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Open Letter to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council

and its Mechanisms Concerning Vietnam’s Human Rights Abuses

and The People’s Human Rights Campaign for 2015

10.03.2015  - We, the undersigned civil society organizations, Vietnamese citizens and those of Vietnamese origin living abroad, would like to reiterate what the Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion or Belief, as well as the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention have stated in their recent reports. Since Vietnam became a member state of the Human Rights Council in January 2014, human rights abuses committed by the State continue despite the recommendations of the Council and the UN human rights mechanisms. ...

Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Cuong is leading a Vietnamese delegation to participate in the UN Human Rights Council’s 28th session, which takes place from March 2 to 27. Both the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion or Belief, and the Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights are presenting their reports on Vietnam at the current Council sessions.

We trust that universal human rights will prevail in every corner of the world, including our homeland, Vietnam, in 2015. [read more]

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom places Vietnam on blacklist for violations of freedom of religion or belief

30.04.2015 (Vietnam Committee) - PARIS – In its 2015 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom issued today, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) placed Vietnam on a list of 17 countries, recommending that they be designated as “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) by the US administration for “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations” of religious freedom. ...

La Commission sur la Liberté Religieuse Internationale place le Vietnam sur sa liste noire des violateurs de la liberté de religion et de croyance

30.04.2015 (Comité Vietnam) - PARIS – Dans son dernier rapport annuel rendu public aujourd’hui, la Commission américaine sur la Liberté Religieuse Internationale (USCIRF) a recommandé à l’Administration américaine de placer le Vietnam parmi les « Pays Particulièrement Préoccupants » (Countries of Particular Concern, CPC) du fait des « violations systématiques et flagrantes en cours » à la liberté religieuse. ...

40 Jahre nach Ende des Vietnamkriegs - Eine unvollendete Geschichte

30.04.2015 Gerhard Will (taz) - Vor vierzig Jahren siegte der kommunistische Norden über den Süden. Was wurde aus den Hoffnungen für ein freies Vietnam?

... Viele ausländische Beobachter sahen die Entwicklungschancen Vietnams durchaus positiv. Wer der vielfach überlegenen Feuerkraft der amerikanischen Militärmaschine erfolgreich widerstanden hatte, für den würde auch der wirtschaftliche Wiederaufbau kein unüberwindbares Hindernis darstellen.

Zehn Jahre später hatte sich keine dieser hoffnungsvollen Erwartungen erfüllt. Dennoch verteidigt die Partei bis heute eisern ihr Macht- und Meinungsmonopol und wirft Dissidenten und kritische Journalisten ins Gefängnis. ...

In den Köpfen der Jungen ein anderes Land

30.04.2015, von Quynh Tran (FAZ) - Offiziell sozialistischer Einparteienstaat, inoffiziell vom Geld getriebene Anarchie – vierzig Jahre nach dem Ende des Krieges hat Vietnam viele Veränderungen überstanden.

In diesem Frühling erlebe ich eine solche Veränderung. Als ich durch die Straßen der Stadt fahre, sehe ich Alleen mit gefällten Bäumen. Das zerschlagene Holz mitten auf der Straße ist so rot und dunkel, dass es fast aussieht, als würden die Adern der Straßen ausbluten. Auf Nachfrage erzählt mir mein Onkel, dass die Stadt beschlossen hat, 6.700 der 29.600 Bäume zu fällen.

Die Hanoier vermuten diesmal, dass wieder korrupte Politiker am Werk sind, die das wertvolle Tropenholz der jahrhundertealten Bäume illegal verkaufen oder Platz für Bauprojekte schaffen wollen, ...

Diatribe antiaméricaine 40 ans après la fin du conflit

30.04.2015 (20 minutes) - Le Vietnam a célébré jeudi le 40e anniversaire de la chute de Saïgon, dernier épisode de la guerre. Il a décoché des flèches contre l'ancien ennemi lors d'un discours du Premier ministre.

Les victoires militaires passées sont largement utilisées par le pouvoir actuel pour légitimer sa mainmise. Mais la perception que les Vietnamiens ont de la guerre a bien évolué malgré la prédominance du récit historique officiel, estime Tuong Vu, professeur de sciences politiques à l'université de l'Oregon. ...

40 years later, Vietnam still deeply divided over war

30.04.2015 Thomas Maresca (USA TODAY) - HO CHI MINH CITY — This bustling city of 8 million that is still called Saigon by many is going all out to celebrate Thursday's 40th anniversary of its fall — the day North Vietnam's Communist army captured South Vietnam's capital.

For journalist and author Huy Duc, the first step towards reconciliation is to acknowledge the very different perspectives on why the war was fought. That has yet to take place.

"Vietnamese people from both sides have to agree on what happened," he said. "People who were sent from the North believed that they fought against the invading Americans and were liberating the South. And many people from the South ... believe it was a civil war, that the South was invaded by the North." ...

Verständnis für Feiern zum Kriegsende - Neudeck: Vietnam ist tief gespalten

30.04.2015 Von Dr. Christof Haverkamp (NOZ) - Osnabrück. Der Gründer der Hilfsorganisation „Cap Anamur“, Rupert Neudeck, äußert Verständnis dafür, dass Vietnam an diesem Donnerstag das Kriegsende und den Sieg über die USA vor 40 Jahren feiert.

In einem Gespräch sagte Neudeck: „Die Feier ist wahrscheinlich unumgänglich, denn es war ein gewaltiger historischer Sieg eines Landes der Dritten Welt über die Supermacht der westlichen Welt.“ Doch die Erinnerung an den militärischen Sieg des kommunistischen Regimes über die USA am 30. April 1975 werde nicht die Spaltung Vietnams überwinden. ...

The Ex-Refugee Bringing Google-Like Data Tech to Everyone

30.04.2015 Cade Metz (Wired) - Christopher Nguyen escaped from Vietnam in the summer of 1978.

His father, a former officer in the South Vietnamese army, was interned in a labor camp, and on a moonless night, he, his four sisters, and his mother took a boat down the Mekong river, alongside about thirty other refugees. ...

The Cham and the Nuclear Power Project

29/04/2015 Inrasara, translated by Thục Quyên & Melissa Ryzek (Save VietNam's Nature) - 1. Pangdurangga (nowadays includes Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan Province ) is a geographic region - the southernmost of --- four historic areas in the ancient kingdom of Champa. During the tumultuous history of the kingdom, this area has always had to suffer the most, in all aspects.

On August 23, 2013, driven by the one way propaganda campaign, Mr Bao van Tro,  ethnic Cham, confirmed the "absolute safety" of the nuclear power. Another person, Mr Ngo khac Can, a Kinh and president of  the Local Senior Association of Thai An, back from his trip to visit a Japan Nuclear power plant, "explained" that only "atom" would explode but "nuclear power" is quite safe. Making the Chams lose entire trust in the matter. ...

Anti-nuclear activists soldier on in nuclear energy powerhouse France

28.04.2015 Michiko Yoshii (The Asahi Shimbun) - France, smaller than either the United States or China, has solidly embraced nuclear power. Its 58 nuclear reactors deliver 75 percent of the country's electricity. I visited France in March, my first trip there in two and a half years. Arriving in Saint-Quentin, a small rural town of only 60,000 people about 150 kilometers northeast of Paris, the opening ceremony for a photo exhibition on the Fukushima nuclear crisis was under way. It was the fourth anniversary of the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Japan. ...

Golf course debate reflects Vietnam army's capitalist streak

28.04.2015 By Mike Ives, The Associated Press (wftv) - HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — ... In 2007, the Communist Party's powerful Central Committee ordered the military's 140 declared companies to divest from sectors that were not directly related to national security. That number declined to 98 within two years, according to an analysis of public records by BMI Research. But otherwise there have been few tangible results, said Carl Thayer, a Vietnam expert in Australia who has studied the army since the 1980s. "Over time the government tried to push the military out of purely commercial activities," he said. "It looks like the impetus has died off." ...

The place for VN Communist Party is in front of the Court of Justice

28.04.2015 Bùi Tín, Translated by Nguyễn-Khoa Thái Anh (VN-SHARE-NEWS) - The more than 30 years war in Vietnam has been assessed, debated, dissected for a long time, yet conflicting opinions still persist today.

 The big credit must go to the “glorious Communist Party.” Therefore April 30, 1975 is the date of «heroic history» of the nation. Conversely, a sizable part of the Vietnamese population considers April 30 as “the day of national enmity.” ...

40 years after end of war, the Vietnam People's Army is a capitalist juggernaut

28.04.2015 By Mike Ives, Associated Press (U.S. News & World Report) - HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Vietnam's busiest airport, once a major gateway for thousands of U.S. troops headed for battle, is now the scene of a slow-burning controversy linked to the commercial clout of the country's powerful military.

To alleviate congestion at Ho Chi Minh City's Tan Son Nhat International Airport, top officials in the ruling Communist Party have proposed building an airport costing a whopping $15.8 billion about 40 kilometers (25 miles) away. But some city residents and aviation experts say it makes more sense for the airport to simply expand onto some adjacent land managed by the army. They wonder why the property is being used for a new golf course. ...

40 years later: Communism's hollow victory in Vietnam

28.04.2015 (The West Australian) - Ho Chi Minh City (AFP) - Forty years after it won the war, the Communist Party still rules Vietnam with an iron fist. But with crony capitalism, corruption and inequality now rife, many claim its victory was a hollow one. ...

Der tödliche Nebel liegt noch immer über Vietnam

28.04.2015 Von Peter Jaeggi und Roland Schmid (TagesWoche) - Im Vietnamkrieg haben die USA 72 Millionen Liter giftige Herbizide versprüht. Darunter das dioxinhaltige Agent Orange. Wissenschaftler warnten schon damals vor diesem Stoff. Es wird Jahrhunderte dauern, bis sich die Natur erholt hat. ...

La caída de Saigon, 40 años de éxodo y derrota

28.04.2015 Jairo Mejía (Yahoo Noticias) - (EFE).- En la primavera de 1975 Estados Unidos empezaba a olvidar el horror de la Guerra de Vietnam, sus 58.000 soldados muertos y su bochornosa salida a medias, pero la toma de Saigón por los norvietnamitas ahondó en la herida, hizo inapelable la derrota y el éxodo. ...

As war memories fade, Vietnam still battles Agent Orange legacy

28.04.2015 By Lien Hoang (Reuters) - Tan Tri doesn't know a thing about Agent Orange. But doctors say he lives with its effects every day, when he crawls off his wooden bed and waits for someone to feed him. He is 25. ...

Nixon’s Retrospective on the Vietnam War

28.04.2015 By Francis P. Sempa (The Diplomat) - The former president had much to say on Vietnam and the failed use of American power. Ten years after the war’s end, Nixon wrote a compelling retrospective on the war titled No More Vietnams. As we mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and search for lessons, meaning and historical perspective, Nixon’s book is worth another look. ...

Nobody can prevent oil exploration in our waters: Vietnam

28.04.2015 (The Hindu) - China had earlier cautioned that it would firmly oppose any exploration activity in South China Sea if it undermines its sovereignty and interests.

In an apparent reference to China, Vietnam today asserted that “nobody” could prevent India’s oil exploration efforts in its country, stating it was being undertaken in Hanoi’s exclusive territorial waters. ...

ASEAN turning tougher on China

28.04.2015 Wataru Yoshida, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - LANGKAWI, Malaysia -- ASEAN leaders are growing less accommodating toward China, with plans to release a statement contending that its maritime advances damage trust, peace and stability in the region. ...

China maritime tensions dominate Southeast Asia summit

28.04.2015 (The Asahi Shimbun) - KUALA LUMPUR--Southeast Asian leaders edged closer to open criticism of China's land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea at a regional summit on April 27, as the Philippines drew the ire of Beijing which called its objections to the work "unreasonable." ...

TIME ASEAN TURNED TO US for maritime cooperation

28.04.2015 Richard Javad Heydarian, Truong-Minh Vu RSIS (The Nation) - China's accelerated construction activities in the South China Sea have further intensified the ongoing maritime disputes between Beijing and its Southeast Asian neighbours, particularly the Philippines and Vietnam. More than just complicating the nature of the ongoing disputes at the expense of other claimant states, China's land reclamation activities signal its growing military assertiveness, as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) moves towards "peripheral defence" and consolidation of its strategic depth in the area. ...

Marking the end of the Vietnam War: Two sides of the story

28.04.2015 By Marianne Brown (dpa) - Hanoi - The Vietnamese government calls it Liberation Day, but for Nguyen Van Hoang, a wiry man in his mid 60s, the events of April 30, 1975 had different connotations. He recalls the day his life changed forever with a wistful smile.

In Ho Chi Minh City, the anniversary was to be marked with incense ceremonies, a special arts programme and a bicycle race anmong others. But despite the official festivities, the topic remains divisive. ...

Factbox: Vietnamese immigration to Australia

28.04.2015 By Jason Thomas (SBS) - More than 80,000 Vietnamese people moved to Australia in the decade following the Vietnam War, many as refugees. The surge in Vietnamese immigration to Australia was the first test for multiculturalism after the White Australia Policy ended. ...

SBS's interactive graphic novel The Boat brings Vietnamese refugee experience to life

28.04.2015 By Joel Meares (WA Today) - The Vietnamese refugee experience comes to vivid, harrowing life in The Boat, an interactive online graphic novel based on Nam Le's short story about a 16-year-old refugee sent off alone by her parents after the fall of Saigon. ...

April 30 to mark Vietnamese ‘boat people’ acceptance in Canada

27.04.2015 By Kim Mackrael, Ottawa —(The Globe and Mail) - There were cheers and applause as Stephen Harper stepped on stage at a Mississauga convention centre in early February, facing a room filled with South Vietnamese flags and surrounded by Conservative parliamentarians. ...

My Father, the Spy in the Hanoi Hilton

27.04.2015 By Jim Stockdale (The Daily Beast) - For seven and a half years, my father James B. Stockdale led a POW espionage network that linked tortured Americans inside North Vietnam directly to the Pentagon. When word came that Hanoi would release American prisoners, Dad had been jailed for well over seven years. ...

ASEAN-Länder wollen gemeinsame Zeitzone einführen

27.04.2015 (NZZ) - KUALA LUMPUR (awp international) - Die zehn Mitgliedsländer der südostasiatischen Staatengemeinschaft Asean wollen eine gemeinsame Zeitzone einrichten. Man sei diesem Ziel einen Schritt näher gekommen, sagte Malaysias Ministerpräsident Najib Razak am Montag auf einem Asean-Gipfel in Kuala Lumpur. ...

Asean-Gipfel Vereinte Kritik an China

27.04.2015 von Petra Kolonko, Peking (FAZ) - Die Führer der zehn Asean-Staaten haben bei ihrem Treffen die Regionalmacht China scharf kritisiert. Die Territorialansprüche im südchinesischen Meer stellten eine Gefahr für Frieden, Stabilität und Sicherheit dar. ...

Asian Nations Rally for Rule of Law

27.04.2015 By Joshua Philipp (Epoch Times) - The 10-member Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) is expected to release a statement on April 27 calling for heavy consultations for a code of conduct in the South China Sea. This could mark the first steps towards rule of law in the disputed region. ...

Chinese actions push PH, Vietnam closer together

27.04.2015 (ABS-CBN) KUALA LUMPUR – President Benigno Aquino III and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held a bilateral meeting at the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit Sunday evening, highlighting the growing cooperation between the Southeast Asian neighbors in the face of Chinese actions in the South China Sea. ...

Filipinas y Vietnam denuncian el "acoso" de China en los territorios en disputa

27.04.2015 (EFE) - Filipinas y Vietnam denunciaron el "acoso" de China en los territorios en disputa en el mar de China Meridional, tras varios incidentes de embarcaciones de ambos países con guardacostas chinos, informaron hoy fuentes oficiales. ...

Filipinas insta Asean a hacer frente a China ante disputas territoriales

26.04.2015 (Univision) - Bangkok (EFE) - Filipinas advirtió hoy de que la Asociación de Naciones del Sudeste Asiático (Asean) arriesga su credibilidad con su inacción ante China en las disputas territoriales en el Mar de China Meridional, donde Pekín puede hacerse con el control "de facto". ...

EU und Asean wollen über Freihandelsabkommen sprechen

26.04.2015 (Donaukurier) - Kuala Lumpur (AFP) - Die Europäische Union und die südostasiatische Staatengemeinschaft Asean wollen ihre Verhandlungen über ein Freihandelsabkommen wieder aufnehmen. Beide Seiten verkündeten am Rande des Asean-Gipfels in Malaysias Hauptstadt Kuala Lumpur in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung ihre Absicht, die Gespräche wieder auf den Weg zu bringen. ...

Philippinen fordern mehr Entschlossenheit im Inselstreit mit China

26.04.2015 (dw) - Die Philippinen verlangen von den anderen südostasiatischen Ländern mehr Entschlossenheit im Inselstreit mit China. Die Regierung in Peking wolle ihre Kontrolle über umstrittene Gebiete im Südchinesischen Meer weiter ausbauen, sagte der philippinische Außenminister Albert del Rosario beim Treffen der Staatengemeinschaft ASEAN ...

Philippines calls on ASEAN to urge China to halt land reclamation

26.04.2015 (Reuters) - The Philippines called on its Southeast Asian neighbours to unite in urging China to halt reclamation of land in the South China Sea, but the call failed to raise widespread support ahead of a regional summit. China claims 90 percent of the South China Sea, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas. Its claims overlap with those of Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan. ...

EU set to resume free-trade talks at ASEAN summit dominated by China sea dispute

26.04.2015 (dw) - The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the EU agreed Sunday to explore a free-trade agreement, which initially began in 2007 but stalled in 2009 following EU concerns over Myanmar's human rights record. The move comes as the 10-member bloc is expected to merge into a single market by the end of the year. "But it is important that we get it right and that is why we proposed this roadmap, a stock-taking event by the end of the year." The commissioner's statement comes one day ahead of the annual ASEAN summit. However, a key talking point of this year's summit is China's maneuvers in the South China Sea, which has proven to be a controversial topic among ASEAN countries. ...

Sieg oder Niederlage? Zwist über den Jahrestag bei Vietnams Veteranen

25.04.2015 (Bluewin) - Vietnam plant Ende April zum 40. Jahrestag des kommunistischen Siegs grosse Paraden. Aber nicht allen ist nach Feiern zumute.

Für die einen, die Vietnamesen aus dem Norden, ist der 30. April der Tag der Befreiung. Für manche Südvietnamesen nicht. «Der Tag, an dem das Vaterland verloren ging», sagen sie. Zitieren lässt sich damit auch 40 Jahre später aber kaum einer. Vietnam ist ein kommunistischer Einparteienstaat. Kritik an der Partei ist verboten. Im Norden heisst der Krieg landläufig «amerikanischer Krieg», im Süden Bürgerkrieg. ...

British Vietnam Migrants Recall Deadly Voyage

25.04.2015 By Richard Suchet, Sky News Reporter (Sky UK) - The drowning of more than 800 migrants last week is another tragic example of the risk borne by those trying to cross the Med for a better life - but this year's deaths are not the first refugee crisis at sea. The perilous crossings from North Africa are chillingly reminiscent of the late 1970s and 1980s when nearly a million Vietnamese attempted to escape communism by crossing the South China Sea. ...

Twist statt Napalm

25.04.2015 Von Matthias Heine, Feuilletonredakteur (Die Welt) - Jenseits des Ho-Chi-Minh-Pfades: Marcelino Truong zeigt in "Ein schöner kleiner Krieg" das andere Vietnam. Die Geschichte des Vietnam-Kriegs ist in den Massenmedien fast immer aus der Sicht der Amerikaner erzählt worden. Etwas anders war es in der DDR, wo mit importierten Vietcong-Propagandafilmen wie "Die Bäume von Fräulein Tham" oder linientreuen Comics wie "Hoa trocknet seine Tränen" immerhin die Perspektive der Kommunisten im Norden dargestellt wurde. Die Südvietnamesen waren dagegen bisher nicht nur die Verlierer des realen Krieges ...

China's South China Sea Disaster

25.04.2015 By Joshua Kurlantzick (The National Interest) - Until the past five years, the Philippines and Vietnam had minimal strategic ties other than working together, through ASEAN initiatives, on a range of nontraditional security issues.

Now, Hanoi and Manila appear willing to formalize their cooperation, which should be a worrying thought for Beijing, since this cooperation signals that Southeast Asian nations are now becoming more unified in their opposition to Beijing’s South China Sea policies. ...

«Boat people»: le Vietnam proteste contre des commémorations au Canada

25.04.2015 (La Presse) - AFP  - Hanoï a adressé de vifs reproches à Ottawa après l'adoption par le Sénat canadien d'une loi instaurant une journée commémorant l'arrivée au Canada de dizaines de milliers de «boat people» fuyant le Vietam après la prise de Saïgon par les communistes il y a 40 ans. ...

Meinungsfreiheit und Genozid – Die deutsche Schriftstellervereinigung PEN tagt in Magdeburg

24.04.2015 (PEN Zentrum Deutschland) - „Die böse Lust am Zweifel“ schrieb einst Brigitte Reimann (1934-1974) ironisch, bezogen auf ideologische Rechthaber, die 1965 den Schriftstellern in der DDR den Zweifel austreiben wollten. „Writers-in-Exile“ und „Writers-in-Prison“ heißen zwei international agierende Initiativen des Zentrums. Diese werden bei der Auftaktveranstaltung im Mittelpunkt stehen, wenn zum einen die Meinungsfreiheit in Vietnam kritisch befragt wird ...

Gestrandet, tot: Boatpeople einst und heute

24.04.2015 Anne-Catherine Simon  (Die Presse) - Boat People“ oder „Boatpeople“ nennt man heute in vielen Medien die afrikanischen Flüchtlinge, die über das Mittelmeer nach Europa zu gelangen versuchen und dabei zu tausenden ertrinken. Der Begriff verbindet die gegenwärtige Flüchtlingstragödie im Mittelmeer mit einer, die Jahrzehnte zurückliegt. Boatpeople, das waren jene Menschen, die in den Jahren nach dem Vietnam-Krieg vor dem kommunistischen Regime flüchteten, das hunderttausende hinrichten, foltern, an Sklavenarbeit oder in Umerziehungslagern sterben ließ. ...

Ikonisches Foto aus dem Vietnam-Krieg - Negativ 7a

24.04.2015 Von Willi Winkler (SZ) - Es war kein Versehen, sagt Nick Ut, es geschah mit vollem Risiko. Flüchtlinge von auswärts und Bürger von Trang Bang hatten sich am 8. Juni 1972 in eine Pagode zwischen den Grenzlinien geflüchtet. Die beiden A-1 E Skyraider aus Südvietnam, altmodische Propellermaschinen, missachteten die Markierungen und bombardierten - um den Vietcong zu erwischen - auch Zivilisten und den Befehlsstand der eigenen Armee. ...

Vietnam rebukes Canadian ambassador over commemoration of fall of Saigon

24.04.2015 By Kim Mackrael, Ottawa (The Globe and Mail) - Vietnam’s government says its relationship with Ottawa has been damaged by a Canadian bill meant to commemorate the arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in Canada after the fall of Saigon.

The bill came into effect on Thursday and sets April 30 as Journey to Freedom Day, a nod to members of Canada’s Vietnamese community that has generated controversy and raised questions about relations between Ottawa and Hanoi. ...

Einbußen bei Vietnams Tourismus

24.04.2015 Anemie Wick (dw) - In Vietnam ist die Zahl internationaler Besucher rückläufig: Im ersten Quartal kamen 13,7 Prozent weniger Gäste als im Vorjahreszeitraum. Der Minus-Trend hält seit zehn Monaten an. Vietnam-Marketing überzeugt nicht. Der Bekanntheitsgrad von Vietnam, sagt Edens von Diethelm Travel, sei im Vergleich gering, es bestehe keine klare Markenbildung. ...

10.000 Kilometer für eine Ausbildung

23.04.2015 Julia Lappert (Freie Presse) - Seit September leben 19 vietnamesische Azubis in der Region. Ihre überbetriebliche Ausbildung absolvieren sie in Glauchau. Dass das Projekt ausgerechnet zwischen Sachsen und Vietnam stattfindet, ist auch ein Resultat der DDR-Zeit.

Im September sind 19 Hoch- und Tiefbaulehrlinge, zwölf Pflege-Azubis und eine Kauffrau für Büromanagement nach Sachsen gekommen. ...

Government should build trust by engaging society: Malaysian minister

23.04.2015 By Sumisha Naidu (Channel NewsAsia) - KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is hosting the 26th ASEAN Summit.

Ahead of the event, civil society groups from across the 10-country regional grouping gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the ASEAN People's Forum to discuss and make recommendations to ASEAN about issues affecting the region.

But tensions have surfaced at the event. A Vietnamese-American community organisation found its booth vandalised on Wednesday (Apr 22). ...

Powerful propaganda: Vietnam journalists' role in war

22.04.2015 By Cat Barton (digitaljournal) - AFP - Many US soldiers who fought in Vietnam will remember Hanoi Hannah, the silky-voiced communist radio correspondent who urged young American GIs to stop fighting and go home. She is the most famous of dozens of Vietnamese journalists drafted by the communists to help the war effort, which ended 40 years ago this month with the fall of the city then known as Saigon.

"I don't think many GI's actually listened to her, much less were influenced by what she said. They knew it was all propaganda," said Carl Robinson, a journalist who covered the war for the Associated Press, adding US forces preferred listening to their army's own radio network.

While Vietnamese reporters working for the communist side were certainly less balanced in their reporting than the foreign press, their images were still powerful, according to photographer Tim Page, who covered the war for UPI. ...

Vietnam 40 years on: how a communist victory gave way to capitalist corruption

22.04.2015 By Nick Davies (The Guardian) - After the military victory, Vietnam’s socialist model began to collapse. Cut off by US-led trade embargos and denied reconstruction aid, it plunged into poverty. Now its economy is booming – but so is inequality and corruption...

... In an office across the city sat Nguyen Cong Khe. For years, he edited Thanh Nien, the newspaper that was based in the building outside which the Coffee Lady plied her trade. He understands why the leadership turned to the tools of capitalism to kickstart the economy, but he has seen the dark side of the neoliberal coin – the corruption and the inequality. Khe reckoned that for every $10 assigned to any public project, $7 is going into somebody’s pocket. Really? So 70% of Vietnam’s state budget is being stolen? That would be a theft of staggering proportions. We spoke via a translator. He nodded, and twisted one hand in the air: “Between 50 and 70%.” ...

Vietnamese Farmers Block Highway to Protest Pollution

21.04.2015 (VOA) - Hundreds of angry farmers in central Vietnam dumped dead fish and shrimp onto the highway in front of a local government office Tuesday to protest pollution. In the latest in a series of public environmental protests, the farmers in Cam Ranh town, Khanh Hoa province, protested against sand dredging that pollutes a bay whose marine life they count on to make a living. ...

Licht und Schatten in Vietnam - «Sie hören auf, Tiere zu opfern und um Geld zu spielen»

21.04.2015 Daniel Gerber (livenet.ch) - Die Zahl der Christen wächst in Vietnam, sagt ein einheimischer Pastor. Laut seiner Schilderung verbessert dies die Lebensumstände, selbst wenn manchmal Druck durch die Obrigkeit entsteht. «Ganze Familien kommen zu Christus», beobachtet Pastor Steve (Name geändert). Manche Christen seien wegen ihres Glaubens noch im Gefängnis. «Wir fordern, dass sie freigelassen werden. Wir wissen, dass die Menschen Gott brauchen.» Dann und wann würden Schikanen folgen. ...

10 Most Repressive Nations for Media

21.04.2015 Daniela Schrier (VOA) - NEW YORK— The Committee to Protect Journalists has listed the 10 countries  where the news media are the most restricted. Led by Eritrea and North Korea, the CPJ report released Tuesday says that these countries harass and imprison journalists, as well as censor the Internet to keep reporters quiet. In addition to China, Eritrea, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the CPJ's top 10 most restrictive countries list also includes Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Burma and Cuba ...

What if there had been a South Vietnam?

21.04.2015 John J. Metlzer (The Statesman) - Four long decades since the stunning imagery of North Vietnamese tanks smashing through the gates of Saigon’s Doc Lap Independence Palace seizing the South Vietnamese capital, ending the decades-long war, and bringing forcible reunification by the communists to the divided nation. By 1975, and even despite the ongoing conflict, South Vietnam was still ahead of the North. As long as the Saigon government could develop its socio/economic base free from both Viet Cong insurgency and the threat of a largescale conventional North Vietnamese onslaught, something similar to South Korea’s post-1953 economic revival could have happened. ...

Charlie filmte nicht

21.04.2015 von Wolfgang Röhl (FreieWelt) - Dass eine WDR-Dokumentation über den Vietnamkrieg ungefähr so differenziert rüberkommen würde wie ein Beitrag der Deutschen Wochenschau von 1943 über Stalingrad, das wurde bei der Erstausstrahlung des Werks auf „arte“ am 14. April schnell klar. „Der Vietnamkrieg. Gesichter einer Tragödie“ ist der Titel eines zyklopenhaften Blicks auf den zweiten Vietnamkrieg. Die TV-Erzählung aus Köln bildet ohne wenn und aber den Stand der offiziellen Hanoier Geschichtsklitterung ab. Das Grundmaterial des Films kann man in zahlreichen Agitprop-Stätten finden, die der vietnamesische Staat unterhält. ...

New photos of Chinese expansion in S. China Sea

21.04.2015 By Raul Dancel, Philippines Correspondent, In Manila (ANN) - THE Philippines has released new aerial photos of Chinese land reclamations in the South China Sea that it said seriously threaten its "naval arc of defence". ...

Communist authorities charge Nguyen Viet Dung with "disturbing public order"

21.04.2015 CTV Danlambao/Translated by Như Ngọc (Dân Làm Báo) - After 9 days of silence, Hanoi police has announced the reason for making urgent arrest and detaining Nguyen Viet Dung, the man who dons an airborne uniform of the former Republic of Vietnam appearing during a protest at Hoan Kiem Lake in the morning of Sunday, April 12, 2015. ...

Krieg aus Kinderperspektive: Spiel mit beim Lied vom Tod

20.04.2015 Von Moritz Piehler (Spiegel-Online) - Der Vietnamkrieg ist 40 Jahre nach seinem Ende längst zur Folklore verkommen, zur Legendenbildung der Alt-68er-Mobilisierung und gleichzeitig überschattet von der US-amerikanischen Perspektive auf die neuzeitlichen Kriege. Und in Vietnam selbst dienen die Kriegsreliquien heute hauptsächlich als Touristenmagnet. Die Graphic Novel "Ein schöner kleiner Krieg" versetzt die Leser noch einmal zurück in die Anfangsjahre dieses Krieges. Marcelino Truong, Diplomatensohn und Illustrator, reist mit seinem autobiografischen Buch in das Saigon der frühen Sechzigerjahre. ...

Police in Hue harass and seize property of Buddhist youth leader Le Cong Cau

20.04.2015 (Quê Mẹ) - PARIS (IBIB) – The International Buddhist Information Bureau (IBIB) received an appeal today from Le Cong Cau, Head of the Buddhist Youth Movement and Secretary-general of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV). He reports that Security Police broke into his home in Hue, harassed and threatened him, and confiscated his scanner and other property. ...

La Police harcèle et saisit les biens du leader de la Jeunesse Bouddhiste à Hue Le Cong Cau

20.04.2015 (Quê Mẹ) - PARIS (IBIB) – Le Cong Cau, Directeur du Mouvement Bouddhiste de la Jeunesse et Secrétaire-général de l’Eglise Bouddhique Unifiée du Vietnam (EBUV) a informé aujourd’hui le Bureau International d’Information Bouddhiste (BIIB) que la Sécurité vietnamienne avait fait irruption chez lui, à Hue, l’avait harcelé et menacé, et lui confisqué un scanner et d’autres biens. ...

Vietnam asked Philippines to form pact to counter China, Aquino reveals

20.04.2015 Raissa Robles (SCMP) - A new “strategic partnership” being negotiated between two states fending off China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea was suggested by Vietnam, Philippine President Benigno Aquino has revealed. It had been widely assumed that the proposed pact between Vietnam and the Philippines was initiated by Manila, which has taken a high-profile stand against China. ...

Unkrautvernichter - das giftige Vermächtnis des Krieges

20.04.2015 (Schweizer Bauer) - Operation «Ranch Hand» hiess das Programm, mit dem die Amerikaner im Vietnamkrieg die Oberhand behalten wollten. Von 1962 bis 1971 versprühten Flugzeuge 75 Millionen Liter hochgiftige Entlaubungsmittel und Unkrautvernichter, um die Nachschubwege der Vietkong-Rebellen im Dschungel für Luftangriffe sichtbar zu machen.

24 Prozent der Fläche Südvietnams wurde verseucht: zwei Millionen Hektaren Mangroven und Wälder wurden entlaubt, ...

Voices: 40 years later, still looking through the eyes of a refugee

19.04.2015 Thuan Le Elston (USA TODAY) - April 30, 1975, just about 40 years ago. On a U.S. military base in Guam, in a Quonset hut my family has been sharing with two dozen other families since we fled South Vietnam a week before, the bunk beds are filled with people listening to my father translate a BBC radio announcement: Saigon, our nation's capital, has fallen to northern communists. ...

China's ties with Vietnam viewed through rose-tinted glasses

19.04.2015 Cary Huang (SCMP) - Press stresses the partnership between Beijing and Hanoi, but the evidence suggests Vietnam is still wary of its giant neighbour

It is apparent that efforts to establish a defensive socialist alliance have become unrealistic; their ideological affinity has fallen victim again to the imperatives of realpolitik. ...

Besetzt im Namen der Wissenschaft

19.04.2015 Von Stefan Kornelius (SZ) - Die rund 780 Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer sind seit Jahrzehnten ein Zankapfel zwischen den Anrainerstaaten. Jetzt heizt China den Konflikt kräftig an.

Das "Riff zum feurigen Kreuz" hat - wenn man von oben schaut - eher die Form eines Schiffes. Genauer betrachtet: die eines Flugzeugträgers. Fiery Cross Reef dürfte eigentlich auch nicht mehr als Riff bezeichnet werden ...

Vietnamese workers get hit with eggs in Tainan

19.04.2015 (The China Post) - TAIPEI--Separate assaults on Vietnamese workers were reported two days in a row in Taiwan's southern city of Tainan, raising concerns from their employers, the police said Saturday. ...

Regional strategic context improves Australia–Vietnam relations

18.04.2015 Author: Derek McDougall, University of Melbourne (East Asia Forum) - ... The Australia–Vietnam relationship sits within a bilateral and multilateral context. Vietnam is an emerging economy and there are mutual benefits for the two countries in developing their trade and investment relationship. ...

Mar chino meridional: imágenes satelitales confirman la política “imperialista” de Beijing

17.04.2015 (AsiaNews) - Manila - China ha realizado ulteriores progresos en la construcción de una pista de aterrizaje sobre un atolón en el mar Chino meridional, en una zona que está en el centro de una áspera discusión territorial. ...

Südchinesisches Meer: China baut Landebahn auf künstlicher Insel

17.04.2015 (Sipegel Online) - Einst war es nur ein Riff- schon bald könnten Flugzeuge landen: China treibt auf einer umstrittenen Insel im Südchinesischen Meer offenbar den Bau einer Start- und Landebahn voran. Auf neuen Satellitenbildern ist zu sehen, dass die schätzungsweise 3000 Meter lange Piste auf der Insel Fiery Cross Reef bereits zu einem Drittel fertig gestellt ist.

Fiery Cross Reef gehört zu den Spratly-Inseln, auf die auch die Philippinen, Vietnam und andere Staaten ganz oder teilweise Anspruch erheben. China hatte Ende 2014 begonnen, dass Riff zu einer künstlichen Insel auszubauen.  ... 

Einfluss in Asien - Chinas bedrohliche Umarmung

17.04.2015 von Christoph Hein, Singapur (FAZ) - Mehr und mehr schält sich ein deutliches Bild heraus: China versucht, möglichst weite Teile Asiens in den chinesischen Einflussbereich zu integrieren. Die Methoden dafür sind vielfältig: Sie reichen von der Inbesitznahme der Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer über den Bau von Infrastruktur in Indonesien, Thailand oder Pakistan oder Entwicklungshilfe etwa in Nepal bis zu multilateralen Ansätzen wie der Gründung der Asiatischen Infrastrukturbank (AIIB) oder dem Konzept der neuen Seidenstraße. ...

China Building Runway in Disputed South China Sea

17.04.2015 (VOA) - Recent satellite photos show that China is building an airstrip on reclaimed land in a disputed part of the South China Sea, and could be planning another.

Jane's Defense Weekly said that images, dated March 23, from Airbus Defense and Space showed work on a runway on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands, territory also claimed by several neighbors, including Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines. ...

Vietnam customs make massive seizure of rhino horns, elephant tusks

17.04.2015 (asiaone) - Hanoi (AFP) - Vietnamese customs have seized elephant tusks and rhino horns worth millions of dollars on the black market from a flight arriving from France, officials said Friday.

"The shipment was seized Thursday at Noi Bai international airport (in Hanoi) on a Vietnam Airlines flight arriving from France," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ...

Hunt for Rare Indochina Wildlife Yields Results

17.04.2015 By Luke Hunt (The Diplomat) - In a rare win for environmentalists, a new study suggests a remote park is not yet an “empty forest.” Way out on the remote borders that divide Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam sits the Virachey National Park (VNP), one of the last bastions for endangered Indochinese wildlife and the focus of scientific attention for groups like HabitatID. ...

Immigration inspectors arrest 33 illegal Vietnamese workers

17.04.2015 (Focus Taiwan) - Taipei (CNA) Immigration inspectors have arrested 33 runaway Vietnamese workers in the Taichung area who were found to be working illegally at a machine tool factory in Houli District, the Taichung City Brigade said Friday. ...

Vietnam is being flooded with gay Chinese pulp erotic novels

17.04.2015 By Andrew Potts (Gay Star News) - Authorities in Vietnam are concerned about the surging popularity of extremely graphic Chinese erotic novels among younger people, with many of the most popular novels having gay themes. ...

Vietnam: Representación geográfica de los indicadores socio-económicos

16.04.2015 Escrito por Mong Palatino, Traducido por María Angélica Marín (Global Voices) - El Banco Mundial ha publicado mapVIETNAM, un mapa interactivo que muestra para Vietnam varios indicadores socio-económicos tales como tasas de pobreza ...

The internet in Vietnam - If a tree falls…

…online, will the Communist Party hear anything?

16.04.2015 (The Economist) - SAPLINGS have sprouted on several streets in Hanoi, Vietnam’s leafy capital. They are puny replacements for at least 500 grand old trees that were uprooted last month without public consultation. The clearance was supposed to be the first phase of a city-government project to replace 6,700 mature specimens. But it spawned outrage on Facebook in a campaign which gathered 20,000 supporters in 24 hours, some of whom speculated that officials were motivated by the chance of selling the valuable timber. ...

China’s reclamation activities to raise tension in Asia Pacific —Australia

16.04.2015 By Michaela del Callar (GMA News) - Australia, a key player in the Asia Pacific, on Thursday expressed concern on China’s massive reclamation activities in disputed features the South China Sea, saying such action raises tensions the region. ...

Villagers block traffic to protest pollution from power plant in central Vietnam

16.04.2015 (U.S. News & World Report) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Hundreds of villagers in central Vietnam blocked traffic on the country's main artery for hours to protest pollution from a coal-fired thermo power plant, a local official said Thursday. ...

Vietnam, centenares de personas bloquean una autopista contra la contaminación: enfrentamientos con la policía

16.04.2015 (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City - Centenares de habitantes de un pueblo a sudeste de Vietnam han manifestado bloqueando por horas una de las principales autopistas, para protestar contra una fábrica de la zona que habría contaminado casas y campos. ...

Russia to compete for ASEAN market with China and United States

16.04.2015 (Russia Beyond The Headlines) Statements made during Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s recent visit to the region underlined Russia’s intentions to fight for a share of the ASEAN market with the U.S. and China. Russia is aiming to double trade with three countries in Southeast Asia by 2020 ...

Disturbing boom in pet cats being snatched off Vietnamese streets to be served illegally in restaurants as 'baby tiger' with noodles

16.04.2015 (Daily Mail) - Pet cats are being snatched off the streets and killed in their ten of thousands across Asia - to feed the booming appetite for their meat in Vietnam. Restaurants serving domestic cats – sold as a delicacy known as 'baby tiger' – are springing up across northern Vietnam, despite laws against eating the animals.

Although eating cat meat is illegal, police officers and lawyers are among Vietnam's biggest customers. ...

„Soi Dog Foundation“ startet Kampagne in Vietnam gegen Hundefleischhandel

16.04.2015 (Wochenblitz) - Phuket/Vietnam - Die „Soi Dog Foundation“ auf Phuket, Thailands größter Schutzorganisation für Hunde und Katzen, hat gemeinsam mit ihrem Partner „Asia Canine Protection Alliance“ (ACPA) eine große Kampagne in Vietnam gestartet, um die vietnamesische Regierung dazu zu bewegen, den Lebensmittel-Handel mit Hunden zu verbieten. ...

23 Vietnam stowaways found in the seas off Hsinchu coast

16.04.2015 By Sun Hsin-hsuan (The China Post) - TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Twenty-three Vietnamese stowaways were found aboard a tiny wooden boat only just slightly larger than a bamboo raft the night before yesterday in the seas off Nanliao Fishing Harbor (南寮漁港), said Hsinchu coastguardsmen. ...

EU to support Vietnam's sustainable energy development

15.04.2015 (Individual.com) - The European Union (EU) plans to offer 346 million euros (nearly 370 million U.S. dollars) worth of non-refundable aid to support Vietnam in sustainable energy development during 2014-2020 period, said Franz Jessen, EU ambassador to Vietnam on Wednesday. ...

Victims of Injustice risk their lives to save properties in Long An

15.04.2015  (CTV Danlambao) - Translated by Như Ngọc - Twelve victims of injustice were arrested after risking their lives to make a brave resistance against a forced eviction and caused serious injuries to at least 20 local police. The incident occurred on the morning of April 14, 2015 when the victims threw petrol bombs, splashed acid, and caused an explosion from a welding tank in an attempt to stop the unjust eviction carried out by the communist authorities of Long An province. ...

Vietnam police stabbed, burned by acid in clash with farm family

15.04.2015 (dpa) - Hanoi (dpa) - At least 20 policemen were injured with knives and acid as violence erupted during efforts to evict a family from a farm in southern Vietnam for a dike project, authorities said Wednesday.

Before the clash, the family used social media to swear they were ready to die to protect their land. ...

Familie in Vietnam attackiert Polizei bei Zwangsräumung mit Säure

15.04.2015 (Der Farang) - HANOI: Mit Messern und Säure hat sich eine Familie in Vietnam gegen die Zwangsvertreibung von ihrem Land gewehrt. 20 Polizisten seien verletzt worden, berichtete der Bezirksvorsitzende in Thanh An. Das Land sei dennoch geräumt und acht Familienmitglieder seien festgenommen worden. ...

China dismisses PNoy’s call to fear Beijing

15.04.2015 (GMA News) - Beijing on Wednesday dismissed as "groundless" President Benigno Aquino III's warning that the Asian giant's actions in the South China Sea should "engender fear for the rest of the world."

Aquino made his remarks in an exclusive interview on Tuesday, saying that China's increasing bold assertions of its territorial claims could cut access for other nations to vital international shipping lanes and rich fishing grounds in the sea. ...

Neues Arbeitsprogramm im Deutsch-Vietnamesischen Rechtsstaatsdialog unterzeichnet

14.04.2015 (BMJV) - Der Parlamentarische Staatssekretär Christian Lange und die Vize-Justizministerin Nguyen Thuy Hien haben heute das neue Drei-Jahresarbeitsprogramm zur Umsetzung des Deutsch-Vietnamesischen Rechtsstaatsdialogs in Hanoi unterzeichnet. ...

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EU Ombudsman considers Commission’s refusal to conduct a human rights impact assessment in the context of trade agreements as case of maladministration

14.04.2015 (FIDH & VCHR) - PARIS-BRUSSELS, 14 April 2015 - In her draft recommendation adopted on March 26, 2015, the EU Ombudsman found that “the Commission’s failure to carry out a specific human rights impact assessment in relation to Vietnam, constitutes maladministration.” ...

South China Sea: China Is Building on the Paracels As Well

14.04.2015 By Victor Robert Lee (The Diplomat) - Communist Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong met with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week, China’s government news service Xinhua extolled a “deep-rooted partnership” between the two nations. But 400 kilometers off Vietnam’s coast, in the Paracel Islands, China was rapidly consolidating its hold on islands that both countries vehemently claim as their own. ...

Filipinas dice que hay que tener “miedo” de las reclamaciones territoriales de China

14.04.2015 (T13) - El presidente Benigno Aquino dijo que la reivindicación de varios arrecifes e islotes por parte de la nación asiática deberían asustar al resto del mundo. ...

Mer de Chine méridionale: les revendications de Pékin devraient faire peur au reste du monde

14.04.2015 (Romandie) - Manille - Les efforts de la Chine pour revendiquer la souveraineté de la majeure partie de la mer de Chine méridionale devraient faire peur à la communauté internationale, a déclaré mardi le président philippin Benigno Aquino....

Vietnam rüstet sich für die Neuzeit - Ho Chi Minhs pragmatische Enkel

14.04.2015 (NZZ) - Als «Amerikas Dünkirchen» im Kalten Krieg wird das Vietnam-Debakel der USA von Historikern mittlerweile denn auch bezeichnet. Längst jedenfalls sind die Amerikaner und ihre Produkte hier wieder willkommen, ihre Rüstungsgüter – etwa Überwachungsflugzeuge – gar heiss begehrt. Vietnams Wirtschaft, seine Bevölkerung und ausländische Investoren stehen gewissermassen in den Startlöchern. Doch die politische Macht und darüber hinaus Schlüsselstellungen in der Industrie werden von engstirnigen Politikern gehalten, die um Einfluss und Vermögen oder beides bangen. ...

Developing East Asia and Pacific slowing

14.04.2015 Mayuko Tani, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - SINGAPORE -- Despite low oil prices, the World Bank predicts that growth in the developing economies of East Asia and the Pacific will slow to 6.7% because of China's weaker economy and uneven recovery in more developed economies. ...

Man Stopped From Flying to Moscow With Highly Radioactive Clock

13.04.2015 (The Moscow Times) - A Vietnamese man has been stopped after trying to fly from Kiev to Moscow with a radioactive clock, the Ukrainian Border Guard Service said Monday. ...

China Accused Of Decade Of Cyber Attacks On Governments And Corporates In Asia

13.04.2015 (TechCrunch) - The Chinese government is accused of being behind a newly discovered set of cyber attacks waged against government agencies, corporate companies and journalists across India and Southeast Asia over the past ten years. Security firm FireEye released a report today revealing a spate of corporate espionage and cyber spying offenses against targets located in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia and beyond. ...

Expertenbericht: China hinter langjähriger Cyberspionage in Asien vermutet

13.04.2015 (Spiegel Online) - Eine Hackergruppe soll Regierungen und Unternehmen in Südostasien und Indien ausspioniert und manipuliert haben. Die IT-Sicherheitsfirma FireEye vermutet China hinter den Aktionen.

Der Angriff war von langer Hand geplant, mit viel Aufwand und Zielbewusstsein durchgeführt worden. ...

La Chine accusée de cyberattaques contre des pays et des entreprises asiatiques

13.04.2015 par Vincent Manilève (Slate) - Un rapport à charge met en lumière 10 ans de cyberattaques et d’espionnages que la Chine aurait mis en place contre ses voisins.

La firme de sécurité FireEye vient de dévoiler un rapport d’une soixantaine de pages sur les mécanismes d’espionnage que la Chine aurait mis en place depuis 2005. ...

Philippines says China's reclamation causing ecological damage

13.04.2015 (Reuters) - MANILA - The Philippines on Monday said China's reclamation work in the South China Sea had destroyed about 300 acres (1.2 sq km) of coral reef, causing annual estimated losses of US$100 million (S$137 million) to coastal nations. ...

Pékin construit une «grande muraille de sable» en Mer de Chine

13.04.2015 Par Patrick Saint-Paul (Le Figaro) - La pression monte entre Washington et Pékin à propos des revendications chinoises en mer de Chine méridionale. La semaine passée, Barack Obama a dit redouter que la République populaire n'abuse de «sa taille considérable et de ses muscles» pour les faire valoir. De nouvelles images satellites, publiées ces dernières semaines, montrent l'étendue et la rapide progression des constructions d'îles artificielles sur des récifs situés dans ces eaux troublées par la Chine, accusée d'ériger une «grande muraille de sable». ...

La libertad de expresión, un derecho amenazado en el Sudeste Asiático

12.04.2015 Noel Caballero (Univision) - Bangkok, 12 mar (EFE).- La libertad de expresión es un derecho amenazado en todos los países del Sudeste Asiático, donde gobiernos democráticos y dictaduras por igual mantienen leyes para restringir libertades ciudadanas y promulgan nuevas medidas que controlen el auge de los medios de comunicación por internet. ...

China Keeps Close Watch as Vietnam Builds U.S. Ties

12.04.2015 By Eric Baculinao (nbcnews) - BEIJING — While Vietnam's communist party chief was greeted with full honors as he visited neighboring China this week, the pomp barely papered over tensions between the countries over Hanoi's warming ties with Beijing's archrival: the United States. Xi made a veiled reference to the ongoing tensions by warning Trong of the need to "control maritime disputes" over the South China Sea. ...

Making a water society

12.04.2015 Rahul Goswami (Khaleej Times) - There is in Vietnam a dense and complex network of hydraulic works comprising man-made canals, dykes and sluices. These were designed (and continue to be) to provide protection against floods, to prevent the intrusion of salinity, and to control irrigation for agriculture and aquaculture in the sprawling delta of the great Mekong. Economic growth alone, however, does not a country make, and many a culture does it unmake. And so the limits of natural systems became evident already a decade ago. ...

Vietnam must find a balance between ties with China, US

11.04.2015 Kang Lin (Want ChinaTimes) - General secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the Communist Party of Vietnam paid a state visit to China April 7-10 at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Given the "politically cold but economically hot" exchanges between the two nations, the real purpose behind Nguyen's latest visit to China is not very clear. ...

China, ¿el "bully" de los mares del Pacífico?

11.04.2015 Paloma Almoguera (Univision) - Pekín, 11 abr (EFE).- Las construcciones que China realiza en territorios disputados en el mar de la China Meridional, así como su reclamación de unas islas que le enfrentan a Japón en aguas más orientales, han suscitado inquietud y críticas internacionalmente, aunque Pekín niega ser el "bully" (abusón) del Pacífico. ...

10 Most Censored Countries

10.04.2015 (CPJ) - CPJ's list of 10 Most Censored Countries is part of our annual publication, Attacks on the Press, which will be released in full on Monday, April 27, at 11 a.m. EST. Seven of the 10 most censored countries-Eritrea, Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Iran, China, and Myanmar-are also among the top 10 worst jailers of journalists worldwide, according to CPJ's annual prison census. ...

Russland wendet sich ab

10.04.2015 (DRWN) - Die heute zu Ende gehende Reise des russischen Premierministers Dimitri Medwedjew nach Thailand und Vietnam hat zunächst einmal symbolische Bedeutung. Sie ist ein Schritt im Rahmen der vielbeschworenen Verlagerung des russischen politischen Schwerpunkts von Europa nach Asien (“pivot to Asia”). Auch wenn es nicht zur Unterzeichnung bahnbrechender Vereinbarungen kam, unterstreicht der Besuch der russischen Nummer zwei, dass Asien aus Moskauer Sicht mehr ist als nur China. ...

China cementing reach in South China Sea with civilian infrastructure

10.04.2015 By Greg Torode (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - HONG KONG - China's plans for islands it is creating in the South China Sea show for the first time the scale of civilian architecture it will extend across the disputed waterway, entrenching its reach in the maritime heart of Southeast Asia, experts say.

"They are trying to put a civilian sheen on this but I think people will see through this and see (the reclamations) for what they really are," said Ian Storey, a South China Sea expert at Singapore's Institute of South East Asian Studies. ...

Vietnamese Pastor attacked–again

10.04.2015 (MNN) - Vietnam — Vietnamese pastor Nguyen Hong Quang has been beaten and arrested multiple times in recent years. Sadly, both he and his son have been beaten again. Pastor Quang and his son were attacked by a group of seven, then joined by 20 more men. ...

Vietnam strikes out at labour disputes

10.04.2015 Author: Tu Phuong Nguyen, ANU (East Asia Forum) - In January 2015, the Vietnamese government issued a decree on the implementation guidelines of the Vietnamese Labour Code. One of the sections of the decree deals with the resolution of workers’ strikes, which happen mostly in foreign enterprises. Though the numbers of strikes nationwide has declined, labour relations reform is still a government concern. The new decree stipulates a long bureaucratic process for strike settlement. ...

Systemic Tension between China and the US

10.04.2015 Denny Roy (ISN ETH Zurich) - Despite a mutual desire for cooperation, relations between Washington and Beijing will remain tense for the foreseeable future. Today, Denny Roy cites two reasons why – 1) Beijing doesn’t appreciate how the existing East Asian order has contributed to its prosperity, and 2) its historical fear of encirclement has decreased. ...

Vietnam's balancing act: Can Russia adapt to change?

10.04.2015 Anton Tsvetov (Russia Beyond The Headlines) - It’s time to consider if there is anything that Russia can offer Vietnam that others can’t. On April 6-7, 2015, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). ...