In Vietnam, arrests dash hopes that crackdown on bloggers will end-CPJ | Jan 09, 2015 What one hand gives, the other takes in Vietnam. Last October’s early release of jailed blogger Nguyen Van Hai, more commonly known as Dieu Cay, has proven to be an anomaly as authorities have subsequently ramped up their repression of other independent bloggers. The latest victim of the crackdown is […]
China vs. ASEAN in the South China Sea and Beyond-By Richard Javad Heydarian Nationalinterest | Jan 09, 2015 By all possible measures, 2014 was a roller-coaster year for East Asia, particularly for the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which have anxiously watched Beijing’s widening shadow of influence and territorial assertiveness across the region. China kicked off the year with a bang, introducing […]
One Vietnamese Dies After Being Chased by Police, First Victim This Year-By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jan 08, 2015 One Vietnamese citizen in the southern province of Dong Nai died early on Wednesday [Jan 7] morning after being chased by local police, becoming the first victim of the Vietnamese police this year, according to the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper. According to the newspaper, Le Nguyen Xuan […]
Will China Change its South China Sea Approach in 2015?-Thediplomat | Jan 08, 2015 Given the litany of surprises we have witnessed in the South China Sea over the past few years, it would be a fool’s errand to make grand predictions about what we might see in 2015. Nonetheless, there has been a flurry of discussions over the past few months among the […]
Degar-Montagnards: UN Meets Asylum Seekers Who Fled Vietnam in November-Unpo | Jan 06, 2015 In November 2014, 13 Degar-Montagnards fled Vietnam, scared away by the religious persecutions ongoing in the country, which followed the discriminations and the confiscation of ancestral land that the community was subject to in the past few decades. After hiding in the jungle of Cambodia for a month, the displaced […]
New Montagnard Group Flees Vietnam to Seek Asylum in Cambodia-RFA | Jan 06, 2015 A second group of asylum-seeking ethnic Montagnards has fled Vietnam and is hiding in the jungles of neighboring Cambodia amid fears they could be forcibly repatriated, a rights group and villagers said Tuesday. The five Montagnards are believed to have entered the country on Saturday and are in a “safe […]
Kiểm điểm các cơ quan đòi ‘xử’ luật sư Võ An Đôn-Plo | 8/1/2015 Phó chủ tịch UBND tỉnh Phú Yên: “Các cơ quan nội chính TP Tuy Hòa làm như vậy là gây bức xúc, báo chí nêu là chính xác!”. “Thường trực Tỉnh ủy Phú Yên đã yêu cầu Thành ủy TP Tuy Hòa chỉ đạo các cơ quan tố tụng của TP này […]
Khi báo chí trích dẫn thông tin từ lề trái-Mặc Lâm, RFA | 7/1/2015 “Chân dung quyền lực” thực sự có quyền lực? Khi trang mạng Chân dung quyền lực xuất hiện với những bài viết gay gắt cùng hình ảnh của ông Phó Thủ tướng Nguyễn Xuân Phúc thì người theo dõi trang mạng này vẫn cho rằng thông tin thổi phồng và […]
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