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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
Vietnam’s government Thursday called on its people to end anti-China protests over the countries’ rival claims in the South China Sea. Several hundred people marched in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday for the second consecutive weekend in the long-simmering dispute over the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos. |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
At 80 years old, Buddhist Monk Thich Quang Do is still one of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents. Speaking under house arrest, Mr. Thich Quand Do reveals the political oppression he is facing along with other dissidents of the Vietnam’s government. |
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
About 300 Vietnamese Americans – a majority of them from Little Saigon – launched a protest at about noon today outside the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles against China's occupation of the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. |
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
Anti-China protesters Sunday rallied in Vietnam over disputed islands but were kept away by police from Bejing's diplomatic missions after a protest last week sparked a rebuke from China. Several hundred demonstrators in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City marched in the long-simmering dispute over the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos in the South China Sea, which are claimed by China, Vietnam and other regional countries. |
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
Four decades after the Central Intelligence Agency hired thousands of jungle warriors to fight Communists on the western fringes of the Vietnam War, men who say they are veterans of that covert operation are isolated, hungry and periodically hunted by a Laotian Communist government still mistrustful of the men who sided with America. |
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
Dozens of Buddhist monks kicked, punched and hurled bottles at baton-wielding police in Cambodia's capital Monday at a demonstration to demand religious freedom for monks in neighboring Vietnam. The clashes erupted as about 40 monks approached the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh to submit a petition against authorities' alleged mistreatment of Buddhist monks in the communist country. |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
The nightmare for our nation is rooted in the official declaration by the CPV’s PM Pham Van Dong on 14 September 1958 conceding sovereignty to the Chinese. By conspicuously playing the role of a chastised concubine to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the CPV has betrayed the Vietnamese people in parlous times, in order to preserve its self-interest. |
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
The International Buddhist Information Bureau is informed that UBCV Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang has rejected an invitation from the Ministry of Public Security to attend the “6th Nation-wide Congress of Buddhist Representatives for 2007-2012” (i.e. the 6th Congress of the State-sponsored Vietnam Buddhist Church, set up under Communist Party control in 1981) that opens in Hanoi today (13.12.2007). |
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
Vietnamese authorities released a French activist who was arrested after preparing pro-democracy pamphlets, making her the fourth foreign citizen released this week after being investigated for suspected terrorism. Nguyen Thi Thanh Van left Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday night and was expected to arrive back in France on Thursday, according to Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based press freedom organization that sought her release. |
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
VIETNAM released three of four detained American citizens shortly after the US ambassador demanded to see evidence of terrorism to justify their detention, the US Embassy said on Wednesday. No formal charges had been brought against the four, who werearrested in recent weeks, but the Vietnamese media have said two ofthem were being investigated for terrorism. |
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Wednesday, 12 December 2007 |
 Vietnam has released a US couple accused of carrying a handgun and bullets after being held at the Ho Chi Minh city's airport, the State Department and US lawmakers who pushed for their release said Tuesday. The Vietnamese-American s, Le Van Phan and his wife Nguyen Thi Thinh, who had travelled from Los Angeles, were labeled "terrorists" by the state media on their arrest on November 23, a charge Washington said was unsubstantiated. |
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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
Many members of UWFOV are being imprisonment with harsh sentences. However, the UWFOV will continue to struggle for the rights of forming independent labor unions and justice for those who suffer government corruption. We call on the Vietnamese living inside and abroad, human rights organizations, worker unions in the world and heads of free nations to support us so that the United Workers-Farmers Organization of Vietnam can continue to fight for workers’ and farmers’ rights in Viet Nam . |
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Sunday, 09 December 2007 |
Several hundred Vietnamese staged a rare public demonstration Sunday to protest China's effort to claim control of two disputed island chains in the South China Sea. The demonstrators, mostly university students, gathered near the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi and chanted "Down with China!" and "Long Live Vietnam!" |
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Friday, 07 December 2007 |
At a U.S. congressional hearing Thursday, witnesses challenged the testimony of a U.S. official who was defending a decision to remove Vietnam from a list of countries failing to do enough to promote religious freedom. VOA congressional correspondent Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill. |
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
Paranoia? Not in Vietnam. Human-rights groups say that the Communist government constantly snoops on the conversations, cellphone chatter, e-mails and Internet activity of dissidents such as Mr. Quan, a lawyer jailed for 100 days last spring on accusations of spying for the CIA. |
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