The 2010 death row pardon controversy in Vietnam concerned a presidential decision announced on 12 April that affected 19 people sentenced to death. Sixteen…
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The 2012 culture shock of the World Cup viewing was less about a global final than about Vietnamese society suddenly watching Europe through shared screens.…
The 2015 crackdown on pro-democracy groups in the Mekong Delta belonged to a wider campaign against dissent in Vietnam. It unfolded through raids, short…
On 9 February 2013, Nguyễn Văn Khánh, a Vietnamese poet and political commentator known by the pen name Nam Giang, was taken into custody by plain-clothes…
In 2011, a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks associated with Anonymous brought Vietnam’s online censorship policies into an international…
The 2014 trial of the environmental activists in Ha Tinh was, in legal form, a tax prosecution. Nguyen Van Dai, Nguyen Thi Muon and Tran Thi Luong appeared…
Vietnamese land disputes are sometimes described as simple clashes between companies and farmers. The 2010 land grab in Đồng Nai was more complex. Provincial…
In May 2012, a maritime dispute surged onto Facebook and YouTube. The Blue Sky Movement, or Phong trào Bầu trời xanh, organised anger over China’s CNOOC rig…
The 2015 judgment over false information charges was a warning about the reach of Vietnam’s campaign against online dissent. In the prominent case, three…
In Vietnam, national security has often functioned as a broad political category rather than a narrowly defined response to violence or espionage. By 2011, the…