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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
A court in southern Vietnam sentenced two dissidents to six years in prison each for passing out leaflets calling for the communist government to be overthrown, the judge said Tuesday.
Truong Quoc Huy, 28, and Hang Tan Phat, 24, were convicted of disseminating propaganda against the government at the one-day trial. |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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For weeks, while thousands of Catholic took part in peaceful prayer vigils in several towns, calling for the return of confiscated church property, the media was completely silent, he said. Then on Saturday, the media began to carry a series of negative reports of protestors who had placed a cross and a statue in the grounds of a former church property. |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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Police in Hanoi have launched a criminal investigation into a land dispute with the Catholic Church, while state-run media on Tuesday accused church leaders of abusing their power to incite followers to confront the communist government. Catholic parishioners and priests have been holding daily vigils for the past month at the site, a block away from St. Joseph's Cathedral in downtown Hanoi. They are praying, singing and holding candles while demanding the handing over of the land, which was taken by the government nearly four decades ago. |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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As Vietnam’s rapid economic expansion gathers pace, the country’s communist party leaders are having an increasingly difficult time maintaining their so-called "Third Way" model of economic development, where centrally planned strictures and market dynamics uncomfortably co-exist. The question merging over the transitional economy is whether, more than 20 years after the launch of market-oriented doi moi reforms, a new generation of political leaders has the political will to bury the country’s communist past and fully embrace market economics. |
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
Do Nam Hai arrived several minutes later. He had a tan, round face and wore the pleated khaki pants and tucked-in polo shirt that in Vietnam signals time spent abroad. He walked confidently, but with some exaggeration--as if he were trying to convince himself and whoever might be watching that it was OK for him to be there."Are the police here?" I asked him.
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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Thousands of workers at four factories in Ho Chi Minh City have gone on strike, Vietnamese press reported Thursday, joining 8,000 shoe factory workers who laid down their tools early this week, as inflation concerns sparked labor unrest in the country's largest city. The companies hit included Japanese-owned sewing machine manufacturer Juki, with 1,400 workers, and electronic parts manufacturer TTTI, with 1,000, according to the Vietnamese newspaper Ho Chi Minh City Law. The striking workers are demanding raises of up to 20 per cent. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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Vietnam on Thursday protested a Taiwanese military flight to one of the disputed Spratly Islands, amid reports of a planned visit there by Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian. Taiwan on Monday for the first time sent a military aircraft, a C-130 transport plane, to one of the Spratly islands for a one-day return trip, a defense official in Taipei said Wednesday. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
The new ambassador from Vietnam grew defensive yesterday when asked about human rights in his country, which is still dominated by a Communist Party that jails opponents and represses dissent. Ambassador Le Cong Phung referred to the "old days of the black-white issue" in the United States, a reference to the tortuous path of race relations from slavery to the civil rights movement. He appealed for time for his own government to develop ways to deal with political disputes.
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
Over the centuries, China and Vietnam have maintained a troubled relationship. Recent events suggest this relationship is about to enter another difficult period.
Late last year, China decided to establish an administrative district over the disputed Spratly islands, turning it into a new administrative district of Hainan province. This assertion of sovereignty provoked an emotional response in Hanoi and appeared to confirm long-held Vietnamese scepticism towards the 'peaceful rise' of China.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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The British based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has expressed “disappointment” that Vietnamese Christian lawyers Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan were not released after their appeal hearing at the Supreme People’s Court, but welcomed the reduction of their sentences. According to CSW, the pair were sentenced in May 2007 to prison terms of five years and four years respectively for “disseminating slanderous and libelous information against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” under Article 88 of the nation’s Criminal Code. Both sentences were cut by one year following the appeal hearing on Thursday, January 10. |
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 |
The fact that the first hopeful woman democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shed tears in the aftermath of her loss at the Iowa primary to rival Barack Obama (January 7th), and on the eve of the New Hampshire primary (January 8th), has been commented on, analyzed and even psycho-analyzed in various circles all over the world.
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
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Before an audience of enrapt young ethnic-Vietnamese pro-democracy advocates, the political dissident spelled out his movement's non-violent strategy for undermining Vietnam's ruling Communist Party's pillars of political power. Behind the speaker hung conspicuously the red-and-gold striped flag of the former South Vietnam, a still potent symbol for the country's post-1975 diaspora. So potent, in fact, Vietnamese diplomats requested on January 5 that Malaysian officials remove the flag from the civil society-promoting conference, which assembled 200 ethnic-Vietnamese youth from around the world, including from Vietnam. |
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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
 Authorities in the Vietnamese capital have told Catholics to stop mass prayer vigils demanding the return of church land seized in the 1950s, a Catholic news website said Wednesday. For almost a month, thousands of faithful have held prayer vigils in and around Hanoi, representing the faith's largest challenge so far to the communist government. Vietnam, a former French colony, has Southeast Asia's largest Catholic community after the Philippines -- about six million out of 84 million people. |
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
 China and Vietnam top many lists at the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations: human-rights abusers, global polluters of immense proportions, and leaders in putting economics before protection of their vast populations who live without freedom of speech, free media, fair and open elections and other rights most peoples take for granted. |
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
 After Hanoi and Hồ Chí Minh City, protests have reached Hà Ðông, a city with about 200,000 residents located some 40 kilometres from the Vietnamese capital. Here Catholics have peacefully protested demanding the return of their parish building which the authorities illegally seized claiming that it had been donated. The protest began 6 January and since then has seen hundreds of faithful meeting in front of what was once their parish building to pray for justice to be done. |
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Đồng hương California xuống đường ngày 04/01/08 chống Tàu cộng xâm lăng và Việt cộng bán nước. California on 4 Jan 2008 against Chinese Aggressions. 
Rally against "Sunshine Policy" of SJ Mayor Chuck Reed & "Black Tuesday" on 15 Jan, 2008 
Biểu Tình chống Trung Cộng và Cộng Sản Việt Nam tại Úc Châu. Protest in Canberra on 12 Jan 2008 at the Chinese and Vietnamese Embassies. 
Biểu Tình chống Trung Cộng tại Los Angeles. Protest in Los Angeles on 8 Jan 2008 against Chinese Aggressions. 
22/12/2007 Bắc California biểu tình phản đối Trung Cộng. Protest in North California against Chinese Aggressions. 
Biểu Tình chống Trung Cộng và Cộng Sản Việt Nam tại Úc Châu. Protest in Canberra on 12 Jan 2008 at the Chinese and Vietnamese Embassies. 
Biểu tình phản đối Trung cộng và CSVN tại Berlin. Protest in Berlin against Chinese Aggressions. 
Phỏng vấn anh Phong về Mục sư Ngô Đắc Lũy đã bị mất tích tại Cambodia. 
Buổi Hội luận với Ngục sĩ Nguyễn Chí Thiện về việc đấu tranh cho Tự Do Dân Chủ. Workshop with Poet and Writer Nguyen Chi Thien. 
Buổi tâm tình với Ngục sĩ Nguyễn Chí Thiện tại Sydney. Discussion with Poet and Writer Nguyen Chi Thien. 
