The 2013 protest in Quang Tri belongs to a difficult period in modern Vietnamese history, when environmental anxiety, land disputes and distrust of official…
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The phrase “political prisoner” carries strong moral force, yet it has no single binding definition in international law. Governments may describe a detainee…
In the spring and summer of 2012, a Vietnamese documentary about life on the Spratly Islands, known in Vietnamese waters as Truong Sa, became a focal point of…
In the early months of 2011, a series of disruptions to submarine cable systems in the Asia-Pacific region left Vietnam with severely reduced international…
In 2016, a series of United States congressional documents on Vietnam reached the public domain, offering a granular view of human rights conditions, religious…
In October 2013, Hanoi-based blogger Dao Van Uoc stopped posting. Friends in Vietnam and the Vietnamese-Australian diaspora soon realised the silence was not…
When Hanoi unveiled its 2010 anti-corruption drive, the announcement reached beyond Vietnam. In Sydney's Cabramatta and Melbourne's Footscray,…
When a government publicly dismisses a United Nations investigation into mistreatment by its own agents, the move reverberates well beyond the chamber where…
In the forested uplands of Vietnam's Central Highlands, communities of Degar peoples—collectively known as Montagnards—have practised evangelical Christianity…
The prosecution of independent journalists in Vietnam has long drawn scrutiny from press freedom advocates, and the case of Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang stands among…