Kriminalität - Deutsch-vietnamesische Krise offensichtlich beigelegt
20.02.2019 Von dpa (Berliner Morgenpost) - Berlin. Deutschland sieht die diplomatische Krise mit Vietnam wegen der Entführung eines vietnamesischen Geschäftsmannes aus Berlin offensichtlich als beendet an. Bundesaußenminister Heiko Maas sagte am Mittwoch anlässlich eines Besuchs seines vietnamesischen Amtskollegen Pham Binh Minh in Berlin, dass es wegen der Verschleppung "in der Vergangenheit" spürbare Differenzen gegeben habe. ...

Jailed Vietnamese Activist Deemed by Authorities to be Serving Sentence 'Badly'
19.02.2019 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese activist Hoang Duc Binh has been declared by prison authorities to be serving his prison term “badly” by refusing to confess his guilt or accept his sentence, his brother told RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Tuesday. ...

Reisfelder zu Golfplätzen
16.02.2019 Pierre Daum (taz) - In Vietnam gehört das Land immer noch dem Staat. Er nimmt es den Bauern weg und verkauft es an Spekulanten und Investoren. "Was an die Öffentlichkeit dringt, ist nur die Spitze des Eisbergs“, erklärt die Journalistin Ly ...

Huge Land Loss Predicted for Vietnam's Mekong Delta
16.02.2019 David Boyle (VOA) - BANGKOK — Nearly the entire Mekong Delta in Vietnam — an area that helps feed about 200 million people — will sink underwater by the year 2100 at current rates, a new study predicts. ...

Kim Jong Un to arrive in Vietnam on February 25 ahead of Trump summit
16.02.2019 James Pearson (Reuters) - HANOI - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will arrive in Vietnam on Feb. 25 ahead of a planned second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, three sources with direct knowledge of Kim’s schedule told Reuters on Saturday. ...

Rekordbeschlagnahme von Rhinozeros-Hörnern am Flughafen
15.02.2019 (Südtirol Online) - Zöllnern am Flughafen Hongkong ist die bisher größte Beschlagnahmung von Rhinozeros-Hörnern bei Flugpassagieren gelungen. Sie nahmen zwei Schmugglern aus Südafrika mindestens 24 Hörner ab, wie die Zollbehörde am Freitag mitteilte. Die beiden Männer seien während der Zwischenlandung auf dem Weg nach Vietnam festgenommen worden ...

Vietnamese airlines allowed to fly to US for first time
15.02.2019 by Rachel Frazin (The Hill) - Vietnamese airlines are now allowed to fly to the United States for the first time, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday.  ...

Displaced Families in Vietnam’s Loc Hung Community Accept Compensation
14.02.2018 (RFA) - A majority of the families displaced by the January demolitions in Ho Chi Minh City’s Loc Hung Vegetable Garden settlement are accepting compensation from Vietnamese authorities, officials said on Thursday. ...

Huawei remains 'confident' of winning Vietnam 5G deals
14.02.2019 Tomoya Onishi (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Huawei Technologies believes it stands a good chance of being chosen to supply 5G network equipment to Vietnam's mobile carriers, the Chinese company's local chief executive said in an interview. ...

Neue Schildkrötenart steht kurz vor Ausrottung
13.02.2019 (SZ) - Dresden (dpa) - Wissenschaftler haben eine neue Schildkrötenart beschrieben und gleichzeitig Alarm geschlagen. Denn die in Nordvietnam und China nachgewiesene Flecken-Weichschildkröte sei akut vom Aussterben bedroht, teilte die Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung mit. ...

BACC displays the wisdom of a Zen Master. It is written
12.02.2019 Writer: Yvonne Bohwongprasert (Bangkok Post) - Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh might be best known for his spiritual leadership, poetry and activism, but it's his calligraphic meditation practice that has most impacted the lives of people in search of inner peace through mindfulness. ...

Jailed Vietnamese Democracy Advocate to Submit Complaint to Court Over Appeal Filing
11.02.2019 (RFA) - Vietnamese democracy advocate and blogger Phan Kim Khanh, who is serving a six-year jail sentence for “spreading propaganda against the state” will submit a complaint to his local court after officials there failed to respond to an appeal he previously filed ...

Kim Phuc: "Ich dachte, nun würde ich hässlich sein"
11.02.2018 Gönna Ketels (DW) - Sie ist "das Mädchen auf dem Foto", eine Ikone des Vietnamkriegs. Am Montag ist Kim Phuc für ihren Einsatz für kriegstraumatisierte Kinder mit dem "Dresden-Preis" ausgezeichnet worden. ...

Kim Phuc: 'Napalm Girl' from harrowing Vietnam War image receives German prize for peace work
11.02.2018 Samuel Osborne (Independent) - Kim Phuc, known as “Napalm Girl“ in an iconic photo showing her during the Vietnam War, has received an award in Germany for her work for peace. ...

Vietnamesischer Blogger verschwunden - Ein neuer Entführungsverdacht
10.02.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - Der nach Thailand geflohene vietnamesische Blogger Truong Duy Nhat ist verschwunden. Freunde vermuten, dass ihn der Geheimdienst entführt hat. Hat Vietnams Geheimdienst nach der Entführung des Ex-Politikers Trinh Xuan Thanh im Juli 2017 von Berlin nach Hanoi erneut einen vietnamesischen Staatsbürger entführt, der im Ausland Schutz suchte? ...

Ich bin das Napalm-Mädchen aus dem Vietnam-Krieg
10.02.2018 von: C. Lord und B. Schilz (Bild) - Dresden – Wer die lachende Frau am Sonntag auf dem Theaterplatz in Dresden sah, dachte wohl an eine der vielen asiatischen Touristen, die Dresden besuchen. Doch diese Frau ist weltberühmt. Hunderte Millionen haben sie schon gesehen – ohne etwas über sie zu wissen. ...

US Welcomes Thai Investigation Into Vietnamese Blogger's Disappearance
09.02.2018 (RFA) - The United States on Friday welcomed news that Thailand will investigate the disappearance of Truong Duy Nhat, a Radio Free Asia blogger from Vietnam who disappeared on Jan. 26 after fleeing to Thailand to seek political asylum with a U.N. refugee agency. ...

Investigation ordered into disappeared Vietnamese blogger in Bangkok
08.02.2019 (Bangkok Post) - BANGKOK: The Immigration Bureau promised on Thursday to investigate the disappearance of a dissident Vietnamese journalist believed to have been abducted at the northern Bangkok Future Park mall two weeks ago. ...

Au Vietnam, la minorité Hmong tente de se réapproprier son patrimoine
07.02.2019 (RTL 5minutes) - AFP - Amère, Vuong Duy Bao se promène dans les pièces sombres et froides de son ancien palais familial, un trésor du patrimoine de la minorité Hmong, réquisitionné par les autorités vietnamiennes pour en faire un musée. ...

The battle for Hmong heritage in Vietnam
07.02.2019 (Daily Mail) - Vuong Duy Bao surveys his ancestral palace, a vestige of Vietnam's marginalised Hmong ethnic minority that he says was taken from his family by local officials. ...

China lässt die Nachbarn hoffen – und erzittern
07.02.2019 Manfred Rist, Singapur (NZZ) - Gibt es wirklich Nutzniesser des Handelsstreits zwischen China und den USA? Solche Hoffnungen gab es in Thailand und Vietnam. Realistischer ist die Einschätzung, dass sich Südostasien auf härtere Zeiten einstellen muss. ...

Trump und Kim wollen in Vietnam Koreakrieg offiziell beenden
07.02.2019 (derstandard) - Seoul – 66 Jahre nach dem Ende der Kampfhandlungen könnte der Koreakrieg Ende Februar offiziell ein Ende finden. Die "Korea Times" berichtet am Donnerstag in ihrer Online-Ausgabe von angeblichen Plänen der USA und Nordkoreas ...

Thailand: Vietnamese journalist 'seized at a shopping centre'
06.02.2019 (Amnesty International UK) - Responding to the announcement by Radio Free Asia that one of their contributors, Truong Duy Nhat, was reportedly abducted in the city of Bangkok in Thailand, Amnesty’s Senior Director for Global Operations, Minar Pimple, said: ...

Well-known Vietnamese blogger missing in Bangkok
06.02.2019 (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Thai authorities to shed all possible light on the disappearance of Truong Duy Nhat, a famous Vietnamese blogger who went missing in Bangkok on 26 January ...

Widerstand in Vietnam - Der zarte Protest aus Saigon
06.02.2019 Von Philipp Eins (Deutschlandradio) - Die Kommunistische Partei hat Medien, Militär und 95 Millionen Vietnamesen fest unter Kontrolle. Aber 89 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung begehren junge Studierende in Saigon auf. Sie gehen auf die Straße für Umweltschutz und Meinungsfreiheit im Netz. ...

Nächster Gipfel von Trump und Kim - Wiedersehen in Vietnam
06.02.2019 (Spiegel Online) - Donald Trump und Kim Jong Un wollen sich erneut treffen, dieses Mal in Vietnam. Wie wichtig ihm die gemeinsame Linie mit Peking ist, das bewies Kim Jong Un vor wenigen Wochen. ...

Pourquoi le Vietnam a été choisi pour la rencontre Donald Trump - Kim Jong-un
06.02.2019 (France24) - Le président américain Donald Trump a annoncé, mardi soir, que son prochain sommet avec le dirigeant nord-coréen Kim Jong-un aura lieu les 27 et 28 février au Vietnam. Un pays hautement symbolique pour les deux États. ...

Why is Donald Trump meeting Kim Jong Un in Vietnam?
06.02.2019 Ate Hoekstra (DW) - In his State of the Union address, the US president announced he would meet the North Korean leader in Vietnam in February, and there are some important arguments in favor of choosing the communist country as a venue. ...

Trump y Kim Jong-un se reunirán en Vietnam a finales de febrero
06.02.2019 Macarena Vidal Liy (El Pais) - Los dos líderes intentarán destrabar un proceso de negociación nuclear sin apenas progresos desde su reunión de hace ocho meses en Singapur ...

Gipfeldiplomatie - Kim-Trump-Gipfel - Warum in Vietnam?
06.02.2019 Ate Hoekstra (DW) - In seiner Rede an die Nation erklärte US-Präsident Trump, dass er Nordkoreas Führer Kim Ende Februar in Vietnam treffen werde. Es gibt gute Gründe, die für Vietnam sprechen. ...

Vietnam: vers une nouvelle année de répression?
05.02.2019 (Libération) - L'Action des chrétiens pour l'abolition de la torture appelle Emmanuel Macron, lors de son prochain voyage en 2019, à améliorer l'état de droit au Vietnam où toute opposition est actuellement terrassée par les autorités vietnamiennes. ...

Video of Alleged Police Beating in Vietnam Goes Viral
30.01.2019 Eugene Whong (RFA) - A video showing a Vietnamese police officer allegedly kicking a man on the floor of a police station has gone viral after being published on social media, calling attention to police brutality in Vietnam. ...

Former chief of protocol involved in Vietnamese businessman's abduction gets new job
30.01.2019 (The Slovak Spectator) - Radovan Čulák, the former chief of protocol at the Interior Ministry, should become a director of the ministry's spa and rehabilitation institute Bystrá in Liptovský Ján (Žilina Region), the Sme daily reported. Čulák was the main coordinator of the abduction of the Vietnamese citizen Trinh Xuan Thanh, ...

40 Jahre Cap Anamur - Vom See-Retter zur Hilfsorganisation
29.01.2019 Von Pete Smith (Ärzte Zeitung) - Ein Schiff für Vietnam – unter diesem Motto entstand vor 40 Jahren die Hilfsorganisation Cap Anamur/Deutsche Not-Ärzte. Mittlerweile leistet der Verein in Krisenherden und auf Flüchtlingsrouten weltweit nicht nur medizinische Hilfe. ...

Vietnamese Democracy Advocate Moved to New Prison Far From Home
29.01.2019 (RFA) - Prison authorities in central Vietnam’s Quang Binh province have moved a jailed member of the online advocacy group Brotherhood for Democracy to a new prison in Thanh Hoa province seven hours’ drive to the north, sources said. ...

Verlieren die Vietnamesen das Internet? (Video)
28.01.2019 (ARTE TV) - Vietnam ist ein bisschen wie China: Die Liberalisierung der Wirtschaft brachte dem Land große Dynamik, doch das politische System bleibt autoritär und zentralistisch. ...

Die Thanh-Entführung – ein Schurkenstück im Staatsauftrag
28.01.2019 Miguel Sanches (Westfälische Rundschau) - BERLIN  Das Urteil gegen einen der Kidnapper des Vietnamesen Trinh Xuan Thanh in Berlin legt offen, wie Geheimdienste das Recht brechen. ...

Les Vietnamiens vont-ils perdre Internet ? (Video)
28.01.2019 (ARTE TV) - Le Vietnam, c’est un peu comme la Chine : la libéralisation de son économie en a fait un pays dynamique, mais le système politique demeure autoritaire et centralisé. En 2018, 55 internautes au moins ont été arrêtés. ...

Graying Vietnam can’t afford to get old
28.01.2019 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - At first blush, Vietnam’s socialized healthcare system looks hale and hearty, a key measure of the ruling Communist Party’s ability to deliver crucial public goods. But underneath the surface, shifting demographics and financial woes signal ill health ahead. ...

Vietnam vexes foreign automakers with import rules
27.01.2019 Tomoya Onishi (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Government steadfast in efforts to nurture domestic industry. A year on from Vietnam's abrupt launch of regulations on car imports, foreign companies are still struggling to cope while hoping for a lucrative market that should eventually emerge. ...

Can a real estate developer jump start Vietnam’s car industry?
26.01.2019 By Le Hong Hiep (SCMP) - Within a year, VinFast has built a huge manufacturing complex and developed two prototypes that debuted in Paris. Can it keep up the pace? ...

Vietnam Arrests Two More Democracy Advocates
25.01.2019 (RFA) - Vietnamese police have arrested two democracy activists, one an ethnic Vietnamese citizen of Australia, in an ongoing round-up of advocates for political reform in the one-party communist state, a Vietnamese dissident group said on Friday. ...

Japan must stand with Vietnamese human rights activists
24.01.2019 Teppei Kasai (HRW) - As Vietnam’s largest bilateral donor, Japan is in a unique position to raise human rights issues. For Vietnamese activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen, it was supposed to be just another day in Hanoi. In the morning, he dropped off his son at elementary school and was driving his motorbike home when a group of masked men surrounded his car. ...

Chau Van Kham, Australian citizen and pro-democracy activist, detained in Vietnam
24.01.2019 By Erin Handley and Emilia Terzon (ABC News) - Australian authorities have confirmed Australian citizen and pro-democracy activist Chau Van Kham has been detained in Vietnam. ...

The Monk Who Taught the World Mindfulness Awaits the End of This Life
24.01.2019 By Liam Fitzpatrick / Hue, Vietnam (Time) - At a Buddhist temple outside Hue, Vietnam’s onetime capital, 92-year-old Thich Nhat Hanh has come to quietly “transition,” as his disciples put it. ...

Vietnam jails man for 14 years for attempting to overthrow state
23.01.2019 (Reuters) - HANOI - A court in Vietnam has jailed a man for 14 years for attempting to overthrow the state, in cahoots with a group based in the United States, the Ministry of Public Security said on Wednesday. ...

‘Redefine the skyline’: how Ho Chi Minh City is erasing its heritage
21.01.2019 by Nick Van Mead (The Guardian) - More than a third of the Vietnamese city’s historic buildings have been destroyed over the past 20 years. Can it learn from mistakes made by other fast-growing Asian cities before it is too late? ...

Vietnam’s Politburo clamps down
20.01.2019 Author: David Brown (East Asia Forum) - Nguyen Phu Trong and his proteges have consolidated their command of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and its government. ...

Second Trump-Kim summit to take place in Vietnam: report
20.01.2019 By Brett Samuels (The Hill) - President Trump's second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is slated to take place in Vietnam next month, Bloomberg reported Sunday ...

Hun Sen turns to China as Cambodia-EU relations cool
20.01.2019 (RFI) - Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has begun a four-day visit to China amidst cooling relations with Brussels. China is a long-term backer of Cambodia, supporting it against Vietnam under Khmer Rouge rule, and more recently it is interested in Cambodia's strategic position in southeast Asia. ...

Vietnam artists seek 'liberation' from cybersecurity law
18.01.2019 Author Sonia Sarkar (DW) - Vietnamese authorities have recently passed a law requiring social media censorship of "anti-state" content. Dissident artists and activists fear that their space for expression and protest will soon vanish. Mai Khoi is not afraid to push boundaries in her native Vietnam. Her latest album "Dissent" features titles like "Cuffed In Freedom" and "Re-education Camp." ...

Vietnam: Intensifying Rights Crackdown
18.01.2019 (HRW) - (New York) – Vietnam intensified its systemic suppression of basic civil and political rights during 2018, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2019. ...

What does Vietnam’s new cyber law mean for online dissent?
15.01.2019 Written by Quinn Libson (AsiaNews) - Facebook is in violation of a Vietnamese new cybersecurity law by allowing its users to post content critical of the communist government on its platform, the Ministry of Information and Communication announced on Wednesday of last week. The new legislation requires internet companies to comply with government demands to remove user-posted material it doesn’t like. ...

Viethaus: eine seltsame Geschichte
14.01.2019 Marina Mai (taz) - Mit Kultur machte das Viethaus nicht von sich reden, eher mit Veranstaltungen der Neuen Rechten, mit Mauscheleien und diplomatischen Tricks der Verantwortlichen.
Ende 2018 schloss das Viethaus am Spittelmarkt in Berlin. Das Gebäude, das in den letzten Jahren ein trostloses Dasein gefristet und hauptsächlich als Ort von Veranstaltungen der extremen Rechten Schlagzeilen gemacht hatte, ...

From Tibet to the 'Nine Dragons', Vietnam's Mekong Delta is losing sand
14.01.2019 Mai Nguyen, James Pearson (Reuters) - MO CAY, Vietnam - In the dead of night, the entire front half of shopkeeper Ta Thi Kim Anh’s house collapsed. Perched on the sandy banks of the Mekong River, it took just a few minutes for one half of everything she owned to plunge into its murky depths. ...

Chinese Tourists Are Vital For ASEAN Tourism
14.01.2019 By Veeramalla Anjaiah (Eurasia Review) - Senior business players in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) tourist industry will gather from Jan. 14 to 18 in Ha Long city in Vietnam for the 38th ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) to discuss the sustainable, inclusive and balanced development of tourism in Southeast Asia. ...

From bikes to phones, 'Made in Vietnam' grows with foreign help
13.01.2019 Tomoya Onishi (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Vietnamese companies are branching out into new areas, in line with the government's goal of establishing the country as a manufacturing powerhouse by 2020. ...

Mgr Long describes the ordeal of parish land seizure in Ho Chi Minh City
11.01.2019 (AsiaNews) - Sydney - Hundreds of Catholic families from Lộc Hưng have lost everything. Many are poor, students, former prisoners of conscience and South Vietnamese army veterans. “I call on the people of good will, both inside and outside Vietnam, to support the victims of the land seizure in their struggle for justice and dignity,” writes the Bishop of Parramatta (Australia). ...

74 Vietnamese who left tour groups found so far: NIA
11.01.2019 (Focus Taiwan) - Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) Half of the 148 Vietnamese who left their tour groups after entering Taiwan last month have been located, the National Immigration Agency (NIA) said Friday. ...

Im Welthandel haben US-Farmer das Nachsehen
11.01.2019 Von Anja Krüger (taz) - Der riesige gemeinsame Binnenmarkt von Australien, Japan, Kanada, Mexiko, Neuseeland und Singapur ist seit dem 30. Dezember Wirklichkeit. Am Montag nun wird Vietnam offiziell beitreten, in Kürze werden Brunei, Chile, Peru und Malaysia folgen. ...

Homes Destroyed, Residents Evicted in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City
10.01.2019 (RFA) - Authorities in southern Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City have demolished at least 112 houses in a parcel of land claimed by the Catholic Church, forcing many residents from their homes, Vietnamese sources say. ...

Vietnam's 'Cybersecurity' Law Says Little on Security - Law Focuses More on Fighting Anti-Government Speech
10.01.2019 Suparna Goswami (DataBreachToday) - The so-called cybersecurity law actually speaks little about IT security measures and instead focuses on various prohibited acts, such as spreading information that opposes the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. ...

EU: Postpone Vote on Vietnam Free Trade Agreement - Rights Demands Not Met; Intensifying Crackdown
10.01.2019 (HRW) - (Brussels) – The European Parliament and the European Council should postpone the ratification of the proposed EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement until the Vietnamese government takes concrete steps to improve its increasingly abusive human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. In Vietnam’s latest move to restrict rights, a new draconian cybersecurity law went into effect on January 1, 2019. ...

Vietnamesischer Priester liest in Manila Messen auf Deutsch
10.01.2019 (Philippinen Magazin) - Manila, Philippinen – Nanu? Mitten in Manila feiert ein vietnamesischer Priester regelmäßig mit deutschen Gottesdienstbesuchern die Heilige Messe – in fließendem Deutsch. Weil er etwas zurückgeben möchte. Dahinter steckt eine besondere Geschichte. ...

Despite Assurances, Vietnam Arrests Returned Asylum Seekers
10.01.2019 Written by Carmen Munir, Sluchanksy and Ryan Flynn (Diplomatic Courier) - It was a stormy June night in 2016 when Van Huynh loaded a fishing skiff with rice, spices, meat, and fish—provisions that were supposed to be enough to last for a month at sea. ...

Jailed Vietnamese Environmental Activist in Declining Health - Brother
09.01.2019 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese activist Hoang Duc Binh is suffering back pain, rashes from poor hygiene and failing eyesight from being in a dark cell in a prison in Quang Nam province, his brother told RFA’s Vietnamese service on Wednesday. ...

Facebook rebuts Vietnam claims over alleged illegal content
09.01.2019 (The State) - HANOI, VIETNAM - Facebook was defending itself Wednesday against allegations that it allows illegal content in violation of Vietnam's new cybersecurity law. ...

Vietnam acusa a Facebook de violar la ley de ciberseguridad del país
09.01.2019 (La Vanguardia) - HANÓI (Reuters/EP) - Las autoridades de Vietnam han acusado este miércoles a la compañía Facebook de violar la controvertida ley de ciberseguridad del país al permitir a los usuarios difundir comentarios antigubernamentales a través de su plataforma, según han informado medios locales. ...

Vietnam wirft Facebook Verstöße gegen Gesetz zur Kontrolle des Internets vor
09.01.2019 (Deutschland Today) - Hanoi (AFP) - Vietnam wirft dem sozialen Netzwerk Facebook Verstöße gegen sein neues Cybersicherheitsgesetz vor. ...

Der Übersetzer des Papstes
08.01.2019 Von Dietrich Mittler (SZ) - Hong-Lam Pham kam 1980 als Flüchtling nach Bayern. Der gläubige Christ hat im Laufe der Jahre mehrere Werke Benedikts XVI. ins Vietnamesische übertragen. ...

Made in... Vietnam? Wie chinesische Firmen Trump austricksen und die US-Strafzölle umgehen
07.01.2019 (Focus) - dpa - Tausende chinesische Firmen leben seit fast einem Jahr mit Strafzöllen der USA. In der Zeit haben sie kreative Methoden entwickelt, Gesetzeslücken zu finden, um die Sonderabgaben zu umgehen. Die meisten bewegen sich in einer rechtlichen Grauzone. ...

How Vietnam lost and China won Cambodia
07.01.2019 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - Forty years ago today, some 100,000 Vietnamese soldiers accompanied by almost 20,000 Cambodian defectors marched into Phnom Penh to overthrow the radical Maoist Khmer Rouge regime.
“It’s clear that while Vietnam invaded Cambodia, it’s China that won Cambodia ...

Vor 40 Jahren endete die Terrorherrschaft der Roten Khmer in Kambodscha – doch für den Westen standen die Befreier auf der falschen Seite
07.01.2019 Manfred Rist, Singapur (NZZ) - Im Jahrzehnt nach der Vertreibung des Pol-Pot-Regimes aus Kambodscha wurde das südostasiatische Land zum Spielball der Grossmächte. Die Hauptrollen hatten dabei die USA, Vietnam, China und – bis zu ihrem Zerfall – die Sowjetunion. ...

Schmeicheleien am Arbeitsplatz verboten
05.01.2019 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - In Vietnam dürfen Regierungsbeamte ihren Vorgesetzten künftig nicht mehr schmeicheln. Die Regierung habe ein Verbot erlassen, dass das Komplimente-Machen am Arbeitsplatz verbiete, ...

Vietnam’s Controversial Cybersecurity Law Spells Tough Times for Activists
04.01.2019 By Thoi Nguyen (The Diplomat) - On the first day of 2019, Vietnamese dissidents, human rights activists, and bloggers weren’t celebrating – they were worrying about the new cybersecurity law that went into effect that same day in Vietnam. ...

Latest Count: Vietnam Holds 244 Prisoners of Conscience
03.01.2019 (NOW! Campaign) - According to the NOW! Campaign, an initiative involving 14 international and Vietnamese civil society organizations, the government of Vietnam is holding at least 244 in prisons or similar forms of detention compared to 165 cases in November 2017, when the campaign was launched. ...

Is Vietnam’s ivory trade fuelling the elephant poaching crisis?
03.01.2019 By Mongabay (Asian Correspondent) - VIETNAM’s illegal ivory markets are still thriving, according to a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. ...

Japan most popular choice for Vietnamese labourers
03.01.2019 (Bangkok Post) - HANOI: Japan became the most popular destination for Vietnamese migrant labourers in 2018 following five years in the second spot after Taiwan, the Vietnamese government said on Wednesday. ...

Vietnam Bottled Water Market to 2023 - Increasing Demand for Safe and Clean Drinking Water
03.01.2019 (Research and Markets) - Vietnam bottled water market is projected to grow at a CAGR of around 11% to reach $ 717 million by 2023, on account of deteriorating water quality in many areas of the country, which is resulting in increasing demand for safe and clean drinking water. ...

Von Russland gelieferte T-90S-Panzer in Vietnam gesichtet – Militärportal
03.01.2019 (Sputnik) - Im Netz sind Fotos aufgetaucht, auf denen zu sehen ist, dass die erste Partie russischer T-90S-Panzer nach Vietnam geliefert wurde. Darüber schreibt das Militärportal bmpd. ...

Former Vietnamese boat person shares his 'impossible dream' in new book
03.01.2019 Kevin Yarr (CBC News) - Thien Tang was born in the middle of the Vietnam War. It ended as he entered his teenage years, but his troubles were only just beginning. Tang has now published a book, The Other Side of the Sun, about his experience. A book dedicated to those who cannot tell their stories ...

Südchinesisches Meer: China in der Nationalismusfalle
02.01.2019 Sascha Zhivkov (Zeit) - Um seinen Anspruch auf das Südchinesische Meer zu bekräftigen, hat Chinas Regierung ein nationalistisches Geschichtsbild aufgebaut. Das könnte gefährlich werden. ...

Cybersécurité: une loi draconienne entre en vigueur au Vietnam
02.01.2019 (informaticien) - Une loi obligeant les entreprises de l'internet à supprimer tout contenu jugé « toxique » par les autorités communistes est entrée en vigueur mardi au Vietnam, ses critiques dénonçant « un modèle totalitaire de contrôle de l'information ». ...

Hanoi setzt Gesetz zur Internetkontrolle um
01.01.2019 (DW) - In Vietnam ist ein drakonisches Gesetz zur Kontrolle des Internets und seiner Nutzer in Kraft getreten. Unternehmen wie Google und Facebook werden verpflichtet, der Regierung Daten von Nutzern preiszugeben. ...

Communist Vietnamese government enacts strict Internet censorship laws
01.01.2019 Leon Wolf (Blaze) - The communist government of Vietnamese has enacted a series of Internet censorship laws that will help the government monitor and censor what its citizens view online. ...

Vietnam’s new cyber law curbs dissents and business
01.01.2019 By Jan van der Made (RFI) - A law requiring Vietnamese internet companies to remove content deemed "harmful" to the state has come into effect, in a move denounced by critics as "a totalitarian model of information control". ...