Vietnam's southern island of Phu Quoc carries a complicated legacy that sits alongside its reputation as a tropical holiday destination. While international…
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Ten years ago, Vietnam's National Assembly gathered to revise the country's foundational legal text. The 2013 amendments promised sweeping reforms: explicit…
In early June 2010, farmers across several Vietnamese provinces set up tents and roadblocks to protest what they saw as a corrupt and slow response from Hanoi.…
When governments lack the technical capacity or political appetite to censor the internet directly, they frequently delegate that authority to private…
In a coastal suburb of Quang Ngai province, a teenage boy sat at a second-hand computer and typed words that would forever alter the course of his childhood.…
In January 2011, Hanoi prepared for the most consequential political gathering of the decade: the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam.…
The trial of Mai Nghi Phuong sits within a wider record of Vietnamese political prosecutions, contested journalism and pressure on independent voices. For…
In May 2014, China deployed the Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig near waters claimed by Vietnam in the South China Sea, known in Vietnam as the East Sea. The move…
Vietnam’s bauxite debate became one of the country’s most significant environmental and political disputes of the early twenty-first century. The proposed…
The disappearance of activist Le Dinh Doanh sits within a difficult category of Vietnamese political history: cases in which a person’s name survives, yet the…