In the spring of 2015, a quiet stretch of lagoon-side rice paddies along the Chan May–Lang Co corridor was levelled for a tourism resort backed by overseas…
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Vietnam’s maritime disputes with China have never been confined to maps, patrol boats, or diplomatic notes. They have also shaped how citizens understand…
In 2012, governments were still working out how to respond to harassment, threats and humiliating material spread through blogs, forums and early social…
The Vietnamese blogosphere of the early 2010s was a loose, risky and remarkably intimate public sphere. Personal blogs, comment threads and copied reports…
Pham Hong Son is a Vietnamese physician, democracy advocate and former political prisoner whose public record has become difficult to follow. Descriptions of…
Vietnam’s 2011 National Assembly election took place amid tightly managed political continuity and growing public frustration. Held on 22 May, the vote…
Vietnamese courts in the mid-2010s produced verdicts that often read more like administrative orders than reasoned judgments. The prosecution of Le Thi Minh…
In Vietnam’s Central Highlands, a mining proposal became a test of how far public criticism could travel under one-party rule. The planned bauxite extraction…
The Trung sisters — Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị — remain among the most iconic figures in Vietnamese historical consciousness. Their brief rebellion against Han…
The 2016 amnesty wave in Vietnam remains one of the most debated exercises of executive clemency in the country's recent history. Thousands of prisoners were…