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Immediate and unconditional release of imprisoned bloggers and prisoners of concience in Vietnam !

Libération immédiate et sans condition des blogueurs incarcérés et des prisonniers de conscience au Vietnam !

Sofortige und bedingungslose Freilassung aller inhaftierten Blogger und Gewissensgefangenen in Vietnam !

Liberación inmediata y sin condiciones de todos los blogueros encarcelados y prisioneros de conciencia en Vietnam !

Vietnam: Neues Gesetz setzt Christen unter Druck

28.08.2015 (pro) - In Vietnam sorgt ein neues Religionsgesetz für Beunruhigung unter einheimischen Christen und internationalen Beobachtern. Sie befürchten staatlichen Druck. Vietnamesische Christen haben unter anderem darunter zu leiden, dass die kommunistische Regierung sie mit westlichen Mächten identifiziert. ...

Hanoi frees two Catholic activists, four years in jail for "anti-government activities"

28.08.2015 (AsiaNews) - Hanoi - Two young activists Vietnamese Catholics have left prison in recent days, after serving their entire four-year sentence in prison for attempts to "overthrow the communist government" in power in Hanoi. Tran Nhat Minh and Thai Van Dung are released from prison after serving the full terms of the sentence. ...

Vietnam lässt zum Unabhängigkeitstag tausende Gefangene frei

28.08.2015 (der Standard) - Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt – Gut 18.500 Häftlinge in Vietnam haben besonderen Grund, am 70. Jahrestag der Unabhängigkeitserklärung zu jubeln: Die Regierung lässt sie vorzeitig aus der Haft. Menschenrechtler kritisierten, dass keine politischen Gefangenen darunter sind. ...

Vietnam to free 18,200 prisoners in amnesty, but no political activists

28.08.2015 (The Guardian) - Vietnam on Friday said it will free more than 18,200 prisoners to mark its independence day celebrations, but political activists will be excluded from the country’s second biggest-ever amnesty. ...

Le Vietnam libère des milliers de détenus

28.08.2015 (La Liberté) - Les autorités vietnamiennes ont annoncé vendredi la libération de plus de 18'298 détenus, à l'occasion du 70e anniversaire de l'ex-colonie française. Mais cette mesure exclut les prisonniers politiques, menace à la "sécurité nationale" du pays communiste. ...

Trois militants catholiques remis en liberté à l’expiration de leur peine de prison

27.08.2015 (Églises d'Asie) - Les dix-sept militants catholiques arrêtés durant la deuxième moitié de l’année 2011 n’auront, jusqu’à présent, bénéficié d’aucune grâce gouvernementale. Quelques-uns d’entre eux ont été libérés, ces derniers temps, mais après avoir accompli la totalité de la peine infligée. Au cours de ce mois d’août 2015, trois jeunes militants catholiques du diocèse de Vinh ont ainsi été libérés et renvoyés dans leurs familles, après avoir purgé toute la durée de leur peine ; ils y seront placés en résidence surveillée pendant plusieurs années encore. ...

Le Vietnam autorise l’Église catholique à ouvrir un institut universitaire

26.08.2015 (La Croix) - Les autorités vietnamiennes ont autorisé l’ouverture d’un institut catholique universitaire national, rapporte mardi 25 août Églises d’Asie (EdA), l’agence d’information des Missions étrangères de Paris. Jusqu’à présent, l’Église catholique dans le pays ne pouvait assumer que la responsabilité de jardins d’enfants et d’écoles maternelles. ...

Fresh out of prison Vietnamese blogger reboots website denouncing government abuses

25.08.2015 (AsiaNews) - Hanoi - As promised in the hours following the release from prison, the 51 year old Vietnamese blogger Truong Duy Nhat has already rebooted his website and will continue  his commitment to civil society "monitoring the activities and decisions" taken by the ruling Communist leadership. ...

Vietnam ist offen für Dialog über Menschenrechte - Einladung an Kritiker der Regierung

25.08.2015 (CDU/CSU-Fraktion) - Der Vorsitzende der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, Volker Kauder, hat zum ersten Mal Vietnam besucht. Im Mittelpunkt des seit längerem geplanten Aufenthalts standen die Lage der Menschenrechte und speziell der Religionsfreiheit in dem Land. ...

Vietnam: Kauder hofft auf mehr Religionsfreiheit

25.08.2015 (Deutsche Evangelische Allianz) - Hanoi ( idea) – Der Vorsitzende der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, Volker Kauder, hofft, dass es im kommunistisch regierten Vietnam bald mehr Religionsfreiheit gibt. ...

Kauder trifft Menschenrechtler in Vietnam

24.08.2015 (CDU/CSU-Fraktion) - Vietnam hat einen rasanten wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg hinter sich. Doch bei Demokratie, Menschenrechten und speziell der Religionsfreiheit gibt es immer noch Defizite. Der Unionsfraktionsvorsitzende Volker Kauder macht sich derzeit vor Ort ein Bild der Lage. ...

China wants great power, not responsibility

23.08.2015 by William Pesek, Bloomberg (The Japan Times) - Forty-three years after Richard Nixon made his famous visit to China, that country has seemingly decided to take a page from the former U.S. president’s Treasury Department. As China lowers the value of the yuan, the country’s economic policymakers are mimicking the blase attitude of Nixon-era Treasury chief John Connally, who dismissed international complaints about U.S. monetary policy with a curt remark: “It’s our currency, but it’s your problem.” ...

Hanoi ignores Caodaists and Catholics who criticise new religious bill for violating human rights

21.08.2015 By Nguyen Hung - J. Dang (AsiaNews) – The Vietnamese government plans to introduce new legislation to regulate religions and faiths before the end of 2015 or in early 2016 at the latest. So far, its proposal  appears to have not taken into account criticism from religious leaders who view the proposed new law as contrary to the UN Declaration on Human Rights and even a step backward compared to the Vietnamese Constitution of 2013 and the regulations of 2004. ...

Un projet de loi sur la religion préoccupe l’Église du Vietnam

21.08.2015 (La Croix) - Le texte prévoit l’obligation pour toutes les organisations religieuses de rapporter aux autorités tout type d’activité interne, que ce soient des cérémonies, des activités de formation ou des aspects organisationnelles. L’Église catholique du Vietnam, ainsi que d’autres communautés chrétiennes, sont de plus en plus préoccupées par le projet de loi défendu par le gouvernement sur la foi et la religion qui risque de donner un tour de vis à la liberté religieuse dans le pays, rapporte Radio Vatican ...

Caodaístas y católicos: la nueva ley sobre las religiones es contraria a los derechos humanos. Pero Hanoi hace oídos sordos

21.08.2015 De Nguyen Hung - J. Dang (AsiaNews) – El gobierno de Hanoi está programando promulgar una nueva ley sobre las religiones y la fe hacia fines del año 2015 o principios del 2016.  Pero parece estar sordo a todas las críticas que provienen de los líderes religiosos y que juzgan que el proyecto de dicha ley es contrario a la Declaración de los Derechos Humanos de la ONU e incluso “da un paso atrás” con respecto a la Constitución Vietnamita del 2013 y a las Reglamentaciones del 2004. ...

It’s Time to Confront Beijing About the South China Sea

21.08.2015 By Jerry Hendrix (Defense One) - China has continued its aggressive actions in the South China Sea. Lets start with some facts. China’s territorial claims, based upon a 1947 map showing nine dashed lines encircling the South China Sea, has no legitimate basis in fact. ...

The reality of geopolitics: Enemies do become friends

20.08.2015 Rahul Raj (The Asahi Shimbun) - The old saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" perfectly suits the emerging friendships in contemporary Asia. The Philippines is in a contest with China over ownership of the Spratly Islands around the nine-dashed line in the South China Sea, and Japan is disputing with China ownership of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. ...

Wandeln am Abgrund

20.08.2015 Von Klaus Huhold (Wiener Zeitung) - Die Gefahr, dass der Inselstreit in Ostasien in einen bewaffneten Konflikt ausartet, ist hoch, sagt der Politologe Howard Loewen. Chinas Verhalten sei dabei typisch für eine aufstrebende Großmacht. ...

Menschenhändler hielten Vietnamesen in Wohnungen gefangen

20.08.2015 Von Andreas Kopietz (Berliner Zeitung) - Die Polizei fasst eine Menschenhändler-Bande, die rund 100 Vietnamesen nach Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien geschleust haben soll. Die Kriminellen hielten die Menschen gefangen, bis deren Angehörige für die Schleusungen zahlten. ...

Vietnam, other emerging markets caught in currency bind ...

20.08.2015 Wataru Yoshida (Nikkei Asian Review) - SINGAPORE -- It isn't easy being a monetary authority in an emerging market these days, stuck with the choice of weakening one's currency to compete on exports or reinforcing it against capital flight. ...

Inquiet, le Vietnam dévalue à son tour sa monnaie

19.08.2015 (Les Echos) - Hanoï a dévalué sa monnaie de 1 %, mercredi, afin de stimuler ses exportations menacées par la dévaluation chinoise de la semaine dernière. ...

Vietnam devalues dong currency, matching Beijing's yuan move

19.08.2015 (CBC) - Vietnam allowed its currency to weaken by at least 1 per cent Wednesday following the devaluation of the Chinese yuan and the expectation of a possible U.S interest rate hike. ...

Vietnam moves closer to passing restrictive religion bill

19.08.2015 (ucanews) - Vietnam is moving closer to passing a restrictive law on religion, Christian groups have warned.

The country's most powerful political organ, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly, discussed the bill Aug. 14 with few signs major amendments would be made before passing next year, said the religious freedom advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide....

Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights seminar in Vietnam

18.08.2015 by Joakim Persson (Scandasia) - a seminar on Human Rights Research and Education was jointly organised by the Vietnam’s Human Rights Institute under the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University (Sweden). ...

Chinas Militärstrategie - Riffe mit Flugpiste

16.08.2015 Von Arne Perras (SZ) - Eine neue Form des Flugzeugträgers macht von sich reden. Nicht dass er über alle Meere kreuzen könnte wie die herkömmlichen Giganten zur See. Die jüngste Kreation ist das Werk chinesischer Militärstrategen, sie lassen im Meer Riffe mit Sand aufschütten und bauen einfach eine Flugpiste obendrauf. Fertig ist der neue Stützpunkt. Alle staunen, aber den Nachbarn macht das auch Angst. ...

US Supreme Court Justice Promotes Equality, Free Press in Vietnam

15.08.2015 Lien Hoang (VOA) - HO CHI MINH CITY — For the sake of social justice, Vietnam needs judges and journalists who don’t face retaliation for handling touchy subjects, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said this week, citing progress in her home country as a possible example. ...

Vietnam: plus de 700kg de cornes de rhinocéros et de défenses d'éléphants saisis

14.08.2015 (Charente Libre) -  Plus de 700 kg de cornes de rhinocéros et de défenses d'éléphants en provenance du Mozambique et arrivés par bateau dans le centre du Vietnam ont été saisi par la police, selon la presse officielle vendredi. ...

Vietnam - Eine Tonne Elfenbein und Nashorn-Hörner beschlagnahmt

14.08.2015 (Kleine Zeitung) - Der Zoll hat in Vietnam fast eine Tonne Elfenbein und Nashorn-Hörner beschlagnahmt. Die illegale Fracht kam aus Mosambik in Afrika, berichtete der Direktor der Zollbehörde am Hafen von Danang in Zentralvietnam ...

One-third of businesses in Vietnam bribe officials when paying tax: Survey

13.08.2015 By Tan Qiuyi (Channel NewsAsia) - HANOI: Nearly a third of businesses in Vietnam have to bribe officials when paying tax, according to a survey by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI).

Thirty-two per cent of them say they have to pay “unofficial fees” to tax officials, and another 40 per cent believe they would face discrimination if they did not - ...

Siete millones de niños sin escuela en el Sudeste Asiático dice, la Unesco

13.08.2015 (Univision) - Bangkok (EFE).- Siete millones de niños no van a la escuela en el Sudeste Asiático y, si no cambia esa situación, repercutirá en el Producto Interior Bruto de las distintas economías nacionales, indicó hoy la Unesco al presentar un informe en Bangkok. De mantenerse la tendencia actual, la repercusión en el PIB oscilará entre el 0,1 por ciento en el caso de Vietnam ...

Vietnam: Regierung nimmt Fabriken unter die Lupe

13.08.2015 Redakteur: Anke Prokasky (Textilwirtschaft) - Das Ministerium für Arbeit, Kriegsinvalide und Soziales in Vietnam hat eine Kampagne zur Inspektion von Bekleidungsfabriken im Land gestartet. Nach Angaben aus einem vietnamesischen Pressebericht, sollen Fabriken in zwölf Städten inspiziert werden. Im Oktober soll die Untersuchung abgeschlossen sein. ...

Vietnam's Montagnards: Our Human Rights Hypocrisy

12.08.2015 By Hugh Giblin (OpEdNews) - On August 7, 2015 Secretary of State John Kerry was in Hanoi, Vietnam extolling the relationship between the U.S. and Communist Vietnam. He went on for some time relating how far the two countries have come since resuming relation 20 years ago. ...

Vietnamese Court Releases Mekong Delta Land Rights Activist

10.08.2015 (RFA) - Vietnamese authorities released a land activist from prison on Monday, where he was serving a five-year sentence for attempting to overthrow the government. Duong Kim Khai, pastor of a Mennonite church offshoot known as the Cow Shed Church, told RFA’s Vietnamese Service that despite his release, he has no home to return to. ...

Kerry mahnt Vietnam zu Stärkung der Menschenrechte

07.08.2015 (Handelsblatt) - Hanoi - US-Außenminister John Kerry hat Vietnam zur Stärkung der Menschenrechte und Einhaltung akademischen Freiheiten gemahnt. „Fortschritte bei der Einhaltung der grundsätzlichen Menschenrechte ist im Interesse Vietnams“, sagte Kerry am Freitag vor Vertretern aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft in Hanoi. ...

Kerry appelle le Vietnam à faire plus en matière de droits de l'homme

07.08.2015 (Zaman France) - Le chef de la diplomatie américaine, John Kerry, s'est félicité vendredi du rapprochement entre les Etats-Unis et le Vietnam, tout en soulignant que les relations entre ces deux anciens ennemis pourraient être plus étroites encore si Hanoï respectait davantage les droits de l'homme. ...

Kerry defiende en Vietnam a libertad de expresión y de creencia

07.08.2015 (Univision) - Bangkok (EFE).- El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, John Kerry, defendió hoy en Hanoi la libertad de expresión y de creencia en Vietnam, en una visita al país asiático conmemorativa del vigésimo aniversario de la normalización de las relaciones bilaterales. ...

How Hanoi Buys Influence in Washington, D.C.

04.08.2015 by Greg Rushford (The Rushford Report) - ... Shortly before Trong’s speech before a CSIS audience of mainly well-connected Washington insiders, there was another ugly incident behind the scenes. The incident illustrates what’s really going on when American and Vietnamese officials praise Vietnam’s “demonstrable” human-rights progress. Moreover, the CSIS embarrassment offers a glimpse into how the Communist Party has been quietly buying influence to advance its foreign policy agenda in Washington — a sophisticated lobby campaign that appears to be working. ...

Religion and Vietnam’s Party State

03.08.2015 By David Brown (Asia Sentinel) - Vietnam’s state supervision of religion is considerably less oppressive than it was during the years of “building socialism” and propagating atheism as the approved belief system.  But that doesn’t mean free by any means. ...

Vietnam: Les pluies intenses qui touchent le nord du Vietnam ont entraîné de graves inondations toxiques issues de plusieurs mines de charbon et qui s'écoulent dans la baie d'Ha Long, site du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO

02.08.2015 (Nature Alerte) - Les pluies historiques des derniers jours dans la province de Quang Ninh, allant jusqu'à 600 à 800 mm de précipitations, entraînant les pires inondations depuis 40 ans,  ont causé l'érosion de nombreuses montagnes qui ont détruit de nombreuses maisons. ...

Leaping Vietnamese markets spark bubble worries

02.08.2015 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Vietnam's stock and real estate markets are riding high on an optimistic economic outlook as Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations get closer to the finish line and the country mends fences with the U.S. Some fear, however, that hot investment could be a sign that a bubble is looming. ...

Japan recommends new reactor for Vietnam

02.08.2015 (Nikkei Asian Review) - TOKYO -- The Japanese government is recommending that Vietnam buy a new type of pressurized water reactor developed by Atmea, a Japanese-French joint venture, sources told The Nikkei. ...

Les coups de coeur de Kim Thúy

02.08.2015 Marie-Christine Blais (La Presse) - Montréal-  En 2010, son premier roman Ru sous le bras, Kim Thúy prend part à son tout premier festival littéraire francophone à vie : les Correspondances d'Eastman. ...

Keine Einigung bei Pazifik-Freihandelsabkommen

01.08.2015 (Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten) - Am Ende reisten sie ohne eine Einigung ab: Das Freihandelsabkommen TTP zwischen zwölf Pazifikanrainern wird vorerst nicht in Kraft treten. Dennoch sprechen die Teilnehmer von "entscheidenden Fortschritten". ...

No final deal in TPP trade talks

01.08.2015 by Eric Johnston (Japan Times) - OSAKA – Efforts to conclude the framework for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement ended in failure Saturday, with negotiators unable to bridge differences over issues ranging from pharmaceutical patents to expanded imports of agricultural, and particularly dairy, products. ...

Pas d'accord à Hawaï sur un accord de libre-échange pour le Pacifique

01.08.2015 (L'Express) - Washington - Les 12 pays engagés dans les négociations sur un accord de libre-échange trans-pacifique ne sont pas parvenus à un accord lors de leur réunion à Hawaï qui s'est achevée dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi. ...

La ronda de negociaciones del TPP en Hawai termina sin acuerdo definitivo

01.08.2015 (El Confidencial) - Washington(EFE).- La última ronda de negociaciones sobre comercio que mantienen 12 países de la cuenca del Pacífico para el Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico (TPP) terminó este viernes sin un acuerdo definitivo, pero con "progresos significativos", informaron los ministros de Comercio de las 12 naciones. ...

The Philippines-China Arbitration: What Next?

01.08.2015 By Gregory Poling (The Diplomat) - What comes next in the Philippines’ South China Sea arbitration case? The five-member tribunal hearing Manila’s case against Beijing’s South China Sea claims at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague held a hearing on preliminary jurisdiction and admissibility of claims from July 7 to 13. ...

For the ASEAN-China South China Sea Code of Conduct, Ninth Time Isn't the Charm

01.08.2015 By Ankit Panda (The Diplomat) - After consultations in Tianjin, Chinese and ASEAN leaders appear to be no closer to a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea. Senior officials from China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Tianjin, China to discuss the implementation of the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) and to advance progress toward a more binding Code of Conduct for the South China Sea. ...

Flooded Vietnam coal mines leaking toxic slurry into World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay: environmentalists

01.08.2015 (ABC News) - Heavy rainfall in northern Vietnam has killed at least 17 people and inundated major coal mines, causing concern among environmentalists about the contamination of the nation's top tourist attraction and World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay. ...

Deadly rains deluge Vietnam mines, spark contamination fears

31.07.2015 By Reuters (Daily Mail) - HANOI - Heavy rainfall in northern Vietnam has killed 17 people and inundated major coal mines, causing concern among environmentalists about contamination of local communities and the waters of a top tourist attraction, Halong Bay. ...

Vietnam : navigation interdite sur la Baie d'Halong

31.07.2015 (TourMaG) - Dans sa rubrique "Conseils aux Voyageurs", le Quai d'Orsay indique que "les autorités locales ont interdit toute navigation sur la Baie d’Halong jusqu’à nouvel ordre. ...

Malaysia, Vietnam just saying no to parts of TPP

31.07.2015 CK Tan, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Malaysia and Vietnam, the Trans-Pacific Partnership's two emerging economies, have offered compromises regarding service sector liberalization but remain steadfast in other "sensitive" areas. ...

Vietnamese Man Who Died in Detention ‘Was in Terrible Condition’

30.07.2015 (RFA) - A man serving a prison sentence for stealing a cell phone has died at a detention center in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, according to his sister, who said his body was in “terrible condition” after being beaten to death by authorities and called for an end to unjust killings in police custody. Vu Nam Ninh, 45, died on July 20 at the No. 1 Detention Center in Ba Dinh district’s Ngoc Khanh ward ...

An Avalanche of Toxic Coal Waste Slammed Vietnam, and More Are on the Way

30.07.2015 Written by Brian Merchant (Motherboard) - Days of intense rainfall in northern Vietnam led to flooding that has killed 17 people so far, according to the New York Times. Some 1,500 tourists had to be evacuated, and the national guard was sent in. The floods also loosed an avalanche of coal ash, a toxic waste product generated by power plants, onto nearby villages, sending hundreds fleeing, knee-deep in polluted muck. ...

TPP puts Vietnam's top garment producer on the defensive

30.07.2015 (Nikkei Asian Review) - HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vinatex, Vietnam's largest state-owned textile company, is rushing to secure new revenue streams and improve its internal supply chain ahead of a final agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Despite widespread excitement about the TPP and the business it may bring, the pending trade deal's fine print could cause complications. ...

Supply Chain Risk: Five Worst Offending Countries For Human Rights Violations

29.07.2015 (Forbes) - Awareness of supply chain risk has been steadily growing among publicly listed companies all over the world. Rising labor costs in China have led companies to diversify their supply-chains into other high-risk countries such as Vietnam, especially for electronics, apparel, and footwear says the British Standards Institution (BSI). ...

BSI Global Supply Chain Intelligence Raises Alarm on Human Rights Breaches

29.07.2015 (BSI) - Top five countries for Corporate Social Responsibility human rights risks identified. Asian efforts to reduce red-tape create broader supply chain risks for global brands. The risk of organizations breaching international human rights regulations has risen significantly over the last quarter as key Asian economies adapt to tougher economic conditions. ...

Countless deaths in the ‘cancer villages’ around Ho Chi Minh City

29.07.2015 by Thanh Thuy (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City – Some 40 “cancer” villages dot the landscape around Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s economic capital. The land, air and water in these sites are highly polluted as a result of the indiscriminate use of chemicals in farming as well. One of the consequence is that 150,000 new cancer cases are recorded each year, and about 70,000 deaths. ...

Ho Chi Minh, aumentan los “pueblo del cáncer”: una masacre infinita

29.07.2015 de Thanh Thuy (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City – Cada año cerca de 150 mil enfermos de tumores mueren en más de 40 pueblos, llamados “pueblos del cáncer” en la periferia de la capital económica de Vietnam. Aquí se registran tasas altísimas de contaminación en la tierra, el aire y el agua, debidas sobre todo al uso indiscriminado que las compañías agrícolas hacen de sustancias químicas. ...

David Cameron clearly sees Vietnam as a regime he can do business with

29.07.2015 Patrick Wintour in Hanoi (The Guardian) - Vietnam may be one of the last five true Communist countries in the world. It maintains all the trappings of a dictatorship that tramples on human rights, but Cameron clearly thinks this is a regime with which he can do business. That said, a delicate diplomatic dance is required to handle the often opaque politics of the Vietnamese Communist leadership. ...

Chinese Song Causes Embarrassment in Vietnam

29.07.2015 Khanh An (VOA) - A Chinese anthem played during a nationally televised gathering of senior Vietnamese officials this week has become fodder for online activists. ...

David Cameron vows to tackle trafficking of Vietnamese children

29.07.2015 Patrick Wintour in Singapore (The Guardian) - David Cameron is to promise a crackdown on the trafficking of Vietnamese children by ordering big British businesses to set out annually what they are doing to stop slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains. Vietnam is the fourth biggest source country of people trafficked to the UK. Cameron will also announce on Wednesday, during the first visit by a British prime minister to Vietnam, that the independent anti-slavery commissioner, Kevin Hyland, will lead a fact-finding mission to the country this autumn ...

Halong-Bucht überschwemmt: mehrere Tote

28.07.2015 (Südtirol Online) - Bei den schwersten Überschwemmungen im Nordosten Vietnams seit Jahrzehnten sind mindestens 14 Menschen in der Halong-Bucht ums Leben gekommen.  Drei weitere Menschen würden noch vermisst, sagte ein Vertreter der Katastrophenschutzbehörde in der Provinz Quang Ninh nahe der chinesischen Grenze. Tausende Häuser standen unter Wasser. ...

Grösste Errungenschaft Obamas ist bald Realität

28.07.2015 (Handelszeitung) - Die USA wollen mit der «Trans-Pazifischen Partnerschaft» fast die Hälfte der Weltwirtschaft in einer Freihandelszone vereinen – und so China in Schach halten. Die Gespräche gehen in die heisse Phase. Noch bis Freitag verhandeln auf Hawaii zwölf Pazifikstaaten über den Abschluss eines Freihandelsabkommens. Malaysia, Singapur und Vietnam stehen unter Druck ...

US reiterates stance on Vietnamese human rights before arms embargo lifting

27.07.2015 Jon Grevatt, Bangkok (IHS Jane's Defence Weekly) - The United States has reiterated its requirement for Vietnam to improve its record on human rights before the long-standing military embargo can be fully lifted. ...

Freihandelsabkommen TPP: Weltwirtschaftliche Integration um jeden Preis?

27.07.2015 Axel Berger und Dominique Bruhn (EurActiv) - Mit der Transpazifischen Partnerschaft TPP steht ein mega-regionales Handelsabkommen kurz vor dem Abschluss. Was bedeutet die Unterzeichnung für Entwicklungsländer wie Vietnam? Antworten von Experten des Deutschen Instituts für Entwicklungspolitik. ...

POLLUTION AU VIETNAM – Vers une prise de conscience du problème ?

27.07.2015 Marielle Capelle (Lepetitjournal) - Une touriste occidentale accroupie sur une plage du nord du Vietnam pour ramasser des déchets… Une autre, l’eau à la taille, un sac plastique à la main, en train de collecter des cannettes de bière et des sacs plastiques flottants dans la mer… Loin des clichés habituels du Vietnam, ces photos révèlent une triste réalité: la plupart des sites touristiques sont en train de devenir de véritables poubelles ...

Techno Parties Are Facing Political Corruption in Vietnam

27.07.2015 By Samie Durnford (Thump) - While electronic music has been taking the world by storm for the past two decades, the scene in Vietnam has been hampered by police corruption, censorship, and crime. In Vietnam, it's next to impossible to know what will make your party legal. ...

Vietnam Slams Chinese Naval Drill in South China Sea

27.07.2015 By Ankit Panda (The Diplomat) - Vietnamese authorities are calling for the China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) to stop a naval exercise off the coast of Hainan Island, near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. ...

Filipino fishermen remove Chinese buoys near disputed shoal, officials say

26.07.2015 (Reuters) - MANILA - Filipino fishermen found several buoys with Chinese markings near the disputed Scarborough Shoal and towed the devices back to shore northwest of the capital, Manila, Philippines officials said on Sunday. ...

Sydney Hunger Strikers Call to End Human Rights Violations in Vietnam

26.07.2015 by By Mimi Nguyen-Ly (Epoch Times) - Sydney’s Town Hall on July 25, witnessed a 12-hour hunger strike to call for the release of prisoners of conscience in Vietnam. Around 80 people sat quietly in neat rows throughout the day. Without food, they held photos of and thought about the prisoners of conscience currently detained in their home country. ...

Attacked and arrested during hungerstrike in Nha Trang

26.07.2015 by Jessica Ryan (Revolt Media Norge) - Several dissidents were attacked and arrested during todays international hungerstrike in support of Vietnams prisoners of conscience. The hungerstrike was part of the We Are One movement, and was arranged in several countries. We spoke to blogger and Human rights activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh about her experiences during the hungerstrike. ...

Vietnam defence minister returns to Vietnam

25.07.2015 "The minister returned to Hanoi from Paris this morning on a Vietnam Airlines flight and he left the airport directly for the office to start work," Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, told dpa. ...

Vietnam police tightens control of local activists before international hunger strike

24.07.2015 by Jessica Ryan (Revolt Media Norge) - Hundreds of human rights activists and political dissidents, mostly in the two biggest cities, are planning to hold a fast as part of the World Hunger Strike Day organized by Vietnamese worldwide to demand for human rights improvement in the communist nation in the Southeast Asia, and immediate release of prisoners of conscience. Many activists in HCM City and Hanoi have been reported that local authorities have sent security agents to patrol their houses. Activists said they may not be allowed to go out on Saturday. ...

Minorities forgotten as Vietnam–US ties improve

24.07.2015 Author: Helen Clark, Deakin University (East Asia Forum) - Twenty years after the post–war normalisation of Vietnam–US ties, the two nations are increasingly close... The persecution of the ‘Montagnards’ – a catch–all term used by the French for hill tribe minority groups – has been in the news this year as groups of Gia Rai (a central Vietnam indigenous group) have been sneaking into Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province and claiming refugee status due to religious persecution. ...

Columbia’s Van Loan describes torture as POW: ‘I had never ever been hurt like that before in my life’

24.07.2015 (The State) - COLUMBIA, SC - Columbia’s Jack Van Loan, a Vietnam War Air Force fighter pilot shot down by enemy fire in May 1967, describes his six years as a POW in a manuscript written with retired Air Force Lt. Col. Norman Turner. ...

Formaldehyde, anyone? More contamination in fish from Vietnam/China

24.07.2015 Hembree Brandon (DeltaFarmPress.com) - A report by NBC-TV Charlotte noted that formaldehyde-laced Vietnamese swai (a catfish-like species also known as pangasius, basa and tra) was found in three North Carolina stores.  Formaldehyde-tainted Chinese tilapia was also found in three stores. ...

Over a million Vietnamese victimised by forced evictions and violence

22.07.2015 by Ngoc Lan (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City – Disputes over land continue to oppose government officials and various Christian and Buddhist religious groups. As noted in the past, this has unsettled Vietnam’s economic and social development. The latest figures indicate that more than a million poor landless peasants have become petitioners, seeking justice without the benefit of legal protection. ...

Más de un millón de vietnamitas víctimas de desalojos forzados y palizas

22.07.2015 by Ngoc Lan (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City –  La disputa relacionada con la posesión de la tierra que ven oponerse funcionarios gubernamentales y comunidades religiosas (budistas y cristianos) o ciudadanos comunes, sigue frenando – como ya se ha denunciado en el pasado - el desarrollo económico y social de Vietnam. Incluso hoy en día cientos de miles de agricultores pobres ven sus campos expropiados, expulsados ​​de la tierra delante de una indemnización irrisoria. ...

Vor- und Nachteile der Trans-Pazifischen Partnerschaft

22.07.2015 Interview: Gabriel Domínguez / mgr, ef (DW) - Neben TTIP verhandeln die USA auch über ein Freihandelsabkommen mit 12 pazifischen Staaten. Wer von der TPP letztlich am meisten profitieren soll, erklärt Handelsexperte Gary Hufbauer im DW-Interview. Die TPP betrifft 12 Nationen, die am Pazifik liegen: Australien, Brunei, Kanada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexiko, Neuseeland, Peru, Singapur, die USA und Vietnam.

Former Vietnamese political prisoner, now living in Westminster, tells his story

22.07.2015 (Orange County Register) - Saturday morning, Nguyen, 63, sat on a bench in Sid Goldstein Freedom Park in Westminster. Nguyen spoke in a methodical near-whisper about his life in Vietnam – about fighting for the North, about running an electronics shop in the 1990s, and about turning his focus toward human rights in Vietnam. ...

Schooling Vietnam: How tech companies are training the next wave of workers

22.07.2015 by Shara Tibken (cnet) - "What you learn in school isn't for the real world," instructor Pham Khoa told me over banh xeo (Vietnamese pancakes) and noodle soup after the class. The reason? Classes here focus more on the theoretical than on the practical. ...

Q&A: Ta Phong Tan's sister calls for release of ailing and jailed Vietnamese blogger

20.07.2015 By Bob Dietz/CPJ Asia Program Coordinator (CPJ) - As an independent blogger, Ta Phong Tan often highlighted abuses in Vietnam's justice system. Now as a prisoner of conscience serving a 10-year sentence for "propagandizing against the state," an anti-state offense under Article 88 of Vietnam's criminal code, she is suffering under the same abusive system she once critiqued and exposed. Tan is being held in solitary confinement in a stifling, windowless cell, according to her sister, Ta Minh Tu. ...

Canberra warned on China maritime threat

20.07.2015 (Nikkei Asian Review) - SYDNEY -- China's growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean poses a potential threat to Australia as Beijing appears to be shifting to a strategy of greater power projection, according to a new report by Australian and U.S. defense policy experts. ...

Philippines, Vietnam reviving Cold War bases to combat China’s naval expansion

20.07.2015 By Manabu Sasaki (The Asahi Shimbun) - HANOI--The Philippines and Vietnam are refurbishing key military bases used during the Cold War and bolstering cooperation with Washington to counter Beijing’s maritime expansion in the South China Sea.

Located 100 kilometers northwest of Manila, Subic Bay offers immediate access to the South China Sea. It used to host a sprawling U.S. naval base, one of the largest in Asia. ...

Archaeology and the South China Sea

20.07.2015 By Andrew S. Erickson and Kevin Bond (The Diplomat) - Recently, Vietnamese and Western media resumed reporting on China’s HD-981 oil rig, after it was redeployed to disputed waters, dredging up memories of the intense anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam and the diplomatic standoff that occurred last year when the rig was moved to waters between Vietnam and China for the first time. The HD-981 oil rig gives China a mobile, economic platform from which to project its sovereignty in disputed waters, but what about a cultural-historical platform? ...

Vietnam denies report of defence minister's death

20.07.2015 (dpa) - Bangkok - The Vietnamese government Monday denied a report that the defence minister died in a Paris hospital at the weekend. ...

Vietnam dementiert Bericht über Tod des Verteidigungsministers

20.07.2015 Von unserem dpa-Korrespondenten und Europe Online (Europe Online) - Hanoi/Paris (dpa) - Die vietnamesische Regierung hat einen Bericht über den Tod von Verteidigungsminister Phung Quang Thanh (66) zurückgewiesen. ...

On human rights, US and Vietnam still talking past each other

19.07.2015 Author: David Brown (East Asia Forum) - Human rights — chiefly political and religious freedoms — have been on the American agenda since Washington and Hanoi resumed direct dialogue about a quarter of a century ago. Though bilateral ties have grown vastly broader, US prodding on civil liberties still piques Vietnam’s one-party regime. Scepticism that Vietnam would live up to labour rights promises was prominent in the US debate over the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. ...

Vietnam defence minister dies in France after cancer treatment

19.07.2015 (dpa) - Hanoi - Vietnam's Minister of Defence died on Sunday at a French hospital where he was being treated for lung cancer, a military source said. ...

Vietnams Verteidigungsminister stirbt in Pariser Krankenhaus an Krebs

19.07.2015 Von unserem dpa-Korrespondenten und Europe Online (Europe Online) - Hanoi (dpa) - Der vietnamesische Verteidigungsminister, General Phung Quang Thanh (66), ist nach Angaben aus Hanoi in einem Krankenhaus in Paris an Lungenkrebs gestorben. ...

China zu teuer: Microsoft plant offenbar Lumia Herstellung in Vietnam und Taiwan

16.07.2015 von Daniel (WinTouch) - Microsoft strukturiert sich aktuell um und verkleinert in diesem Zusammenhang den von Nokia übernommenen Geräte-Bereich erheblich. Konkret sollen wohl die Fabriken in China geschlossen und bestehende Anlagen in Vietnam ausgelastet werden. ...

China begins building of world's largest sea plan

18.07.2015 (The Times of India) - BEIJING: China has started assembling the world's largest amphibious aircraft which it plans to deploy in the disputed South China Sea besides aggressively marketing it abroad. India plans to buy Japanese sea planes to counter-balance Chinese Navy' growing might in blue waters. ...

Vietnam and US deepen ties 20 years after normalisation

17.07.2015 Author: Murray Hiebert, CSIS, Washington (East Asia Forum) - The 7 July visit to the White House by Vietnam’s Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong signaled just how far the United States and Vietnam have come in the past two decades in moving beyond their ‘difficult history’, as President Barack Obama put it after their meeting... Human rights problems in Vietnam are among the most difficult between the two capitals and have the potential derail the increasingly warm ties. Freedom of expression and religion have improved markedly over the past two decades, but the Vietnamese government does not tolerate actions that it believes challenges the political supremacy of the Communist Party of Vietnam and regularly detains bloggers and dissidents who challenge the party’s position....

Filipinas reabrirá la antigua base naval estadounidense en Subic

17.07.2015 (Univision) - Manila, 17 jul (EFE).- Las autoridades de Filipinas han decidido reabrir la antigua base naval estadounidense en Subic, clausurada en 1992, para contener la política expansionista china en el mar de China Meridional, informa hoy la prensa local. ...

Location of Vietnam's nuclear power project extended

16.07.2015 (individual.com) - Construction on Ninh Thuan 1 and 2 nuclear power plants, the first of the kind in Vietnam, will be extended southwest as required in new changes to their master plan approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, local media reported Friday....

Asien wird zu teuer - Textilindustrie sucht "Made in Africa"

16.07.2015 (n-tv) - Vietnam, China, Bangladesh: In der Nähstube der Welt steigen Lebensstandards und Löhne. Gut für die Menschen vor Ort, schlecht für den Verbraucher im Westen, der es zumeist einfach billig haben will.  "Afrika bietet eine enorme Gelegenheit, zu demonstrieren, wie die Branche zusammenarbeiten kann", sagte Colin Browne, der als Managing Director bei VF für Warenversorgung und die Zulieferung aus Asien verantwortlich ist. ...

China trying to push U.S. aside in East Asia but not displace it

16.07.2015 By Yoichi Kato (The Asahi Shimbun) - China is trying to shunt the United States to the side of the strategic equation in East Asia and occupy that space, said a top Singaporean diplomat. “They are not trying to completely displace the United States in East Asia because they know it’s not in their power,” Bilahari Kausikan, ambassador-at-large of Singapore, told The Asahi Shimbun in a recent interview ...

Top China official visits Hanoi as Vietnam, U.S. get cozy

16.07.2015 (Reuters) - Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli held talks with top Vietnamese leaders during a visit on Thursday that comes hot on the heels of a landmark United States trip by Vietnam's communist party chief. The visit quickly follows almost a week of meetings in the United States by a political and business delegation from Vietnam, led by Communist Party chief, Nguyen Phu Trong ...

Government halts export of eavesdropping devices

16.07.2015 (The Local) - Switzerland has halted the export of mobile phone monitoring technology to Vietnam and Bangladesh out of fears it could be misused. State agencies in the two countries had wanted to import IMSI-catchers from Swiss firms – eavesdropping devices used to intercept mobile phone traffic and track the movements of mobile phone users. ...

La Suisse interdit l'exportation d'équipements de surveillance

15.07.2015 (24heures) - Le SECO et deux départements fédéraux ont conjointement refusé la demande de firmes suisses d'exporter des appareils permettant d'écouter des conversations téléphoniques.

Sur la base d'une nouvelle ordonnance, la Suisse a interdit pour la première fois l'exportation d'équipements de surveillance. Le Vietnam et le Bangladesh voulaient se procurer une technologie dite «IMSI-catcher» qui permet d'écouter des conversations téléphoniques. ...

La guerre du litchi, révélatrice de la dépendance du Vietnam envers le marché chinois

15.07.2015 (Le Courrier de l'Ouest) - Des ouvriers conditionnent soigneusement une gigantesque pile de litchis dans une usine du nord du Vietnam. Destination: la Chine, gros marché pour les producteurs vietnamiens, las de l'impact sur leurs ventes des tensions diplomatiques avec Pékin. ...

Bund stoppt Export von Überwachungstechnik

15.07.2015 (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen) - Handys auszuspähen, ist derzeit hoch Im Kurs. Schweizer Firmen wollten entsprechende Technik nach Vietnam und Bangladesch exportieren. Doch nun hat der Bund den Verkauf verboten. Seit Mitte Mai kann der Bund den Export von Überwachungstechnik verbieten, wenn der Verdacht besteht, dass diese missbräuchlich genutzt wird. ...

Land dispute at Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park linked to previous investor

15.07.2015 By Tan Qiuyi (Channel NewsAsia) - VSIP Hai Duong Co. says protesters' claims relate to a compensation settlement with the site’s former investor, Phuc Hung, before it sold the site to VSIP this year. ...

Naval Buildups in the South China Sea

15.07.2015 By Steven Stashwick (The Diplomat) - Southeast Asian naval capabilities are surging. But how meaningful is that? After decades of operating legacy Soviet platforms, Vietnam’s navy is acquiring advanced new frigates from Russia and the Netherlands, capable new Russian diesel-electric submarines, and a host of modern anti-ship cruise missiles. ...

Revising official view of history in Vietnam no easy matter

14.07.2015 Ari Nakano (The Asahi Shimbun) - Revising the official view of history a victor in war has entrenched is no easy matter. And that is especially true in a state like Vietnam that, during the Cold War, was split between North and South, with one side conquering the other by force, and then came under the one-party rule of the Communist Party after reunification. It has been long known that the main force behind the “liberation of Saigon” was not the National Liberation Front for Southern Vietnam (NLFSV), a diverse group of nationalist forces, but rather the People’s Army of North Vietnam posing as the NLFSV. ...

Vietnam, US Agree to Dance, if Not to Boogie

14.07.2015 By David Brown (Asia Sentinel) - A wave of euphoria – there is no lesser word for it – swept over Vietnam last week, triggered by a collective perception that, yes, Hanoi and Washington have truly buried the hatchet, some 40 years after People’s Army tanks rolled into Saigon, 20 years after the two nations reestablished diplomatic relations. Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong had travelled to Washington at the head of a group of party leaders. ...

Google Maps alters disputed South China Sea shoal name

14.07.2015 (BBC) - Google has updated its map of a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, removing a Chinese name for the reef after complaints from many Filipinos. ...

China urges Philippines to ditch its South China Sea case

14.07.2015 (AP) - BEIJING  -- China urged the Philippines on Tuesday to ditch its attempt to solve South China Sea territorial disputes with an international tribunal and instead negotiate with Beijing directly, following the arbitration panel's latest request for input from China. The Philippines has asked the tribunal in The Hague to declare China's claims to virtually all the South China Sea invalid, saying Beijing's actions have trampled on other nations' rights.

China rocks the boat as Australia and the US watch on

14.07.2015 Peter Hartcher (The Sydney Morning Herald) - China has shown itself to be an ugly bully. Contrary to all its fine rhetoric of cooperation, it is happy to use coercion to take territory that is also claimed by its smaller neighbours. It is waging a creeping invasion, and nobody is stopping it. A new report says that the US needs to stop China's encroachments, and Australia needs to be prepared to help.

Does Russia Fit Into the US-Vietnam Equation?

14.07.2015 By Anton Tsvetov (The Diplomat) - Last week, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong completed a five-day visit to the United States, meeting U.S. President Barack Obama, a move widely considered a landmark in what is becoming one of the most intriguing bilateral relationships in the Asia-Pacific. ...

Senior Chinese official to visit Vietnam

13.07.2015 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - BEIJING/HANOI, July 13 (Reuters) - Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, a member of the ruling communist party's elite Politburo Standing Committee, will visit Vietnam in mid-July, state media said on Monday, amid tension over territorial disputes in the South China Sea. ...

Two hurt in land protest at Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park

13.07.2015 By Tan Qiuyi (Channel NewsAsia) - HANOI: Two people were hurt during a protest at the site of an upcoming Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in northern Vietnam, a spokesperson confirmed on Monday (Jul 13). The incident took place last Friday morning. About 100 residents were protesting construction at the site in Hai Duong province, about 60km east of the capital Hanoi, amidst a dispute over compensation for their land ...

China Steps Up Harassment of Vietnamese Fishermen

13.07.2015 (The Diplomat) - Recent incidents highlight the return of low-level coercion against Vietnamese fishermen in disputed waters. According to Vietnam’s Tuoitre News, a fishing boat operated by 11 Vietnamese fishermen off the coast of Quang Ngai was intercepted, harassed, and sunk by two Chinese ships in waters off the Paracel archipelago. ...

Hacking Team's snoopware 'spied on anti-communist activists in Vietnam'

13.07.2015 John Leyden (The Register) - Security researchers are linking malware sent to anti-communist activists in Vietnam to controversial commercial spyware firm Hacking Team. The assault dating from 2012-13 appears to use Hacking Team's MSN+Skype tabs, according to preliminary analysis by MalwareMustDie. ...

South China Sea: Philippines case against China under way in The Hague

13.07.2015 Nicola Davison (The Sydney Morning Herald) - The question of which country controls the Spratlys and much of the rest of the South China Sea is now being raised in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. In an extraordinary hearing of David and Goliath proportions that began on July 7 and will finish today, the Philippines is challenging China on its "nine-dash line" claim to swathes of resource-rich and strategic ocean territory, including dozens of rocky islets and reefs also claimed by Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei. ...

South China Sea Watch: China's island-building almost done

12.07.2015 (Chron) - The dispute over the strategic waterways of the South China Sea has intensified, pitting a rising China against its smaller and militarily weaker neighbors who all lay claim to a string of isles, coral reefs and lagoons mostly in the Spratly and the Paracel islands. Only about 45 of them are occupied. The area is one of the world's busiest shipping routes, rich in fish and potential gas and oil reserves, but it has now emerged as a possible flashpoint involving world powers and regional claimants. ...

Protest gegen Landraub in Vietnam: Demonstrantin wurde vom Bulldozer überfahren und überlebt

12.07.2015 (Forum Vietnam 21) - Eine Demonstrantin wurde während eines Protests am vergangenen Freitag von einem Bulldozer überfahren und überlebt. Die 54-jährige Frau erlitt schwere Schulterbruch. Es wird gerätselt, wie viele Schutzengel die Frau wohl gehabt hatte.

Die Tragödie ereignete sich auf dem Areal eines geplanten Industrieparks in der Provinz Hai Duong, 60 Kilometer von Hanoi als Dutzende von Bauern gegen Landenteignung protestierten.

Die Frau, als Le Thi Cham aus dem Dorf Cam Dien, Bezirk Cam Giang, Provinz Hai Duong identifiziert, gehörte zu einer Gruppe von Bauern, die sich gegen die Vertreibung von ihrem Ackerland wehrte.

In den Zeiten der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in Vietnam steigt der Druck großer in- und ausländischen Konzerne, ihnen das Land zu verpachten, demzufolge verloren 115 Bauernfamilien in Cam Dien in Provinz Hai Duong ihr Ackerland. ...

Vietnam protester crushed by bulldozer

10.07.2015 (IOL) - Hanoi - A woman was in critical condition after being run over by a bulldozer on Friday during a protest over land compensation in northern Vietnam that turned violent, state media said.

Dramatic footage uploaded to YouTube showed the woman's torso trapped under the bulldozer's tracks at the protest at an industrial park in Hai Duong province, about 60 kilometres south-east of Hanoi. ...

Vietnam : une manifestante écrasée par un bulldozer (avec video)

10.07.2015 (metronews) - Une Vietnamienne a été écrasée vendredi par un bulldozer, lors d'une manifestation d'agriculteurs en colère contre les faibles compensations payées pour leurs terres. Elle a été transportée à l'hôpital dans un état critique. ...

Une manifestante écrasée par un bulldozer

10.07.2015 Nga Pham (20 minutes) - Une femme a été grièvement blessée lors d'une réunion d'agriculteurs en colère contre les faibles compensations payées pour leurs terres, transformées en zones industrielles. ... 

Limits of US-Vietnam Relations Revealed in Communist Party Leader Visit

10.07.2015 By Shawn W. Crispin (The Diplomat) - The recent trip is not as monumental as some are making it out to be. Was Vietnam’s de facto supreme leader Nguyen Phu Trong’s diplomatic tour of Washington, including a White House meeting with President Barack Obama, as monumental as reported? ...

Vietnam After 2016: Who Will Lead?

10.07.2015 By Chánh Công Phan (The Diplomat) - Every five years, the Vietnamese Communist Party holds its National Congress. Among other important policy issues, the party congress chooses the central leadership teams, to govern both the party and the country. Of particular interest is this: Who will emerge from the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam as the new general secretary? ...

Philippines asks tribunal to invalidate China's sea claims

09.07.2015 (The Asahi Shimbun) - MANILA--The Philippines has asked an international tribunal to declare China's claims to virtually all the South China Sea invalid, saying Beijing's actions have trampled other nations' rights and damaged vast coral reefs irreversibly. ...

Hanoi Leaders Admit Shortcomings in Massive Tree Felling, Still Defend Project

08.07.2015 By Vu Quoc Ngu (Defend the Defenders) - Leaders of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have admitted some shortcomings in its massive tree felling in April-May, however, they still insist that the project is much needed. After cutting around 2,000 aged trees, mostly healthy and planted by French over one hundred years ago, the project was suspended due to strong protest from local activists who rallied in the city’s center for weeks. ...

The geo–politics of Vietnam–US rapprochement

08.07.2015 Author: Le Hong Hiep, ISEAS (East Asia Forum) - ... The development of bilateral ties between the two Cold War enemies over the past 20 years is impressive. The United States is currently Vietnam’s largest export market. In 2014, Vietnam’s US exports amounted to US$28.66 billion, accounting for almost one fifth of the country’s total exports. By 2014, the United States had also become the seventh largest foreign investor in Vietnam, with the stock of registered capital reaching more than US$10 billion. In terms of political and strategic ties, the two established a ‘comprehensive partnership’ in 2013 ...

Schulterschluss gegen China

08.07.2015 Axel Postinett (Handelsblatt) - San Francisco - Es ist der neue gemeinsamer Gegner, der die früheren Feinde zusammenschweißt: China. Der Generalsekretär der kommunistischen Partei Vietnams besuchte am Dienstag das Weiße Haus und traf US-Präsident Barack Obama. Auf dem Tagesplan stehen im Oval Office das pazifische Freihandelsabkommen, Menschenrechte, Religionsfreiheit und der Konflikt mit China. ...

Reps. Sanchez, Lowenthal criticize Obama for hosting Vietnamese Communist Party member

08.07.2015 By Chris Haire (Orange County Register) - GARDEN GROVE – Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana), whose district includes parts of Garden Grove, rebuked the White House for hosting a member of the Vietnamese Communist Party on Tuesday. ...

40 Jahre nach dem Fall Saigons: Vietnam und die USA zelebrieren Versöhnung

08.07.2015 von Peter Winkler, Washington (NZZ) - ... Dass Amerika in Vietnam wieder beliebt ist, zeigt nicht nur eine regelmässige Umfrage des unabhängigen Pew Research Center. Darin hatten in diesem Jahr 78 Prozent der befragten Vietnamesen angegeben, eine vorteilhafte Meinung von den USA zu haben. Die gleiche Frage zu China lieferte jedoch eine Quote von nur 19 Prozent. ...

Le numéro un du Vietnam reçu en allié à la Maison-Blanche

08.07.2015 (Tribune de Genève) - Quarante ans après la fin d’une guerre qui a traumatisé les Etats-Unis et le Vietnam, le président américain Barack Obama a reçu aujourd’hui pour la première fois le secrétaire général du parti communiste vietnamien Nguyen Phu Trong. Cette rencontre américano-vietnamienne n’a pourtant pas enthousiasmé tout le monde. ...

EEUU potencia lazos con Vietnam con la misma filosofía del deshielo con Cuba

08.07.2015 Lucía Leal (La Vanguardia) - Washington (EFE).- El presidente de EE.UU., Barack Obama, recibió hoy a uno de los hombres más poderosos de Vietnam con el objetivo de impulsar esa relación a pesar de su preocupación por la situación de derechos humanos en el país, con la misma filosofía que, según la Casa Blanca, guía el acercamiento a Cuba. ...

Schiedsverfahren im Inselstreit - Mit dem Seerecht gegen Chinas Machtgelüste

08.07.2015 von Beat U. Wieser (NZZ) - Die Philippinen versuchen, den Streit mit China um Riffe und Meeresgebiete in der Südchinesischen See auf der Ebene internationaler Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit auszutragen. Seit Dienstag bringen sie die Angelegenheit vor einem Schiedsgericht in Den Haag vor. ...

China's Big South China Sea Gamble

08.07.2015 Vijay Sakhuja (The National Interest) - Several Southeast Asian countries have expressed concern over Beijing’s belligerent behavior and aggressive posturing in the South China Sea. A litany of complaints of harassment of innocent fishermen by Chinese Coast Guard vessels has been reported by Vietnam and the Philippines, who are visibly angry with China. ...

China's False South China Sea Narrative

07.07.2015 Gregory B. Poling (The National Interest) - Chinese authorities, as well as sympathetic writers, have in recent months sought to deflect criticism of China’s island-building campaign in the Spratlys by insisting that Beijing is merely copying what other claimants have done for years. According to this narrative, every claimant is as guilty as Beijing of altering the status of features in the South China Sea in contravention of international law and escalating tensions. But this narrative is false. Unfortunately, in one recent case, poorly chosen messaging from Washington has only strengthened it. ...

Obama, Vietnam party boss hold 'candid' rights talks

07.07.2015 (Digital Journal) - President Barack Obama and the leader of Vietnam's Communist Party on Tuesday held what both called "candid" discussions on human rights during a historic White House meeting as the onetime enemies seek to bolster ties. ...

Rapprochement entre les États-Unis et le Vietnam

07.07.2015 (Le Devoir) - L’image, forte, marque une nouvelle étape dans le rapprochement de deux anciens pays ennemis : le président américain Barack Obama a reçu mardi le numéro 1 du Parti communiste vietnamien, assurant avoir eu avec lui une discussion « franche » sur les droits de l’homme. ...

Obama trifft Chef der Kommunistischen Partei Vietnams

07.07.2015 (deutschland-today) - Washington (AFP) - US-Präsident Barack Obama hat mit dem Chef der Kommunistischen Partei Vietnams, Nguyen Phu Trong, über eine weitere Annäherung der beiden Länder beraten. Nach dem Treffen im Weißen Haus sagte Obama vor Journalisten, dass er auch "offen" die Lage der Menschenrechte in Vietnam angesprochen habe. ...

The Wrong Message to Vietnam

07.07.2015 John Sifton HRW (The Huffington Post) - This week President Obama will host the head of the Vietnam Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, at the White House. The meeting is a curious event--partly because Trong is not a head of state but instead the leader of Vietnam's constitutionally-mandated ruling party--but also because Vietnam has done so little in recent months to deserve the reward that is an Oval Office meeting. It remains a thoroughly autocratic and undemocratic state ruled by a single party, headed by Trong, in which repression, torture, and religious persecution are the norm. ...

Taiwán no abandona reclamaciones sobre islas en el mar de China Meridional

07.07.2015 (Univision) - Taipei (EFE).- Taiwán no abandona su reclamación de soberanía sobre un amplio territorio del mar de China Meridional, que se solapa con las reclamaciones chinas e incluye la isla Taiping (Itu Abu), ocupada por sus tropas, anunció hoy su Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. ...

Vietnam und USA rücken zusammen

06.07.2015 von Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - Vietnams Parteichef Nguyen Phu Trong reist für drei Tage in die USA (07.-09.07.2015). Top-Themen sind das Freihandelsabkommen TPP (Transpazifische Partnerschaft) und die angespannte Sicherheitslage in der Region. Die wirtschaftliche Kooperation werde sowohl von den USA als auch von Vietnam als "Grundlage und Motor" für die Beziehungen angesehen, Herzstück ist dabei das Freihandelsabkommen TPP. Größtes Hindernis bei den Verhandlungen der TPP ist aus Sicht der USA die Lage der Menschenrechte in Vietnam, insbesondere was die Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit angeht. ...

Is Vietnam Pivoting Toward the United States?

06.07.2015 By Carl Thayer (The Diplomat) - Nguyen Phu Trong, the Secretary General of the Vietnam Communist Party, will visit Washington from July 6-9 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the United States.

The visit of Secretary General Trong and other members of the Politburo to the United States will assist them in their assessments of the future trajectory of bilateral relations and, more importantly, their evaluation of whether the U.S. can be counted upon to be a reliable partner. ...

Visite historique pour le Vietnam aux Etats-Unis

06.07.2015 (Radio Vatican) - Visite historique à la Maison Blanche : mardi, le président américain Barack Obama recevra le n°1 du parti communiste vietnamien, son secrétaire général, Nguyen Phu Trong. Benoît de Tréglodé, spécialiste du Vietnam, chercheur et directeur du programme Asie à l’Institut de recherches stratégiques de l’Ecole militaire, analyse le rapprochement entre ces deux pays. ...

Japan, Vietnam share concern over land reclamation

04.07.2015 (Nikkei Asian Review) - TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Saturday he has shared deep concern with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung over land reclamation work in the South China Sea, taking aim at China's attempts to physically change the status quo. ...

Japan to provide 750 billion yen in ODA to Mekong region

04.07.2015 By Hajimu Takeda (The Asahi Shimbun) - Japan will provide 750 billion yen ($6.1 billion) in official development assistance for the construction of infrastructure in five nations in the Mekong region under the "New Tokyo Strategy 2015.” ...

Vietnam Communist Party chief to visit Obama at White House

04.07.2015 (dpa) - Washington - The still elusive Pacific trade deal will be high on the agenda Tuesday when US President Barack Obama welcomes Vietnam's Communist Party chief to Washington, according to an announcement released Friday by the White House. Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, will be the second top official from the south-east Asian country to visit Obama in two years. ...

USA-Vietnam : le dégel des relations

04.07.2015 (BBC) - Le président Barak Obama recevra le leader du Parti communiste vietnamien dans les tout prochains jours à la Maison Blanche. Une source proche de la présidence américaine a déclaré vendredi que le chef de l'exécutif américain recevra mardi prochain le dirigeant vietnamien. ...

Vietnam Communist party chief to make first US trip

04.07.2015 (The Guardian) - Barack Obama expected to reciprocate later this year amid shared concerns about territorial disputes with China. The powerful head of Vietnam’s Communist party will travel to the United States for the first time next week, and said he expects President Barack Obama will visit Vietnam later this year. ...

Obama recibirá al número uno del Partido Comunista de Vietnam

03.07.2015 (El Mundo) - Barack Obama recibirá el próximo martes en la Casa Blanca al número uno del Partido Comunista Vietnamita, un acontecimiento histórico, veinte años después del restablecimiento de las relaciones diplomáticas ente los dos países que estuvieron en guerra casi dos décadas. ...

Obama empfängt am Dienstag Vietnams KP-Chef Trong

03.07.2015 (Tiroler Tageszeitung) - Der Chef der Kommunistischen Partei Vietnams, Nguyen Phu Trong, wird am Dienstag erstmals im Weißen Haus in Washington empfangen. Für gewöhnlich werden nur Staats- und Regierungschefs im Oval Office empfangen. ...

Vietnam, Vatican continue talks toward resumption of diplomatic relations

03.07.2015 (CatholicCulture) - A top Vietnamese official reported progress toward the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Vatican, after a visit to Rome this week. ...

Les Montagnards vietnamiens demandeurs d’asile sont victimes de la politique de bon voisinage entre le Vietnam, la Thaïlande et le Cambodge

02.07.2015 (Églises d'Asie) - Depuis qu’il s’est déclenché, à la suite de la répression policière qui a suivi les deux soulèvements de certaines ethnies des Hauts Plateaux du Centre-Vietnam, au mois de février 2001 et pendant le week-end de Pâques 2004, l’exode des Montagnards à travers la forêt vers le Cambodge n’a guère cessé. ...

Chinas Flugpiste im Südchinesischen Meer ist fast fertig

02.07.2015 (deutschland-today) - Peking (AFP) - China ist nach Erkenntnissen einer US-Politikinstituts mit dem Bau einer 3000 Meter langen Start- und Landebahn auf einem Riff im Südchinesischen Meer nahezu fertig. ...

Beijing, the new National Security Act gives enormous powers to the army

02.07.2015 Beijing (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) will expand its presence beyond territorial borders with the new national security bill approved yesterday by the National People’s Congress. Beside the need to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, the law provides that it is the responsibility of the military to defend " overseas interests ", even through the use of force if necessary. ...

Beijing, la nueva ley sobre la seguridad nacional da enormes poderes al ejército

02.07.2015 (AsiaNews) - Beijing - El Ejército de liberación del Pueblo chino (Pla) podrá expandir su presencia más allá de los confines territoriales gracias a la nueva ley sobre la seguridad nacional aprobada ayer por la Asamblea nacional del Pueblo. Junto a la necesidad de proteger la soberanía y la integridad territorial del país, la ley prevé que sea tarea de las fuerzas militares defender también los “interese de ultramar”, si es necesario hasta con la fuerza. ...

VIETNAM : Dès sa sortie de prison, un avocat catholique bien connu annonce la poursuite de son combat

01.07.2015 (La Croix) - L’ensemble des grandes agences de presse mondiales a salué la libération, le 26 juin dernier, du militant catholique des droits de l’homme, Lê Quôc Quân. Cet avocat originaire du Centre-Vietnam, bien connu de l’ensemble de la population pour ses prises de position indépendantes, a accompli la totalité de la peine qui lui avait été infligée, à savoir 30 mois de prison. Sa condamnation par le tribunal de Hanoi reposait entièrement sur une accusation de prétendue fraude fiscale. ...

Freiheit für Ksor Y Du! 01.07.2015 Josef Bordat (Blog jobo72) - Seit über fünf Jahren ist Ksor Y Du im Gefängnis. Was er verbrochen hat? Er ist Christ, das reicht. Zumindest in Vietnam, dem Land, das Mitglied im UN-Menschenrechtsrat ist. Vietnam füchtet das Christentum und sieht den Glauben als Form einer „Untergrabung der nationalen Einheit“. ...Evangelist seit über fünf Jahren inhaftiert 01.07.2015 (idea) - Frankfurt am Main/Wetzlar (idea) – Als „Gefangenen des Monats Juli“ haben die Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte (IGFM/Frankfurt am Main) und die Evangelische Nachrichtenagentur idea (Wetzlar) den vietnamesischen Evangelisten Ksor Y Du benannt und aufgerufen, für ihn einzutreten und zu beten. Er ist seit Januar 2010 inhaftiert. ...

Clashes between authorities and civilians on Vietnam-Cambodian border leave dozens injured

01.07.2015 By Mark Piggott (IBTimes) - Dozens of people have been injured in clashes between protesters and authorities on the Cambodia-Vietnam border. ...

Released from prison, Vietnamese Catholic lawyer to continue human rights fight

01.07.2015 (AsiaNews/EDA) – Le Quoc Quân, a 45-year-old activist, was released from prison last Friday, after serving his term in full. He had been convicted for tax fraud on trumpeted up charges he had always denied. In the last few days before his release, he had gone on a hunger strike against mistreatment in jail. His ideals remain the same even after his imprisonment, he said. ...

Liberado de la cárcel, abogado católico vietnamita continuará la batalla a favor de los derechos humanos

01.07.2015 (AsiaNews/EDA) – El viejo activista de 45 años Le Quoc Quan fue puesto en libertad el 26 de junio, después de cumplir la condena en su totalidad. Había sido declarado culpable de fraude fiscal. Una falsa acusación que él siempre ha negado. En los últimos días había puesto en marcha una huelga de hambre contra el maltrato en la cárcel. Incluso después de su encarcelamiento, dice, mis ideales siguen siendo los mismos. ...