Hoa Hao Follower Released From Prison in Vietnam After Sentence Ends-RFA, Aug 14, 2015 Vietnamese authorities released a Hoa Hao Buddhist follower from prison this week after he served a two-and-a-half year sentence for disrupting public order in a case that saw two other activists also jailed. Nguyen Van Minh, a member of a branch of the religious group that operates outside government control, was […]
Vietnam’s Solution To Fish Death Scandal Leaves Many Locals Unsatisfied-Forbes, August 11, 2016 This stinky chapter in Vietnam’s current affairs log was supposed to be over. After 80 tons of dead fish washed up on central coast beaches in April, citizens protested that the government moved too slowly in finding the cause. After weeks of sporadic demonstrations, some of them squelched, and another month […]
Police Attack Protesters in Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa Province-RFA, August 12, 2016 Police in Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa province on Friday beat demonstrators who had gathered to protest a waste-management plant that local villagers fear is polluting the area, according to sources. “They sent about 200 policemen from the province to crack down on us,” one of the protesters told RFA’s Vietnamese Service. “We […]
Four Vietnamese Bloggers Assaulted While Covering News on Environmental Dispute-By Vu Quoc Ngu, August 14, 2016 On August 13, four Vietnamese bloggers in the central province of Khanh Hoa were brutally attacked by a group of numerous unknown individuals while covering news on an environmental dispute in Ninh Hoa town. The victims are Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh (aka Me Nam of Mushroom Mother), Bien […]
Hàng trăm người dân đụng độ với công an để phản đối doanh nghiệp gây ô nhiễm-SBTN | 12.8.2016 Hàng trăm người dân thôn Ninh Ích, xã Ninh An (thị xã Ninh Hòa, tỉnh Khánh Hòa) đã đổ ra đường ngăn chặn lực lượng có trách nhiệm “giải cứu” chiếc xe chở chất thải rắn đã bị họ “giam” suốt hơn 5 tháng qua. Chính quyền CSVN thị xã Ninh Hòa […]
‘Đừng đem giải pháp chắp vá cho nhà nghìn tỷ’-BBC | 13.8.2016 Một kiến trúc sư người Đà Nẵng bình luận với BBC về vụ trung tâm hành chính 2.000 tỷ đồng đang gây tranh cãi. Báo Việt Nam cho hay, ‘khí tươi’ sẽ được bơm vào trung tâm hành chính Đà Nẵng vì những công chức làm việc tại đây phản ánh tòa […]
U.S. Department of State: Report on Religious Freedom in Vietnam for 2015-Remarks by Antony J. Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State Press Briefing Room, Washington DC, August 10, 2016 The Vietnamese Committee for Religious Affairs released a draft of the “Law on Religion and Belief” for public comment in April 2015. Despite representations by Vietnamese officials that the new law would begin to bring the country into […]
Vietnamese People Increasingly Indifferent to Corruption: UNDP-by KTT, August 12, 2016 The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has said that the rate of Vietnam’s people denouncing corruption fell more than five times to 2.3% in 2015 from 12.5% in 2011, state media reported, citing the agency’s latest report. The corruption tolerance level among citizens tends to increase amid rampant and persistent […]
80-year-old Vietnamese Cleared from Wrong Murder Charge after 43 Years-By Vu Quoc Ngu, August 12, 2016 Vietnam’s judicial agencies have apologized to an 80-year-old citizen in the northern province of Bac Ninh after clearing him from a wrongful murder case after 43 years, state media has reported. At a public meeting in a local government building in Cho commune, Yen Phong district on August […]
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