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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
 Hanoi’s continuing persecution of human-rights advocates of all kinds is bad enough. But the jailing of two Americans is made worse by the fact that it’s part of a pattern. In August 2006, Hanoi arrested another U.S. citizen, Cong Thanh Do, for similar activism. He was released and deported back to the U.S. more than a month later, but only after he went on a hunger strike and Members of the U.S. Congress protested his jailing. |
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
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As we all know, unless the United Nations, European Union, the United States and the International Community intervene and put pressure on the Vietnamese government to change its attitude toward our people, the Vietnamese government will never stop its policy of genocide toward the Degar Montagnards. |
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
 Ten years after the Internet went live in Vietnam, the number of Web users in the country has soared, with dissidents using it as a podium and others surfing it to learn about the outside world. Vietnam's government says around 18 million people, or more than 20 percent of the population, are using the Internet, numbers that thrust the country into the world top 20 in terms of online penetration. |
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Saturday, 01 December 2007 |
 Vietnamese Americans in San Jose and around the United States are outraged at San Jose City Councilmember Nguyen ― a Vietnamese American herself ― for leading the charge to designate a strip of Story Road as “Saigon Business District” against the wishes of most Vietnamese Americans, who want the area to be known as “Little Saigon.” |
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Saturday, 01 December 2007 |
 Vietnam is detaining four democracy advocates who are Vietnamese-born foreign citizens - two Americans, a French woman and a Thai. Authorities are refusing to let them speak with their embassies. Human rights lawyers Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan were convicted in April of "spreading propaganda against the state." |
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
 More than 10,000 workers walked off the job at a South Korean plant that makes shoes for Nike, demanding higher pay to keep pace with rising prices in Vietnam, officials said Thursday. The Tae Kwang Vina plant, in southern Dong Nai province, is one of 10 that contracts with Nike to produce shoes in Vietnam. |
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
 The European Union Friday urged Vietnam to release democracy activists jailed in a crackdown that began early this year, including two human rights lawyers whose appeals were rejected by a Hanoi court this week. The EU's Hanoi office called on the Vietnamese government "to release Mr Nguyen Van Dai and Ms Le Thi Cong Nhan and the other non-violent political activists who have simply exercised their rights to freedom of expression and association," which are guaranteed by the country's constitution. |
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
Vietnamese police have detained eight people, including citizens of the United States, France and Thailand, as part of an investigation of 'terrorism crimes', state-run newspapers reported on Thursday. Earlier this week, communist-run Vietnam's official police press said five were being held, including three Vietnamese-born foreign nationals, whom a U.S.-based opposition group described as democracy activists. |
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
 Vietnam's ongoing crackdown on pro-democracy groups has entered a volatile phase with the recent imprisonment of a group of foreign nationals, an unexpected move that has strained bilateral relations with former battlefield adversary and present pivotal trade and investment partner the United States |
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is gravely concerned by this week’s decision of the Vietnamese Appeals Court to keep human rights defenders and religious freedom advocates Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan behind bars and calls for their immediate and unconditional release. A Commission delegation was permitted to meet with the two lawyers in prison during its visit to Vietnam last month. |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 |
 A Vietnamese court on Tuesday cut the jail terms of two pro-democracy activists in an unusually charged appeal hearing in which the dissidents remained defiant against the one-party communist state. The Hanoi court reduced the prison sentence of human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, 38, from five years to four, and the sentence of his 28-year-old colleague Le Thi Cong Nhan from four years to three. |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2007 |
 The Vietnamese government should immediately and unconditionally release two human rights lawyers, Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, whose prison sentences were reduced after an appeals court hearing in Hanoi today, Human Rights Watch said. Nguyen Van Dai, 38, founder of the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights, and Le Thi Cong Nhan, 28, an advocate for multiparty democracy, were arrested in March. |
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
 “Today’s decision by Vietnam’s Supreme Appeals Court to uphold bogus jail sentences for pro-democracy advocates Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan marks another in a series of sham trials and is further evidence that the regime in Hanoi continues to carry-out human rights abuses with impunity,” said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) a leading human rights lawmaker in the U.S. Congress. Smith added, “Some of the finest human rights activists are persecuted by the Government of Vietnam and we will continue to work for real justice and their release.” |
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 |
 She brought the picture back from prison and looks at it every day. On her fireplace mantel sits the image of Quan Am, a Lady Buddha, her protector. It reminds her of all she didn't have while held captive in Vietnam for 14 months: a bed, her family, the freedom to speak her mind. A year ago, Cuc Foshee stood amid an international storm, attracting attention from politicians, Vietnamese officials and the international media. |
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
 Vietnam has implemented economic freedom for many years, and the result of the economic growth has accelerated about 8% each year. This number is a very good indication in economic progress; however, the gap between rich people and poor people in Vietnam is too large. Therefore, the large percentage of the economic growth must be concentrated in a small population of rich people, and the very small remaining percentage of the economic growth must be distributed to the major population of poor people. These phenomena put a question to myself that the economic freedom is a real freedom of economy for everyone, or the economic freedom is just a product created by the communist party to serve for a small group of people in power and their relatives for a dark conspiracy. |
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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. 
