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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
 Most people would agree that nothing in life is free — including the obtaining or upholding of press freedom. This basic truth was uttered by one conference participant who hailed from a Southeast Asian country. An obvious example comes from the conference host: Cambodia itself. Due to a weak judicial system and law enforcement in Cambodia, the establishment of a press council to assist journalists in avoiding legal lawsuits was a necessity. |
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Sunday, 13 January 2008 |
 In the endless, general discussions of international diplomacy, sometimes, it seems, absolutely nothing is accomplished. For that reason, we urge U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, who travels to Vietnam this week, to make a commitment to free Le Thi Cong Nhan, a young Ho Chi Minh City attorney in a communist Vietnam jail. |
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Friday, 11 January 2008 |
 Nationalistic street demonstrations in Vietnam last month over a long-running island dispute with China have tested the limits of protest in the one-party ruled state, as myriad political interests weighed in. Political analysts said the protests outside Beijing's diplomatic missions over ownership of South China Sea islands may suit Hanoi, which is historically wary of the giant neighbour meddling in sea lanes along Vietnam's 3,200 km (1,900 mile) coast. |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
 The Vietnamese prison system employs prisoner forced labor to generate profits. In 2007, tons of cashew nuts were imported to the U.S , as well as various seafood products, much of which was generated from labor exploitation of political prisoners. The practice of forced labor is not only against the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C 1307), section 307 but also violates the U.S. core of labor standards.(1) |
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
 A Vietnamese government regulation on trading and distribution violates the country's commitments as part of its accession a year ago to the World Trade Organization, a U.S. business group said. ``Recently the entry into effect of a circular regulating trading and distribution activities has raised serious concerns,'' the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam said in a position paper distributed yesterday by e-mail by the group's Ho Chi Minh City branch. |
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
 Hundreds of Vietnamese Catholic Christians held prayer vigils in the capital at the weekend, the latest in a series asking for the return of church land seized by the communists half a century ago. Priests and Catholic followers lit candles, placed flowers and sang at the iron fence around a property near Hanoi's central St Joseph's Cathedral after Saturday prayers and Sunday masses. They say the large French-colonial villa and the 1.1 hectares (2.7 acre) it sits on are the former office of the Vatican's delegate to Hanoi, confiscated by the state when he was expelled in the late 1950s. |
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Saturday, 05 January 2008 |
 2007 was still a dark year concerning human rights, the worst in 20 years based on a Human Rights Watch evaluation. Oppression against democracy and human rights activists continued to be carried out by the communist dictators, contrary to their daily deceitful propaganda. An example of their human rights negligence was the election of the National Assembly on 5-20-2007 with elected members being mostly communist cadres. |
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Saturday, 05 January 2008 |
 During the Christmas season there were persecutions threats and arrests in the North of the country. Many Christians, Catholic and Protestant, do not dare declare their faith because they are discriminated against in the workplace and threatened by police. In a globalised Vietnam which boasts increased foreign investment, ethnic minorities are being discriminated against also because of their religious views. “Oppression, threats and terror” are still being waged against Catholics (and Protestants) in many of the nation’s mountain regions. |
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
 About 2,000 workers have gone on strike at a Taiwan-owned textile plant in southern Vietnam, complaining their wages are not keeping pace with rising consumer prices, a labour official said Friday. The workers walked out on Thursday from the CCH Top company plant in Ho Chi Minh City and kept striking Friday, claiming a new basic monthly salary from January 1 of 1.070 million dong (about 67 dollars) was too low. |
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
 A high-ranking congressional delegation led by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer praised Vietnam's economic reforms on Thursday and urged the communist nation to match them with human rights reforms. "We think that freedom of individuals and free markets go together and complement one another," said Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat and the second-ranking leader in the House of Representatives. |
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
 China has created a colossal new city called Sansha in the Hainan province. This city would encompass the archipelagoes of Paracels (Hoang Sa in Vietnamese) and Spratly (Truong Sa) in the South China Sea. These islands have long been considered part of Vietnam by the former regime in South Vietnam as well as its predecessors. This action is the culmination of a chain of brazen manoeuvres taken by the People's Republic of China to gradually take away Vietnamese territory. |
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
 In the wake of widespread demonstrations staged by students and young people outside Chinese Embassies in Hanoi and Saigon, and strong protests by the Vietnamese community overseas, the Most Venerable Thich Quang Do, prominent dissident and Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has issued a strong statement on the controversy over the disputed Paracel and Spratly archipelagos. |
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
 Weblogs have exploded in Vietnam in recent years, especially among youths, providing a forum for chatting about mostly societal and lifestyle issues and providing an alternative to the state-controlled media. Recent anti-Chinese protests over the disputed Spratly and Paracel islands, which were halted following rebukes from Beijing, were organised and debated on the Internet but almost completely ignored by the official press. |
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Sunday, 23 December 2007 |
 Vietnamese students are in the streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City protesting what they call a renewed Chinese "invasion" of the Spratly and Paracel Islands in the oil-and-gas-rich South China Sea. Their last war was a brief one in 1979, though less than two decades ago a confrontation near the Spratlys left several dozen Vietnamese dead. Vietnam claims the islands because they are off its coast, but with so many resources under the sea, several other nations in the region claim them as well, most forcefully China. |
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
 On December 17, riot police violently assaulted with wooden and electric shock batons a group of 47 Khmer Krom Buddhist monks – indigenous ethnic Khmer from southern Vietnam – when they attempted to deliver a petition protesting the imprisonment of monks in Vietnam to the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh Police Commissioner Touch Naroth announced that authorities are investigating all of the monks who protested in order to find the “fake monks who instigated the violence.” |
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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. 
