HCM City-based Environmentalist Tortured in Police Station for Filming, His Mouth Sealed with Tape-By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 27, 2016 Nguyen Phuong, an environmental activist in Ho Chi Minh City was held for hours and tortured in a police station in Phu Xuan commune, Nha Be district on July 18 after filming the facility, according to local social networks. According to Tin Mung Cho Nguoi Ngheo news website, […]
South China Sea: Australia in three-way rebuke of China-SMH | Jul 26, 2016 Beijing: The Australian government has issued a strong joint statement with the United States and Japan calling on China to abide by a Hague tribunal’s ruling on the South China Sea. The three countries issued the statement late on Monday at the conclusion of the trilateral strategic dialogue held between Foreign […]
VIET NAM: SERIES OF ATTACKS ON POLITICAL ACTIVISTS, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND THEIR RELATIVES MUST BE INVESTIGATED-Amnesty International | Jul 22, 2016 Three recent attacks on people who have been deliberately knocked off their motorbikes appear to be part of a wider series of attacks against political activists, human rights defenders and their relatives. Amnesty International urges the Viet Nam authorities to immediately and impartially investigate these incidents and bring the […]
VIET NAM: MINORITY GROUP’S PROTEST MET WITH VIOLENCE-Amnesty International | Jul 22, 2016 A spontaneous demonstration by ethnic and religious minority Ede in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam on 14 July was violently suppressed, resulting in injuries to around 20 demonstrators. The arrests and incommunicado detention of at least seven demonstrators raises serious concerns about torture and ill-treatment. A huge police operation […]
Persecution in Vietnam: Christians face imprisonment and possibility of being poisoned in jail-The Christian Times | Jul 22, 2016 Vietnam puts behind bars Christian leaders and sometimes punishes an errant prisoner by food poisoning, said an Evangelical leader. According to Christian Aid Mission, the Southeast Asian country’s 2013 religion law prohibits its people from any forms of “manipulation of freedom of belief and religion” that are perceived […]
Many South Korean Companies Violate Vietnam Environmental Protection Rules-by KTT, July 20, 2016 A number of South Korean companies have been found to show poor implementation of law on environmental protection, discharging untreated wastewater and solid water into the environment, the Vietnam Investment Review (VIR) has reported. The latest case was detected at South Korean TTB Vina MFG Co., Ltd located in the […]
Another Taiwan-invested Company Breaks Vietnam Environmental Protection Law-by KTT, July 22, 2016 Police in Vietnam’s southern province of Binh Phuoc have proposed the Ministry of Public Security punish a Taiwanese-invested livestock company for dumping hundreds of pig carcasses into Sai Gon river. Some days ago, local authorities detected that Taiwanese Viet Phuoc Agricultural Product Co., Ltd. dumped hundreds of dead pig carcasses […]
Vietnam Should Consider Existence of Formosa Project: Lawmakers-by KTT, July 22, 2016 The government of Vietnam should consider the existence of Taiwan-invested Formosa project to ensure no repeated environmental violations, according to a lawmaker. Lawmaker Tran Hoang Ngan said on the sidelines of the first session of the country’s highest legislature National Assembly (NA)’s 14th tenure that Formosa should not be allowed […]
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