The story of a documentary that was completed, circulated privately, and never publicly screened belongs to the history of Vietnam’s contested media landscape.…
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In 2014, telecommunications data became a bridge between Vietnam’s political prosecutions and people living abroad. Call records, internet logins and…
Vietnam’s 2016 history textbook dispute turned a routine exercise in curriculum reform into a public argument about the nation itself. When the Ministry of…
The 2013 case is easily reduced to a memorable caption: an overseas blogger, a home government and a prison sentence. That version is accurate only in outline.…
The 2010 debate over ethnic minority rights in Vietnam exposed a problem that had been developing for decades in the Central Highlands. Montagnard communities,…
Vietnam’s 2012 cultural diplomacy was a broad effort to present the country as open, dynamic and dependable while criticism intensified over arrests,…
The 2015 Article 88 Repeal Campaign: A Grassroots Hope emerged as an international effort to remove a penal provision used against Vietnamese bloggers,…
The 2011 Internet Cafe Raids in Vietnam were a crackdown on underground dissent, bringing inspections, closures, searches and detentions, mainly in Ho Chi Minh…
In late 2014, a mass trial in Ho Chi Minh City placed 20 activists before the Vietnamese courts in a case closely connected with public demonstrations,…
In July 2010, human-rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai disappeared after being detained at Phnom Penh airport and taken to Vietnam. For years, his family could not…