4 Signs the Vietnamese Government Is Crushing the Country’s ‘Social Media Revolution’-Vietnamese students surf the Internet at a cafe in Hanoi March 18, 2004. (Reuters) DANA WAGNER – Dana Wagner is a migration-policy consultant based in Hanoi. The Communist Party has responded to the growth of anti-state blogging with a disturbing crackdown. MAR 11 2013, 1:04 PM ET – After more than a year in pre-trial […]
SPECIAL REPORT ON INTERNET SURVEILLANCE, FOCUSING ON FIVE GOVERNMENTS AND FIVE COMPANIES THAT ARE ENEMIES OF THE INTERNET-ENEMIES OF THE INTERNET 2013 Today, 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a Special report on Internet surveillance, available at surveillance.rsf.org/en. It looks at the way governments are increasingly using technology that monitors online activity and intercepts electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists and dissidents. Around 180 netizens worldwide […]
Secretary Kerry Delivers Remarks at the 2013 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the 2013 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on March 8, 2013. Among the recipients of 2013 International Women of Courage Award is blogger, lawyer Ta Phong Tan from Vietnam. [subscribe2]
Gallery: Seven women free expression champions-Last year for the International Day to End Impunity, IFEX profiled 23 individuals who had been threatened, attacked or worse for expressing themselves. In all cases, the perpetrators remain free. We asked some of the women profiled about the challenges they face, advice for other women in their fields, and the kind of world they […]
Blogger Huỳnh Ngọc Chênh đoạt Giải Công dân Mạng 2013-Trà Mi-VOA – 08.03.2013 Blogger Huỳnh Ngọc Chênh của Việt Nam được nhận Giải Công dân Mạng 2013 do Tổ chức Phóng viên Không biên giới RSF phối hợp với đại công ty internet Google vinh danh. Bà Lucie Morillon Giám đốc phụ trách lĩnh vực truyền thông mới thuộc tổ chức RSF, loan báo […]
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS AWARDS VIETNAMESE BLOGGER HUYNH NGOC CHENH-RSF – PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY 7 MARCH 2013. Reporters Without Borders, with support from Google, Thursday awarded its Netizen of the Year 2013 award to Vietnamese blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. Reporters Without Borders chose the nominees and more than 40,000 Internet users visited the YouTube site from around the world. They selected the winner on Reporters’ […]
Vietnam Allows Visit by Amnesty International-By GERRY MULLANY – Published: March 6, 2013 HONG KONG — The Vietnamese government has opened a dialogue with Amnesty International, allowing the human rights group to meet with crucial dissidents and government officials in the first such contacts since the end of the Vietnam War, Amnesty said Wednesday. The dialogue comes as Vietnam begins drafting a constitution that […]
2013 International Women of Courage Award Winners-Office of Global Women’s Issues March 4, 2013 Ta Phong Tan, Blogger Vietnam Ta Phong Tan, a ground-breaking blogger currently serving a 10 year prison sentence with two additional years of house arrest. Ms. Tan is a former Vietnamese Communist Party member and former officer in the Vietnamese security forces. After publishing online articles criticizing […]
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