietnamese Service […]
Hanoi-based Human Rights Activist Told He Cannot Travel Abroad until April 2018-By Defend the Defenders, January 10, 2017 Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will not allow local human rights activist, Mr. Vu Quoc Ngu, to travel abroad at least until April 2018. Mr. Ngu, chief executive officer of the independent human rights organization Defend the Defenders, has been banned from traveling abroad due to […]
Hydropower in China impacts the flow of the Mekong River-Science Daily, January 09, 2017 Summary: The hydropower projects in China have caused major river flow changes to the Mekong River since the year 2011. An analysis of river flows in Northern Thailand indicates that the hydropower operations considerably increased dry season flows and decreased wet season flows. Furthermore, the study shows that the dry […]
Vietnamese Church stands up for pollution victims-The bishop and clergy of the Diocese of Vinh have been battling to assist fishing communities in Ky Anh province who lost their work because of an ecological disaster caused by the Taiwanese-owned Formosa steel mill. La Croix International, January 9, 2017 A forbidding 10 km long brick wall, topped with barbed wire and punctuated […]
Chính phủ Úc đòi thả Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, Nguyễn Văn Đài và Cấn Thị Thêu-SBTN | 09.01.2017 Phúc đáp văn bản của dân biểu quốc hội Úc, ông Chris Hayes, bà ngoại trưởng Julie Bishop cho biết, chính phủ Úc vẫn đang tiếp tục theo dõi vụ nhà cầm quyền Cộng sản Việt Nam bắt giam các nhà vận động dân chủ, blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, luật sư […]
Thêm một vụ công an đánh người đến thương tích-RFA | 08.01.2017 Công an huyện Thoại Sơn, tỉnh An Giang mới đây đã vô cớ vây bắt và đánh 5 người, khiến 2 người phải nhập viện cấp cứu. Tường thuật của báo Tuổi Trẻ ngày 07/01/2017 cho biết, vào khoảng 17:30 ngày 2-1, 3 người xông vào nhà bà Nguyễn Thị Sáu (55 […]
Phó Thủ tướng yêu cầu kiểm soát Formosa trước khi cho hoạt động-RFA | 09.01.2017 Phó Thủ tướng Trịnh Đình Dũng yêu cầu Bộ Tài nguyên Môi trường phải tiếp tục kiểm soát chặt chẽ nhà máy thép Formosa Hà Tĩnh, chỉ khi đáp ứng các điều kiện mới cho phép hoạt động. Ông Trịnh Đình Dũng đã khẳng định như vừa nêu khi tham dự Hội […]
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