In the industrial heartland of southern Vietnam, Binh Duong province has long been a magnet for factories, migrant workers, and rapid urban expansion. As…
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In May 2014, Vietnam experienced a wave of protests and industrial violence after China positioned the Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig in disputed waters near the…
In late 2012, the central highland city of Da Lat became the site of unrest blending nationalist sentiment with disputes about land, labour, and foreign…
Vietnam's 2013 draft amendment to the Penal Code drew international attention because it appeared to soften one of the country's most criticised legal…
In 2014, thousands of workers at a Samsung Electronics facility in Thai Nguyen province walked off the job for nearly a week. The action never made headlines…
When Reporters Without Borders released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index, Vietnam landed at 174 out of 180 countries surveyed, sitting just ahead of a…
The arrest of Le Quoc Quan in 2012 jolted observers who believed Vietnam's legal system offered at least nominal protection to those who worked within its…
The land clearances that unfolded around Hanoi in 2010 turned a local planning dispute into a national argument about property, state power and the meaning of…
Films about the Vietnam War have never been simple historical records. They are arguments about responsibility, patriotism, trauma and national identity,…
The story of Nguyen Van Hoa sits within a difficult period in Vietnam’s recent political history, when independent bloggers, citizen journalists and protest…