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  • 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 […]
  • Tù nhân chính trị, cựu trung tá Trần Anh Kim mãn hạn tù - GiaMinh, RFA | 7/1/2015 Tù nhân chính trị, cựu trung tá Trần Anh Kim, mãn án tù 5 năm 6 tháng vào ngày hôm qua 7 tháng 1. Vào lúc 9 giờ 30 tối ngày 7 tháng 1, bà Thơm, vợ của ông Trần Anh Kim, khi đang đứng ngoài phường Trần Hưng Đạo, thành […]
  • Protest letter against the death penalty in Vietnam by a consortium of domestic and overseas civil society and political organizations - Defend The Defenders | Jan 6, 2015 Translation by [rollinglinks]Nguyễn Khoa Thái Anh[/rollinglinks] Tell The World To Responsible Vietnam governmental agencies To Collective fellow Vietnamese both in and outside of Vietnam To Various International Human Rights organizations  1. Whereas: – Since 1975, Vietnam is one of the countries that has carried out the most executions […]
  • Maginot Line in the South China Sea - Nextbigfuture | Jan 06, 2015 The Maginot Line was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapons installations that France constructed just before the border with Switzerland and the borders with Germany and Luxembourg during the 1930s. A mature network of military facilities in the Spratlys, including an expanded Fiery Cross presence, would effectively extend […]
  • Why reduced South China Sea tension is possible in 2015 - Philstar | Jan 06, 2015 The long-standing rivalry over maritime zones in the South China Sea will not be settled but may simmer down this year, analysts say. Robert Farley, professor at University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, believes that the import-oriented trend in the oil industry can affect how rival […]
  • Ruling Communist Party Asks Vietnam Government to Uproot Violating Blogs ahead of National Congress - By KTT, Vu Quoc Ngu | Jan 06, 2015 The ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has asked its government to remove any Vietnamese blogs that violate regulations on content and operation required by local authorities. The move is aimed at controlling any content that defames the leadership, harming the “great solidarity or causes negative […]
  • Vietnam to Review 16 Death-sentenced Cases Suspected of Miscarriage of Justice - By Vu Quoc Ngu | Jan 06, 2015 The Standing Committee of Vietnam’s National Assembly has asked the Supreme People’s Procuracy to cooperate with other state agencies to review 16 death-sentenced cases suspected of legal miscarriage, state media reported. Among the cases are death sentences of Han Duc Long and Do Thi Hang in Bac […]