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A policeman blocks photographers from taking pictures during an anti-China protest in front of the Opera House in Hanoi in a file photo. Photo: Reuters/Nguyen Lan Thang

US, Vietnam still crucially apart on human rights

by Bac Pham And Bennett Murray August 26, 2021August 30, 2021

HANOI and WASHINGTON – When US Vice President Kamala Harris met with Vietnamese civil society leaders on Thursday morning in Hanoi, she became the highest-ranking White House official to do so since former president Barack Obama visited in the country in 2016. Nguyen Quang A, a retired banker and prominent dissident activist, remembers that occasion […]

The Vietnamese women who refuse to stay silent

by Grace Bui March 7, 2021March 5, 2021

Representational photo: iStock

Rights groups snub Vietnam prisoner over hunger strike

by Kaylee Uland and Nguyen Quynh Thien Trang January 17, 2021January 16, 2021

Tech Wars, Vietnam

Facebook’s self-defeating censorship in Vietnam

by Nate Fischler November 24, 2020November 27, 2020

AT Finance, United States, Vietnam, World

Vietnam’s assault on a journalist

by David Hutt November 22, 2019February 18, 2020

North Korea, Northeast Asia, United States, World

Human rights must be part of North Korea talks

by Ted Gover August 7, 2019February 18, 2020

AT Finance, Vietnam

Repression and abuse behind Vietnam’s peace facade

by David Hutt February 28, 2019February 18, 2020

An activist holds a poster of then pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally calling for peace and democracy in Myanmar, outside the building housing the Myanmar Embassy in Makati City, Manila September 26, 2007. Photo:
Reuters/Darren Whiteside

AT Finance, Bangladesh, European Union, France, Japan, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, United Kingdom, World

End of days for Suu Kyi’s iconography

by David Scott Mathieson November 14, 2018February 18, 2020

Flag-waving Vietnamese protestors in a file photo. Photo: Facebook

AT Finance, Cambodia, China, Germany, South Asia, Taiwan, Vietnam, World

A muffled cry for freedom in Vietnam

by David Hutt October 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Myanmar's business community is frustrated at the inaction of State Counsellor and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's government. Photo: AFP/Ye Aung Thu

AT Finance, Myanmar

Myanmar should revise laws used for political aims: US panel

by Bertil Lintner October 3, 2018February 18, 2020

A United Nations created 'independent mechanism' will build case files for prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Myanmar. Image: iStock/Getty Images

AT Finance, Myanmar

The need for prison reform in Myanmar

by Bo Kyi September 13, 2018

Detained Myanmar journalist Kyaw Soe Oo (C) is escorted by police to a court for his ongoing pre-trial hearing in Yangon, July 9, 2018. Photo: AFP/Stringer

AT Finance, Myanmar, Philippines, World

Reuters charges another blow to Myanmar’s credibility

by Kayleigh Long July 9, 2018February 18, 2020

Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang, now in hiding after publishing a political book, in a file image. Photo: Wikimedia

AT Finance, China, Taiwan, Vietnam

Talkin’ about a reformation in Vietnam

by David Hutt March 5, 2018February 18, 2020