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Chinas große Chance
31.12.2016 Von Angela Köckritz (Die Zeit) - ... In nur einem Monat hat Trump die amerikanisch-chinesischen Beziehungen kräftig aufgemischt. Nicht bloß, weil er offen mit dem Gedanken spielte, mit der Ein-China-Politik zu brechen, nach der Taiwan als Teil Chinas verstanden wird – und damit Peking entsetzte. Vor allem öffnet Trump China wirtschaftspolitisch neue Horizonte. So erklärte er, dass er bereits an seinem ersten Amtstag aus dem Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) aussteigen werde, einem ehrgeizigen Handelspakt, der zwölf pazifische Nationen umfasst. ...
Answers sought after steel plant disaster
31.12.2016 By Sun Hsin Hsuan (The China Post) - TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Eight months after a steel plant in Vietnam owned by Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics (台塑集團) caused one of the worst environmental disasters in the country's history, Taiwanese civic groups demanded answers from the company and the government. ...
Sechs Daten-Visualisierungen erklären das Plastikproblem
30.12.2016 Gianna-Carina Grün (DW) - Jedes einzelne Stück Plastik, das jemals produziert wurde, existiert noch heute auf Erden. Es ist sicher nicht mehr am selben Ort und wahrscheinlich nicht mehr wiederzuerkennen, aber es ist gewiss noch da, nur nicht sichtbar für die meisten von uns. Mit der weltweiten Produktion von Plastik steigt auch die Menge an "unsichtbarem" Plastikabfall irgendwo auf der Welt an. Knapp die Hälfte des Plastikmülls im Meer stammt aus den Küstenregionen von nur fünf Ländern: China, Indonesien, Philippinen, Vietnam und Sri Lanka. ...
China Takes to the Blue Water
30.12.2016 By Todd Crowell (Asia Sentinel) - Beijing discards Mao’s instruction that the land outweighs the seas. When China’s navy looks beyond its coastal waters, which it increasingly does, it sees a kind of Great Wall, except that, from their point of view, this wall is meant to keep China pinned in and not to keep the barbarians out. It is now seeking to break out beyond that wall. ...
Vietnamese Authorities Raid a Civil Society Training Class
29.12.2016 (RFA) - A group of thugs and police officers attacked a civil society training class in Ho Chi Minh City this week, breaking up the class and beating two of the participants. Activist Nguyen Ho Nhat Thanh (aka Paulo Thanh Nguyen) told RFA that thugs invaded the class, beat him up and threatened him with a gun before taking him to a police station. ...
Vietnamese growth slows to 6.21% in 2016
29.12.2016 Atsushi Tomiyama, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Vietnam's real domestic product grew more slowly for the first time in four years in 2016, official figures out Wednesday show. Lower oil prices led to a 4% decline in the resources and mining sector -- the sharpest drop in the past five years. Domestic steel production did not rise as strongly as in the previous year as cheap steel from a slowing China flooded the market. ...
Vietnam Extends Detention for Human Rights Attorney
28.12.2016 (RFA) - Vietnamese authorities extended human rights attorney and activist Nguyen Van Dai’s time in prison until April, marking the third time the government has added time to his detention, RFA’s Vietnamese Service has learned. ...
Mass fish deaths partly to blame as Vietnam's economy slows
28.12.2016 (EBLnews) - Vietnam’s economy has experienced its first slowdown in four years largely due to poor farming conditions and a mass fish die-off, the government announced Wednesday. The government attributed the slowdown to poor growth in the agricultural, forestry and fisheries sector. The Statistics Office also attributed the slowdown to a mass fish die-off on the central Vietnamese coastline in April. ...
2016 Was a Good Year for Vietnam
28.12.2016 By Tran Van Minh, Associated Press (U.S. News & World Report) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam's economy is forecast to grow 6.2 percent in 2016, helped by a manufacturing and building boom. The General Statistics Office said Wednesday that this year's growth rate is below 2015's rate of 6.7 percent ...
Britain cracks down on illegal nail-salon workers in fight against modern slavery
28.12.2016 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - LONDON (Reuters) - British immigration officers have raided nearly 300 nail salons and arrested 97 people, mostly from Vietnam, for suspected immigration offences as part of a drive to tackle modern slavery, the Home Office said on Wednesday. ...
Vietnamese factory caught dumping industrial waste
27.12.2016 By Bennett Murray (Anadolu Agency) - Discovery comes at the end of a year that saw industrial pollution take prominence in Vietnamese politics. Vietnamese police have caught a ceramic tile factory dumping industrial waste into a local river, local media reported Tuesday. ...
Caritas Saigon helped 3,000 disabled and homeless children at Christmas
27.12.2016 Nguyen Hung (AsiaNews) – For Christmas, Caritas Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City’s old name) organised special celebrations for thousands of children in need who live at the city’s pastoral centre. ...
Vietnam could be 'sowing the seeds of the next crisis'
26.12.2016 Jonathan Garber (Business Insider Deutschland) - Vietnam is expected to show annualized growth of 6.3% in the fourth quarter when it releases the data sometime next week. That would be the first slowdown in annual growth since 2012. According to Capital Economics, Vietnam could be "sowing the seeds of the next crisis" with its loose monetary policy. ...
Stephanie Murphy Went from Vietnam War Refugee to Member of Congress
26.12.2016 by Taylor Weik (NBC News) - Stephanie Murphy never imagined she'd be running for public office. It wasn't until four months before November's election that the new representative from Florida even officially filed to run for office. The 38-year-old Democrat will represent Florida's 7th Congressional District. Born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, as Đặng Thị Ngọc Dung, Murphy is the daughter of refugees who escaped from Vietnam by boat when she was just an infant. ...
Civilians Helping Governments Stake Claims in South China Sea
26.12.2016 (VOA) - TAIPEI — A statement from China that daily civilian charter flights would serve the contested sea off its south coast raises the growing profile of civilians as a tool for governments to bolster their claims in Asia’s most widespread sovereignty dispute. The foreign ministry in Vietnam called Chinese flights to Woody Island “a serious violation” of Vietnamese “sovereignty” over the Paracels, according to the country’s online news service, VnExpress.net. ...
Chinese carrier enters South China Sea amid renewed tension
26.12.2016 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - TAIPEI, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A group of Chinese warships led by the country's sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island's Defence Ministry said of what China has termed a routine exercise. ...
China's 1st aircraft carrier heads for Western Pacific
25.12.2016 (The Asahi Shimbun) - BEIJING--China's first aircraft carrier has set off for the Western Pacific for an open-sea training exercise, the Defense Ministry said. ...
Vietnam denounces Chinese flights to disputed island
24.12.2016 (EBLnews) - The Vietnamese government has condemned reports that China will begin a daily civilian charter flight to the contested Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, state media reported Saturday. ...
Vietnam says recovery from Formosa industrial disaster could take a decade
23.12.2016 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - HANOI, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Vietnam's central region is expected to take a decade to completely recover from an industrial accident caused by a unit of a Taiwan conglomerate, which led to Vietnam's worst ever environmental disaster, the government said. ...
The Fault Lines in Vietnam's Next Political Struggle
23.12.2016 By Zachary Abuza (The Diplomat) - From 24-30 October 2016, Dinh The Huynh, a senior member of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s Secretariat and Politburo paid a low-key visit to the United States. Even though it garnered almost no media attention in the United States, and was largely platitudes and symbolism, it has important implications for Vietnamese domestic politics. ...
The Spratly Islands in focus
23.12.2016 Stratfor Analysis (The Manila Times) - Vietnam’s military installations and garrisons have dotted the features of the Spratly archipelago — including the Southwest Cay, Sin Cowe Island and Spratly Island itself — for some time. ...
Vietnamesische Bloggerin Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh frei lassen
22.12.2016 Frank Schwabe, MdB (SPD) - Frank Schwabe, menschenrechtspolitischer Sprecher: Die SPD-Bundestagsfraktion fordert die sofortige und bedingungslose Freilassung von Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh. Sie wurde im Oktober 2016 wegen Propaganda gegen den sozialistischen Staat von Vietnam inhaftiert. ...
Fears Grow Over Religious Freedom Restrictions In Vietnam
22.12.2016 Carey Lodge (Christian Today) - Religious freedom in Vietnam is at risk of deteriorating under the government's new Law on Belief and Religion, a senior bishop told officials on Monday. ...
Release Vietnamese Blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh
22.12.2016 Frank Schwabe, MdB (SPD) - The SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag demands the immediate and unconditional release of Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh. She is in custody since October 2016 charged with the crime of propaganda against the Socialist State of Vietnam. ...
Another Blogger Arrested as Repression in Vietnam Intensifies
21.12.2016 Vietnam Right Now (New America Media) - The Vietnamese government is continuing its campaign to silence independent voices, with the arrest of a 29-year-old blogger in Thanh Hoa province south of the capital.
State media said that Nguyen Danh Dung had posted some 700 video clips defaming government officials on a variety of Youtube and Facebook accounts. ...
China apparel makers turn to Vietnam for wage relief
21.12.2016 Yasuo Awai (Nikkei Asian Review) - HONG KONG -- Soaring wages at home are prompting Chinese apparel makers to shift production to neighboring Vietnam, where labor costs are nearly 60% lower. Nameson Holdings, which makes sweaters and other knitwear to order, plans to increase production in Vietnam. Nameson mainly supplies garments to Japan's Fast Retailing, operator of the Uniqlo chain of casual clothing stores. ...
Dam Design and Greed May Factor Into Flood Devastation in Vietnam
20.12.2016 (RFA) - The poor design and management of Vietnam’s power-generating dams are likely one of the main factors that led to recent deadly floods that inundated the country’s central provinces, experts tell RFA. ...
Philippinen erheben keinen Anspruch mehr auf internationalen Schiedsspruch
18.12.2016 (Philippinen Magazin) - Nur 50 Seemeilen vor der philippinischen Küste, im südchinesischen Meer beschlagnahmte die chinesische Küstenwache eine US amerikanische Forschungsdrohne. Dieser Vorfall löste in Washington Bestürzung aus und es kam zu einem kurzen aber heftigen politischen Schlagabtausch zwischen beiden Regierungen. ...
16.12.2016 (Amnesty International) - On the one year anniversary of the arrest of human rights lawyer Nguyễn Văn Đài, who has been held incommunicado in pre-trial detention since 16 December 2015, Viet Nam’s authorities have sentenced two pro-democracy activists - Trần Anh Kim and Lê Thanh Tùng - to 13 and 12 years’ imprisonment respectively. Both were convicted for activities aimed at “overthrowing” the state under Article 79 of the 1999 Penal Code. Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of three named activists, held solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression and association, and for the release of all other prisoners of conscience in Viet Nam, whom remain at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. ...
Vietnam jails 2 for plotting democratic revolution
16.12.2016 (The Straits Times) - HANOI (AFP) - A court in communist Vietnam jailed two activists for over a decade on Friday (Dec 16) after finding them guilty of attempting to launch a democratic revolution, their lawyers said. ...
Vietnamese human rights lawyer and blogger arbitrarily detained for the last year
16.12.2016 (Reporters without borders) - The Vietnamese government must immediately and unconditionally release human rights lawyer and blogger Nguyen Van Dai who has been arbitrarily detained for a year without access to legal representation or any word of an upcoming trial. ...
Trump hails ties despite vow to end trade pact: Vietnam
16.12.2016 (Dailytimes) - HANOI: US President-elect Donald Trump has reassured Vietnam over future ties, according to the communist nation, which is set to lose out if he honours a vow to ditch a major trade deal. Vietnam has said it is still committed to existing trade deals, including with the United States, regardless of what happens with the TPP. Trump is expected to travel to Vietnam in November 2017 for the annual APEC summit. ...
Trump estrecha lazos con Vietnam
15.12.2016 (El Nuevo Día) - Bangkok - El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, habló por teléfono con el primer ministro vietnamita, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, al que dijo que quiere estrechar lazos con Vietnam, informó hoy el gobierno vietnamita en su página web. En su página de internet, el equipo de transición del presidente electo estadounidense confirmó la llamada y el interés de ambas naciones por estrechar lazos. ...
Trump dit vouloir approfondir la relation avec le Vietnam
15.12.2016 (Le Figaro) - Le président-élu américain, Donald Trump a contacté mercredi le Premier ministre vietnamien, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, pour lui faire part de sa volonté de renforcer les liens entre Hanoi et Washington, a annoncé jeudi le gouvernement du Vietnam. Dans un communiqué, l'équipe de transition de Donald Trump a confirmé l'échange téléphonique, précisant que les deux hommes avaient évoqué un "large champ d'intérêts communs et qu'ils s'étaient accordés pour renforcer les relations entre les deux nations" ...
Eine chinesische Festung im Ozean
15.12.2016 von Matthias Müller, Peking (NZZ) - Der künftige amerikanische Präsident Donald Trump dürfte sich bestätigt fühlen. Im Wahlkampf hatte er die Regierung in Peking immer wieder attackiert und den kommunistischen Machthabern vorgeworfen, im Südchinesischen Meer einen «gewaltigen militärischen Komplex» zu errichten. Nun publik gewordene Satellitenaufnahmen der Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (Amti) zeigen, welche Fortschritte China bei der Errichtung der militärischen Anlagen auf den im Südchinesischen Meer gelegenen Spratly-Inseln gemacht hat. ...
China rüstet offenbar hoch
15.12.2016 (NZZ) - (dpa) China hat offenbar seine militärische Präsenz im Südchinesischen Meer weiter ausgebaut. Dies zeigen Satellitenbilder, die die amerikanischen Denkfabrik Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) aufgenommen, ausgewertet und am Donnerstag veröffentlicht hat. ...
Little Dolls From a Vietnamese Prison Carry a Big Message
14.12.2016 Loa (Global Voices) - Have you ever seen a roly poly doll? They are also called tumbler dolls, or wobbly man dolls. They have round heads, round bottoms and no limbs. When you push the doll, it wobbles for a bit but never falls down. There’s a version made by ethnic minorities in Vietnam — colorful and crocheted. And now there’s another version, made exclusively by one political prisoner: Nguyen Đang Minh Man. ...
Plastics industry unified in combatting marine litter
14.12.2016 by Martijn Reintjes (Recycling International) - Vietnam: This year, a further seven plastics industry associations have signed the Declaration of the Global Plastics Associations for Solutions on Marine Litter, also known as the Joint Declaration. ...
Vietnamesen trotz boomender Wirtschaft skeptisch
14.12.2016 Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - Der Grundstein für Vietnams wirtschaftlichen Erfolg wurde vor 30 Jahren gelegt. Bekannt wurde das Programm unter dem Schlagwort "Doi Moi" (Erneuerung). Es machte den Weg frei für Vietnams wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg. Doch eine höhere Produktivität lässt sich nur mit innovativen Produkten erzielen. Dafür muss das Land mehr Ressourcen in die Ausbildung stecken, um nur einen zentralen Punkt zu benennen. Doch in diesem Feld passiert wenig. ...
Feast of Our Lady of Fatima in Ho Chi Minh City parish threatened by the governmen
13.12.2016 (AsiaNews) – On the 13th of every month, parishioners in Thủ Thiêm (District 2, Ho Chi Minh City) attend Mass, pray and have lunch together to celebrate the family on the day of Our Lady of Fatima.
"Parishioners gather to show respect to the Virgin Mary and at the same time they meet and pray for their dearly departed," said Fr James Lê Jang Niem, the priest vicar. ...
La vida bajo vigilancia de un activista y periodista en Vietnam
13.12.2016 Eric San Juan (La Vanguardia) - La lucha por una democracia plural en Vietnam le ha supuesto al periodista y activista político Pham Chi Dung vivir bajo constante vigilancia policial, con encarcelamientos, arrestos arbitrarios e interrogatorios interminables. ...
Why Is Climate-Conscious Vietnam Choosing Coal Over Nuclear?
12.12.2016 By Helen Clark (SCMP) - Vietnam’s decision to abandon its nascent nuclear power programme and turn back to cheaper, dirtier, coal says much about where the nation thought it was headed – and about where it has ended up. ...
Vietnam Pivots Away from US-Led Trade Zone as Trump Preps for Office
12.12.2016 (VOA) - TAIPEI — Vietnamese officials once excited by joining the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping Pacific Rim trade zone, are looking instead to other deals that would stimulate their export-dependent economy as the pact may die under President-elect Donald Trump. ...
Vietnam arrests five bankers for 'mismanagement'
11.12.2016 (Bangkok Post) - HANOI - Vietnam has arrested five former bank employees for alleged mismanagement, including an ex-managing director and his deputy, the latest executives to be punished in the scandal-hit sector. ...
Fisch oder Stahl? Die neue Umweltbewegung Vietnams
09.12.2016 von Thuc Quyen Nguyen (SOA) - Anfang April dieses Jahres wurde an den Küsten der Provinzen Ha Tinh, Qang Binh, Quang Tri und Thua Thien Hue tonnenweise toter Fisch angespült. Kilometerlange Fischberge, unzählige Muscheln, verendete Seevögel und sogar einige Wale – gefolgt vom Tod des Tauchers Le Van Ngay, der nach einem Tauchgang in diesem Gebiet zunächst über Brustschmerzen und Atemnot geklagt hatte. ...
Vietnam: Journalist wegen negativer Äußerung über Fidel Castro auf Facebook vom Dienst suspendiert
09.12.2016 von Hai Tran (FVN21) - Nach Meldungen der BBC und anderen Quellen aus Vietnam wurde Phùng Hiệu, ein Mitarbeiter der Zeitung „Nhà Báo & Công Luận“ („der Journalist und die öffentliche Meinung“) vom Dienst suspendiert, gegen ihn ist offiziell ein Disziplinarverfahren eingeleitet worden. Auf seiner privaten Facebook-Seite schrieb Hiệu: „Nach fast 50 Jahren Regentschaft, autoritär, konservativ und unter blindwütiger Vergötterung des Marxismus, hat Fidel Castro ein verarmtes, rückständiges Kuba zurückgelassen. ...
Huit mois après la pollution maritime des côtes du Centre-Vietnam, de nombreuses victimes n’ont toujours pas été indemnisées
09.12.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - Voilà plus de huit mois que les riverains des côtes du Centre-Vietnam ont subi les dégâts de la pollution déclenchée au début du mois d’avril 2016 par le complexe industriel taïwanais Formosa Plastics. Beaucoup d’entre eux ont perdu de ce fait tous leurs moyens de subsistance. ...
India to Train Vietnam Fighter Pilots
09.12.2016 By Prashanth Parameswaran (The Diplomat) - India will begin training Vietnamese fighter pilots starting next year, according to an agreement inked by the two countries this week. ...
South China Sea: Vietnam prepares for dangerous days ahead as the country's fisheries clash with Chinese authorities
09.12.2016 By Ben Bohane in Ly Son Island (ABC News) - Provocative activity in the South China Sea is clearly visible in the fiercely contested Spratly Islands, satellite pictures released today show. ...
Exclusive: Risking Beijing's ire, Vietnam begins dredging on South China Sea reef
09.12.2016 By Lincoln Feast and Greg Torode | SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Vietnam has begun dredging work on a disputed reef in the South China Sea, satellite imagery shows, the latest move by the Communist state to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway. ...
Staudämme gefährden die Ernährung von Millionen Menschen
08.12.2016 Von Richard Stone (SZ) - Immer im April schwammen die Nyawn-Welse den Mekong aufwärts zu ihren Laichplätzen. Unterwegs mussten sie sich im Süden von Laos durch eine Engstelle drängen. Dort warteten die Fischer. Jedes Jahr fingen sie Hunderttausende der daumengroßen Tiere in ihren Netzen. Dann begann im Jahr 2014 die Arbeit an einem großen Staudamm. ...
6th EU-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue
08.12.2016 (EEAS) - On 8 December 2016 in Brussels the European Union and Vietnam held the sixth round of their annual enhanced Human Rights Dialogue, in the context of the EU-Vietnam Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA). The EU highlighted the importance of ensuring that all detainees are able to receive visits, including from lawyers, medical personnel and family members, in line with the Vietnamese Constitution and international human rights provisions. ...
Corte vietnamita confirma condena contra activista por el derecho a la tierra
08.12.2016 Escrito por Đôn Lê / Loa, traducido por Cecilia Cárdenas (Global Voices) - El 30 de noviembre de 2016 el tribunal de apelación de Hanoi ha confirmado la sentencia condenatoria contra la destacada activista por el derecho a la tierra, la vietnamita de 54 años Cấn Thị Thêu. ...
La récente loi sur la religion est jugée très sévèrement par la presse asiatique
07.12.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - Le texte définitif de la Loi sur les croyances et la religion, tel qu’il a été adopté par l’Assemblée nationale le 18 novembre dernier, est encore introuvable sur les sites gouvernementaux. C’est à l’étranger que la lecture de ce texte législatif a suscité les commentaires critiques les plus approfondis. ...
Vietnamese priest complains about FPG unit
07.12.2016 By Cheng Hung-ta and Jake Chung (The Taipei Times) - A Vietnamese Catholic priest yesterday held a news conference in Taipei to complain about the operations of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp, a Vietnamese subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Group (FPG). Father Nguyen Dihn Thuc from the Catholic Diocese of Vinh said pollution from the plant in Ha Tinh Province has severely affected the region’s residents physically and spiritually. ...
Journalists Find That In Vietnam There Is No Drunk Defense for Criticism
06.12.2016 (RFA) - Journalist Phung Hieu was removed from his position at the Nha Vao & Cong Luan (Journalists & Public Opinion), newspaper after a post in which he criticized Castro for leading Cuba into poverty and isolation. ...
Vietnam’s Law on Belief and Religion ‘deeply flawed
06.12.2016 by Imogen Faux (World Watch Monitor) - Vietnam’s National Assembly finally ratified (on 18 Nov.) its Law on Belief and Religion. In an open letter to the Vietnamese government prior to the ratification of the law, the group of organisations and lawmakers rejected a clause stating that religious groups must be registered and approved by the government in order to practise. ...
Eye on China, India to train Vietnam fighter pilots
06.12.2016 Rajat Pandit (Times Of India) - NEW DELHI: Indians will begin training Vietnamese fighter pilots on its Sukhoi-30MKI "air dominance jets" from next year onwards, much like it has been teaching sailors from the country for operations on board Kilo-class submarines for the last three years. ...
Vietnam teaches Japan a lesson
05.12.2016 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- A failed bid to build nuclear power plants in Vietnam has provided Japan with a bitter lesson: It has to carefully assess a recipient country's needs and a project's financial feasibility before it pushes certain pieces of infrastructure into a nation. Vietnam on Nov. 22 abandoned its plan for nuclear power plants in the southern province of Ninh Thuan, citing construction costs of about 3 trillion yen ($26.3 billion). ...
Vietnamese Court Upholds Jail Sentence for Land Rights Activist
05.12.2016 by Đôn Lê / Loa (Global Voices) - A prominent Vietnamese land rights activist, 54-year-old Cấn Thị Thêu, has had her sentence upheld in her appeal trial on November 30, 2016. The Hanoi People’s Court declined to reduce her 20-month jail term ...
Donald Trump hat ein völlig veraltetes Bild von China
05.12.2016 Von Christoph Giesen, Peking (SZ) - Trumps Reaktionen auf die Kritik an seinem umstrittenen Telefonat mit Taiwans Präsidentin zeigen, wie veraltet sein Bild von China ist. Peking verbilligt nicht mehr seine Währung schon lange nicht mehr künstlich, wie Trump behauptet. ...
Vietnam split over Castro national mourning
04.12.2016 (Bangkok Post) - Cuba's revolutionary leader Castro died last week at age 90, prompting an outpouring of grief in Vietnam where officials hailed him as a communist brother and comrade. But the national day of mourning -- afforded in the past only to the most senior Vietnamese politicians or war heros -- has not been universally welcomed. ...
Why Do the Americans Still Need Vietnam and the Vietnamese Need Them?
04.12.2016 by Christopher Goscha (HNN) - Many observers, especially those opposed to America’s military intervention in Vietnam in the mid-20th century, tend to downplay the geopolitical importance of Vietnam. America had no business getting involved in Vietnam in the first place. ...
Die dunkle Macht hinter Trump - Das Netzwerk der Lügner
04.12.2016 Michael Streck (Stern) - Wenn die Historiker eines Tages zurückblicken auf dieses Jahr 2016, auf Brexit und Donald Trump, könnte das in etwa so ausfallen, wie Historiker heute über das frühe Mittelalter sprechen, als "dark ages", dunkle Zeiten und Rückfall der Menschheit. ...
Vietnam redobla la represión a los disidentes
03.12.2016 (terra) - El régimen comunista de Vietnam ha respondido al aumento de la contestación social de los últimos meses con arrestos y vigilancia continua a los disidentes, según organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos. Un informe de "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) revela que en los nueve primeros meses de 2016 han sido condenados a penas de prisión al menos 18 activistas. La más prominente es Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, apodada "madre seta" (Me Nam, en vietnamita) ...
A boy’s-eye view of the Vietnam War
03.12.2016 Brett Josef Grubisic (Maclean’s) - A terrific graphic memoir from Marcelino Truong recalls events from his childhood uprooted to Saigon. Often rendered in watercolour-like strokes (in muddy greys and faded pinks), the look of this terrific graphic memoir consistently invokes sepia—and episodes at the very edge of memory ...
Trump’s Tough Trade Talk Could Damage American Factories
02.12.2016 By Peter S. Goodman, Neil Gough, Sui-Lee Wee and Jack Ewing (The New York Times) - HOLLAND, Mich. — While much of the American political class has been consumed with recriminations over the wrenching loss of manufacturing jobs, Chuck Reid has been quietly adding them. His company, First Class Seating, makes recliner seats for movie theaters here at a factory on the shores of Lake Michigan. Since he bought the business three years ago, its work force has grown to 40 from 15. ...
Vietnam's Mekong Delta to receive nearly $400 million to combat climate change
02.12.2016 (UkrAgroConsult) - The delta, where nearly half of the country’s rice is grown, is at threat from saltwater intrusion. The World Bank has pledged $310 million to help nine provinces in the Mekong Delta to combat adverse weather conditions that have led to saltwater intrusion, coastal erosion and flooding. The delta, where nearly half of the country’s rice is grown, is at threat from saltwater intrusion. ...
Is Vietnam’s new religion law a smokescreen for political repression?
02.12.2016 By Luke Hunt (SCMP) - A controversial law on religion passed in Vietnam has triggered renewed fears of state repression in the name of national unity. Among the law’s fiercest critics is the Interfaith Council of Vietnam, whose 27 council members – from Christian, Buddhist, Cao Dai and Hoa Hao communities – say religious groups are under no obligation to obey it. ...
Trump’s withdrawal from TPP: What it means for Asia
01.12.2016 By Matthias Helble (Asia Times) - US president-elect jettisoned in one stroke the outcome of 10 years of hard-fought negotiations between 12 countries of the Pacific Rim. US president-elect Donald Trump shocked the aspiring Trans-Pacific Partnership members last week by announcing that the first priority of his presidency will be to withdraw from the trade deal. ...
China’s brutally pragmatic response to a shifting world order
01.12.2016 By: Kevin Rudd (The Financial Times) - Beijing abhors unpredictability. With Trump it has strategic unpredictability at scale. China prefers to deal with the devil it knows. Beijing was fully prepared to deal with a President Hillary Clinton but, like the rest of us, the country’s foreign policy establishment is in the dark about what follows the election of Donald Trump. ...
Plastic Island - How our throwaway culture is turning paradise into a graveyard
01.12.2016 By Nick Paton Walsh, Ingrid Formanek, Jackson Loo and Mark Phillips (CNN) - Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean (CNN) -- The distance from humanity yawns out in front of you when you stand on the pale sands of this tiny Pacific island. Standing on the island's remote shoreline brings a calm and humility -- until you look down at your feet. ... China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Sri Lanka are considered the five worst offenders when it comes to plastic pollution ...
How China views Trump
01.12.2016 Keyu Jin (Nikkei Asian Review) - LONDON -- Donald Trump's stunning victory in the US presidential election has shaken the world. But one country has remained largely unmoved: China. ...
Vietnam mantiene la condena a una activista contra expropiaciones de tierras
30.11.2016 (eldiario) - EFE - Bangkok - Un tribunal de Vietnam rechazó hoy la apelación a la condena a 20 meses de prisión impuesta contra la activista Can Thi Theu, por una protesta contra el Gobierno por expropiaciones de tierras, informó hoy Human Rights Watch (HRW). ...
Vietnam upholds 20-month jail term for land grab protester
30.11.2016 (Channel NewsAsia) - HANOI: A high-profile Vietnamese activist on Wednesday lost a bid to overturn a 20-month jail term for protesting against illegal land grabs, her lawyer said, after a judge upheld a lower court ruling that had outraged human rights groups. Vietnam's boom in real estate in recent years has spurred protests by small landowners evicted to make way for construction projects. ...
Vietnam Appeals Court Upholds Jail Term for Land-Grab Protester
30.11.2016 (RFA) - A court in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on Wednesday upheld the conviction of land-grab protester Can Thi Theu, sending her back to prison to serve a 20-month term imposed in September, sources said. It was the second time Theu had been convicted for opposing land grabs. In 2014 she was sentenced to 15 months in jail for her role in a similar protest. ...
Vietnam battles erosion of beaches – and of tourism
30.11.2016 Coco Liu (The Christian Science Monitor) - CUA DAI BEACH, VIETNAM — As dusk falls on this landmark Vietnamese beach, Hung Hoa is about to close her seafood restaurant. It is only six o’clock. “Nobody is coming here anyway,” sighs Mrs. Hung. Her restaurant has 10 dining tables; even though it is supper time, all of them are empty. ...
Trump the Predictable
30.11.2016 By John Feffer (Foreign Policy In Focus) - Donald Trump insisted throughout his campaign that any potential negotiating partner — ally or adversary — must be left guessing. Toward that end, he refused to rule out the potential use of nuclear weapons, even in Europe. ...
TPP is dead, long live RCEP? Not so fast
29.11.2016 By Jon Connars (Asia Times) - When Xi Jinping asserted at the APEC Summit on November 19th that “China will not shut the door to the outside world but will open it even wider,” he not only forcefully claimed Chinese global leadership on free trade and globalization for years to come, but also sounded the death knell for the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia.” ...
Is Vietnam Reigniting a Fire in the South China Sea?
29.11.2016 By Nguyen Quoc-Thanh (The Diplomat) - Hanoi is starting to feel more and more isolated as its regional neighbors reconcile with China. With Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to reset ties with China, and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s decision to put his country in the Chinese orbit, the situation all around Vietnam is evolving very rapidly. ...
Vietnam Sends Four Women to Jail for Roadblock Protest
29.11.2016 (RFA) - A local court sentenced four women to six-month jail terms after finding them guilty of disrupting public order for their part in protests last year that blocked a major highway, RFA’s Vietnamese Service has learned. ...
Computer science professor advises Vietnamese government
29.11.2016 By Eduard Muñoz-Suñé (Brown Daily Herald) - Cybersecurity expert and Professor of Computer Science John Savage recently traveled to Vietnam where he gave a series of lectures and conversed with business and political leaders from Oct. 20 to Oct. 28. ...
Vietnam Taking Long-Term Hard Line Toward China on Maritime Claims
28.11.2016 (VOA) - TAIPEI — Vietnam is lengthening a military runway on a tiny islet to help hold off a larger, more aggressive China for control in Asia’s widest-reaching sovereignty dispute as other claimants keep quiet or seek negotiations. ...
Pollution emergency destroys tourism in central Vietnam
28.11.2016 Tran Vinh (AsiaNews) – Hanoi - The pollution emergency that hit Vietnam’s central provinces has delivered a heavy blow to the local tourism industry. ...
La emergencia desatada por la contaminación destruye el turismo en el centro de Vietnam
28.11.2016 Tran Vinh (AsiaNews) – Hanoi - La emergencia desatada por la contaminación, que ha golpeado a las provincias centrales de Vietnam, ha puesto de rodillas a la industria del turismo. ...
Killing the Mekong, Dam by Dam
28.11.2016 By Tom Fawthrop (The Diplomat) - SIPHANDONE, LAOS — Explorers, travelers, and traders have long been enchanted by the magical vistas and extraordinary biodiversity of the Mekong, especially here. However, the serenity of Siphandone has recently been rudely disrupted by the dynamite-blasting of rocks, shattering the tranquil reverie of this ecotourism paradise. ...
Wo der Kommunismus noch lebt: China, Vietnam, Laos, Kuba
26.11.2016 (DiePresse) - Vor dem Fall der Sowjetunion gab es zahlreiche Länder mit kommunistischen Regierungen. 2016 verbleiben noch vier, oder - je nach Lesart des nordkoreanischen Regimes - fünf. ...
Christianity At Risk In Vietnam Amid Restrictions On Religious Freedom
25.11.2016 Carey Lodge (Christian Today) - Religious freedom in Vietnam is at serious risk following the passing of the country's first ever Law on Belief and Religion last week. The law passed on 18 November, despite concerns that it does not conform to international standards ...
Vietnam cancels nuclear power plan over costs
25.11.2016 By Diarmaid Williams (Power Engineering) - The Vietnamese government has opted not to go ahead with the development of two new nuclear power plants in partnership with Russia and Japan, citing a doubling in costs for its decision. ...
Religious freedom still in the balance in Vietnam
25.11.2016 By Aaron James (Premier Christian Radio) - Christian Solidarity Worldwide has said last week Vietnamese politicians passed the country's first ever bill which, at face value, could enshrine religious freedom. ...
Pope and Vietnam’s president meet at the Vatican in bid to warm long-strained ties
24.11.2016 (SCMP) - Pope Francis has hosted Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang at the Vatican as the two work towards warming long-strained ties, a press release from the Holy See said. ...
Vietnam öffnet sich – seinen Künstlern gönnt es allerdings nur wenig Freiheit.
23.11.2016 von Marlene Göring (FAZ) - Vietnam öffnet sich – seinen Künstlern gönnt es allerdings nur wenig Freiheit. Jeder Ausstellung geht ein aufreibender Behördenkrieg voraus. Vu Kim Thu stellt derzeit aus. „Die Kunstpolizei kontrolliert uns“, erzählt Thu. Eine Ausstellung wird eröffnet, die Stimmung ist gut, viele Gäste sind gekommen - da stoßen Beamte in Zivil dazu und hängen Bilder einfach ab oder schließen gleich die ganze Galerie ...
What Would US TPP Withdrawal Mean?
23.11.2016 By Prashanth Parameswaran (The Diplomat) - On Monday night, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump made headlines around the world when he included U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as one of the executive actions he would take upon taking office on January 20 in a transition update to the American people. ...
Wie China von Trumps TPP-Absage profitiert
22.11.2016 Von Kai Strittmatter, Peking, und Christoph Neidhart, Tokio (NZZ) - Trump und TPP hatten ein gemeinsames Ziel: Chinas Wirtschaftsmacht einzudämmen. Mit dem Ausstieg der USA aus dem Freihandelsabkommen könnte das Gegenteil eintreten. Es wirkt wie eine verkehrte Welt. Erst verhilft Donald Trump ausgerechnet China, dem weltgrößten Kohleverbrenner, zur Rolle des Vorreiters im Klimaschutz. Und jetzt darf das offiziell noch immer kommunistische China auch noch den mächtigsten Verteidiger von Freihandel und Globalisierung geben. ...
Trumps kalte Schulter für Asien-Pazifik-Region
22.11.2016 (SZ) - Hanoi (dpa) - Die transpazifische Partnerschaft (TPP), das war Vietnams Tor zu attraktiven Märkten wie den USA, Japan und Australien. Donald Trump kündigt für den allerersten Tag seiner Amtszeit als US-Präsident den Rückzug aus TPP an. "Eine Katastrophe für Vietam" sei das, sagt der frühere Präsidentenberater und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Le Dang Doanh. Demokratieverfechter hatten sich durch die TPP-Auflagen zu Mindeststandards bei Arbeits-, Umwelt- und Transparenzauflagen viel versprochen. "Das wird den politischen Reformprozess verlangsamen", fürchtet Nguyen Quang A, früher Direktor des reformorientierten Instituts für Entwicklungsstudien, nun. ...
Vietnam scraps huge nuclear power plant projects
22.11.2016 (Bangkok Post) - HANOI - Power-hungry Vietnam scrapped plans for two multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants on Tuesday, citing environmental and financial reasons after the cost of the projects skyrocketed. ...
Vietnam: abandon du projet de centrales nucléaires
22.11.2016 (Le Figaro) - Le Vietnam a abandonné mardi son premier projet de production d'électricité nucléaire après un vote de l'Assemblée nationale contre la construction de deux centrales ...
Vietnam abandons plan for first nuclear power plants
22.11.2016 By Mai Nguyen and Ho Binh Minh (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnam's National Assembly voted on Tuesday to abandon plans to build two multi-billion-dollar nuclear power plants with Russia and Japan, after officials cited lower demand forecasts, rising costs and safety concerns. ...
Trump wird TPP am 1. Tag im Amt kündigen
22.11.2016 (heute.at) - Der zukünftige US-Präsident Donald Trump kündigte am Montag per Videobotschaft an, das Freihandelsabkommen TPP prompt an seinem ersten Tag im Amt aufzukündigen. ...
Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea
21.11.2016 By Hrvoje Hranjski (U.S. News & World Report) - BANGKOK (AP) Satellite imagery suggests Vietnam has extended a runway and constructed new hangars on one of the disputed Spratly islands it controls, apparently enabling it to accommodate surveillance aircraft there. ...
Death Of TPP Trade Deal A Blow For Vietnam's Promising Economy
21.11.2016 By Brett Davis (Forbes) - Vietnam was set to be one of the major beneficiaries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which now seems all but dead after the U.S. president-elect Donald Trump declared withdrawing America from the pact would be one of his first actions in office. ...
Vietnam media fined for 'false' fish sauce reports
21.11.2016 (Channel NewsAsia) - HANOI - fined scores of news outlets for publishing now-discredited reports about toxic fish sauce, accusing them of sparking public panic over the staple condiment in a country plagued by food scares. The government said Monday the reports failed to distinguish between highly-toxic inorganic arsenic, and organic arsenic which is present mainly in seafood and is less toxic. The ministry fined 50 news organisations ...
Vietnam: les médias condamnés pour des articles sur de la sauce
21.11.2016 (Le Figaro) - Le Vietnam a condamné lundi des dizaines d'organes de presse pour la publication d'articles alarmants sur de la sauce de poisson toxique, qui aurait causé une panique dans le pays où il s'agit d'un condiment de base.Mi-octobre, des articles s'appuyant sur une enquête de l'association des consommateurs du Vietnam (Vinastas), contrôlée par l'Etat, ...
Trump and the Bomb
20.11.2016 By Michael Krepon (Foreign Affairs) - When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, he will face a global nuclear order that is increasingly unstable. Much will depend on Trump’s instincts on nuclear issues, which are far from clear, the advisors he chooses, and how he responds to the counsel they provide. ...
Massive setback for Rosatom as Vietnam scraps nuclear deal
20.11.2016 (fin24) - Hanoi - Vietnam is scrapping plans to build two nuclear power plants over soaring costs and safety concerns, state media reported on Friday. The communist nation approved plans to build the plants in 2009 in Ninh Thuan province with an eye towards easing energy shortages brought about by its rapidly industrialising economy. ...
China wirbt beim APEC-Gipfel für Freihandel
19.11.2016 (DW) - Beim APEC-Treffen der Pazifik-Anrainer ist der künftige US-Präsident nicht mit an Bord. Dennoch bestimmt seine Ablehnung des Freihandels das Treffen mit. Eine mögliche Abschottungspolitik der Vereinigten Staaten unter dem gewählten US-Präsidenten Donald Trump bereitet vielen Staats- und Regierungschefs beim Pazifik-Gipfel der 21 APEC-Staaten in Lima Sorgen. ...
Ho Chi Minh City confronts its drinking and driving epidemic
18.11.2016 By Tom Carrol (Asia Times) - Officials in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam have recently launched a powerful new mass media campaign to reduce drinking and driving, a frequent cause of road crashes across Vietnam, including in Ho Chi Minh City, its largest city. ...
Aktionsplan gegen Wilderei und Wildtierhandel in Hanoi verabschiedet
18.11.2016 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Gut 50 Länder wollen Wilderern und skrupellosen Wildtierhändlern effektiver das Handwerk legen. Sie verabschiedeten dazu am Freitag in Vietnam einen Aktionsplan. ...
Another blow to Obama’s TPP after Vietnam says it won’t ratify trade pact and Australia looks to China
17.11.2016 (SCMP) - The United States-led Pacific trade pact appears to be crumbling after Vietnam said it would not ratify it and Australia signalled support for Chinese-led trade deals before a meeting this weekend of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group in Peru. ...
15.11.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - Amnesty International a publié le 8 novembre dernier un communiqué concernant la pollution de l’environnement maritime dans la région du Centre-Vietnam. Il dénonce une campagne policière d’envergure lancée contre les militants catholiques et les blogueurs ayant manifesté ou s’étant exprimés contre le complexe sidérurgique Formosa, responsable la plus grande catastrophe écologique de l’histoire récente du Vietnam ...
Saving the pangolin: The fight to help 'the most trafficked mammal on earth'
15.11.2016 (9new) - Pangolin Mi Bo arrived at a rescue centre in Vietnam missing a paw, after it was cut off in a snare trap. The rest of his body is marked by cuts, and he will probably never regain enough strength to return to the wild. But he is among the lucky ones. ...
12.11.2016 Escrito por Loa, Traducido por Milena Bernachea (Global Voices) - Relata la historia de la activista por los derechos sobre la tierra Can Thi Theu, quien fue arrestada en junio pasado por ‘provocar desorden público’ durante una manifestación. El 20 de setiembre fue sentenciada a 20 meses de prisión. ...
Thanks to Donald Trump, China just won the global green technology sector
11.11.2016 C. Custer (Tech in Asia) - There’s no denying who the king of technology in the 20th century was: America. But the 21st century poses new challenges that must be met by the rise of the green technology and green energy sectors across the globe. And whatever country is producing the best green tech solutions is in the pole position to spring to the top of the 21st century technological heap. America’s election of Donald Trump virtually guarantees that country will be China. ...
Vietnam Cracks Down on Dissenters
10.11.2016 (RFA) - The Vietnamese government is escalating a nationwide crackdown on human rights activists and people critical of the government’s handling of the chemical spill that devastated the country’s central coast, according to Amnesty International and other reports. ...
Vietnam verzichtet auf Bau eines Atomkraftwerks
10.11.2016 (NZZ) - (sda/dpa) Vietnam hat die Pläne für den Bau seines ersten Atomkraftwerks aufgegeben. Es bestehe kein Bedarf an Strom aus dem geplanten Projekt ...
Vietnam: Skepsis über Religionsgesetz
09.11.2016 (Radio Vatikan) - Aktivisten sehen das geplante Religionsgesetz mit Skepsis und Sorge. Wenn das Parlament den Text in seiner jetzigen Form beschließe, könnte das „viele Konflikte im Innern der Gesellschaft auslösen“, ...
China Just Won The U.S. Election
09.11.2016 James Palmer (Yahoo News / Foreign Policy Magazine) - The election of Donald Trump will be a disaster for anyone who cares about human rights, U.S. global leadership, and media freedom. That means it’s a victory for Beijing, where as I write, the Chinese leaders near me in the palatial complex of Zhongnanhai are surely cracking open the drinks and making mean jokes. The strongest U.S. allies, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, no longer confident in the U.S. nuclear umbrella, will begin seriously considering other alternatives — like acquiring their own nuclear deterrent, prompting new tensions with China. ...
China's nuclear power ambitions sailing into troubled waters
31.07.2016 (The Asahi Shimbun) - BEIJING--China's ambitions to become a pioneer in nuclear energy are sailing into troubled waters. In China's case, the achievement would be tempered by concern its reactors might be sent into harm's way to support oil exploration in the South China Sea, where Beijing faces conflicting territorial claims by neighbors including Vietnam and the Philippines. Chinese news reports say plans call for deploying 20 reactors there, though neither developer has mentioned the area. ...
Keeping Vietnam’s textile and garment industry competitive
30.07.2016 Authors: Tomoo Kikuchi, NUS and Huong Vo, VNU (East Asia Forum) - Vietnam has transformed from one of the world’s poorest countries to a lower middle income economy in just 25 years. Vietnam is at a crossroads: it can either move to the next level of industrialisation or risk losing competitiveness. ...
30.07.2016 (Softpedia) - A group of Chinese hacktivists named China 1937CN Team have delayed operations at 21 Vietnamese airports and defaced the website of state-owned Vietnam Airlines. The cyber-attacks started Friday afternoon, on July 29, and were initially detected at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. ...
Hackers target flight info screens at Vietnam's airports
29.07.2016 (DW) - The hackers displayed images supportive of Beijing's claims in the South China Sea on flight information screens. Vietnam's flagship carrier said their website had also been targeted by the cyberattack. ...
29.07.2016 (Europa Press) - La web de la aerolínea nacional de Vietnam, Vietnam Airlines, y las pantallas de información de los dos aeropuertos más grandes del país han sido pirateadas y mostraban informaciones que criticaban las demandas territoriales de Vietnam y Filipinas en relación con el mar Meridional de China. ...
29.07.2016 Von Mathias Peer (8MRD) - das Gekritzel eines Grenzbeamten hat normalerweise nicht die Brisanz, um einen diplomatischen Eklat auszulösen. In der aufgeheizten Stimmung zwischen China und seinen Nachbarländern sieht die Sache anders aus: Ein vietnamesischer Beamter soll in den Pass einer Chinesin die Wörter „Fuck you“ geschrieben haben, berichten chinesische Staatsmedien. ...
Catastrophe environnementale au Vietnam
29.07.2016 (Métro) - HANOI, Viêtnam — La pire catastrophe de l’histoire du Vietnam empêche quelque 200 000 personnes, dont 41 000 pêcheurs, de gagner leur vie, a dénoncé vendredi le gouvernement du pays. Un rapport présenté à l’Assemblée nationale et cité par un quotidien local ajoute que la pollution générée par une aciérie taïwanaise a également décimé le tourisme dans quatre provinces. ...
Südchinesisches Meer: Kriegsdrohung in neun Punkten
29.07.2016 Johnny Erling aus Peking (derStandard) - Seit dem Schiedsspruch von Den Haag verschärfen Vietnam und die Philippinen ihren Reisepassstreit mit China Urlauber aus der Volksrepublik China halten an Vietnams internationalem Grenzübergang Mong Cai den Betrieb auf. Bis zu 3.000 Chinesen kommen hier täglich durch. Doch seit kurzem durchforsten Grenzbeamte ihre Pässe dahingehend, ob darin ein Visum eines vietnamesischen Konsulats klebt. ...
Vietnam says pollution from Taiwan firm affected 200,000
29.07.2016 (Bangkok Post) - HANOI - The Vietnamese government said the toxic pollution a Taiwanese-owned company has acknowledged discharging from its steel complex has harmed the livelihoods of more than 200,000 people, including 41,000 fishermen. ...
China's dismissal of maritime ruling could accelerate Asia's arms race
28.07.2016 Ryosuke Hanafusa (Nikkei Asian Review) - FARNBOROUGH, U.K. Territorial friction between China and its neighbors has been driving an Asiawide arms buildup. Given Beijing's firm rejection of the U.N. arbitral tribunal's recent ruling against its South China Sea claims, the race is likely to only accelerate. ...
Amid Rising China Tensions, It's Vietnamese for Trump (or Clinton)
28.07.2016 Trung Nguyen (VOA) - It might sound odd, but observers say Vietnamese nationals are smitten by the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, and that, just like their former American foes, many Vietnamese find themselves torn over whom to root for. ...
Fischsterben: Vietnamesische Küste großflächig verseucht - Keine Lösung für Säuberung in Sicht
27.07.2016 (Deutsche Stiftung Meeresschutz) - ... Zur Untersuchung der Umweltkatastrophe hatte die vietnamesische Regierung auch internationale Experten zu Rate gezogen. Doch leider wurde deren Aufgabe darauf eingeschränkt, zu den von einheimischen Wissenschaftlern der Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) erstellten Berichten Stellung zu nehmen und eine oberflächliche Besichtigung vor Ort vorzunehmen, wie der beteiligte deutsche Experte Dr. Friedhelm Schroeder berichtet. ...
Chinese woman claims Vietnamese border staff scribbled ‘F word’ on her passport
27.07.2016 (Asian Correspondent) - THE alleged scribbling of offensive words on a Chinese woman’s passport by Vietnamese border staff has caught the attention of the Chinese government. Beijing is raising the issue with Vietnam to seek an explanation as to why the immigration official wrote the ‘F word’ on two pages of the woman’s passport. ...
Cambodia’s Stateless Vietnamese
26.07.2016 (Asia Sentinel) - Up to 750,000 Vietnamese people are believed to be living in Cambodia, about 5 percent of the country’s population, but no one knows for sure. They are almost universally stateless. Few qualify for Cambodian citizenship. ...
26.07.2016 Helen Clark (ASPI The Strategist) - The Permanent Court of Arbitration’s Arbitral Tribunal ruling against China in the South China Sea is no boon for Hanoi, at least so far.
This has been an interesting year for those of us who watch Vietnam. There’s a new government following the 12th National Congress, when powerhouse Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was ousted after he lost in his bid to become General Secretary. That begs the question as to whether economic reform will continue and, importantly, what form the USChina balancing act will now take? ...
Vietnam says it prefers bilateral talks with China on SCS
26.07.2016 By Vijay Joshi (Washington Post) - VIENTIANE, Laos — Vietnam aims to settle its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea through bilateral negotiations even though it doesn’t rule out applying international laws, as the Philippines did in its recent arbitration victory, the deputy foreign minister said Tuesday. ...
Taiwan's Fishy New Move To Reassert Its Contested South China Sea Claim
26.07.2016 (Forbes) - Taiwan has become something of a pariah claimant to the heavily contested, resource-laden South China Sea. In a dispute dominated by China, Vietnam and the Philippines, diplomatically isolated Taiwan normally just pushes out pro forma foreign ministry statements, saying hey the sea is ours too, or appeals for cooperation across claimants. ...
Reversing China’s South China Sea grab
25.07.2016 By Kevin Smith (The Washington Times) - The South China Sea (SCS) is currently the focus of a dispute between the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. The PRC has preemptively deployed military personnel and equipment to enforce their claims to a trumped-up, self-identified but unrecognized “nine-dash line,” an imagined boundary that is inconsistent with international law and commonly accepted international behavior. ...
“La Niña del Napalm” ora por una Cuba libre
25.07.2016 (Marti Noticias) - Kim Phuc, protagonista de la famosa fotografía de la guerra de Vietnam donde aparece sufriendo los efectos del ataque de una bomba de napalm habló con TV Martí sobre sus anhelos para el pueblo de Cuba. ...
Vietnamese gang held for human trafficking in Dubai
25.07.2016 (Gulf News) - Dubai: Dubai Police have busted a gang which held a young Vietnamese woman in captivity for five days and tried to force her into the flesh trade. ...
25.07.2016 (Solinger Tageblatt) - Vientiane - Kann Asien beim Konfliktherd Südchinesisches Meer die Wogen glätten? Außenminister sehen den Frieden in Gefahr, China verspricht friedliche Lösungen. US-Außenminister Kerry will auch mitreden. Die Außenminister der südostasiatischen Staatengemeinschaft (Asean) äußerten vor einem Treffen mit ihrem chinesischen Kollegen Wang Yi in der laotischen Hauptstadt Vientiane ihre Sorge um die Stabilität der Region. China war erbost über den internationalen Schiedsgerichtshof in Den Haag, der seine weitreichenden Hoheitsansprüche vor zwei Wochen abgewiesen hatte- und reagierte mit zusätzlichen Militärmanövern. ...
After Days of Deadlock, ASEAN Releases Statement on South China Sea Dispute
25.07.2016 Charlie Campbell / Beijing (Time) - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) released a watered-down joint statement regarding territorial disputes in the South China Sea on Monday, neglecting to refer to a recent court ruling against Beijing, following pressure from China. ...
25.07.2016 von Manfred Rist (NZZ) - Der Streit um die Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer entzweit die südostasiatische Staatengruppe (Asean) mehr denn je. Die Aussenminister der zehn Länder, die sich am Sonntag in der laotischen Hauptstadt Vientiane trafen, konnten sich nicht einmal auf eine gemeinsame Wortwahl zum Territorialkonflikt einigen. Der Grund: Kambodscha als Verbündeter Pekings stellte sich gemäss diplomatischen Kreisen gegen jede Erwähnung des Urteils. ...
Vietnam's rubber-stamp assembly re-elects Quang as president
25.07.2016 (Business Standard ) - Tran Dai Quang was sworn in as Vietnam's president for the second time in four months after being re-elected today by the country's rubber-stamp National Assembly. ...
ASEAN deadlocked on South China Sea, Cambodia blocks statement
24.07.2016 By Manuel Mogato and Michael Martina (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations failed to agree on maritime disputes in the South China Sea on Sunday after Cambodia blocked any mention to an international court ruling against Beijing in their statement, diplomats said. ...
Asean in Haltung zu Streit um Südchinesisches Meer gespalten
24.07.2016 (Business Panorama) - Nach einem historischen Gerichtsurteil zum Territorialstreit im Südchinesischen Meer spaltet der Konflikt den Verband der Südostasiatischen Nationen (Asean): Bei einem Treffen in der laotischen Hauptstadt Vientiane gelang es den Außenministern der zehn Mitgliedstaaten am Sonntag nicht, sich auf eine Haltung zu dem Territorialkonflikt zu einigen, in dem sich China und die Philippinen, Malaysia, Vietnam und Brunei gegenüberstehen. ...
Camboya veta una declaración de la ASEAN por el contencioso del mar de China Meridional
24.07.2016 (Europa Press) - VIENTIÁN (Reuters/EP) - Camboya ha impedido una declaración conjunta de la Asociación de Naciones del Sureste Asiático (ASEAN, por sus siglas en inglés) por las disputas sobre la soberanía sobre un amplio sector del mar de China Meridional. ...
Dubai Police rescue Vietnam woman from traffickers
24.07.2016 By Nadia Sultan (The Gulf Today) - DUBAI: The Dubai Police rescued a Vietnamese woman, in her 20s, from a group of compatriots who illegally locked her up for trafficking. The police arrested five suspects, including a girl. ...
Vietnamese reporters attacked and beaten during Formosa steel firm investigation
23.07.2016 (Asian Correspondent) - THREE Vietnamese journalists were beaten while attempting to investigate a waste scandal involving Taiwanese-owned Formosa steel firm in the northern Phu Ninh District. ...
Irrigation in Mekong basin to expand farmland threatens Vietnam’s delta
23.07.2016 (The Nation) - SOUTHERN Vietnam is highly vulnerable to more drought and salinisation in the future when its fellow countries in the lower Mekong river basin irrigate the river water to serve their expanding farm land, experts warn. ...
Germeringer CSU setzt auf Thuy Tran
22.07.2016 (SZ) - Die Germeringer CSU geht mit einer eigenen Bewerberin in das Rennen um die CSU-Bundestagskandidatur im neuen Wahlkreis Starnberg-Landsberg-Germering. Die Bewerberin ist Stadträtin Thuy Tran. Die 25-jährige Studentin der Wirtschaftswissenschaften ist trotz ihres jugendlichen Alters schon viele Jahre politisch tätig, so in der Jungen Union (JU) und in der Frauenunion. Seit 2014 gehört sie dem Stadtrat an. ...
Starker Druck auf Christen - Vietnam: 108 Pastoren eingekerkert – Vergiftung droht
22.07.2016 Autor: Reinhold Scharnowski (livenet.ch) - Weil sie sich weigerten, ihre Hausgemeinden in eine grosse, offiziell anerkannte Kirche hineinzuregistrieren, sind mindestens 108 Pastoren in Vietnam im Gefängnis. Sie riskieren, vergiftet zu werden. Wie das Hilfswerk «Christian Aid Mission» berichtete, waren die Pastoren starkem Druck von offiziellen Stellen ausgesetzt, ...
La Chine continue à développer des îles en Mer de Chine du Sud
21.07.2016 Patrick Neuville (reinformation) - Li Jie, un expert naval de Pékin, vient d’expliquer au Global Times, média officiel chinois, que la Chine envisage de poursuivre la construction de zones habitables sur certaines îles de la Mer de Chine du Sud, à une échelle correspondant au niveau de « menaces » qu’elle dit subir dans la région. ...
21.07.2016 (MaltaToday) - The Nationalist Party has insisted that it is up to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat to explain how a Vietnamese MP was given Maltese citizenship, even though Vietnamese citizens are prohibited from having dual citizenship. Nguyen Thi Nguyet Huong, 46, was unanimously found guilty of breaking the Law on Vietnamese Nationality ...
Vietnam: More than 100 Christian pastors jailed, face being poisoned for trying to preach gospel
21.07.2016 By Ruth Gledhill (Christian Today) - More than 100 Vietnamese Christian pastors have been locked up and are at risk of being poisoned for refusing to sign up to a central, official church, according to Christian Aid Mission. ...
Vietnamese workers in Thailand: lesser known but valuable labour source
21.07.2016 Writer: Christopher Bruton (Bangkok Post) - Because of the lack of proper welcoming facilities, and the prevalence of illegal workers, there are no accurate statistics on the number of Mekong Region country nationals presently undertaking economic activities in Thailand. In addition to the predominant, direct neighbouring country workers, there is one additional important group of Mekong Region workers, namely the Vietnamese, who form a significant group of foreign workers in Thailand. ...
Chinas Ansprüche sind auf Sand gebaut
20.07.2016 von Matthias Naß (Zeit Online) - Das Völkerrecht gilt auch für China. Aber wie kann dessen Führung im Inselstreit zum Einlenken bewegt werden? Europa kann in diesem Streit nicht neutral bleiben. Der Anspruch Chinas auf rund 90 Prozent des Südchinesischen Meers ist von den anderen Anrainerstaaten – Vietnam, den Philippinen, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesien – immer bestritten worden. ...
20.07.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - Ces derniers jours, plusieurs importantes organisations internationales de défense des droits de l’homme (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International) ont alerté l’opinion mondiale sur la gravité des infractions aux droits de l’homme au Vietnam. ...
Formosa Steel verursacht Umweltkatastrophe in Vietnam
20.07.2016 Ulrike Kirsch (Deutsche Stiftung Meeresschutz Juli 2016) - Küstengewässer auf Jahrzehnte zerstört – Massives Fischsterben – Hunderttausende verlieren Lebensgrundlage. Ende Juni sollte die Roheisengewinnung im erst Ende 2015 in Betrieb genommenen Stahlwerk Formosa Steel Ha Tinh in Vietnam beginnen. Doch bereits in der Pilotphase kam es zu einer Umweltkatastrophe, die die Küste verseuchte, die Lebensgrundlage vieler Fischer und Aquafarmer zerstörte und auch der Tourismusbranche tiefe Einschnitte bereiten wird. ...
Südchinesisches Meer - China startet neue Manöver
19.07.2016 (FAZ) - Die Regierung in Peking sperrt einen Teil des Südchinesischen Meers für die Schifffahrt und warnt vor „militärischen Provokationen“. In dem umstrittenen Gebiet kommen künftig chinesische Bomber zum Einsatz. ...
Manila rejects Beijing offer of dialogue on S. China Sea dispute
19.07.2016 (The Asahi Shimbun) - MANILA--The Philippines has turned down a Chinese proposal to start bilateral talks, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, because of Beijing's precondition of not discussing a court ruling that nullified most of its South China Sea claims. ...
Just Where Exactly Did China Get the South China Sea Nine-Dash Line From?
19.07.2016 Hannah Beech / Shanghai (Time) - China's territorial claims in the South China Sea are made on the basis of a nine-dash line now ruled spurious by an international court. But where did the line originate from and why is Beijing so sensitive about it? ...
Hanói, decenas de activistas arrestados por protestar contra el imperialismo chino en los mares
18.07.2016 Thanh Nhan (AsiaNews) - Hanói - Las fuerzas de seguridad vietnamitas detuvieron a decenas de activistas por haber organizado manifestaciones anti-chinas en las plazas de la capital y en la Ciudad de Ho Chi Minh, la metrópolis del sur del país. ...
Le Vietnam empêche des manifestations antichinoises
17.07.2016 (spa) - Hanoï - Des dizaines de manifestants ont été arrêtés dimanche à Hanoi où ils voulaient protester contre le rejet par Pékin d'un jugement international qui invalide ses prétentions en mer de Chine méridionale. ...
Philippines wins trial of the century
17.07.2016 By Richard Javad Heydarian (Al Jazeera) - The Hague ruling is binding and final, so China can comply or be branded as an outlaw in the region - "Nothing but truth in here and it was unfair," lamented Aglaya Ivanovna, one of Dostoyevsky's protagonists in The Idiot. This was essentially China's response to a major legal setback, when an arbitration body at The Hague ruled against the Asian giant's expansive claims and assertive manoeuvres in the South China Sea. ...
Vietnamese Protesters Demand Justice Despite Government Settlement on Fish Kills
17.07.2016 Written by Don Le (Global Voices) - Netizens have quickly jumped online to share their frustration with the investigation process following the Vietnamese government’s media conference regarding the cause of the environmental disaster which led to 70 tonnes of dead fish being washed up ashore. The mysterious fish kill which destroyed the livelihoods of fisherfolk across central Vietnam was largely attributed to dirty discharge from the industrial plant of Formosa, a Taiwanese company. ...
‘Down with China invasion!’ Vietnam detains activists after South China Sea ruling
17.07.2016 (SCMP) - Scores of activists were detained in Vietnam’s capital Sunday as they gathered to protest against China after it rejected a recent international ruling that dismissed its claims to much of the South China Sea. ...
Vietnam: policía arresta a docenas en protesta contra China
17.07.2016 (20minutos) - La policía de Vietnam detuvo en el centro de Hanoi a docenas de personas que participaban en una protesta contra China y en apoyo del fallo de un tribunal internacional que rechazó los reclamos territoriales de Beijing en el mar del Sur de la China. ...
Vietnam detains anti-China activists over South China Sea dispute
17.07.2016 (DW) - Vietnam has detained dozens of activists at a rally protesting China's refusal to abide by an international tribunal's ruling. Vietnam and China have been locked in a territorial dispute over the South China Sea. At least 30 activists were swiftly bundled onto waiting buses and into cars by security forces Sunday ...
Vietnam removes protesters gathered for anti-China rally in Hanoi
17.07.2016 (The Guardian) - About two dozen people are bused away even before they begin their protest against Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea. Dozens of Vietnamese who gathered for an anti-China protest in central Hanoi were taken away by authorities on Sunday as they tried to rally support for an international tribunal’s ruling rejecting Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea. ...
Lecturer promoting cross-cultural understanding
16.07.2016 By Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin (The Taipei Times) - Tran Thi Hoang Phuong, a lecturer of Vietnamese at National Chengchi University, has been working to bridge Taiwanese and Vietnamese societies by promoting cross-cultural understanding through language classes, as well as television and radio programs. ...
FORMOSA PLASTICS - Aufklärung und vollständige Entschädigung. Jetzt!
15.07.2016 Von Ethecon (scharf-links) - FORMOSA HA TINH STEEL, eine Tochter der FORMOSA PLASTIC GROUP (FPG), ist für das große Fischsterben in Vietnam verantwortlich. Die Hauptversammlung des Konzerns in Taiwan war begleitet von breiten öffentlichen Protesten. ethecon überreichte im Saal einen Offenen Brief. Auch die taiwanesische und vietnamesische Regierungen erhielten einen Offenen Brief, entzogen sich allerdings jeglicher Reaktion. ...
China has moral binding to accept the Hague court verdict: Philippines and Vietnam
15.07.2016 By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury (The Economic Times) - NEW DELHI: Envoys of two key Southeast Asian nations Philippines and Vietnam having claims in the South China Sea (SCS) region on Friday emphasized that China has moral binding to accept the Hague court verdict as a signatory to UNCLOS amid Beijing's attempts to up the ante by issuing warning to various countries and threatening actions. ...
China’s problem with the rule of law
15.07.2016 (Livemint) - The weak legal standing of Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea has never been in any doubt outside China’s borders. The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration’s (PCA’s) ruling on Tuesday rebutting Beijing’s claims vis-a-vis the Philippines is thus unsurprising, even if its sweeping nature exceeded analysts’ expectations. The course Beijing charts now will have implications far beyond the South China Sea. And the initial signs are not positive. ...
Vietnam says investigating dry waste by Formosa steel unit
15.07.2016 (Reuters) - Vietnamese environmental authorities said they were working with local officials in the Ha Tinh province to investigate dry waste, belonging to a unit of Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group, that was found dumped on a residential farm. Vietnamese state media also reported that people in Thien Cam, about 60 km away from the Formosa steel plant to the north, suspect waste in a landfill there came from Formosa as well. ...
Streit um Südchinesisches Meer belastet Asien-Europa-Gipfel
14.07.2016 (Süddeutsche Zeitung) - Ulan Bator (dpa) - Der Territorialstreit um das Südchinesische Meer überschattet den Asien-Europa-Gipfel (Asem) in Ulan Bator. Die Philippinen und Japan wollen China bei dem Treffen drängen, die Entscheidung des internationalen Schiedsgerichts gegen die chinesischen Gebietsansprüche zu respektieren. ...
Südchinesisches Meer - Nationalismus auf hoher See
14.07.2016 Bernd Ludermann (Welt-Sichten) - In Den Haag ist ein brisantes Urteil gefällt worden: Ein Tribunal beim Internationalen Schiedshof hat den Philippinen im Streit über ein Seegebiet vor seinen Küsten Recht gegeben – gegen die Volksrepublik China. Doch die wird ihre Ansprüche bestenfalls mäßigen. ...
These 5 Facts Explain China’s Coming Challenges
14.07.2016 Ian Bremmer (Time) - A ruling from an international tribunal this week—that China’s expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea (SCS) have no legal standing—dealt President Xi Jinping a minor setback and generated headlines around the world. But it’s inside China’s borders where Xi’s considerable strength will be tested. These five facts explain the challenges ahead for China and its formidable president. ...
Pekín inaugura dos aeropuertos en arrecifes de mar de China Meridional
14.07.2016 (El Tiempo) - China inauguró dos aeropuertos situados en arrecifes de las islas Spratly del Mar de China Meridional, después que un tribunal internacional diera la razón a Filipinas en la disputa territorial entre ambos países por esa zona marítima. ...
13.07.2016 By Chen Wei-han (The Taipei Times) - ‘CONFLICTING’:An Environmental Jurists Association official said the data were incomplete, as they lacked coordinate information and the collectors’ names. - A senior official on Monday said that monitoring data suggested that a Formosa Plastics Group (FPG)-invested steel mill in Vietnam was not to blame for a pollution incident and massive fish die-off. ...
13.07.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - L’interview sur la religion que l’on lira ci-dessous a été recueillie par Gia Minh, journaliste à Radio Free Asia (RFA - émissions en vietnamien), auprès de deux spécialistes vietnamiens de la question religieuse, présentés par lui comme appartenant au Centre d’études Asie-Pacifique de l’Université nationale de Hanoi. ...
13.07.2016 Gemma Wilson (News Corp Australia Network) - DURING the first 10 months of Dar’s five-year detention, he was kept in solitary confinement in a tiny cell, in total darkness and complete silence. For the first two months, he was hauled from his cell each day to be interrogated and beaten. Dar, an indigenous man from Vietnam’s central highlands, was arrested for organising peaceful demonstrations over religious freedom and human rights. ...
Nach Schiedsspruch: China droht im Inselstreit mit Luftverteidigungszone
13.07.2016 (Spiegel Online) - Die chinesische Regierung will das Den Haager Urteil im Inselstreit nicht akzeptieren - und verschärft die Rhetorik: "Macht das Südchinesische Meer nicht zu einer Wiege des Krieges". Nach dem Schiedsspruch zum Südchinesischen Meer droht China mit der Ausrufung einer Luftverteidigungszone in dem Seegebiet. ...
Umweltprobleme in Vietnam - Selbstgenähte Jutebeutel statt Fischsterben
12.07.2016 von Philipp Hinz (Wirtschaftswoche) - Im Mai diesen Jahres sind Millionen tote Fische an das Ufer einer 200 Kilometer langen Strandlandschaft in Vietnam gespült worden. Das Geschäft mit Tourismus und Fisch kollabierte. Vor wenigen Tagen hat die vietnamesische Regierung nun bestätigt, dass giftige Abwässer eines Stahlwerks der taiwanesischen Firma Formosa die Ursache waren. ...
Human Rights: Amnesty blasts Vietnam on treatment of prisoners of conscience
12.07.2016 (DW) - Vietnam's prisoners of conscience are routinely tortured, beaten and kept from their families. An Amnesty International report has exposed some disturbing aspects to their detainment. ...
China sank fishing boat in the disputed region: Vietnam
12.07.2016 (The Hindu) - Vietnam has accused the Chinese coastguard of sinking a fishing boat near a disputed island chain, authorities said on Tuesday. Two Vietnamese boats were chased by a pair of Chinese coastguard ships on Saturday afternoon off Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province ...
Pékin furieux après avoir été désavoué par la CPA sur la mer de Chine méridionale
12.07.2016 (Le Nouvel Observateur) - La Haye (AFP) - Pékin a réagi avec colère mardi après qu'une cour internationale à La Haye a donné raison aux Philippines en statuant que les revendications chinoises en mer de Chine méridionale n'avaient "aucun fondement juridique", au risque d'exacerber encore les tensions dans la région. ...
China vs. Philippinen: Insel oder Felsen? Worum es beim Streit im Südchinesischen Meer geht
12.07.2016 Von Vanessa Steinmetz (Spiegel Online) - Im Streit um Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer hat ein Gericht in Den Haag zugunsten der Philippinen entschieden. Befriedet das den Konflikt mit Peking? Oder steht ein neues Wettrüsten bevor? Worum geht es genau? ...
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Toàn văn thông cáo phán quyết của tòa trọng tài về ‘đường lưỡi bò’ 12/07/2016
Ân Xá Quốc Tế tố cáo Việt Nam ngược đãi tù nhân bất đồng chính kiến 12/07/2016
Phi Luật Tân thắng kiện Trung Cộng tại Tòa Án Quốc Tế 12/07/2016
Về chuyện Formosa lén lút chôn trộm chất thải chưa qua xử lý 12/07/2016
Biển Đông: Tòa Án Trọng Tài bác bỏ bản đồ “đường lưỡi bò” của Trung Quốc 12/07/2016
Tranh chấp Biển Ðông - Dân đánh cá Trung Quốc đảm nhận vai trò thô bạo 12/07/2016
Tàu cá VN 'bị 2 tàu TQ đâm chìm' 11/07/2016
500 triệu USD và sinh mệnh của người dân 11/07/2016
Mệnh nước 11/07/2016
'Tôi không phải công an, tôi là côn đồ!' 11/07/2016
Côn đồ ném đá vỡ đầu ông Lã Việt Dũng 11/07/2016
Thảm họa Formosa: Biển đã chết khó phục hồi 09/07/2016
Formosa được Hà Tĩnh ưu ái những gì? 09/07/2016
Người dân Quảng Bình yêu cầu kiểm tra độc tố trong cơ thể 09/07/2016
Bình luận Bắc Kinh lo, Hà Nội sợ 09/07/2016
Tước quy chế tị nạn 09/07/2016
Nhiều người bị thương khi biểu tình chống Formosa ở Quảng Bình 08/07/2016
Cá chết & Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam 08/07/2016
Vụ Formosa: 'Không nên đàn áp dân' 08/07/2016
Hiến kế luật sư trong vụ án liên quan đến Formosa 08/07/2016
Đơn tố giác tội phạm và kiến nghị khởi tố vụ án hình sự Đối với Formosa 08/07/2016
Lạm phát tại Việt Nam ‘đang tăng tốc’ 08/07/2016
Quảng Bình: CA đàn áp đẫm máu cuộc biểu tình lớn chống Formosa 07/07/2016
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Vô liêm sỉ 06/07/2016
Nhà báo và vai trò phản biện làm xoay chuyển xã hội 06/07/2016
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Dưới biển, trên trời còn nhiều ‘ẩn số’! 05/07/2016
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Bắc Kinh đề nghị thương lượng nếu Manila bỏ qua phán quyết về Biển Đông 04/07/2016
500 triệu Mỹ kim và nỗi nhục 03/07/2016
Dư luận về cuộc họp báo sự cố môi trường của Chính phủ? 03/07/2016
Vụ kiện Biển Đông : Trung Quốc tập trận ở Hoàng Sa trước ngày Tòa ra phán quyết 03/07/2016
Formosa: nhà nước hưởng lợi hai lần 02/07/2016
‘Kết luận bồi thường vụ cá chết quá sớm’ 01/07/2016
Giải thể độc tài chuyển qua dân chủ là sự cần thiết khách quan 01/07/2016
Họp báo công bố nguyên nhân cá chết: Đổ lỗi cho Formosa, chửi bới “thế lực thù địch” 30/06/2016
Việt Nam: Formosa gây cá chết hàng loạt ở miền Trung 30/06/2016
Lực lượng dân quân biển Trung Quốc: chúng là ai và làm thế nào để đối phó? 29/06/2016
Bộ trưởng Công an Tô Lâm đã nói gì? 29/06/2016
Cái khóa của Bộ Ngoại giao (phỏng vấn Đặng Xương Hùng, phần 2) 29/06/2016
Tại sao Ủy viên Quốc vụ viện Trung Quốc thăm Việt Nam? 29/06/2016
Dã tâm của một kẻ tột cùng khốn nạn 29/06/2016
Bộ trưởng Công an ngăn chặn biểu tình 28/06/2016
Coi dân như không, xem môi trường như rác 27/06/2016
Ân huệ của nhà nước đối với ngành ngoại giao (phỏng vấn Đặng Xương Hùng, phần 1) 27/06/2016
Truyền thông VN 'thua' Đài Loan trong việc đưa tin vụ cá chết 27/06/2016
Biển Đông : Các kịch bản phán quyết của Tòa Án Trọng Tài và hệ lụy đối với Việt Nam 27/06/2016
Dương Khiết Trì đến Việt Nam vì Biển Đông ? 27/06/2016
Sông Hậu có thể sẽ như Vũng Áng 26/06/2016
Ngậm miệng ăn tiền 25/06/2016
Phải làm lúa vụ ba vì sợ dân đói? 25/06/2016
Nước Anh rời khỏi EU và hệ lụy với Việt Nam 25/06/2016
Bác sĩ Nguyễn Đan Quế nhận giải thưởng nhân quyền Gwangju 24/06/2016
Trưng cầu dân ý: Anh quốc rời Liên minh Âu Châu (EU) 24/06/2016
Lee & Man Hậu Giang - hậu quả chẳng cần chờ hậu kiểm 24/06/2016
Tình hình sức khỏe của bà Cấn Thị Thêu 23/06/2016
Điều trần tại Quốc hội Hoa Kỳ về nhân quyền Việt Nam 23/06/2016
Tiến sĩ Rupert Neudeck, ân nhân của thuyền nhân Việt, qua đời tại Đức 23/06/2016
Nhà máy giấy Lee & Man Việt Nam: một Formosa Hà Tĩnh mới ở đồng bằng sông Cửu Long? 22/06/2016
Quyền làm báo tại Việt Nam qua vụ việc nhà báo Mai Phan Lợi 22/06/2016
Nhà cầm quyền tỉnh Lào Cai đánh phá và đánh giáo dân cầu nguyện 21/06/2016
Hãy bảo vệ Diễn đàn Nhà báo trẻ! 20/06/2016
Cái sẩy nó nẩy cái ung trong vụ 10 phi công “hy sinh anh dũng” 20/06/2016
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Công an, Tuyên giáo hãy chấm dứt đe dọa Ông Mai Phan Lợi và khủng bố báo chí 20/06/2016
Ông Mai Phan Lợi 'bị rút thẻ nhà báo' 20/06/2016
Biểu tình nhân chuyến thăm của Tập Cận Bình tới Ba Lan 19/06/2016
Hàng ngàn người Little Saigon nghe Đức Đạt Lai Lạt Ma thuyết giảng 18/06/2016
Các Soeur Dòng Phaolô Hà Nội phản đối chủ đầu tư thi công trái phép trong đêm 17/06/201
Cơ sở tôn giáo của Dòng Phaolô Hà Nội tiếp tục bị đập phá 16/06/2016
Formosa Đài Loan hoãn khánh thành nhà máy thép ở Hà Tĩnh 16/06/2016
Dư luận Đài Loan lên tiếng về Formosa 16/06/2016
Cá chết hàng loạt tại Việt Nam: Dân biểu Đài Loan đòi điều tra Formosa 16/06/2016
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Sau lưng nhân dân là nhân dân 13/06/2016
Ông Thị trưởng Moritzburg: đó không phải là đài tưởng niệm Hồ Chí Minh 13/06/2016
Nhà cầm quyền Lào Cai gây khó khăn cho Giáo họ Mường Khương 13/06/2016
Tín hữu G.P Vinh quyết liệt minh bạch vụ cá chết bằng diễu hành vì môi trường 12/06/2016
Người dân biết đứng lên đồng loạt thì mới có những cuộc bầu cử đúng nghĩa 11/06/2016
Sáng nay 10/6/2016, dân oan Cấn Thị Thêu lại bị bắt 10/06/2016
Nhân quyền Việt Nam sau chuyến viếng thăm của Tổng Thống Obama 09/06/2016
Đảng CDU ở Moritzburg (Đức) yêu cầu dẹp bỏ dự án khu tưởng niệm Hồ Chí Minh09/06/2016
Hà Nội điều tra vụ cá chết hàng loạt 09/06/2016
Biểu tình vụ cá chết sẽ lại xuất hiện ở Việt Nam? 08/06/2016
TS Nguyễn Quang A: Một cuộc bầu cử vẫn phơi trần bản chất độc tài toàn trị 08/06/2016
Kỹ sư Nguyễn Văn Thạnh tố cáo bị công an giả danh côn đồ hành hung 07/06/2016
Văn Bút Quốc Tế và Linh mục Tù nhân Nguyễn Văn Lý 07/06/2016
Việt Nam rút bài ‘thủ phạm’ khiến cá chết hàng loạt 07/06/2016
‘Lấy gì mà xử nó?’: Chính quyền muốn có luật Biểu tình hơn cả dân? 06/06/2016
Món quà tuyệt vời trong một xã hội tự do 06/06/2016
Ngăn cản dân biểu tình – Ngày tàn của cộng sản Việt Nam 05/06/2016
CA đàn áp biểu tình ôn hoà nhân ngày môi trường thế giới 05/06/2016
Việt Nam : Biểu tình "cứu biển", hàng chục người bị câu lưu 05/06/201
Tuần hành vì cá chết 'bị chặn' ở Hà Nội 05/06/2016
Rupert Neudeck và "Một Con Tàu cho Việt Nam" 05/06/2016
Chờ đợi một phán quyết 04/06/2016
Bảo vệ cuộc sống của dân bằng việc làm cụ thể chứ không phải là lời nói lừa bịp! 03/06/2016
Bất ngờ xuống đường biểu tình đòi minh bạch thông tin vì sao cá chết tại Sài Gòn 03/06/2016
Cá chết là do khủng bố và phản động? 02/06/2016
Tù nhân lương tâm Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức ngừng tuyệt thực từ 7/6/2016 01/06/2016
Những cô gái quý hiếm 31/05/2016
Thư của những nhân sĩ trí thức gửi Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức 31/05/2016
Obama xứng đáng là người mang giải Nobel hòa bình ? 31/05/2016
Những cựu tù nhân lương tâm từng tuyệt thực lo lắng cho Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức 30/05/2016
'Dân không muốn thần tượng tuyên truyền' 29/05/2016
Vũ khí – Thương mại – Nhân quyền và chuyến thăm Việt Nam của Tổng thống Obama 29/05/2016
Đừng vội vàng kẻo hy vọng hão!28/05/2016
Vợ mục sư Nguyễn Công Chính lại bị công an tỉnh Gia Lai hãm hại 27/05/2016
TT Obama: Muốn có tự do dân chủ, bạn hãy tự mình làm đi 27/05/2016
Lời phát biểu của Tổng Thống Obama với nhân dân Việt Nam 27/05/2016
Kêu gọi tham gia tuyệt thực đợt 2 – Ngày 27/5/2016 26/05/2016
Chỉ khi người bất đồng chính kiến cuối cùng được trả tự do ... 26/05/2016
Lá thư khẩn cầu của con gái Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức tới Tổng thống Obama 25/05/2016
Nhà cầm quyền Hà Nội tự do đến thế là cùng?! 24/05/2016
Việt Nam đón chào một “Thuyền Nhân” trong phái đoàn của tổng thống Obama 24/05/2016
Việt Nam ngăn cản thành viên tổ chức XHDS gặp Tổng thống Obama 24/05/2016
Ông Obama ở Việt Nam: Đoan Trang bị chặn 24/05/2016
Tự do báo chí ở Việt Nam: Bất lực nếu không có Internet 24/05/2016
Mỹ dỡ bỏ lệnh cấm bán vũ khí sát thương cho Việt Nam 23/05/2016
Nhiều người tẩy chay bầu cử và biểu tình vì môi trường 22/05/2016
Obama không được quên nhân dân Việt Nam và nguyện vọng của họ 22/05/2016
Ven biển miền Trung nhiễm độc nặng Quốc hội im lặng – Vì sao vậy? 22/05/2016
CPJ kêu gọi TT Obama ưu tiên nhấn mạnh tự do báo chí khi thăm Việt Nam 21/05/2016
Các thượng nghị sĩ Mỹ yêu cầu TT Obama đòi Việt Nam trả tự do cho tù nhân lương tâm 21/05/2016
Biển bị đầu độc, báo chí cũng bị đầu độc 21/05/2016
Tuyên bố phản đối An ninh TV, VTV vu cáo người yêu nước 20/05/2016
Tin sơ khởi về linh mục Nguyễn Văn Lý, mới được ra khỏi nhà tù nhỏ để về nhà tù lớn 20/05/2016
Linh mục Nguyễn Văn Lý được thả 20/05/2016
Công dân Mỹ gốc Việt mất tích trước khi Tổng thống Obama đến Việt Nam 20/05/2016
Việt Nam qua góc nhìn của người Mỹ 20/05/2016
Tra tấn người biểu tình bằng roi điện và dùi cui tại "trung tâm bảo trợ xã hội" 20/05/2016
Chế độ côn đồ trị 20/05/2016
Đoan Trang: VI PHẠM NHÂN QUYỀN TRONG TIẾN TRÌNH BẦU CỬ 2016 20/05/2016
Chủ nghĩa xã hội dẫn tới sự diệt vong của dân tộc 20/05/2016
Formosa Vũng Áng - Một thảm họa quốc gia 19/05/2016
TQ 'chặn' phi cơ do thám Mỹ ở biển Đông 19/05/2016
Bản lên tiếng của Hội đồng Liên tôn Việt Nam quốc nội 19/05/2016
Môi trường trong sạch – Nhà nước minh bạch, đó là yêu cầu chính đáng của người dân 19/05/2016
Facebook bị chặn tại Việt Nam vì vụ cá chết 18/05/2016
Nhà Trắng tham khảo ý kiến người Mỹ gốc Việt trước chuyến thăm VN của Tổng thống Obama 18/05/2016
Tù nhân lương tâm Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức sẽ “tuyệt thực đến chết” 18/05/2016
Việt Nam: Người biểu tình ôn hòa vì môi trường bị đàn áp 18/05/2016
Viết cho Hải Điếu Cày, Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, và các bạn tù của tôi 17/05/2016
Tuyên bố về tội ác đầu độc biển miền Trung Việt Nam (cập nhật đợt cuối, tổng cộng 2940 người ký) 17/05/2016
Vụ gà ăn cá biển bỗng lăn ra chết: Quan chức Đà Nẵng đổ lỗi do gà “ăn quá no” 17/05/2016
Tuyên bố của Bauxite Việt Nam về hành vi vu khống của VTV1 và cơ quan an ninh Việt Nam 17/05/2016
Bức ảnh tọa kháng đẹp nhất... 17/05/2016
Xem biểu tình là "phản động", chính quyền Việt Nam bị phản đối 16/05/2016
Đài VN: 'Thế lực phản động' giật dây biểu tình về môi trường 16/05/2016
Biển Đông : Trung Quốc lại áp đặt lệnh cấm đánh bắt cá 16/05/2016
Con đường hoạn lộ của chủ tịch nước: Bằng 'tại chức' và 'tiến sĩ giấy' 16/05/2016
Giáo Xứ Xuân Kiều Thắp Nến Cầu Nguyện: Trả Lại Biển Xanh Cho Chúng Tôi! 15/05/2016
Người dân tiếp tục xuống đường vì “Cá cần nước sạch! Dân cần minh bạch” ngày 15/05/2016 15/05/2016
Liên Hiệp Quốc quan ngại về đàn áp biểu tình ở Việt Nam 14/05/2016
Nhìn cách xử lý trong hai vụ ô nhiễm môi sinh: Volkswagen và Vũng Áng 14/05/2016
Có chỉ đạo chống biểu tình từ cấp cao? 12/05/2016
Vài quan điểm của người dân về cuộc biểu tình ôn hòa 11/05/2016
Thêm bằng chứng côn an côn đồ Hồ Chí Minh đánh người biểu tình 11/05/2016
Tường trình từ thành phố bị bao vây 10/05/2016
Sài Gòn, hòn ngọc bị đập nát 10/05/2016
Tại sao quân nhân lại mặc áo thanh niên xung phong đàn áp người tuần hành ôn hòa? 10/05/2016
Bộ ngoại giao Mỹ gặp Hội Nhà báo Độc lập Việt Nam 10/05/2016
Tiến sĩ Nguyễn Quang A : Mấy tháng gần đây tình hình nhân quyền ở Việt Nam ngày càng xấu đi 10/05/2016
Giới luật sư lên tiếng về vụ đàn áp biểu tình ngày 8/5/2016 10/05/2016
19 tổ chức gửi thư yêu cầu TT Obama quan tâm vấn đề nhân quyền trong chuyến đi VN 10/05/2016
Gửi anh đeo khẩu trang y tế 09/05/2016
Dựa vào những nhà khoa học, cư dân Đài Tây khởi kiện Formosa Plastics Group 09/05/2016
Gương mặt của im lặng trong biểu tình 09/05/2016
Thủ tướng VN dừng 'siêu dự án sông Hồng' 09/05/2016
Báo cáo nhân quyền tại Việt Nam năm 2015 08/05/2016
Việt Nam: Biểu tình chống Formosa gây ô nhiễm, 100 người bị câu lưu 08/05/201
Tường thuật các cuộc xuống đường vì môi trường 08.05.2016 08/05/2016
Sài Gòn biểu tình vì môi trường chống Formosa sáng ngày 08-05-2016 Video 08/05/2016
Biểu tình lớn tại Hà nội ngày 8.5.2016 (tổng hợp) Video 08/05/2016
Biểu tình tọa kháng phản đối Formosa tại Hà Nội 08-05-2016 Video 08/05/2016
Lại nổ ra biểu tình ở Việt Nam vì cá chết 08/05/2016
Vì sao cờ đỏ ‘biến mất’ trong cuộc biểu tình ngày 1/5 năm 2016? 07/05/2016
Cứ êm ái chết đúng quy trình như đàn cá ư ? 07/05/2016
Nỗi ám ảnh của quá khứ 07/05/2016
Tù nhân chính trị Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức bị chuyển trại giam 07/05/2016
Tập trung bưng bít thông tin 07/05/2016
Rạn san hô khổng lồ dưới đáy biển Quảng Bình đã chết 07/05/2016
Đài truyền hình quốc gia VTV bưng bít thông tin về công ty Formosa và cá chết 06/05/2016
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Cá chết ở miền Trung nhiễm kim loại nặng 06/05/2016
Từ sự kiện Formosa Hà Tĩnh: “TRUNG QUỐC HÓA” VIỆT NAM 06/05/2016
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Biểu tình bảo vệ môi trường – Hành động chính đáng của người dân 06/05/2016
Đầu Tư Nước Ngoài Và Ô Nhiễm Môi Trường 05/05/2016
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Inside Viet Nam's secretive and torturous world of 'prisons within prisons' 12.07.2016 (AI) - A new report published by Amnesty International today casts a rare light on the torture and other harrowing treatment of prisoners of conscience locked up in Viet Nam’s secretive network of prisons and detention centres. ...Viêt-Nam : les prisonniers d'opinion torturés dans les prisons 12.07.2016 (AI) - Dans le rapport "Des prisons à l’intérieur des prisons : la torture et les mauvais traitements des prisonniers d’opinion au Viêt-Nam", nous avons documenté les pratiques de disparition forcée, mise à l’isolement et torture contre les prisonniers d’opinion, dans ce pays considéré comme l’un des plus fermé au monde. ...Amnesty prangert Folterung von Gefangenen in Vietnam an 12.07.2016 (DW) - In den Gefängnissen von Vietnam herrschen laut Amnesty schockierende Zustände. Besonders politische Gefangene werden systematisch gequält, heißt es in einem Bericht der Menschenrechtsorganisation. ...Diese Gefangenen gehen durch die Hölle
12.07.2016 von Carina Pachner (News) - Sie kämpfen für Freiheit und schreien unter der Folter: In Vietnam durchleben sogenannte Gewissensgefangene die Hölle. Ein aktueller Bericht der Menschenrechtsorganisation "Amnesty International" deckt auf, wie politische Gefangene systematisch gefoltert werden. ...
Ending Torture of Prisoners of Conscience in Vietnam
12.07.2016 By John Coughlan (The Diplomat) - Last Wednesday, Vũ Minh Khánh, the wife of jailed human rights lawyer Nguyễn Văn Đài, slipped quietly backed into Vietnam after completing an advocacy tour of the U.S., Europe and Australia raising awareness of her husband’s imprisonment, and was promptly arrested at Hanoi airport. The Vietnamese government does not take lightly efforts by citizens to raise awareness of the country’s troubling human rights record abroad. ...
Hague Tribunal Rejects China’s Historic Claims to South China Sea
12.07.2016 Mike Corder and Jim Gomez (Time) - (THE HAGUE, Netherlands) — An international tribunal ruled unanimously Tuesday that there is no legal basis for China’s “nine-dash line” claiming rights to much of the South China Sea. ...
Mer de Chine: la Haye donne raison à Manille contre Pékin
12.07.2016 (Libération) - Une cour internationale a donné raison mardi à Manille contre Pékin, en affirmant que les revendications chinoises en mer de Chine méridionale, une zone stratégique, n’avaient pas de «fondements juridiques», une décision qui pourrait exacerber les tensions déjà vives dans la région. ...
Den Haag weist Chinas Gebietsansprüche zurück
12.07.2016 (Die Welt) - Seit Jahren gibt es politische Auseinandersetzungen zu den Hoheitsrechten im Südchinesischen Meer. Nun hat das internationale Schiedsgericht in Den Haag entschieden: China hat keinen Anspruch. ...
Corte de La Haya rechaza reclamos de China y da la razón a Filipinas
12.07.2016 (terra) - Después de tres años, el Tribunal Permanente de Arbitraje determinó que el gigante asiático no tiene soberanía en el mar de China Meridional. En un fallo histórico, la corte internacional de La Haya rechazó los reclamos de soberanía de China sobre una serie de islas en el mar de China Meridional. ...
Urteil zum Südchinesischen Meer: China hat keine historischen Ansprüche
12.07.2016 (tagesschau.de) - Wem gehört das rohstoffreiche Gebiet im Südchinesischen Meer? Chinas Ansprüche sind nicht rechtmäßig, hat das Schiedsgericht in Den Haag entschieden. Die philippinischen Fischer hätten hingegen dort historisch gewachsene Rechte. China erkennt das Gericht allerdings nicht an. ...
Amnesty International Bericht: Folter in vietnamesischen Haftanstalten
12.07.2016 (dradio) - In Vietnams Gefängnissen herrschen nach Recherchen von Amnesty International schockierende Zustände. Folter und andere Misshandlungen politischer Häftlinge seien dort an der Tagesordnung ...
Amnesty International dénonce les conditions de détention au Vietnam
12.07.2016 (RFI) - Le Vietnam serait l'un des pays les plus fermés d'Asie, notamment sur ce qui se passe dans ses prisons. Un rapport d'Amnesty International dénonce des conditions de détention inhumaines : disparitions forcées, tortures, privations de soins médicaux. Les principales victimes sont des prisonniers d'opinion, des militants, des blogueurs. ...
Vietnamese Activists Are Beaten by Attackers Believed Linked to the Police
11.07.2016 (RFA) - Unidentified assailants attacked and beat a prominent Vietnamese protester in the capital Hanoi on Sunday, sending him to the hospital amid a recent surge of similar assaults on dissidents by plainclothes attackers believed to be linked to the police. ...
11.07.2016 von Helmut Hetzel (Die Presse) - In Asien schwelen brisante Territorialstreitigkeiten, die sich zum Konflikt zwischen China und den USA auswachsen könnten. Am Dienstag entscheidet der Internationale Gerichtshof in Den Haag. China beansprucht das gesamte Südchinesische Meer für sich, baut dort sogar neue künstliche Inseln mit Militärstützpunkten und will auch den gesamten Luftraum in der Region für sich reklamieren. Vietnam, die Philippinen, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, aber auch die USA akzeptieren das nicht. ...
Vietnam wirft China Versenkung eines Fischerboots vor
11.07.2016 (derStandard) - Vor Urteil des Haager Schiedshofs über Territorialansprüche Hanoi – Einen Tag vor dem richtungsweisenden Urteil über Pekings umstrittene Territorialansprüche im Südchinesischen Meer hat Vietnam erneut schwere Vorwürfe gegen China erhoben ...
Streitigkeiten im Südchinesischen Meer - Chinas Fischer fürs Grobe
11.07.2016 Von Marc Leonhard (tagesschau.de) - Sie sehen aus wie normale Fischer, aber einige chinesische Kutter im Südchinesischen Meer sind im militärischen Auftrag unterwegs. Die Führung in Peking vertraut bei den Gebietsstreitigkeiten auf Fischereimilizen - dies musste nicht nur die US-Marine erfahren. Moderne Lenkwaffenkreuzer, eigenständig entwickelte Flugzeugträger, U-Boote mit Nuklearantrieb - dies ist eine Seite der maritimen Aufrüstung Chinas, die in den USA und vielen asiatischen Staaten mit Sorge und Aufmerksamkeit verfolgt wird. Weitgehend unbeachtet sind bisher hingegen Fischereimilizen geblieben. Dabei spielen diese irregulären Verbände vor allem im international umstrittenen Südchinesischen Meer eine bedeutende Rolle. Dort setzen sie chinesische Interessen mit teils rabiaten Methoden durch. ...
AI denuncia la tortura sistemática de presos políticos en Vietnam
11.07.2016 (terra) - La organización garante de los derechos humanos Amnistía Internacional (AI) denunció hoy la tortura sistemática contra los presos políticos encarcelados por el régimen comunista de Vietnam.
Vietnam Communist Regime commits act of terror against Vietnamese citizens
11.07.2016 Danlambao Reader (Dân Làm Báo) - On July 10 in Ha Noi Vietnam, Mr. La Viet Dung - a widely known Facebooker in Ha Noi and a member of the soccer team NO-U FC - was brutally attacked by government-affiliated thugs while on his way home after playing soccer with friends. After getting hit by large hard rock on the head by government-affiliated thugs, Mr. La Viet Dung's head bled profusely. ...
China hält Seemanöver im Südchinesischen Meer ab
10.07.2016 (Die Welt) - Peking - Vor der Entscheidung des internationalen Schiedshofes über den Territorialstreit im Südchinesischen Meer hat Chinas Militär in den Seegebieten umfangreiche Manöver mit Schießübungen abgehalten. Chinas Staatsmedien sprachen von «jährlichen Routinemanövern», doch sind die Marineübungen vor dem Schiedsspruch der vorläufige Höhepunkt der chinesischen Propagandakampagne, um seine Ansprüche in den umstrittenen Seegebieten zu bekräftigen. ...
With UN court verdict, Asean can make stand on sea dispute
10.07.2016 By: Estrella Torres (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - International Criminal Court (ICC) Justice Raul Pangalangan on Friday said members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) could use this week’s ruling by an international court to make a stand on the South China Sea territorial disputes without hurting China. ...
Nuevas persecuciones contra monjes católicos del monasterio de Thien An en Vietnam
10.07.2016 (Religión en Libertad) - Las autoridades vietnamitas volvieron a atacar el monasterio católico de Thien An (provincia de Hue, en el centro del país), el cual desde hace años es objeto de la expropiación de tierras. ...
China demonstriert Stärke in umstrittenem Seegebiet
09.07.2016 (DW) - Im Südchinesischen Meer wird seit Jahren über Gebietsansprüche gestritten. Der internationale Schiedshof entscheidet in wenigen Tagen. China will das Urteil aber nicht anerkennen und hält demonstrativ ein Seemanöver ab. ...
China dismisses US appeal to accept tribunal verdict on South China Sea
09.07.2016 (The Economic Times) - BEIJING: Dismissing the US appeal to accept the verdict of the international tribunal on the disputed South China Sea as "delusional", China today said it can not be forced to accept the July 12 ruling. ...
China führt im Konfliktgebiet im Südchinesischen Meer Manöver durch
09.07.2016 (Blick) - Peking – Wenige Tage vor einem Urteil des Internationalen Schiedsgerichts in Den Haag zu Territorialstreitigkeiten im Südchinesischen Meer hat China im Gebiet Manöver abgehalten. ...
Marina china realiza simulacro de combate en aguas próximas islas en disputa
09.07.2016 (wradio) - Pekín, (EFE).- La Marina china llevó a cabo un simulacro de combate en las aguas próximas al sur de la isla china de Hainan y del archipiélago Paracel (Xisha según Pekín), situadas en el mar de China Meridional y reclamadas por Vietnam y Taiwán, en medio de un aumento de las tensiones territoriales en la región. ...
Vietnam inflation may exceed target: officials
09.07.2016 (The China Post) - State price management agencies in Vietnam will face many challenges in the second half of the year if they are to meet the National Assembly's (NA) target of keeping inflation under 5 percent, experts said at a conference held yesterday. ...
Philippine envoy calls on UN to support rule of law in arbitration
08.07.2016 (The Philippine Star) - MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines's permanent representative to the United Nations called on the union's member countries to support the rule of law in the upcoming decision of its arbitral tribunal in connection with the South China Sea dispute. ...
El Gobierno de Vietnam expropia tierras a un monasterio católico y destruye su cruz
08.07.2016 (Actuall) - El padre Antoine Nguyen Van Duc, abad del monasterio Thien An en la provincia de Thua Thien-Hue (Vietnam), ha denunciado un nuevo ataque contra la libertad religiosa de los católicos en el país asiático. ...
South China Sea ruling pivotal for rule of law in Asia, says US official
08.07.2016 (Asian Correspondent) - A TOP U.S. official says next week’s international ruling on a challenge to China’s claims in the South China Sea could determine whether the region is ruled by law or “raw calculations of power”. ...
Vietnamese Protesters Fault Government Handling of Fish Kill Disaster
07.07.2016 (RFA) - Thousands of Vietnamese took to the street in the central coastal province of Quang Binh on Thursday to press the government and a Taiwanese conglomerate to help fisherman who lost their livelihoods in mass fish die-off in April. ...
Hue, la policía volvió a atacar el monasterio de Thien An
07.07.2016 (AsiaNews) - Hanói - Las autoridades vietnamitas volvieron a atacar el monasterio católico de Thien An (provincia de Hue, en el centro del país), el cual desde hace años es objeto de la expropiación de tierras. El 26 de junio del año pasado, los agentes de policía irrumpieron en el terreno que pertenece al monasterio e interrumpieron a los religiosos mientras construían un camino que conduce desde el lugar de culto al jardín. Al día siguiente, el abad Nguyen Van Duc escribió una petición de protesta al Comité Popular provincial, a la arquidiócesis de Hue, a la Comisión Europea en Vietnam ya la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Hanói. ...
Vietnamese government in new bid to seize land from Catholic monks
07.07.2016 (Catholic Culture) - Vietnamese government officials have moved to seize the property of a Catholic monastery in Hue province, in the latest in a series of steps to appropriate real estate from Church ownership. ...
What happens if China ignores South China Sea arbitration?
07.07.2016 by Jonathan Ripley-Evans (BusinessDay bdlive) - INTERNATIONAL arbitration is the most widely accepted method for resolving international disputes. But what happens when one of the disputants refuses to acknowledge and respect an international arbitral tribunal’s award? ...
Vietnamese fishermen versus China
06.07.2016 Ben Kerkvliet (New Mandala) - Tensions in troubled waters see more and more attacks and the undermining of precarious livelihoods.
In early March, 59-year-old Trần Sinh and his crew were retrieving fishing nets when a Chinese coast guard boat steamed rapidly toward his boat ...
Streit über Gebiete im Südchinesischen Meer - China will "bittere Pille" nicht schlucken
06.07.2016 Von Axel Dorloff, ARD-Studio Peking (ARD) - Militärisches Manöver, Propaganda in Zeitungen und online, ein Expertenreigen auf YouTube: China zieht alle Register, um seine Ansprüche im Südchinesischen Meer zu untermauern. Eine Entscheidung des Ständigen Schiedshofs steht an. China schert das nicht. ...
Le Vietnam et la Chine se disputent la mer de Chine
06.07.2016 (francetvinfo) - En Asie, la guerre des nerfs redouble entre la Chine et le Vietnam à cause des appétits territoriaux chinois. La Chine affiche son ambition de prendre le contrôle de 90% de la mer de Chine. ...
Catholic Priests in Central Vietnam go up Against Government in Land Grab Case
06.07.2016 (RFA) - The head priest of a Catholic monastery in central Vietnam’s Thua Thien-Hue province has sent a petition to national and foreign officials in the country protesting what it says is the local government’s illegal appropriation of its land, RFA’s Vietnamese Service has learned. ...
06.07.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - Quelle est la cause exacte ayant provoqué la pollution des eaux côtières de quatre provinces du Centre-Vietnam et la mort de millions de poissons et crustacés à partir du début du mois d’avril 2016 ? ...
Vietnam’s zombie companies threaten long-term growth
06.07.2016 Author: Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin-Madison (East Asia Forum) - The biggest macroeconomic challenge facing Vietnam today is sustaining growth. Most doi moi-era growth has resulted either from efficiency gains associated with the introduction of a market economy (opening domestic markets and trade, relaxing restrictions on labour movement and land transactions) or from expanded endowments of low-skill labour and capital. GDP continues to grow at a very respectable rate, albeit lower than that projected in national planning documents ...
Delhi and Hanoi Get Serious About the Supersonic BrahMos Missile (And More)
06.07.2016 By Harsh V. Pant (The Diplomat) - As India plans a more robust presence in the greater Asia-Pacific, it is in the process of enhancing its defense ties with Vietnam. India seems now ready to sell the supersonic BrahMos missile, a product of an Indo-Russian joint venture, to Vietnam ...
Le Vietnam et la Chine se disputent la mer de Chine
06.07.2016 (France Télévisions) - Apparemment calme, la mer de Chine est en réalité très agitée. Les Chinois repoussent les bateaux à pavillon vietnamien au large des îles Paracels. La Chine affiche son ambition de prendre le contrôle de 90% de la mer de Chine. ...
How a Vietnamese Refugee Founded a Multi-Million Dollar Sriracha Empire
06.07.2016 By Laura Dang (Nextshark) - After arriving in the United States, one Vietnamese refugee went on to create one of the most beloved hot chili sauces, easily recognizable by the white rooster imprinted on today’s famous red and green bottle. ...
Vietnam government criticized for being soft on polluters
06.07.2016 (UCAN India) - Religious, political and civil society organizations in Vietnam have criticized the government for allowing Formosa Ha Tinh Steel to continue operating, and called for people to demand justice. "We condemn the communist government for allowing Formosa to continue its operation [which] damages the marine environment," representatives from 23 Vietnamese organizations said in a joint statement issued on July 4. There number included 11 religious leaders from Buddhist, Christian and indigenous religious communities. ...
Peking heizt Konfrontation im Südchinesischen Meer an
05.07.2016 (FAZ) - Zu Beginn eines Militärmanövers in umstrittenen Gewässern im Südchinesischen Meer haben Chinas Staatsmedien die Territorialstreitigkeiten weiter angeheizt. ...
Fifteen seminarians go to “charity school” in Ho Chi Minh City’s poorest neighbourhoods
05.07.2016 Paul N. Hung (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City – About 15 aspiring priests from Ho Chi Minh City’s St Joseph Seminary placed themselves at the disposal of the local Caritas for a month this summer. They did so “Because we want to heed the Church’s call and Pope Francis’s teachings. ...
Strafzahlung für Chemiekonzern aus Taiwan in Vietnam nach Umweltverschmutzung
05.07.2016 (RTI) - Taipei – Der Chemiekonzern Formosa Plastics muss wegen schwerwiegender Umweltverschmutzung 460 Millionen Euro Strafe an die vietnamesische Regierung und Bevölkerung zahlen. ...
Moody's: Four Formosa companies' ratings unaffected by toxic waste claim in Vietnam
05.07.2016 (Moody's Investors Service) - Hong Kong -- Moody's Investors Service says that the claim by the Vietnamese government (B1 stable) that Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation (unrated) has discharged toxic waste, resulting in mass fish deaths, is credit negative for the Formosa Group companies, but has no immediate impact on their Baa1 issuer ratings and stable outlooks. ...
America Has a Chance to Beat Back China's South China Sea Strategy
05.07.2016 Tuan N. Pham (The National Interest) - Ahead of the looming International Tribunal ruling on the Philippine-initiated arbitration case against China’s contested maritime sovereignty claims in the South China Sea (SCS), Chinese diplomats and government officials are conducting an aggressive PR campaign throughout the region and across the globe to influence world opinion and present China and its legal and political positions as correct, through the publication of various comments by sympathetic world leaders, legal scholars and international relations experts. ...
Controversy shrouds Formosa Plastics' Vietnam fine
05.07.2016 Cheng Ting-Fang and Debby Wu, Nikkei staff writers (Nikkei Asian Review) - TAIPEI -- Formosa Plastics Group was slapped with a $500 million fine for the petrochemical titan's alleged culpability in mass fish deaths in central Vietnam on June 30, but a source close to the company said that it was coerced into pleading guilty. A person familiar with the issue told the Nikkei Asian Review, however, that Vietnamese officials forced Formosa Plastics, one of the country's largest foreign investors, into pleading guilty. ...
Prepare for conflict over South China Sea, says Chinese media
05.07.2016 Clifford Coonan in Beijing (The Irish Times) - China’s powerful state newspaper Global Times has urged the country’s military to prepare for military confrontation ahead of an international arbitration ruling on a dispute with the Philippines over the South China Sea. ...
Medien: Peking muss sich auf "militärische Konfrontation" vorbereiten
05.07.2016 (derStandard) - Peking – Zu Beginn eines Militärmanövers in umstrittenen Gewässern im Südchinesischen Meer haben Chinas Staatsmedien die Territorialstreitigkeiten weiter angeheizt. Die Zeitung "Global Times" forderte Peking am Dienstag auf, die Verteidigungsmöglichkeiten der Streitkräfte zu stärken und sie auf eine "militärische Konfrontation" vorzubereiten. ...
Vietnam protestiert gegen Manöver Chinas
05.07.2016 (Handelsblatt) - Hanoi - Im Territorialstreit um Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer hat Vietnam scharf gegen eine Militärübung Chinas in umstrittenen Gewässern protestiert. Die Manöver sollten am Dienstag beginnen und bis zum 11. Juli dauern. ...
Sofia im Pass, Hanoi im Aussehen und Germering im Herzen
04.07.2016 (Bayernkurier) - Sie ist Kreisvorsitzende der Jungen Union in Fürstenfeldbruck und Stadträtin in ihrer Heimatgemeinde Germering. Die 25-jährige Thuy Tran begeistert mit ihrer außergewöhnlichen Vita und viel Leidenschaft nicht nur junge Menschen für die Politik. ...
Formosa urged to share pollution probe results
04.07.2016 By Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter (Taipei Times) - A coalition of environmental groups, an immigrant workers’ rights group and politicians on Saturday issued a statement calling on Formosa Plastics Corp to reveal the results of an investigation about a pollution incident in Vietnam in April that caused mass fish deaths. ...
Plastic buckets, broken printers shine light on Hanoi's poor
04.07.2016 (Reuters) - Vietnamese families living in slums along the Red River in Hanoi are using red plastic buckets and old printers to help light homes, cook meals and slash electricity costs by as much as a third. ...
China veta acceso a zona del mar de China Meridional por maniobras militares
04.07.2016 (terra) - China prohibirá el acceso a las aguas alrededor de las islas Paracel, controladas por Pekín y reclamadas también por Vietnam y Taiwán, entre este martes y el próximo lunes 11 de julio mientras lleva a cabo unas maniobras militares. ...
China to hold drills in South China Sea ahead of court ruling
03.07.2016 (The Asahi Shimbun) - BEIJING--China will hold military drills around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, the maritime safety administration said on Sunday, ahead of a decision by an international court in a dispute between China and the Philippines. Tensions have been rising ahead of a July 12 ruling by an arbitration court hearing the dispute between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea in the Dutch city of The Hague. ...
Mass Fish Deaths in Vietnam Highlight the Country’s Press Freedom Problem
02.07.2016 By Helen Clark (Huffington Post) - MELBOURNE, Australia — The stink from Vietnam’s fish kill scandal — which left some 70 tons of dead fish scattered across the beaches of four of the country’s provinces and fishermen out of work — is symptomatic of something greater than worries about food security and the environment: access to information and the ability to distribute it. On June 30, almost three months since the mass fish deaths began, Vietnam’s newspapers all began printing the same story: Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp., a subsidiary of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group, blamed by many for the incident, ...
Taiwan investors in Vietnam warned of protests against FPG pollution
02.07.2016 (Focus Taiwan) - Taipei (CNA) - Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOEA) said Saturday that it has warned Taiwanese investors operating in Vietnam of possible protests to be staged by residents in the Southeast Asian country against pollution caused by a steel mill owned by the Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group ...
Katastrophenhilfe als Hetzerei gewertet
02.07.2016 (Oberhessische Zeitung) - In Vietnam existiert das Recht auf Pressefreiheit – zumindest theoretisch. Denn mit zahlreichen Ausnahmegesetzen lässt Staatsoberhaupt Tran Dai Quang die Medien trotzdem aufs Strengste kontrollieren. Vorzensuren durch das Propagandaministerium von Zeitungen oder Internetseiten sind keine Ausnahme, sondern die Regel. Wagen es Regierungskritiker dennoch, ihre Meinungen öffentlich zu äußern, ereilt sie stets dasselbe Schicksal: Hartnäckige und oftmals brutale Verfolgung mit anschließender langjähriger Gefängnisstrafe. ...
Australian woman's death sentence 'concerning,' Law Council says
02.07.2016 (SBS) - The Law Council of Australia says the government must push for a global end to the death penalty after an Australian woman was sentenced in Vietnam.
The federal government is being urged to do more to advocate against capital punishment in Indo-Pacific countries after an Australian woman was sentenced to death in Vietnam. ...
It's Official: Formosa Subsidiary Caused Mass Fish Deaths in Vietnam
01.07.2016 By Shannon Tiezzi (The Diplomat) - Nearly three months after the first dead fish washed ashore, the government has announced its conclusion – and it’s the same one local residents reached from the outset: pollution from a steel plant in Ha Tinh province, owned by Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group’s local affiliate, Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp, poisoned the fish. ...
Viet Steel Mill Owners Acknowledge Huge Fish Kill
01.07.2016 By David Brown (Asia Sentinel) - A sampling of public reaction suggests that the Vietnamese are impressed but hardly exuberant over an apology and a promise by the Taiwanese owners of a huge new steel plant in central Vietnam to pay half a billion US dollars for losses to fisher family livelihoods and for damage by toxic discharges from the plant in early April. Too many questions remain unanswered, ...
Le contentieux maritime explosif en mer de Chine méridionale
01.07.2016 Dorian Malovic (La Croix) - La Cour permanente d’arbitrage basée à La Haye va prononcer son verdict final le 12 juillet sur le contentieux territorial en mer de Chine méridionale entre les Philippines et la Chine. Pékin considère comme son territoire national la quasi-totalité de cette mer, revendiquée également par le Vietnam, la Malaisie, Brunei ou Taïwan, un dossier à risques. ...
Taiwan investor apologizes for polluting Vietnamese seashores
30.06.2016 (Focus Taiwan) - Taipei (CNA) - Formosa Plastics Group issued an apology Thursday and promised to compensate victims after its steel mill in Vietnam was found to have polluted coastal waters causing a massive die-off of fish and affecting the livelihood of fishermen. "We respect the investigation (by Vietnamese authorities)," said Formosa Plastics Group in a statement after Vietnam released a report that blamed its Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Company complex in central Vietnam for polluting the coastal waters of four provinces. ...
Scandale écologique au Vietnam: le gouvernement incrimine le taïwanais Formosa
30.06.2016 (RFI) - L’immense catastrophe écologique qui a causé au Vietnam la mort de millions de poissons en avril dernier revient sur le devant de la scène. Le gouvernement de Ho Chi Minh-ville a annoncé ce jeudi lors d’une conférence de presse attendue par tout le pays que l’aciériste taïwanais Formosa - et surtout son gigantesque complexe sidérurgique dans le centre du pays - était responsable de cette immense pollution, et qu’il allait verser près de 500 millions d’euros de dédommagements. ...
Empresa taiwanesa indemnizará con 462 mde a Vietnam por vertidos tóxicos
30.06.2016 (Zócalo Saltillo) - Hanói, Vietnam.- La siderúrgica taiwanesa Formosa indemnizará a Vietnam con 462 millones de euros por el derrame tóxico que causó la muerte de millones de peces en abril, informaron este jueves las autoridades. Tras semanas de investigaciones, el gobierno vietnamita finalmente confirmó las sospechas de que el grupo taiwanés Formosa, que posee un enorme complejo siderúrgico en la región, era el responsable del vertido contaminante. ...
"Im Brennpunkt" im ORF über Hmong: Vietnams Bergvolk in Not
30.06.2016 (derStandard) - Mit mehr als einer Million Menschen sind die Hmong die größte Minderheit Vietnams. 41 Jahre nach dem Ende des Krieges zeigt sich Vietnam als erfolgreiches Schwellenland. Die Minderheiten im Norden haben nichts davon. ...
Vietnam says Formosa unit's steel plant caused environmental disaster
30.06.2016 By Mai Nguyen (Reuters) - Vietnam said on Thursday a $10.6 billion steel plant run by a unit of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics caused an until-now mysterious environmental crisis by releasing toxic wastewater into the sea. Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, which operates a new plant set to become the biggest of its kind in Southeast Asia, on Tuesday admitted responsibility for a disaster that caused massive fish deaths in coastal provinces in April, said Mai Tien Dung, head of the government office. ...
Hanoi Air Quality Getting Worse
30.06.2016 (Bernama) -- HANOI -- The quality of air in Vietnam's capital city, Hanoi, has consistently worsened, especially in urban areas, main transport routes and ongoing construction sites, director of the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Ngoc Dong said. ...
Vietnamese Activists, Bloggers Decry Lack of Government Transparency Over Mass Fish Kill
29.06.2016 (RFA) - Vietnamese activists and bloggers have expressed doubts that the government will be fully transparent about the results of its investigation of mass fish deaths that began three months ago along the country’s central coastal provinces, when officials publicly disclose their findings on Thursday ...
Vietnam's new decree affects foreign organizations conducting water research
29.06.2016 (The Jakarta Post) - The government has enforced Decree 41/2016/ND-CP regulating the authorization for foreign organizations and individuals to conduct scientific research in Vietnam’s territorial waters. Under the decree, foreign organizations and individuals conducting research in the country’s waters must be authorized by competent agencies ....
Eyes on China, Indonesia approves higher defense spending
29.06.2016 (The Asahi Shimbun) - JAKARTA--Indonesian lawmakers on Tuesday approved higher defense spending this year to fund, among other things, major upgrades to military facilities in the Natuna Islands, whose nearby waters Beijing says are subject to "overlapping claims." ...
Vietnam recovers eight bodies from crashed search plane; one still missing
29.06.2016 (The Japan Times) - HANOI – Vietnam’s military says the bodies of eight crew from a search plane that crashed two weeks ago while looking for a missing fighter jet have been recovered. ...
Face of Defense: Former Vietnamese ‘Boat Person’ Lives American Dream
29.06.2016 By Cotton Puryear (U.S. Department of Defense) - BEDFORD, Va. — Virginia Army National Guard Col. Lapthe C. Flora was promoted to brigadier general at the National D-Day Memorial, June 6, in Bedford, Virginia. Flora, a native of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is believed to be the first Vietnamese boat person to be promoted to general officer in the Army and the second general officer of Vietnamese descent ...
ONU insta a Vietnam a detener la persecución religiosa
28.06.2016 (Noticia cristiana) - VIETNAM. -El gobierno de Vietnam fue advertido por dos expertos de la ONU que condenan al país debido a la persecución religiosa contra una mujer que ya ha sido detenido y torturada varias veces. Los expertos Heiner Bielefeldt y Juan E. Méndez informaron que Tran Thi Hong es perseguida por denunciar ante la comunidad internacional que su marido – el pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh – está preso por realizar actividades religiosas. ...
Benedictines condemn desecration of cross in central Vietnam
28.06.2016 (ucanews) - The head of the Order of St. Benedict in central Vietnam has condemned government authorities for destroying their belongings and desecrating a Benedictine cross. xAccording to Father Anthony Nguyen Van Duc, Superior of the Benedictine monastery in Thien An, around 200 people broke into the monastery on June 20 and used bulldozers to destroy property ...
28.06.2016 von Christoph Hein (FAZ) - In Den Haag entscheiden Richter über das Vorpreschen Chinas im Südchinesischen Meer. Peking will sich dem Schiedsspruch nicht beugen. Wie aber wird Amerika darauf antworten? ...
Brexit: Vietnamese Exports To UK To Face More Barriers
28.06.2016 (Bernama) - HANOI -- Vietnam's exports to the United Kingdom will face several barriers if the country leaves the European Union, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported Dang Hoang Hai, head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade's European Market Department as saying on Monday. ...
Drought in Vietnam Holds Back Growth as Farming Takes Knock
28.06.2016 Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen Giang Nguyen (Bloomberg) - Economic growth in Vietnam was little changed in the second quarter as a crippling drought hurt farming output and demand for exports weakened. ...
Fishing Industry, Green Experts Express Concern About Paper Plant in South Vietnam
28.06.2016 (RFA) - Vietnam’s fishing industry and environmental experts have expressed concern about the waste treatment system of a new paper plant in Hau Giang province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region, fearing it could discharge contaminated effluents that harm the area and kill fish. ...
Vietnamese Artists Respond to Marine Disaster Through #IChooseFish
27.06.2016 by Ben Valentine (Hyperallergic) - In early April, a disturbing sight appeared on the central Vietnamese coast. In just a few days, hundreds and then tens of thousands of dead and dying fish appeared on the sand. At first, some locals rejoiced, gathering the fish still gasping with life to eat. Many of those residents became sick, and as more dead fish piled-up, Vietnam couldn’t deny the fact: it had a huge environmental disaster on its hands. ...
China holds firm ahead of UN's South China Sea ruling
27.06.2016 Ching Yee Choo (Nikkei Asian Review) - KUALA LUMPUR -- The ambassadors of China and the Philippines have crossed pens in a local newspaper ahead of a ruling this week by the United Nations' court of arbitration at The Hague in the Netherlands over a simmering territorial dispute in the South China Sea. ...
Les communautés religieuses persistent à revendiquer des terrains confisqués par l’Etat
27.06.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - Les multiples spoliations d’établissements religieux effectuées par les autorités civiles, immédiatement après l’unification du Vietnam de 1975, ou dans les années qui ont suivi, continuent d’être source de conflits aujourd’hui, plus de quarante ans après les faits. ...
Top Chinese envoy in Vietnam amid rising tension before court ruling in South China Sea dispute
27.06.2016 By Nandini Krishnamoorthy (IBT) - A top diplomat from China is meeting Vietnamese officials today (27 June) to strengthen ties between the countries, just as the Asian giant is engaged in a quarrel with the Philippines over its claims in the South China Sea. ...
Investitionen in Vietnam brauchen gute Vorbereitung
27.06.2016 Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - Deutschland und Vietnam setzen verstärkt auf wirtschaftliche Kooperation. Politik und Verwaltung beider Länder machen Werbung, doch deutsche Unternehmer haben noch viele Fragen. ...
Vietnam's Mass Fish Death Mystery Continues, Or Does It?
26.06.2016 Brett Davis (Forbes) - There is still no official finding on what killed hundreds of tons of fish along Vietnam’s central coast. Sort of. Authorities announced in early July they had determined what caused the mass fish deaths, but would not detail how or who was responsible until the end of the month. ...
La Chine veut ériger sa Grande muraille sous-marine
25.06.2016 (Sputnik) - Selon des journalistes, la Chine veut ériger, en se servant de drones et de robots, une Grande muraille sous-marine dont la mission principale serait de détecter la présence de sous-marins d'adversaires potentiels. ...
Can Vietnam's Tourism Industry Save the Environment?
24.06.2016 By Ai Vuong (The Diplomat) - Given the recent massive fish die-off in Central Vietnam, environmental issues in the country are under more scrutiny than ever. The extent of the impact on the fishing industry and local people is still unknown as scientists, corporations, and civil society are struggling to give a satisfactory explanation. Although the cause of the coastal calamity remains a mystery, the tourism industry has taken note. ...
Crackdown on Christians in Vietnam
24.06.2016 Bill Bumpas (OneNewsNow) - Just weeks after a U.S. delegation that included President Obama visited Vietnam, a series of government crackdowns have taken place in the communist country. Despite U.S. efforts to warm relations with Vietnam, there have been some incidents of concern over the last couple of months, according to International Christian Concern ...
Post-Obama America's 'rebalance' to Asia
24.06.2016 Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Bangkok Post) - As the United States' presidential election kicks into higher gear with the upcoming nominations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the Democratic and Republican party candidates vying for top office, Asian countries, and Asean in particular, are concerned about what will happen to outgoing President Barack Obama's "rebalance" (also known as the "pivot") strategy to Asia. ...
Bodies of 4 missing search plane crew members found in Vietnam
24.06.2016 (Asian Correspondent) - Vietnamese authorities have recovered four bodies believed to be crew members of a search plane that crashed last week while looking for a missing fighter jet. ...
China will zu umstrittenen Inseln kreuzen
22.06.2016 (kurier.at) - Ungeachtet von Territorialstreitigkeiten will China laut einem Zeitungsbericht Touristen zu einer umstrittenen Inselgruppe im Südchinesischen Meer bringen. ...
Vietnamese Family Harassed, Attacked Over Religious Ties
22.06.2016 (RFA) - A Vietnamese family belonging to a Buddhist sect operating outside of government control was harassed this week by state-linked toughs in the run-up to the anniversary of the sect’s founding in 1939, the father of the family said on Wednesday. ...
Vietnam Land Rights Activist in Critical Health Conditions in Detention after 13-day Hunger Strike
22.06.2016 By Vu Quoc Ngu (Defend the Defenders) - Vietnamese land rights activist Can Thi Theu is in critical health conditions in the Hanoi-based Detention Facility No. 1 as she has fasted since being arrested on June 10, her lawyer Ha Huy Son informed the family. ...
Vietnam reporter's press card revoked for insulting military
20.06.2016 (AP) - HANOI, Vietnam -- A Vietnamese reporter's press card has been revoked for "insulting" the military in an online post after a search plane crashed last week while looking for a missing fighter jet, the government said. The press card for reporter Mai Phan Loi of the Ho Chi Minh City Law newspaper had been revoked for "seriously insulting the reputation of Vietnamese People's Army" ...
South China Sea: The mystery of missing books and maritime claims
20.06.2016 By John Sudworth (BBC) - We came to the fishing port of Tanmen, on Hainan's east coast, because of recent state media reports about the existence of an extraordinary document - a 600-year-old book containing evidence of vital, national importance. The book, in the possession of a retired fisherman called Su Chengfen, is said to record the precise navigational instructions by which his long-distant forefathers could reach the scattered rocks and reefs of the far-flung Spratly islands, many hundreds of nautical miles away. ...
Vietnam delays start-up of steel plant pending investigation into mass fish deaths
18.06.2016 Cheng Ting-Fang (Nikkei Asian Review) - TAIPEI -- A senior executive of Formosa Plastics Group said on Friday that the company's $10.6 billion steel plant in Vietnam, one of the biggest foreign investment projects in the country, will not be able to begin full production next week as planned, amid public accusations that the new facility discharged toxic waste and killed fish in Vietnamese waters.
Dalai Lama Opens California Temple With Message of Compassion
18.06.2016 Mike O'Sullivan (VOA) - WESTMINSTER, CALIFORNIA— Thousands of people, many of them Buddhists who left Vietnam decades ago and came to the U.S. to live, have flocked to the Southern California neighborhood known as Little Saigon to welcome the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, who is dedicating a new temple there. ...
Reporters sans frontières fournit un VPN aux victimes de la censure
18.06.2016 Par Yann Bessin (VPNMAG) - Reporters sans frontières a inauguré une plateforme appelée l’« Abri anti-censure » qui a pour vocation d’aider les internautes victimes de la censure. En effet, RSF dénonce régulièrement la censure et le contrôle d’internet à travers le monde et a décidé d’agir pour aider les internautes. ...
Hanoi: Sisters of Saint Paul de Chartres defend their property from land grab
18.06.2016 (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – For the past three days, the Sisters of Saint Paul de Chartres in Hanoi have been watching over a piece of real estate they own to prevent it from being seized by a local business woman. Yesterday, the nuns found a large amount of building materials and work tools on a property owned by their congregation, at 5 Quang Trung St, Hanoi. They had been placed at the site overnight. ...
Hanói, las hermanas de Saint Paul de Chartres defienden su tierra de las expropiaciones
18.06.2016 (AsiaNews) - Hace tres días que las hermanas de Saint Paul de Chartres de Hanói vigilan un campo de su propiedad para impedir su apropiación por parte de una mujer de negocios local. En la noche del 16 al 17 de junio pasado, las religiosas hallaron gran cantidad de materiales de construcción y herramientas de trabajo almacenados en el terreno que es propiedad de la congregación, situado en el número 5 de la calle Quang Trung, en la capital. ...
Vietnam: 1.000 streiken in Textilfabrik
17.06.2016 (Rote Fahne News) - 1.000 Arbeiterinnen und Arbeiter der Formosa Textile Industry, einer Firma mit taiwanesischem Eigentümer, streikten gegen überlange Arbeitszeiten, für besseres Essen in der Kantine und Lohnerhöhung für qualifizierte Arbeit ...
Hanoi : les religieuses de Saint-Paul de Chartres résistent à une spoliation de biens fonciers
17.06.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - Dans la nuit du 16 au 17 juin 2016, les religieuses de Saint-Paul le Chartres se sont aperçues qu’une grande quantité de matériaux et d’instruments de travail avait été déposée sur un terrain qui est légalement leur propriété et qu’elles seules peuvent gérer. Le terrain est situé au numéro 5 de la rue Quang Trung, au centre de la capitale. A l’origine de ces préparatifs de travaux, une femme d’affaires, Mme Trân Huong Ly, qui projette de construire sur ce terrain et qui s’y prépare depuis quelque temps, sous l’œil indifférent de la police. ...
Vietnam: Church raided, congregation beaten and 14-year-old arrested
17.06.2016 Florence Taylor (Christian Today) - A 14-year-old Christian has been arrested in Vietnam amid a series of government crackdowns on Christians following a US delegation's visit to the country. A local church close to the Vietnam-China border was stormed by 30 government authorities on June 13, according to International Christian Concern (ICC). ...
Formosa Plastics faces protests
17.06.2016 By Abraham Gerber (Taipei Times) - Vietnamese migrant workers yesterday protested outside a hotel where a Formosa Plastics Group (台塑集團) board meeting was taking place, calling on the firm to disclose pollution readings near a Vietnamese steel mill and condemning human rights violations associated with the plant. ...
Crackdown on Christians in Vietnam
17.06.2016 By Hannah Tooley (Premier Christian Radio) - International Christian Concern has reported a series of government crackdowns on Christians in Vietnam just weeks after US President Barak Obama lifted weapon sanctions on the country. ...
Taiwan activists press Formosa Plastics over dead fish in Vietnam
17.06.2016 (Reuters) - Activists in Taiwan called on the island's largest industrial group, Formosa Plastics, to investigate recent mass fish deaths in Vietnam, near where the company has a steel plant. ...
Fish deaths delay start of Vietnam's first big blast furnace
17.06.2016 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- The government has ordered a large steel mill under construction in central Vietnam to delay the start of operations due to allegations that runoff from the plant killed many fish in April. Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the provincial government seem to have problems with the plant's underground wastewater system. ...
Chinese Building Island Forts in the South China Sea
17.06.2016 By Callum Wood (The Trumpet) - Tensions and anxieties are once again on the rise in Southeast Asia as nations make power grabs for territory, wealth and influence. Currently at least six nations are fighting over the hotly disputed South China Sea: China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei. ...
Malaysia defends release of S. China Sea statement that roils China
17.06.2016 (Kyodo News) - Malaysia on Friday defended releasing the controversial statement on South China Sea after a meeting between Southeast Asian foreign ministers and their Chinese counterpart on Tuesday that exposed the deep discord among the parties involved. ...
Trümmerteile vor Vietnams Küste - Airbus wohl bei Rettungsaktion abgestürzt
17.06.2016 (n-tv) - Nach dem Absturz eines vietnamesischen Kampfjets am Dienstag bricht ein Suchflugzeug mit neun Insassen auf, um nach dem vermissten Co-Piloten zu suchen. Dann verschwindet auch diese Maschine vom Radar. Nun entdecken Rettungskräfte Trümmer. ...
16.06.2016 Translated by Paul Tam (GNsP) - In recent days, we have witnessed the heartbreaking disaster of pollution of the marine environment as never before. Hundreds of tons of dead fish were washed ashore in the coast of Central Vietnam. Shrimps, clams, shells, birds, mangrove forests were found in sudden mass death, and the ecosystem in the continental shelf were destroyed. ...
Taiwan lawmakers urge Formosa probe over Vietnam fish deaths
16.06.2016 (Channel NewsAsia) - TAIPEI: Taiwanese lawmakers urged the government on Thursday (Jun 16) to investigate local conglomerate Formosa's possible role in mass fish deaths in Vietnam, as activists said industrial pollution from its multi-billion dollar steel plant could have caused the environmental disaster. ...
Problems for Vietnamese Pangasius Producers
16.06.2016 (The Fish Site) - GLOBAL - In 2015, Asia and Latin America remained the lucrative markets for pangasius while the leading producer, Viet Nam, continued to be plagued by production problems. According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), the value of Vietn Nam’s tra catfish is expected to continue to fall this in 2016. ...
Lao Cai : les autorités interrompent une messe pour « trouble à l’ordre public »
15.06.2016 (Églises d'Asie) - ... Dans l’après-midi du dimanche 12 juin 2016, vers 15 heures, une eucharistie présidée par le P. Nguyên Van Thanh était en train d’être célébrée dans une maison privée lorsque celle-ci a été la cible d’une attaque en règle de la part des autorités locales. Une trentaine d’agents de la Sécurité publique et de la police, accompagnés par des représentants des divers mouvements et institutions révolutionnaires du lieu, ont investi le domicile : il y avait des délégués du Front patriotique, des représentantes de l’Association des femmes, des membres du groupe des Jeunesses communistes, le tout placé sous la direction du chef de district de Muong Khuong et de ses adjoints. ...
Vietnam: la policía interrumpe la misa, golpea y arresta a fieles
15.06.2016 (Zenit) - Al menos 30 agentes del Gobierno irrumpieron en una vivienda que funciona como iglesia, golpeando a los fieles e impidiendo la celebración de la misa. Lo indicó este martes la agencia Asia News, precisando que el incidente ocurrió dos días atrás, en el distrito de Mường Khương, en la provincia de Lào Cai (norte de Vietnam, en la frontera con China). ...
15.06.2016 Ethecon (scharf-links) - Am 17. Juni 2016 findet in Taipeh/Taiwan die Hauptversammlung der FORMOSA PLASTICS GROUP (FPG) statt. Zusammen mit Organisationen und AktivistInnen aus aller Welt wird ethecon bei der Hauptversammlung, aber auch rund um den Erdball auf das von der Tochter Formosa Ha Tinh Steel verursachte große Fischsterben an den vietnamesischen Küsten aufmerksam zu machen. Die Umwelt wird im großen Stil zerstört, die Gesundheit der Menschen massiv in Gefahr gebracht.
Fischer ziehen Kampfpiloten aus dem Meer
15.06.2016 (T-Online) - Rund 24 Stunden, nachdem sein Kampfjet ins Meer gestürzt war, haben Fischer den Piloten der Maschine vor Vietnam aus dem Meer gerettet.
Der Kampfjet war aus bislang unbekannten Gründen abgestürzt. ...
Vietnamese fighter jet goes missing along South China Sea coast
14.06.2016 (Reuters) - A Russian-made Vietnamese fighter jet was missing on Tuesday after disappearing off the radar during a training flight along the central part of the country's South China Sea coastline, a military official said. ...
Russian-made Vietnamese fighter jet disappears over South China Sea
14.06.2016 (SCMP) - Missing fighter-bomber was one of 30 in use by Vietnam, which seeks to modernise its defence capability
A Russian-made Vietnamese fighter jet was missing on Tuesday after disappearing off the radar during a training flight along the central part of the country’s South China Sea coastline, a military official said. The Sukhoi SU-30 MK2 was flying 30-40km off the coast of Nghe An province ...
Vietnam: un avion de chasse disparaît des radars avec deux pilotes à bord
14.06.2016 (BFMTV) - Un avion de chasse de l'armée vietnamienne, de fabrication russe, a disparu ce mardi des écrans de contrôle avec deux pilotes à bord.
"Nous sommes en train de rechercher l'avion de chasse", un Soukhoï SU-30MK2 disparu ...
Lào Cai: police break up Mass, beat and arrest the faithful
14.06.2016 Nguyen Lan (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – Two days ago, at least 30 government agents stormed a house used as a church in Muong Khuong, a district in Lào Cai province, near the Chinese border. Police not only interrupted the Mass that was underway but also beat those present ...
Vietnamese Fishermen Face Growing Hardship Over Contaminated Fish
13.06.2016 (RFA) - While Vietnamese officials have yet to publicly announce what killed tens of thousands of fish in waters along the country's central coastal provinces in April, residents of the affected areas are complaining about the financial hardship they now face with job losses and lack of income.
Fishermen from the central region said they have not been able to fish offshore for several weeks, while local merchants complained that they have not yet received promised support from the government. ...
Funcionarios rechazan oferta de EE.UU. para asistencia sobre muerte masiva de peces
13.06.2016 (FIS) - Un alto diplomático de EE.UU. dijo que los funcionarios vietnamitas rechazaron ofertas estadounidenses de asistencia técnica relacionada con una investigación sobre una muerte masiva de peces a lo largo de la costa central del país del sudeste asiático. La muerte masiva de la vida marina ha provocado indignación en todo el país y la mayoría de las protestas han sido dispersadas por la policía. ...
For Vietnam and its state enterprises, something has to give
13.06.2016 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- State-owned enterprises present a dilemma for Vietnam. There is a pressing need to reform the businesses, as the country is set to open up its market under the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. At the same time, the government is reluctant to lose its cash cows. Either way, the government cannot afford to sit on its hands. ...
China's pressure blocks progress as ASEAN talks hit milestone
13.06.2016 Tamaki Kyozuka (Nikkei Asian Review) - BANGKOK -- The meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations defense ministers late last month in Vientiane occasioned lavish ceremonies to highlight a decade of the annual talks. Yet the atmosphere was far from celebratory as attendees remained deadlocked on the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. ...
Vietnam: Fatal phenol toxin found in 30 tons of frozen fish at seafood facility
13.06.2016 (Asian Correspondent) - HEALTH officials in the north-central province of Quang Tri have ordered a seafood trade facility there to destroy 30 tons of frozen fish after tests showed it contained phenol, a lethal toxic substance. Two out of three samples were found to contain phenol, a potentially lethal substance that is prohibited from use in food, said the director of the Quang Tri health department, Tran Van Thanh. ...
Wahlen in Vietnam: 96 Prozent der Abgeordneten KP-Mitglieder
10.06.2016 (Tiroler Tageszeitung) - Hanoi (dpa) – Vietnam hat das Ergebnis seiner Parlamentswahl verkündet: 21 Abgeordnete oder vier Prozent der neuen Volksvertreter gehören demnach nicht der Kommunistischen Partei (KP) an. ...
Dürre und Kommunismus bremsen Tigerstaat
10.06.2016 Jörg von Rohland (Bayernkurier) - Der Süden Vietnams kämpft mit der schlimmsten Dürre seit 90 Jahren. Doch während im Mekong-Delta die Pflanzen vertrocknen und Reisbauern um ihre Existenz fürchten, nimmt der Wohlstand in weiten Teilen des kommunistisch regierten Landes zu. Die Delegierten der Deutschen Wirtschaft rechnen mit einem weiteren soliden Wachstum, sehen aber auch Risiken – vor allem politischer Art ...
10.06.2016 Von Sven Görner (Sächsische Zeitung) - Vor fast 60 Jahren besuchte Vietnams Präsident Ho Chi Minh in Moritzburg lebende Kinder seines Landes. Der Gedenkort an dieses Ereignis soll erneuert werden. Das sorgt für Protest. Dass diese Idee möglicherweise Widerspruch hervorrufen würde, war zu erwarten. Schließlich sind unter den in der Bundesrepublik lebenden Vietnamesen auch viele Flüchtlinge. ...
China asks the Philippines to quit UN arbitration, talk
09.06.2016 (The Hindu) - China’s claims of all most all of SCS and asserts that it has held the area from ancient times. The claims are contested by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. China has asked the Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte to withdraw the arbitration at a UN tribunal and return to bilateral dialogue to settle the territorial disputes over the strategic South China Sea. ...
09.06.2016 (europarl) - Parliament urges Vietnam to put an immediate end to all harassment, intimidation, and persecution of political activists, journalists, bloggers, dissidents and human rights defenders ...
El PE lamenta deterioro de derechos humanos en Camboya, Vietnam y Tayikistán
09.06.2016 (wradio) - El pleno del Parlamento Europeo (PE) lamentó hoy en tres resoluciones el deterioro de los derechos humanos por varias causas en Camboya, Tayikistán y Vietnam ...
Vietnam Rejected US Assistance in Mass Fish Death Probe
09.06.2016 Trung Nguyen (VOA) - A top U.S. diplomat says Vietnamese officials rejected U.S. offers of technical assistance with an investigation into a mass fish death along the Southeast Asian country's central coast. ...
El partido comunista de Vietnam refuerza su hegemonía en el Parlamento
09.06.2016 (Terra) - El Partido Comunista de Vietnam, el único legal en el país, logró el 96 de los votos en las elecciones de mayo pasado, lo que refuerza su control del Parlamento, donde se reduce el número de diputados independientes, informó hoy la prensa local. ...
Philippines' Universal Robina recalls tea, energy drinks in Vietnam
09.06.2016 (Reuters) - MANILA - Universal Robina Corp, a unit of Philippine conglomerate JG Summit Holdings Inc, said on Thursday it recalled "several" thousand boxes of its C2 tea drink and Rong Do energy drink in Vietnam due to "excessive lead content". ...
Toxic Fish in Vietnam Idle a Local Industry and Challenge the State
08.06.2016 By Richard C. Paddock (NYT) - NHAN TRACH, Vietnam — Since a devastating fish kill blighted the waters along 120 miles of coastline in central Vietnam, hundreds of people are believed to have fallen ill from eating poisoned fish. ...
European Parliament resolution on Vietnam (2016/2755(RSP))
07.06.2016 (European Parliament) - ... * Urges Vietnam to comply with its international human rights obligations to the United Nations by issuing a standing invitation to Special Procedures, in particular the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders to visit Vietnam, and give them free and unfettered access to all parties they wish to consult; ...
Protests To Resurface In Wary Vietnam After Mass Fish Deaths
07.06.2016 Ralph Jennings (Forbes) - Two months after tons of fish died on beaches along the central coast of Vietnam in April, protests are still living. The government hasn’t said why so many creatures died over those 11 days. Instead it has squelched public protesters bent on demanding more transparency and attention to the environment after three decades of breakneck industrialization. ...
Vietnams Reisbauern kämpfen mit Dürre
07.06.2016 Bennett Murray, Bac Pham, Christiane Oelrich (DW) - Das Mekong-Delta ist Vietnams Hauptanbaugebiet für Reis. Aber die schlimmste Dürre seit 90 Jahren hat die Felder ausgetrocknet. Viele Bauern stehen vor dem Aus und suchen nun nach Alternativen. ...
China, Vietnam stick to their guns on South China Sea
06.06.2016 Veeramalla Anjaiah (The Jakarta Post) - The decades-old South China Sea ( SCS ) issue, North Korea and terrorism were the main focus of this year’s Shnagri-La Dialogue, which ended on Sunday. Primary SCS claimants — China and Vietnam — strongly defended their claims, while the US stepped up pressure on China to stop what it says are illegal activities and militarization of the disputed waters. ...
How Vietnam Can Stop the South China Sea ADIZ
06.06.2016 Alexander Vuving (The National Interest) - What is China’s next big move in the South China Sea? Ask the experts this question and tally their predictions. The action that will get the most votes is likely to be the imposition of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ). ...
Vietnamese police break up protest over fish deaths
06.06.2016 (Star Tribune) - HANOI, Vietnam — Police in Vietnam's capital have broken up a protest over what critics charge is the government's delayed response to massive fish deaths which they believe are linked to industrial pollution. ...
Vietnamese authorities accused of torturing Christian activist
06.06.2016 by Megan Cornwell (Tablet) - Two human rights advisers to the UN have called on the government of Vietnam to stop the persecution of Christian activist Tran Thi Hong. In a statement released by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the experts said Mrs Hong had been “repeatedly arrested and tortured as retaliation for informing the international community of human rights violations against her husband, who is in prison for peaceful religious activities".
UN urges Vietnam to stop 'torture' of Christian
06.06.2016 (WorldWatch Monitor) - The UN has criticised Vietnam’s “repeated arrest and torture” of a female Christian activist whose husband, a pastor, is in jail “for peaceful religious activities”. ...
Diplomatic tag as nations find new ways of standing up to China
06.06.2016 (The Asahi Shimbun) - SINGAPORE--When U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter spoke at a key Asian summit at the weekend, he used the word "principled" 38 times, floating his vision of a U.S.-backed "security network" of countries in the region. ...
Asia's defence spending rises in China's shadow
06.06.2016 By David Tweed (nzherald) - Global defence contractors are circling for business in Asia, with countries from Australia to Vietnam upgrading and adding everything from submarines to fighter jets as China expands its military reach. ...
Taiwan says it won’t recognize China’s ADIZ over S. China Sea
06.06.2016 (The Asahi Shimbun) - TAIPEI--Taiwan's new defense minister said on Monday the island would not recognize any air defense identification zone (ADIZ) declared by China over the South China Sea, as the island's top security agency warned such a move could usher in a wave of regional tension. ...
Inselstreit erschwert Dialog zwischen USA und China
06.06.2016 (Blick) - Peking – Der Streit um die Machtansprüche im Südchinesischen Meer überschattet den strategischen und wirtschaftlichen Dialog zwischen China und den USA. Chinas Staats- und Parteichef Xi Jinping eröffnete am Montag die zweitägigen Gespräche in Peking. ...
US Arms Sales to Vietnam: A Military Analysis
06.06.2016 By Franz-Stefan Gady (The Diplomat) - With the recent announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama that the United States will lift a decades-old embargo on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam, the question arises—given that the president’s decision is partially seen as a move to counterbalance China’s growing military power in the region—in what way a U.S.-Vietnamese weapons deal could potentially influence the military balance in the region, and in particular, the South China Sea. ...
Vietnam police bus away protesters days after Obama chides on human rights
05.06.2016 (Reuters) - Police in Vietnam on Sunday forcibly removed people protesting in the capital Hanoi against a perceived delay in government response to a mass fish death, just days after U.S. President Barack Obama chided the country on its human rights record. ...
Vietnam breaks up protests as anger seethes over fish deaths
05.06.2016 (ABC) - Dozens of activists have been detained in Vietnam's two biggest cities after trying to hold protests calling for greater government transparency over a recent spate of mass fish deaths. Tonnes of dead fish and other marine life began washing up on central Vietnamese shores two months ago and continued to appear for two to three weeks, sparking widespread anger. ...
Scandale écologique au Vietnam: arrestations en série
05.06.2016 Frédéric Noir (RFI) - Au Vietnam, les manifestations se poursuivent suite au scandale écologique qui a entrainé au mois d’avril la mort d’une quantité innombrable de poissons et de fruits de mer au centre du pays sur près de 200 km de rivages. ...
Vietnam Frees Long-Time Jailed Priest, But Pastor "Killed" By Military
05.06.2016 (BosNewsLife) - HANOI, VIETNAM -- Church officials in Vietnam say one of the country's longest serving prisoners of conscience was released under pressure from the United States, but Christians remain concerned about an alleged Communist government-led crackdown on devoted believers, which included killing an evangelical pastor and a Christian convert. ...
05.06.2016 von Till Fähnders (FAZ) - Die Vereinigten Staaten warnen China vor dem Bau einer neuen „Großen Mauer“. Sollten in Asien weitere Riffe aufgeschüttet werden, würde Amerika handeln. ...
As US works with Vietnam, questions linger about human rights
04.06.2016 By Jane Perlez (NYT) - HANOI - Wie Nguyen Quang A am Morgen letzte Woche angezogen, als er mit Präsident Obama zu treffen war, war er ziemlich sicher, dass er nie die Sitzung machen würde.
Vietnamese general says first purchase of U.S. weapons some way off
04.06.2016 By Greg Torode (Reuters) - The recent lifting of the U.S. arms embargo against Vietnam boosted trust between the former enemies, but significant weapons purchases are some way off, a senior Vietnamese military official said on Saturday. ...
Vietnam ist, was es isst, und verändert sich gerade
03.06.2016 (Die Presse) - Essen ist nicht nur Nahrungsaufnahme, sondern auch Ausdruck des sozialen Status. Milch und Fast-Food-Ketten ändern in Vietnam alte Essgewohnheiten und damit die gesellschaftlichen Praktiken. ...
02.06.2016 (OHCHR) – Two United Nations human rights experts today called on the Government of Viet Nam to stop the persecution of Ms. Tran Thi Hong, who has been repeatedly arrested and tortured as retaliation for informing the international community of human rights violations against her husband, who is in prison for peaceful religious activities. ...
Shared concerns about China bring Vietnam and Japan closer
02.06.2016 Author: Nguyen Manh Hung, George Mason University (East Asia Forum) - Three weeks after assuming office, on 22 April 2016, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang was quoted as saying that Japan is ‘one of Vietnam’s most important cooperative partners’. ...
La odisea del padre Van Ly, héroe cristiano en el Gulag comunista de Vietnam
01.06.2016 Miriam Calderón (Actuall) - Ha sido liberado Nguyen Van Ly, sacerdote católico de 70 años, después de 9 años de prisión. Durante años ha sido el símbolo de la resistencia contra el comunismo vietnamita. ...
Katy Perry: Benachteiligte Kinder in Vietnam nicht vergessen
01.06.2016 (Kleine Zeitung) - US-Sängerin Katy Perry (31) ruft zu mehr Hilfe für Kinder in Vietnam auf. Die Unicef-Sonderbotschafterin besuchte ein Kinderhilfswerk in einer der ärmsten Regionen des Landes ...
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