Vietnam’s system of local participation has long carried a democratic vocabulary: consultation, public disclosure, community meetings and the right to comment…
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The 2015 Law on Entry and Exit, formally passed by Vietnam's National Assembly in June 2014 and taking effect at the start of 2015, was presented by Hanoi as a…
In the Vietnamese communities of Sydney's Cabramatta and Melbourne's Footscray, the story of a quiet street in Thai Binh province still carries weight more…
In Ho Chi Minh City, a failed sewer or sudden road subsidence can look like a narrow engineering problem. Yet the 2014 collapse became meaningful because it…
Between 2010 and 2016, the Vietnamese government’s censorship system increasingly followed Vietnamese speakers beyond Vietnam’s borders. The censorship of…
In March 2010, the US State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, devoting considerable space to Vietnam's record on…
Former officers of Vietnam's armed forces rarely draw outside attention unless they fall foul of the authorities in Hanoi. Nguyen Van Hien, once a colonel in…
In August 2012, a court in Ho Chi Minh City delivered a judgment that quietly reshaped how several Southeast Asian jurisdictions began thinking about…
The 2015 trial of five whistleblowers from northern Vietnamese provinces belongs to a period when criminal courts, state media and online reporting were…
In the early 2010s, Vietnam’s political conversation began moving beyond state-controlled newspapers and television. Blogs, independent websites, Facebook…