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Vietnam jails another Facebook user for comments critical of government
27.09.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - A court in Vietnam has jailed a Facebook user for 2-1/2 years over anti-government comments he posted on the social media website, police said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian country continues its crackdown on dissent. Bui Manh Dong, 40, was convicted of “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state” at a trial in the Mekong Delta province of Can Tho ...
High chances of China avoiding US tariffs by using Vietnam
27.09.2018 (Fibre2Fashion) - Vietnam may suffer collateral damage if Chinese businesses use made-in-Vietnam labels to avoid US tariffs, experts from the Vietnamese textile and footwear industry caution. According to economist Vu Dinh Anh, there is high probability of Chinese firms seeking to export their products through Vietnam to the United States amid the ongoing US-China trade war. ...
Lajcak Warned Vietnam Against Possible Consequences in Abduction Case
26.09.2018 (TASR) - New York/Bratislava - Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak met with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh in New York on Tuesday. The meeting was dominated by the topic of kidnapping of former Petrovietnam Construction chief Trinh Xuan Thanh from Germany, in which the Vietnamese authorities allegedly abused, according to a number of circumstantial evidence, the territory of Slovakia and the country's government aircraft. ...
Vietnam jails 15 more over economic zone protests
26.09.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - A court in Vietnam jailed 15 people on Wednesday for terms ranging from two to 4-1/2 years after they were arrested during mass protests in June against plans for special economic zones, state media said. Despite sweeping reforms, communist-ruled Vietnam tolerates little dissent, with protests often broken up by police, though the constitution allows freedom of assembly. ...
Vietnam’s new female president would do little for women’s rights – activists
25.09.2018 (Asian Correspondent) - DESPITE Vietnam’s move to install its first female president recently, activists said the appointment would do little to improve women’s rights. “I think while Ngoc Thinh’s appointment is symbolically important, its wider significance is limited to some women who are Communist Party members,” said activist and dissident Do Nguyen Mai Khoi ...
Five Vietnamese Activists Will go on Trial in October
25.09.2018 (RFA) - Five Vietnamese activists held without trial for almost two years will now go to court on Oct. 5 in Ho Chi Minh City, also called Saigon, a defense lawyer and family member said. ...
24.09.2018 (Spiegel Online) - Die Halong-Bucht mit ihren spektakulären Inseln und Kalkfelsen ist eines der Topreiseziele in Vietnam. In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich das Gebiet aber massiv verändert, weil zu viele Besucher kommen. ...
Vietnamese Citizen Handed Two-Year Prison Term For Facebook Writings
24.09.2018 (RFA) - A Vietnamese citizen active on Facebook was sentenced on Monday by a court in Can Tho province to a two year and three month prison term for “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State,” state media reported ...
Le gouvernement vietnamien appelé à modifier sa loi sur la cybersécurité
22.09.2018 (Églises d'Asie) - Le 12 juin dernier, l’Assemblée vietnamienne votait une loi controversée sur la sécurité en ligne, exigeant un contrôle plus sévère des internautes. Aujourd’hui, plusieurs ONG et de nombreux militants pour les Droits de l’Homme dans le pays appellent le gouvernement à modifier sa loi afin qu’elle soit conforme aux normes internationales, estimant qu’en l’état, elle s’attaquait à la liberté d’expression des citoyens vietnamiens. ...
As sand mining grows, Asia’s deltas are sinking, water experts warn
22.09.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - STOCKHOLM-- Sand mining from rivers is depriving many low-lying Asian deltas of the sediment they need to maintain themselves, raising the risk of worsening land loss to sea level rise, researchers say. “We have created a recipe for climate disaster,” said Marc Goichot of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). ...
Vietnam by Max Hastings review – an effort to exonerate the US military
22.09.2018 Jonathan Steele (The Guardian) - A long and detailed history of the fighting in Vietnam misunderstands how opposition to the war understood exactly what it represented. Max Hastings has direct experience of the Vietnam war. In January 1968 he was in a group of foreign journalists treated by Lyndon Johnson to a collective interview that became a harangue. ...
21.09.2018 Author: Karry Lai (IFLR) - Vietnam’s revised competition law, which comes into effect on July 1 2019, aims to bring the country’s existing 2004 law, in line with international leniency programme and prohibits all economic concentrations which have or potentially have a significant competition restraining impact in the market. ...
Vietnamese citizen-journalist facing second, longer jail term
21.09.2018 (RSF) - After being sentenced this week to four years in prison on a charge of “disturbing public order” for filming an eviction, Vietnamese citizen-journalist and video blogger Do Cong Duong could soon face an even longer sentence on a charge of “abusing democratic freedoms.” ...
21.09.2018 (RSF) - El periodista y bloguero Do Cong Duong, ya sentenciado esta semana a cuatro años de cárcel, se enfrenta a una nueva condena más larga por “abusar de las libertades democráticas”. ...
Eisernes Staatsoberhaupt - Vietnams Präsident Tran Dai Quang ist tot
21.09.2018 (Stern) - Der ehemalige Polizist war seit April 2016 Präsident des autoritäre und kommunistischen Vietnam. Unter seiner Führung hielt die Unterdrückung von Andersdenkenden an. Nun ist Tran Dai Quang mit 61 Jahren in einem Militärkrankenhaus verstorben. Quang litt zuletzt an einer schweren Krankheit. ...
Muere el presidente de Vietnam tras larga enfermedad que mantuvo en secreto
21.09.2018 (El Comercio) - El presidente de Vietnam, Tran Dai Quang, falleció el viernes a los 61 años en el Hospital Militar Central de Hanoi, donde recibía tratamiento contra una larga enfermedad mantenida en secreto hasta el final por el régimen comunista. ...
Décès du président vietnamien Tran Daï Quang
21.09.2018 Par Cyrille Pluyette (Le Figaro) - Figure du camp conservateur au sein du régime communiste, le président vietnamien Tran Dai Quang est décédé vendredi à l'âge de 61 ans, ont annoncé les médias d'État nationaux. ...
Tran Dai Quang, Hard-Line Vietnamese President, Dies at 61
21.09.2018 Mike Ives (The New York Times) - President Tran Dai Quang of Vietnam, a former police general who presided over a crackdown on free speech in that one-party state, died on Friday. He was 61. ...
Pho, Bun und Kaffee - Das sollten Sie beim Vietnamesen bestellen
21.09.2018 Denise Snieguole Wachter (Stern) - Die vietnamesische Küche ist historisch bedingt stark von der chinesischen Küche beeinflusst – zumindest im Norden. Im Süden finden sich auch kulinarische Einflüsse aus Thailand und Indien. ...
Vietnam jails teacher to 14 years over attempted subversion
20.09.2018 (Daily Mail) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A court in northern Vietnam has sentenced a former primary schoolteacher to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty on charges of attempting to overthrow the communist government. Dao Quang Thuc, 58, was convicted of posting on his Facebook page articles with "reactionary contents," the official Vietnam News Agency reported. ...
Vietnam: Activist and journalist sentenced to four years jail
20.09.2018 (IFJ) - Do Cong Duong, Vietnamese land rights activist and citizen journalist was sentenced to 48 months jail for ‘disturbing public order’. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have strongly crticised the ruling and demanded that all charges against Duong be dropped. ...
20.09.2018 (RSF) - Une peine de quatre ans de prison a été ordonnée en début de semaine contre le journaliste citoyen Do Cong Duong pour avoir documenté une expulsion. Il doit être bientôt traduit devant une nouvelle cour pour “abus de ses libertés démocratiques”. ...
Vietnamese Fighting Back on Plastic Pollution
19.09.2018 (VOA) - HO CHI MINH CITY — For many Vietnamese people, it is a ritual as circadian as the sunrise: On the way to work, they pull over their motorbikes to grab an iced coffee from a street vendor, complete with a plastic cup, plastic lid, plastic straw, and plastic case to hang from the bikes as they drive. ...
Die Cao Dai Religion aus Vietnam - Wenn der Tempel zum Farbenspiel wird
19.09.2018 Franziska Broich (DOMRADIO.DE) - Die Religion des Cao Dai verbindet den Buddhismus, mit dem Taoismus und dem Christentum. Obwohl das friedliche Zusammenleben im Vordergrund steht, geht die kommunistische Regierung Vietnams dagegen vor. ...
Can Vietnam weather Trump’s trade storm?
19.09.2018 Author: Suiwah Leung, ANU (East Asia Forum) - Vietnam has become one of the most open economies in the world. Any development resulting in a shrinkage in world trade and growth such as the US–China trade war will inevitably affect its economy. ...
Vietnam : condamné à 14 ans de prison pour avoir critiqué le régime sur Facebook
19.09.2018 Thibaut Deleaz et AFP (RTL) - Un ancien instituteur de 58 ans a été condamné à 14 ans de prison au Vietnam pour avoir critiqué le régime sur Facebook. Ses propos ont été assimilés à une "tentative de renversement".
Il a été reconnu coupable de "tentative de renversement" du régime. ...
Vietnamese blogger missing since arrest by police two weeks ago
18.09.2018 (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Ngo Van Dung, a Vietnamese blogger and citizen-journalist whose location has been unknown since his arrest by police on a street in Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon) exactly two weeks ago. ...
Vietnam : le blogueur Ngo Van Dung kidnappé par la police depuis deux semaines
18.09.2018 (RSF) - Le journaliste citoyen Ngo Van Dung est porté disparu depuis qu’il a été arrêté il y a exactement deux semaines par des policiers dans les rues d’Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville. Reporters sans frontières (RSF) exige des autorités vietnamiennes qu’elles le libèrent sur-le-champ. ...
Vietnamese syndicate used tin foil in paper bags to fool anti-theft sensors in brazen crime spree
18.09.2018 (The Straits Times) - SINGAPORE - Police have arrested four Vietnamese nationals for suspected theft of 868 items from major clothing stores across Singapore, in the biggest case to date involving a shoplifting syndicate. ...
Japanese sub conducts drills in South China Sea for 1st time
17.09.2018 By Takateru Doi (Asahi Shimbun) - Demonstrating freedom of navigation, a Japanese submarine for the first time conducted drills in the South China Sea where China is constructing military facilities, according to Japanese government sources. ...
Vietnam’s Rights Violations Put Trade Deal with EU at Risk
17.09.2018 Claudio Francavilla (HRW) - The European Union (EU)’s efforts to finalize a free trade deal with Vietnam are at risk because of Vietnam’s poor human rights record.
In a joint letter sent this week, 32 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) raised a slew of “grave” human rights concerns, including the jailing of dissidents, ...
17.09.2018 (Ramon Tremosa) - The MEPs give this advise ahead of the possible ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). After her 25 June meeting with Vietnam’s Minister for Trade and Industry Trần Tuấn Anh, Trade Commissioner Malmström stressed the important opportunity the conclusion of the EVFTA represents for both the EU’s and Vietnam’s economy, and mentioned Vietnam’s “clear commitments to respect human rights and to comply with International Labour Organisation conventions” ...
Vietnam Land Rights Activist Do Cong Duong Handed 48-Month Jail Term
17.09.2018 (RFA) - A court in the northern Vietnamese province of Bac Ninh sentenced land rights activist and citizen journalist Do Cong Duong 48 months in prison on Monday for “disturbing public order,” his lawyer told RFA’s Vietnamese Service. ...
20 Jahre Haft für Bürgerrechtler
16.09.2018 Von: Michael Lenz (Der Farang) - HANOI: Abgeschirmt durch Polizei- und Armeeeinheiten verurteilte ein Gericht in Vietnam den katholischen Bürgerrechtler Le Dinh Luong zu 20 Jahren Haft sowie zu weiteren fünf Jahren Hausarrest. ...
This Vietnamese singer tried to battle state censorship. Now she only performs there in secret
15.09.2018 By Paul Mooney (The Washington Post) - HANOI — The audience sits in the tiny theater. A spotlight opens slowly, exposing the outline of four men on stage tapping bamboo to mimic the sound of rain. A young woman dressed in white emerges from the background and begins to sing. She is Do Nguyen Mai Khoi, pop star, blackballed political candidate, democracy advocate — and the recipient this year of the Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent ...
Hanoi urges its citizens to stop eating dog meat
15.09.2018 By Paul Kennedy (The Nation) - An international animal welfare charity has welcomed the news that the city government is considering banning the consumption of dog meat in certain areas. ...
Vietnamese Court Upholds Democracy Advocate's 13-Year Sentence
14.09.2018 (RFA) - An appeals court in northern Vietnam’s Thai Binh province upheld the sentence of jailed democracy activist Nguyen Van Tuc on Friday, returning him to prison to serve his full term of 13 years, Vietnamese source said. ...
SEZs in Vietnam: What’s in a Name?
14.09.2018 By Nguyen Minh Quang (The Diplomat) - Why are Special Economic Zones so attractive to Vietnam’s government, despite proven shortcomings? The Vietnamese government sees special economic zones (SEZs) as the most important source for future economic growth momentum and breakthrough institutional reforms. Unfortunately, as I analyzed in the first part of this series, the dawn of the Vietnamese SEZs does not appear very bright. ...
Weltwirtschaftsforum in Hanoi - Kritische Stimmen nicht erwünscht
13.09.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - Beim großen diplomatischen Ereignis in Hanoi sollen Menschenrechtler nicht stören. Ihnen wird die Einreise verweigert. Vietnam hat zwei Vertretern internationaler Menschenrechtsorganisationen die Einreise verweigert und sie bis zu ihrer Abschiebung auf dem Hanoier Flughafen inhaftiert. ...
Vietnam court jails activist for 12 years
13.09.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - A court in central Vietnam has jailed an activist for 12 years, on an accusation of trying to overthrow the state, his lawyer said on Thursday, days after two rights campaigners were barred from attending a meeting of the World Economic Forum in Hanoi. ...
Vietnam jails activist after rights groups barred from WEF
12.09.2018 (Daily Mail) - A Vietnamese dissident was jailed Wednesday for 12 years on charges of trying to overthrow the state, days after the communist country refused entry to rights campaigners for a major business forum in Hanoi.
Vietnam has a dismal rights record and has come under fire for a brutal crackdown against critics in the past two years that has seen scores jailed. ...
12 años de cárcel para activista vietnamita por tratar de derrocar al régimen
12.09.2018 (La Vanguardia) - (EFE).- Un activista vietnamita fue condenado hoy a 12 años de prisión por realizar actividades para derrocar el Gobierno, según una sentencia del tribunal popular de la ciudad de Dong Hoi (norte). ...
Vietnam : douze ans de prison pour "tentative de renversement" du régime
12.09.2018 (Le Nouvelliste) - Un dissident vietnamien a été condamné mercredi à douze ans de prison pour "tentative de renversement" du régime communiste qui ne cesse de durcir sa politique envers les opposants. ...
Viêt-Nam. Le militant scandaleusement condamné à 12 ans d'emprisonnement doit être remis en liberté
12.09.2018 (Amnesty International) - Réagissant aux informations signalant que le militant Nguyen Trung Truc a été condamné à 12 ans d'emprisonnement après avoir été déclaré coupable d'avoir « mené des activités visant à renverser le gouvernement du peuple » par un tribunal de la ville de Dong Hoi, Minar Pimple, directeur général des opérations mondiales à Amnesty International, a déclaré : ...
Viet Nam: Activist given disgraceful 12-year jail sentence must be released
12.09.2018 (Amnesty International) - Responding to the news that activist Nguyen Trung Truc has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of “carrying out activities to overthrow the people’s administration” by a court in Dong Hoi City, Minar Pimple Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Global Operations said ...
Vietnam: Drop Long Prison Sentence Against Activist
12.09.2018 (HRW) - (New York) – The Vietnamese authorities should quash the politically motivated conviction of the rights activist Nguyen Van Tuc and immediately release him without conditions, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
Gazprom: Auch hier hat man die Finger im Spiel!
11.09.2018 Von Marco Schnepf (Finanztrends) - Gazprom informiert über Geschäftsbemühungen in Südostasien: Wie der russische Staatskonzern kürzlich mitteilte, habe sich Konzernchef Alexey Miller mit dem Generalsekretär der Kommunistischen Partei Vietnams (KPV), Nguyen Phu Trong, getroffen, um die beiderseitige Zusammenarbeit zu besprechen. ...
WEF in Vietnam: The tiger leaps
11.09.2018 Manuela Kasper-Claridge (DW) - The World Economic Forum on ASEAN countries has begun in Vietnam — a fitting host given its status as the fastest-growing economy in Southeast Asia. ...
Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Rights Campaigner
10.09.2018 (HRW) - (New York) – Vietnamese authorities should drop all charges against Nguyen Trung Truc for peaceful rights activism and release him immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
Vietnam denies entry to rights advocates invited to WEF
10.09.2018 (Daily Mail) - Vietnam has denied entry to two prominent rights campaigners invited to attend this week's World Economic Forum in Hanoi, as the one-party communist state continues its hard line on critics of its dismal rights record. ...
Das Geheimnis von Asiens bester Brühe – erklärt von einem Vietnamesen
10.09.2018 Denise Snieguole Wachter (Stern) - Familie Vu flüchtete aus Vietnam über Indonesien nach Deutschland. Hier angekommen haben sie vor allem eins bewahrt: das Geheimnis des vietnamesischen Nationalgerichts – Pho.
Vietnam bars second rights campaigner from World Economic Forum
10.09.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnam has refused to let a campaigner from Amnesty International attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) set to be held in the southeast Asian nation this week, the rights group said on Monday, the second such refusal in as many days. ...
10.09.2018 Do Ha (Forum Vietnam 21) - Vietnam hat der Generalsekretärin der Internationalen Föderation für Menschenrechte, Debbie Stothard, die Teilnahme am Weltwirtschaftsforum verweigert. Debbie Stothard konnte am Sonntag nicht nach Vietnam einreisen, als sie am internationalen Flughafen Noi Bai in Hanoi ankam, um an der Veranstaltung teilzunehmen, sagte die Sprecherin des World Economic Forum, Fon Mathuros ...
10.09.2018 (Amnesty International) - Le directeur général des Opérations mondiales d’Amnesty International, Minar Pimple, s’est vu refuser un visa d’entrée pour intervenir lors du Forum économique mondial sur l’ANASE qui se déroule à Hanoï cette semaine. Ce refus est une nouvelle preuve de la répression exercée par les autorités vietnamiennes à l’encontre de la liberté d’expression. ...
Vietnam niega la entrada al país a una activista de DDHH invitada al Foro Económico Mundial
09.09.2018 (Europa Press) - Las autoridades de Vietnam han negado la entrada en el país a una de las la secretarias generales de la Federación Internacional de los Derechos Humanos (FIDH), Debbie Stothard, invitada para asitir al Foro Económico Mundial de la Asociación de Naciones del Sureste Asiático (ASEAN) que se celebrará del 11 al 13 de septiembre en Hanói. ...
Vietnam denies entry to human rights campaigner to attend World Economic Forum
09.09.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnam has refused entry to the Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights, Debbie Stothard, to attend the World Economic Forum to be held in the country next week, the Swiss-based international foundation said on Sunday. ...
China’s plan for conquest of the South Pacific
07.09.2018 By Kerry K Gershaneck (Asia Times) - China's militarization of South China Sea features allows its fighters to reach deep into the South Pacific, jeopardizing US bases while advancing Beijing's 'neo-colonial' ambitions
Beijing’s militarization of islands and features it claims in the South China Sea is by now widely seen as a threat to freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most strategically important waterways. ...
Freier Handel gegen freie Schifffahrt
07.09.2018 Von Friederike Böge (FAZ) - China drängt ein britisches Kriegsschiff zum Verlassen der Gewässer um die Paracel-Inseln, die es entgegen internationalem Verständis für sich beansprucht: Solche Handlungen könnten ein Freihandelsabkommen mit Großbritannien gefährden. ...
China erbost über britisches Kriegsschiff
07.09.2018 (NZZ) - China hat erzürnt auf die Fahrt eines britischen Kriegsschiffes nahe einer Inselgruppe im Südchinesischen Meer reagiert. Grossbritannien müsse solche «Provokationen sofort beenden», warnte das chinesische Aussenministerium ...
Zehn Jahre Deutsch-Vietnamesische Hochschule
07.09.2018 Autor Hans Spross (DW) - Die Deutsch-Vietnamesische Hochschule (VGU) in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt (Saigon) feiert dieser Tage zehnjähriges Bestehen. Stephan Geifes vom Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) zieht eine Bilanz dieser Kooperation. ...
Lebensaufgabe Ginseng-Rettung Vietnamese hortet die Heilwurzel
06.09.2018 (Der Farang) - NGOC LINH (dpa) - Ngoc Linh-Ginseng wächst hauptsächlich auf dem gleichnamigen Berg im Hochland Vietnams. Dort versucht Tran Hoan mit seiner Ginseng-Plantage die seltene Heilpflanze vor dem Aussterben zu retten. ...
Russland will Kooperation mit Vietnam massiv intensivieren – Putin
06.09.2018 (Sputnik) - Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin hat das Interesse Russlands an einer intensiven Kooperation in verschiedenen Bereichen mit Vietnam geäußert. ...
Hanoi gives green light to Yuan in seven provinces. Economists: Damaging for the country
06.09.2018 by Joseph Chuong (AsiaNews) - Hanoi - Starting from October 12th, in seven northern border provinces, it will be possible to use the Yuan, the currency of the People's Republic of China. Sharing the fears of many citizens, economist Nguyễn Trí Hiếu states: "Since the beginning of 2018, the Viet Nam Đồng (VND) has appreciated by 1.8% against the yuan. ...
Renoncement au dollar: le Vietnam prêt à soutenir les initiatives russes
06.09.2018 (Sputnik) - La Russie et le Vietnam entendent effectuer plus de paiements en devises nationales, a déclaré Vladimir Poutine, qui s’est entretenu ce jeudi avec le secrétaire général du Parti communiste vietnamien. ...
Handelsgemeinschaft ohne die USA
04.09.2018 (TRT) - Die Spannungen zwischen den USA und ihren großen Handelspartnern führt zur Bildung des größten Handels-Blocks der Welt. Länder in der Asien-Pazifik Region nähern sich der Bildung einer Handelsgemeinschaft ohne die USA. Die Gruppe besteht aus den 10 Mitgliedsstaaten der Vereinigung südostasiatischer Staaten ASEAN, Brunei, Indonesien, Philippinen, Kambodscha, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapur, Thailand und Vietnam sowie China, Japan, Südkorea, Indien, Australien und Neuseeland. ...
Vietnamese Police Attack Crowd Seeking Release of Detained Protesters
04.09.2018 (RFA) - Police in south-central Vietnam’s coastal Quang Ngai province on Monday attacked a crowd of hundreds who had gathered outside government offices to demand the release of 31 protesters detained over the weekend following clashes over pollution from a waste-processing plant, Vietnamese sources say. ...
2 Vietnamese Americans jailed for 14 years over bomb plots
04.09.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - HANOI--A Vietnamese court found two Vietnamese-Americans guilty of terrorism on Wednesday and sentenced them to 14 years in prison for masterminding bomb plots earlier this year, a court official told Reuters. ...
Vietnam's economic zones derailed by anti-China protests
03.09.2018 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- The Vietnamese government's plan to open the country's first three special economic zones have been stalled until next year at the earliest due to large demonstrations by those wary of an influx of Chinese businesses. ...
Caritas auprès des familles migrantes de Saïgon
01.09.2018 (Eglises d'Asie) - Les catholiques de l’archidiocèse de Saïgon sont engagés, depuis des années, dans les lieux de mission de la banlieue de la ville, dont la population continue de croître pour atteindre aujourd’hui près de 14 millions d’habitants. ...
Vietnam arrests four ahead of national day
01.09.2018 (Daily Mail) - Vietnam has arrested at least four people this week in the lead-up to its national day on Sunday, state media said, accusing them of attempting to sabotage national security. ...
01.09.2018 Anemi Wick (SCMP) - Ruou thuoc is said to have healing properties, from reducing aches to improving virility, but choose your brew with care. Do you really want to support the illegal trade in wildlife parts by having one containing cobra blood or bear paw? ...
Vietnam erlaubt Zahlungsabwicklung in chinesischen Yuan
31.08.2018 (Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten) - Die Staatsbank von Vietnam (SBV) hat offiziell die Verwendung der chinesischen Landeswährung Renminbi (Yuan) für Handelszahlungen im Grenzgebiet zu China genehmigt, um das Wechselkursrisiko zu verringern. ...
Thousands of Vietnamese, including offspring of US troops, could be deported under Trump policy
31.08.2018 By Simon Denyer (The Washington Post) - Robert Huynh is the son of an American serviceman, although he never knew his father. His mother is Vietnamese, and he was conceived during the Vietnam War. In 1984, nine years after the last American troops left the country, Huynh, then 14, moved to Louisville, Ky., ...
Vietnam arrests exiles group member with weapons: security ministry
30.08.2018 James Pearson (Reuters) - HANOI - Police in Vietnam have arrested a man accused of being a member of a “terrorist” group and planning attacks in the country, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday. ...
Les quatre finalistes du "Nobel alternatif"
30.08.2018 Par Vincy Thomas (Livres Hebdo) - Quatre auteurs, dont deux francophones, ont été choisis par les internautes parmi les 47 écrivains proposés par la Nouvelle Académie. La Française Maryse Condé, le Japonais Haruki Murakami, la Québécoise Kim Thúy et le Britannique Neil Gaiman sont en lice pour ce prix créé en l'absence de remise du prix Nobel de littérature cette année. ...
Vier Nominierungen für alternativen Literaturnobelpreis
29.08.2018 (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) - Haruki Murakami, Kim Thuy, Maryse Condé und Neil Gaiman wurden bei einer weltweiten Online-Abstimmung und von schwedischen Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekaren ausgewählt. ...
Canadian writer Kim Thuy among finalists for New Academy Prize in Literature
29.08.2018 Ugo Giguere (National Post) - MONTREAL — A Quebec writer is among the four finalists for the New Academy Prize in Literature. Author Kim Thuy has joined Maryse Conde, Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami on the short list for the award. ...
Vietnam to let traders use yuan along China border
29.08.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam plans to officially allow the use of the Chinese yuan for trading goods in its northern border towns, the central bank said on Wednesday. ...
Vietnamese Activist Extends Hunger Strike, Citing Unmet Demands
28.08.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc has extended a hunger strike begun two weeks ago to protest police pressure on him to plead guilty in exchange for amnesty, family members say.
Los años trágicos de John McCain en Vietnam
28.08.2018 Autor: Cristina Cifuentes (La Tercera) - El fallecido senador republicano fue capturado en 1967 en Vietnam, después de saltar en paracaídas luego de que su avión recibiera un misil. McCain pasó cinco años como prisionero de guerra. ...
Vietnamese Activist Extends Hunger Strike, Citing Unmet Demands
28.08.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese democracy advocate Tran Huynh Duy Thuc has extended a hunger strike begun two weeks ago to protest police pressure on him to plead guilty in exchange for amnesty, family members say. ...
Vietnam braces for National Day protests in Hanoi
27.08.2018 Khanh Vu (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnam has ordered police and military forces in the capital, Hanoi, to prevent big gatherings or protests during its National Day holiday next month, the Hanoi People’s Committee said on Monday. ...
Human Rights Watch calls on Australia to talk tough with Vietnam
27.08.2018 By Nick Baker (SBS) - Australia should challenge Vietnam on its "abysmal human rights record" when the two countries meet to discuss the topic this week, an advocacy group says. ...
Gesundheitsschädlich: Vietnam fordert Entschädigung für Opfer des Monsanto-produzierten Herbizids
27.08.2018 (RT Deutsch) - Über 40 Jahre nach dem Ende des Vietnamkrieges leidet die vietnamesische Bevölkerung immer noch unter dessen Folgen. Die Regierung des südöstlichen Landes will aber die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft ziehen. ...
Nach McCains Tod: Jetzt äußert sich sein Folterknecht aus Vietnam
27.08.2018 (Huffington Post) - Der republikanische US-Senator John McCain ist am Samstag mit 81 Jahren verstorben. Jetzt äußert ausgerechnet sein ehemaliger Gefängnisdirektor im Vietnamkrieg, Tran Trong Duyet, sein Beileid. ...
Tributes paid in Vietnam to ex-prisoner of war John McCain
27.08.2018 (Sky UK) - By Philip Whiteside, news reporter - Tributes have been paid in Vietnam to John McCain, the American senator and former navy pilot shot down over Hanoi during the US war with the southeast Asian nation. ...
Au Vietnam, le décès de John McCain, fait la Une des journaux
26.08.2018 (RFI) - Au Vietnam, le décès de John McCain fait la Une de tous les journaux. L’ancien pilote de guerre est en effet considéré ici comme un faiseur de paix, l’un des seuls hommes politiques américains, aux côtés de l’ancien président Bill Clinton et de l’ancien secrétaire d’Etat John Kerry, à avoir tout fait pour normaliser les relations entre les deux anciens pays ennemis. ...
26.08.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Der Tod von US-Senator John McCain hat auch beim ehemaligen Kriegsgegner Vietnam Trauer ausgelöst. Der Politiker und Vietnam-Veteran galt in dem südostasiatischen Land als ein Brückenbauer. Der Navy-Pilot McCain war im Vietnamkrieg in Kriegsgefangenschaft geraten und wurde gefoltert. Erst nach fünf Jahren kam er frei. ...
Mort de Bui Tin, ancien officier de l’armée nord-vietnamienne, devenu dissident
24.08.2018 Par Bruno Philip (Le Monde) - Mort en exil à Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), samedi 11 août, à l’âge de 90 ans, l’ancien colonel Bui Tin incarna la désillusion de certains intellectuels nord-vietnamiens à l’égard du régime communiste d’Hanoï, dont ils furent naguère les partisans durant la guerre contre les Français et les Américains. ...
Patriotismus auf Probe gestellt: Webseite gewährt Zugang zu Serie je nach Position zu Inselstreit
24.08.2018 (RT Deutsch) - Die wahnsinnig beliebte chinesische Fernsehserie Story of Yanxi Palace über die Qing-Dynastie besteht aus 70 Folgen, die ersten 54 davon sind kostenlos. Die nächsten achten Folgen seien aber nur für iQiyi-Abonnenten zugänglich. Davon profitiert die vietnamesische Piraten-Webseite Bom Tan, die diese acht Folgen kostenlos anbietet, dafür aber eine richtige Antwort auf eine politische Frage als Gegenleistung erwartet. ...
Vietnamese website taunts Chinese drama fans with South China Sea quiz
24.08.2018 James Pearson (Reuters) - HANOI - A Vietnamese website, which only works when users correctly answer a quiz about disputed islands in the South China Sea, has infuriated scores of television fans in China desperate to catch the latest episode of a popular Chinese period drama. ...
More than 3,000 Vietnamese fell victim to human traffickers in 2012-2017
24.08.2018 By Khanh Vu (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - HANOI - More than 3,000 people in Vietnam, most of them women and children, were trafficked between 2012 and 2017, many of them into China, the Ministry of Public Security said on Friday, ...
Vietnam jails two Americans for 14 years for trying to 'overthrow state'
24.08.2018 Hannah Ellis-Petersen (The Guardian) - A court in Vietnam has sentenced two Americans to 14 years in jail for to “attempting to overthrow the state”, state media reported. ...
Vietnam: peines de prison pour 12 personnes dont deux Américains
22.08.2018 (RFI) - Douze personnes ont été condamnées ce mercredi 22 août au Vietnam à des peines de 5 à 14 ans de prison pour tentative de renversement de l'Etat. Parmi elles, deux Américains, accusés d'être venus des Etats-Unis pour soutenir le complot. ...
Vietnam: Activists Beaten in Concert Raid
22.08.2018 (Human Rights Watch) - New York – Vietnamese government officers and men in civilian clothes raided a concert in Ho Chi Minh City on August 15, 2018, and severely beat the performer and two prominent activists in the audience, Human Rights Watch said today. Vietnam should conduct an impartial, transparent, and thorough investigation of the attack. ...
Global domain names come to Vietnam
22.08.2018 (The Nation) - THE AVAILABILITY of a series of new foreign domain names in the Vietnamese market is offering more choices to local companies and opening up new opportunities for domain name registrars. ...
A Late Start: Renewable Energy Development In Vietnam
21.08.2018 By Lars Blume (CleanTechnica) - In 2015, Vietnam’s installed capacity reached 39.35 GW. Coal (3.5%), gas (22.5%) and medium and large-scale hydropower (37.5%) were the three main pillars of electricity production in 2015, whereas renewable energy sources account for just 5.4% ...
Vietnam puts 12 people on trial for alleged subversion
21.08.2018 (The Washington Post) - HANOI, Vietnam — A court in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City has begun the trial of 12 people, including two American citizens, on subversion charges as government authorities step up a crackdown on dissent. ...
Vietnam verurteilt Aktivist zu 20 Jahren Haft
21.08.2018 Thach Duong (Forum Vietnam 21) - In einer Verfolgungswelle gegen Dissidenten in Vietnam wurde ein Aktivist zu 20 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Reporter ohne Grenzen (RSF) fordert die Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments auf, das Freihandelsabkommen mit Vietnam einzufrieren, solange Informationsfreiheit nicht gewährt wird. ...
Local EU statement on the recent conviction of Mr Le Dinh Luong
20.08.2018 (European Union External Action) - The EU Delegation notes the recent sentencing of Mr Le Dinh Luong under the national security provisions of the Penal Code to 20 years in prison, followed by five years of probation which follows the negative trend of repression against peaceful activists in Vietnam. ...
Treatment of Jailed Vietnam Dissidents Draws Petition, Hunger Strike
20.08.2018 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese human rights defender Tran Thi Nga has received beatings and death threats from a cellmate assigned to her by authorities, her husband told RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Monday after writing a petition to law enforcement officials. ...
Obituary: Bui Tin, the Vietnamese reporter scrubbed from the history books
19.08.2018 (BBC) - When US-backed South Vietnam fell in 1975, Bui Tin was there representing the triumphant communist North. But after the end of the war, he would become a bête noire, ...
Musiker und Besucher eines Musikevents in Vietnam von der Polizei angegriffen und schwer misshandelt
19.08.2018 H.A.Duong (Forum Vietnam 21) - Eine Gruppe von jungen Leuten wurde von Polizisten angegriffen und schwer misshandelt, als sie am Mittwochenabend, 15.08.2018, in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt/Saigon an einer privaten Aufführung von Liedern der vorkommunistischen Zeit teilnahmen. ...
19.08.2018 Thach Duong (Forum Vietnam 21) - Die vietnamesische Aktivistin und Bloggerin Huynh Thuc Vy ist unter Hausarrest gestellt worden und darf das Land nicht verlassen, nachdem sie die Nationalflagge im letzen Jahr als Protest gegen die Regierung verunstaltet hatte. ...
Vietnam’s Catholics: Cross With China, And All Communists
18.08.2018 By Bennett Murray (SCMP) - Catholics make up just 7 per cent of Vietnam’s population, but play an outsize role in the nation’s underground dissident movement. In return, they say, churches are demolished, priests arrested and the religion smeared ...
US 'troubled' by trend of Vietnam jailing peaceful activists
18.08.2018 (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Hanoi, Vietnam: The United States said it was deeply concerned over Vietnam's conviction and sentencing of an activist this week, calling the trend of increased arrests and harsh sentences of government critics "troubling." ...
Neue Militärbasen auf hoher See - Chinas Bomber beunruhigen die USA
17.08.2018 (n-tv) - Mit wachsender Sorge verfolgen Strategen im Pentagon die Bewegungen im südchinesischen Meer: Einem Bericht aus Washington zufolge proben die chinesischen Streitkräfte dort auch Attacken auf "Ziele der USA" und ihrer Verbündeten. ...
Prominent North Vietnamese Communist Defector Dies
17.08.2018 By Luke Hunt (The Diplomat) - Colonel Bui Tin, a prominent North Vietnamese communist, journalist, and defector who accepted the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam in April 1975 has died in a Paris suburb, aged 90. His death was ignored in Hanoi. ...
A Vietnamese Patriot Dies Far From Home
17.08.2018 By Thomas A. Bass (The Wall Street Journal) - Bui Tin went into exile to protest the Communist regime that he once served. When Bui Tin exiled himself to France in 1990, he foresaw a brief stay, believing that Vietnam would soon come to its senses and boot the communists from power. Three decades later, he was still in Paris, where he died on August 11 at age 90. ...
Amnesty Urges Vietnam to Investigate Beatings of Singer, Activists After Concert Raid
17.08.2018 (RFA) - The human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Friday called on Vietnam to investigate the beating this week of singer Nguyen Tin and activists who attended his concert, which was broken up by police in Ho Chi Minh City. ...
17.08.2018 (Europa Press) - WASHINGTON - Estados Unidos ha expresado su preocupación este viernes por la "tendencia" de las autoridades vietnamitas a detener y condenar a activistas por "cargos vagos" y ha pedido la liberación de "todos los presos de conciencia" del país, tras la sentencia a 20 años de cárcel contra el disidente Le Dinh Luong. ...
U.S. concerned by Vietnam dissident sentence, harsh trend
17.08.2018 (Reuters) - WASHINGTON - The United States said on Friday it was deeply concerned by the sentencing of a Vietnamese dissident to 20 years in prison this week, calling a trend of increased arrests and harsh sentences for peaceful activism troubling. ...
U.S. citizen detained and deported from Vietnam doesn't regret protesting
17.08.2018 by Chris Fuchs (nbcnews) - A U.S. citizen detained for 40 days in Vietnam said Thursday that he doesn’t regret participating in protests that landed him behind bars in the communist country. ...
Vietnamese blogger gets 20-year jail sentence
16.08.2018 (Reporters without borders) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the record 20-year prison sentence that was passed today on Vietnamese blogger Le Dinh Luong for activities “aimed at overthrowing the people’s administration,” and calls on the European Parliament to block any trade agreement with Vietnam. ...
RSF dénonce la condamnation à vingt ans de prison du blogueur vietnamien Le Dinh Luong
16.08.2018 (Reporters sans frontières) - Un an après son arrestation, le blogueur Le Ding Luong s’est vu infligé une peine record de vingt ans de réclusion criminelle pour avoir tenté d’informer ses concitoyens sur Internet. ...
Vietnam: un militant condamné à 20 ans
16.08.2018 (Le Figaro) - Un militant vietnamien pour la démocratie a été condamné aujourd'hui à 20 ans de prison pour avoir appelé à des manifestations dans le pays qui ne cesse de durcir sa répression contre les opposants. Le Dinh Luong, 52 ans, avait été arrêté en juillet et son avocat, Ha Huy Son, a dénoncé un procès expéditif. ...
Vietnam finds activist guilty of anti-government charges
16.08.2018 (Daily Mail) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A court in central Vietnam sentenced an activist to 20 years in prison Thursday after finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the Communist government, his lawyer said, in a case decried by international rights groups. The court also sentenced Le Dinh Luong, 53, to five years of house arrest, said his lawyer Ha Huy Son. ...
Vietnam: Ex-Oberst und Dissident Bui Tin starb im Exil mit 90
16.08.2018 Thach Duong (Forum Vietnam 21) - Ein vietnamesischer Ex-Oberst und bekannter Kriegsreporter, der mit dem kommunistischen Regime desillusioniert war und ins Exil ging, starb in Frankreich im Alter von 90 Jahren. Während seiner Exilzeit wurde Tin einer der einflussreichsten Kritiker des kommunistischen Regimes in Vietnam. ...
Viet Nam: Politically-motivated case against environmental activist must be dropped
15.08.2018 (Amnesty International) - Ahead of tomorrow’s trial in Nghe An province of environmental rights activist, Le Dinh Luong, accused of taking part in activities aimed at “overthrowing the state”, Clare Algar, Amnesty International’s Director of Global Operations, said: ...
15.08.2018 (Amnesty International) - Le procès du militant écologiste Le Dinh Luong, accusé d’avoir pris part à des activités visant à « renverser le gouvernement », doit avoir lieu jeudi 16 août dans la province de Nghe An. ...
Deutsche Pflegeschule in Vietnam könnte Pflegemangel beheben
14.08.2018 (Ärzteblatt) - Jena – Klaus Watzka aus dem Fachbereich Betriebswirtschaft der Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena glaubt nicht daran, dass die aktuellen Gesetzesinitiativen der Großen Koalition den Personalmangel in der Pflege auflösen können. ...
Bui Tin, Vietnamese communist soldier turned dissident, dies at 90
13.08.2018 By Harrison Smith (Washington Post) - When the first communist tank charged through the gates of the Independence Palace in Saigon, it fell to Bui Tin, a journalist in the North Vietnamese army, to break the news: The revolution had arrived. Tin was a reporter, not a soldier, but he was still a colonel, the highest-ranking officer on the scene. For reasons of authority and seniority, the commander of the tank unit insisted he, and no one else, accept the surrender of the last president of South Vietnam. ...
Bui Tin, Colonel Who Accepted South Vietnam’s Surrender, Dies at 90
13.08.2018 By Mike Ives (NYT) - Bui Tin, a North Vietnamese colonel who had a prominent role in the Vietnam War’s final moments but later fled the country and became an unlikely critic of its ruling Communist Party, died on Saturday in France. He was 90. ...
Viêt-Nam. La blogueuse Huynh Thuc Vy doit être relâchée immédiatement
13.08.2018 (Amnesty International) - En réaction à l'arrestation le 9 août au matin de l'éminente défenseure des droits humains et blogueuse Huynh Thuc Vy par la police vietnamienne dans la ville de Buon Ho, dans la province de Dak Lak, Clare Algar, directrice des opérations mondiales au sein d’Amnesty International, a déclaré ...
13.08.2018 FT Confidential Research (Nikkei Asian Review) - Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia risk incurring serious damage from the spiralling trade war between the United States and China, with Hanoi the most exposed because of its high level of exports, according to analysis by FT Confidential Research. ...
Vietnam. Mort en France d’un ex-colonel et dissident en exil
12.08.2018 (Ouest-France avec AFP) - Ancien colonel vietnamien, Bui Tin avait fait défection du régime communiste dans les années 1990 pour devenir l’un de ses dissidents les plus critiques. Il est mort samedi 11 août à 90 ans dans un hôpital en France où il vivait en exil. ...
Vietnam communist war hero turned dissident Bui Tin dies aged 90
12.08.2018 (Daily Mail) - A Vietnamese former colonel and revolutionary war hero who became disillusioned with the communist regime and defected, becoming one of its most vocal and influential critics, died in France at age 90. ...
Réchauffement climatique : l’Afrique et l’Asie premières victimes économiques
11.08.2018 (La Gazette de Paris) - L’hémisphère nord vient de subir l’une des pires périodes de canicule de son histoire moderne. Mais il devrait néanmoins demeurer la zone la plus tempérée, et donc la moins exposée aux conséquences du changement climatique, notamment sur le plan économique. ...
Vietnam activist put under house arrest for defacing flag
10.08.2018 (Daily Mail) - A Vietnamese activist was put under house arrest and barred from leaving the country after she defaced the national flag, she told AFP Friday, vowing to fight for democracy in the one-party state where dissent is swiftly stamped out. ...
Abduction: Vietnamese representatives in Slovakia remain silent
09.08.2018 Peter Kapitán (The Slovak Spectator) - Vietnamese representatives in Slovakia who could shed more light on the kidnapping of businessman and communist official Trinh Xuan Thanh have officially been silent since June. ...
Vietnamese Blogger, Rights Activist Detained by Police
09.08.2018 (RFA) - A well-known Vietnamese blogger and human rights advocate was taken into custody on Thursday by local police, who later returned to search her home where they confiscated her laptop computer, camera, books, and other personal items, her husband said. ...
Vietnam's New Cybersecurity Law Will Hurt Economic Growth
08.08.2018 by David Shear (The National Interest) - As U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam from 2011 to 2014, I would console myself when faced with a diplomatic setback that Vietnam has always achieved progress by taking two steps forward and one step back. However, the passage of a restrictive cybersecurity law by Vietnam’s National Assembly is a giant step back ...
Chinesen in Vietnam - Urlaubsreif und chauvinistisch
08.08.2018 Urs Wälterlin (taz) - DA NANG/HANOI - Sie beanspruchen Strände, Sonderzonen, sogar ein ganzes Meer – viele in Vietnam nervt die Präsenz der Chinesen. Doch die Regierung unterdrückt alle Kritik. ...
Top Vietnam security official fired over fugitive spy links
08.08.2018 (Daily Mail) - Vietnam fired a deputy minister of public security on Wednesday for allegedly aiding a fugitive spy, as communist officials extend their unprecedented anti-corruption drive to the powerful security sector. ...
Vietnamese Democracy Advocate Held in Dark Cell, in Failing Health
08.08.2018 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese democracy activist Nguyen Trung Truc, a member of the online Brotherhood for Democracy advocacy group, is suffering from failing eyesight after being held for long periods in a darkened cell, a fellow activist says. ...
Alter Entführungsfall löst schwere Regierungskrise in der Slowakei aus
08.08.2018 Marina Mai, Gerald Schubert (derStandard) - Hanoi/Berlin/Bratislava – Die Entführung des vietnamesischen Managers und Expolitikers Trinh Xuan Thanh im vergangenen Sommer aus Berlin nach Hanoi entwickelt sich zu einem diplomatischen Dreieckskonflikt zwischen Vietnam, Deutschland und der Slowakei. ...
Catholic dioceses helping flood victims in northern Vietnam
07.08.2018 by Trung Tin (Asia News) - Incessant rains between 23 July and 6 August have devastated north-central Vietnam. Bridges and houses have collapsed, crops have been wiped out and livestock killed. ...
Taiwan to Vietnam: ‘We’re not Chinese’
07.08.2018 By Ma Nguyen (Asia Times) - Taiwanese companies in Vietnam are increasingly being squeezed between a rock and a hard place as China ramps up diplomatic pressure on their displays of national identity. ...
Parish in North-Central Vietnam Screens Documentary on Jailed Blogger 'Mother Mushroom'
06.08.2018 (RFA) - A banned documentary on jailed Vietnamese blogger and activist Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh—also known by her blogger handle Me Nam, or Mother Mushroom—drew 1,000 people during a screening Sunday by a Catholic church in north-central Vietnam’s of Nghe An province, the parish priest said. ...
Illegale Zigaretten - Im Spannungsfeld: „Die neuen Leiden des Mädchens Kieu“
04.08.2018 von Marina Mai (taz) - Eine Geschichte, die zwischen Vietnam und Berlin spielt, erzählt Stefan Taeubner in seinem gerade erschienenen Roman „Die neuen Leiden des Mädchens Kieu“. Sein Roman spielt in den 1990er Jahren zwischen Zentralvietnam und Berlin. ...
Prozess um entführten Vietnamesen - Unrechtsberatung aus Vietnam
01.08.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - BERLIN - Überraschend hat der in Berlin verurteilte Vietnamese Revision eingelegt. Zuvor hatte sich die vietnamesische Regierung eingeschaltet. Eigentlich war alles so geregelt, dass alle Prozessbeteiligten zufrieden sein können. Dass der Angeklagte nun gegen das Urteil vorgeht, ist deshalb ein überraschender Schritt. ...
Vietnam-Dissident will für Reformen kämpfen
31.07.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI/BERLIN (dpa) - Nach seiner Freilassung aus einem Gefängnis will sich der vietnamesische Regierungskritiker Nguyen Van Dai aus dem Exil in Deutschland für Reformen in seinem Heimatland einsetzen. Der 49-Jährige kündigte in einem Gespräch mit der Deutschen Presse-Agentur dpa an ...
Vietnam verurteilt Geheimdienst-Agenten nach Fluchtversuch Richtung Deutschland
31.07.2018 (Epoch Time) - Nach einem gescheiterten Fluchtversuch in Richtung Deutschland ist ein hochrangiger Geheimdienstmitarbeiter in Vietnam zu neun Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Das Gericht in Hanoi befand Phan Van Anh Vu zum Abschluss des eintägigen Prozesses am Montag der „Preisgabe von Staatsgeheimnissen“ für schuldig ...
Geheimdienstoperation - Über Bratislava und Moskau nach Hanoi
31.07.2018 (SZ) - Die Affäre um den vor einem Jahr aus Berlin entführten vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh hat in der Slowakei eine politische Kontroverse ausgelöst. Präsident Andrej Kiska kritisierte am Dienstag die eigenen Behörden ...
Fall Trinh Xuan Thanh - Slowakei soll Vietnam bei Entführung unterstützt haben
31.07.2018 (Der Spiegel) - Bisher wurde nur vermutet, dass die Slowakei an der Entführung des vietnamesischen Geschäftsmanns in Berlin beteiligt gewesen sei. Jetzt haben die Ermittler laut einem Medienbericht "nahezu keinen Zweifel". ...
27.07.2017 (Federal Foreign Office) - Bärbel Kofler, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, issued the following statement today (26 July) on the sentence handed down to Vietnamese human rights activist Tran Thi Nga:
“I was shocked by the very harsh sentence of nine years’ imprisonment handed down to Ms Tran Thi Nga by a court in Viet Nam. ...
27.07.2017 (Auswärtiges Amt) - Zum Urteil gegen die vietnamesische Menschenrechtsaktivistin Tran Thi Nga sagte die Menschenrechtsbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Bärbel Kofler, heute (27.07.):
Die sehr harte Verurteilung von Frau Tran Thi Nga zu neun Jahren Haft durch ein Gericht in Vietnam hat mich bestürzt. ...
Vietnam: la blogueuse dissidente Tran Thi Nga écope de neuf ans de prison ferme
26.07.2018 (RFI) - La blogueuse dissidente vietnamienne Tran Thi Nga a écopé, mardi 25 juillet 2017, de neuf ans de prison et cinq ans de probation. Cette femme d’une quarantaine d’années a été condamnée pour propagande contre l'Etat. ...
Opération secrète de Hanoï à Berlin: un Vietnamien condamné à 3 ans de prison
25.07.2018 (RFI) - Un Vietnamien a été condamné à trois ans et dix mois de détention par un tribunal de Berlin pour avoir participé en Allemagne à un enlèvement organisé par les services secrets vietnamiens, une opération qui avait provoqué une crise diplomatique entre Berlin et Hanoï. ...
2017 verschleppter Vietnamese - Entführungshelfer muss ins Gefängnis
25.07.2018 (n-tv) - Rund ein Jahr nach der spektakulären Entführung eines vietnamesischen Geschäftsmannes in Berlin ist ein Tathelfer zu einer Haftstrafe von drei Jahren und zehn Monaten verurteilt worden. ...
24.07.2018 By Nguyen Minh Quang (The Diplomat) - A look back at the past failures, and challenging present, of Vietnam’s huge economic gamble. Having shared its destiny with bullying neighbor China through every twist and turn of its history, Vietnam understands that the stronger China gets, the more serious of a potential threat Vietnam faces. ...
Entführter Vietnamese Trinh Xuan Thanh - Liebesgrüße aus Hanoi
21.07.2018 Sebastian Erb, Marina Mai, Christina Schmidt (taz) - Ein Jahr nach der Entführung ist immer noch nicht alles geklärt. Die Geschichte liest sich wie ein Agentenkrimi. Am 1. August 2001 reist ein junger Vietnamese, 25 Jahre alt, nach Deutschland, bezieht ein Einzelzimmer in einem Schulungsheim in der bayerischen Kleinstadt Murnau ...
US protester released from detention in Vietnam after trial
21.07.2018 Michael Tatarski (The Guardian) - Human rights advocates hail decision for William Anh Nguyen, who was charged with ‘disturbing public order’. William Anh Nguyen, a 32-year-old American citizen, was released from detention in Vietnam on Friday after a brief trial on charges of “disturbing public order”. He was ordered to leave the country within a day. ...
Vietnam activists flash and dash under de facto martial law
21.07.2018 By Vu Quoc Ngu (Asia Times) - Persecuted activists resort to 'flash' protests to keep pressure on the government and stay out of prison amid a sweeping clampdown on dissent. Vietnamese activists and pro-democracy campaigners in Ho Chi Minh City are now locked in a game of cat-and-mouse with security forces as the country’s main economic hub falls under the grip of de facto martial law. ...
The Environmental Hazards Of Intensive Shrimp Farming On The Mekong Delta
20.07.2018 Zoe Osborne (Pacific Standard) - Vietnam either has to change the way it approaches shrimp farming or face the loss of hundreds of hectares of land. There are significant environmental problems associated with current farming methods. ...
Entführter Vietnamese Trinh Xuan Thanh - Deutschland hat Entführer ausgebildet
20.07.2018 Sebastian Erb, Marina Mai, Christina Schmidt (taz) - Taz-Recherchen zeigen, dass mindestens zwei der mutmaßlichen Täter von BND und BKA geschult wurden. ...
US-Amerikaner nach Haft abgeschoben
20.07.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Vietnam hat einen US-Amerikaner des Landes verwiesen, der sich an einer Demonstration gegen die kommunistische Ein-Parteien-Regierung beteiligt hatte. ...
Prague suspends admission of work visa applications by Vietnamese
20.07.2018 (CTK) - Prague - The Czech Republic suspended the acceptance of work visa applications by Vietnamese on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday, citing the recent overburdening of the Czech embassy in Hanoi and also security risks. ...
State-run Vietnamese news website suspended by Vietnamese state
19.07.2018 By Max Walden (Asian Correspondent) - THE website of widely-read Vietnamese newspaper Tuổi Trẻ has been banned from publishing content for three months and fined US$10,000 after being accused by the government of publishing false information. ...
Flucht über das Meer: Der Bönener Sy Hoang kam als Boatpeople nach Deutschland
18.07.2018 (Westfälischer Anzeiger) - BÖNEN- Die Geschichte ist ein Wiederholungstäter. Tausende verzweifelte Menschen versuchen derzeit, über das Mittelmeer das für sie sichere Europa zu erreichen. Täglich sterben Kinder, Frauen und Männer bei dieser Flucht. Ähnliche Bilder gingen vor 40 Jahren schon einmal um die Welt. Damals war es nicht das Mittelmeer, sondern das Südchinesiche Meer. ...
Entführung von Trinh Xuan Thanh - Vietnamese gesteht Mittäterschaft
17.07.2018 Sebastian Erb, Marina Mai, Christina Schmidt (taz) - Fast ein Jahr nach der Entführung eines vietnamesischen Geschäftsmanns in Berlin hat ein mutmaßlicher Mittäter gestanden.
Am Ende legt der Angeklagte doch ein richtiges Geständnis ab. Long N.H., 47 Jahre alt, lässt es einen seiner Verteidiger verlesen. ...
Vietnamesische Zeitung stillgelegt - Zwangspause für ein Parteiorgan
17.07.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - Drei Monate darf die vietnamesische News-Plattform „Tuoi Tre Online“ nicht publizieren. Der Staatspräsident fühlte sich falsch zitiert. ...
Siemens wins contract to supply equipment for 258MW solar plant in Vietnam
15.07.2018 By Kondapuram Sampangi Archana Rani (Compelo) - Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply equipment to Vietnam’s Trung Nam Group for the 258MWp solar plant in Vietnam. ...
Vietnam : Un homme s’immole par le feu en guise de protestation
14.07.2018 (7sur7senegal) - Bui Huu Tuan, un homme âgé de 68 ans, est décédé jeudi après s’être immolé par le feu, parce qu’il avait été condamné à cinq ans de prison pour abus de pouvoir. ...
Vietnamese Religious Minorities Continue to Face Persecution
13.07.2018 Evan Maguire (The American Spectator) - On Wednesday, July 11th, the United States Embassy in Vietnam issued a statement criticizing a decision by a Vietnamese appeals court to continue to detain three human rights activists for “propaganda against the State.” ...
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Vietnam - 32nd session, January 2018
13.07.2018 (HRW) - Since the last periodic review in 2014, the government of Vietnam has shown little interest in improving its human rights record. It continues to restrict basic freedoms of expression, association, assembly, and religion. ...
Dekontaminierung - Wurden Ausländer gezielt für Arbeiten in Fukushima eingesetzt?
13.07.2018 (Spiegel Online) - Über ein Ausbildungsprogramm kamen Arbeiter aus Vietnam nach Japan. Dort sollen sie dazu genötigt worden sein, im havarierten Atomkraftwerk Fukushima riskante Aufgaben zu übernehmen. ...
The dangerous quest for a code of conduct in the south china sea
13.07.2018 By Huong Le Thu (AMTI) - The long and bumpy process of consultations on a code of conduct (COC) between China and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has gained some momentum since the July 2016 South China Sea arbitration award. ...
Vietnam to Try American for Disturbing Order in Protests
13.07.2018 (U.S. News & World Report) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A court in southern Vietnam is scheduled to put on trial next week an American citizen of Vietnamese descent accused of disturbing public order after he took part in rare protests, state media reported Friday. ...
After Pompeo visit, Vietnam to put American beaten and held on trial
12.07.2018 By Conor Finnegan (abc News) - Vietnam has ordered that an American man beaten by police and now detained for a month to stand trial, even after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brought up his case during a visit there this week. ...
10.07.2018 (German Embassy Hanoi) - Am 07.07.2018 unterzeichneten die deutsche Firma Siemens und Trung Nam aus Vietnam einen Vertrag über den Bau der größten Solaranlage Vietnams in der Provinz Ninh Thuan. Die Anlage mit einer Kapazität von 204 Megawatt soll bis Juni 2019 fertiggestellt sein ...
Amerikas Müllproblem stinkt zum Himmel
10.07.2018 Von Winand von Petersdorff , Washington (FAZ) - Vor ziemlich genau einem Jahr hat die Regierung in Peking der Welthandelsorganisation WTO mitgeteilt, dass China den Import von recycelbarem Plastik- und Papierabfall ab 2018 stark einschränken wird. ...
10.07.2018 (SCMP) - The 57-year-old poet and artist left Beijing bound for Berlin on Tuesday morning aboard a Finnair flight, friends say. Liu Xia, the widow of Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, left China for Germany on Tuesday after nearly eight years under house arrest. ...
US proposes 'Vietnamese model' for North Korea
10.07.2018 By Kim Bo-eun (The Korea Times) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said North Korea could become as prosperous as Vietnam if it partners with the U.S., and that this could become possible even if the countries were formerly enemies. ...
Chinese officials tout ‘made in Vietnam’ zones on border amid trade row with US
09.07.2018 He Huifeng & Keegan Elmer (SCMP) - A spiralling trade conflict between Beijing and Washington is an unwelcome development for China, but officials in Guangxi – where seven “cross-border trade zones” with Vietnam are planned – see an opportunity. ...
Gegen Plastikmüll - Jetzt kommt der Strohhalm aus Bambus nach Frankfurt
09.07.2018 (Frankfurter Neue Presse) - Frankfurt. Die EU-Kommission will Strohhalme und weitere Plastikprodukte verbieten. Auch die Mitgliedsbetriebe der Initiative Gastronomie Frankfurt (IGF) wollen schrittweise Plastikartikel in ihren Restaurants und Lokalen abschaffen. ...
09.07.2018 (DW) - Asia is famous for its street food delicacies - especially scorpions and insects. Every region has a specialty, every street vendor a story to tell. The film explores Asian culture through a culinary journey to China, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam. ...
Vietnam puts books in front of citizens' eyes
09.07.2018 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI - The government acts after learning people read less than one title a year - A 2013 survey showed Vietnamese read 0.8 books, manga or magazines a year. ...
Pompeo pushes Vietnam for ‘speedy resolution’ in detained American’s case
09.07.2018 By Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill) - The State Department on Monday said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the case of an imprisoned American with Vietnamese leaders during a recent meeting. ...
Secretary Pompeo's Meeting With Vietnamese Leaders
09.07.2018 (U.S. State Department) - On July 8 and 9, Secretary Pompeo met in Hanoi, Vietnam with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. ...
Atomgespräche - Pompeo empfiehlt Nordkorea die Politik Vietnams
08.07.2018 (Zeit Online) - US-Außenminister Mike Pompeo ist zuversichtlich, dass Nordkorea nuklear abrüsten wird. Das Land könne es zu Wohlstand bringen, wenn es dem Beispiel Vietnams folge. ...
A democratic revolution has just begun in Vietnam
08.07.2018 By Khai Nguyen (Asia Times) - Massive but orderly protests across the country hint at the beginning of the end of Communist Party rule. On June 7, a group of about 300 ordinary Vietnamese in Phan Ri Cua City of Binh Thuan province formed the first rally against a draft law on special economic zones (SEZ). ...
Vietnamese women earn a living out of waste
07.07.2018 Vishal Gulati (The Gulf Today) - With over 20 million tourists visiting per year, this port city — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — produces approximately 27,000 tonnes of urban waste per year. ...
Neuer Handel mit EU-Visa aufgeflogen
06.07.2018 (Die Presse) - Brüssel. Ein Jahr nach dem Ende des ungarischen Programms, im Rahmen dessen Tausende Chinesen gegen den Kauf ungarischer Staatsanleihen EU-Visa erhielten, wurde ein neues, ähnliches Unterfangen bekannt. ...
Jailed Vietnamese Blogger Mother Mushroom Begins Hunger Strike
06.07.2018 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known as Mother Mushroom, has begun a hunger strike in prison, citing authorities’ refusal to transfer her to a cell away from a hostile and threatening cellmate, her mother says. ...
Viêt-Nam. Les autorités doivent protéger une militante des attaques collectives
06.07.2018 (Amnesty International) - Les autorités de la ville de Di Linh doivent agir immédiatement pour assurer la sécurité de la militante des droits des travailleurs Do Thi Minh Hanh, dont le domicile familial a été la cible de jets de pierres à trois reprises ces deux dernières semaines, a déclaré Amnesty International. ...
Cybersécurité au Vietnam: les militants se ruent sur l'internet jugé sûr
06.07.2018 (France Soir) - Des dizaines de miliers d'utilisateurs de réseaux sociaux du Vietnam se sont inscrits sur une plateforme dédiée à la "liberté d'expression" après l'adoption d'une loi sur la cybersécurité qui verrouille internet, ont déclaré le site et des militants à l'AFP. ...
Vietnam activists flock to ‘safe’ social media after cyber crackdown
05.07.2018 (Geo TV) - HANOI: Tens of thousands of Vietnamese social media users are flocking to a self-professed free speech platform to avoid tough internet controls in a new cybersecurity law, activists told AFP. ...
Film screening cancelled in Bangkok after Vietnam complains
04.07.2018 (Bangkok Post) - A second screening of a documentary featuring Mother Mushroom, the Vietnamese blogger sentenced in 2017 to ten years in jail after publicising the environmental devastation caused by a toxic leak from a steel plant, was cancelled on Wednesday afternoon after a complaint from the Vietnamese embassy in Bangkok. ...
Jailed Vietnamese Activist Vows to Stay in the Country to Work For Change
03.07.2018 (RFA) - A Vietnamese activist jailed in 2010 for writing online articles criticizing government policies has pledged not to go into exile abroad, saying he would rather stay in Vietnam to continue his fight for democracy and human rights, his family says. ...
Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law could further undermine free speech, disrupt businesses
02.07.2018 By Mong Palatino (Asian Correspondent) - A NEW cybersecurity law in Vietnam may usher in a new era of increased online censorship, privacy-invasive data processing methods, and deprivation of internet connections for organisations and individuals who publish “prohibited” content. ...
Vietnam jails former central bank deputy governor for three years
02.07.2018 (Daily Mail) - A former deputy governor of Vietnam's central bank was jailed for three years Monday for negligence after he oversaw a dodgy restructuring scheme that lost the state $600 million. ...
Vietnam’s New Cyber Law Could Hobble Foreign Investors and Limit Basic Freedoms
02.07.2018 Murray Hiebert (CSIS) - Vietnam’s controversial new cybersecurity law may dent the country’s well-honed image as a darling of foreign investors, particularly those operating in the information technology space. ...
Vietnam smartphone makers break from Samsung empire
02.07.2018 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Vietnamese companies, including some that are new to the sector, plan to launch or expand production of smartphones, in a challenge to foreign makers, especially Samsung Electronics, which dominates the market in the country. ...
Critically Endangered Giant Fish on Menu at Luxury Restaurants
02.07.2018 By Rachel Nuwer (National Geographic) - Vietnamese restaurateurs are illegally sourcing rare Mekong River megafish from Cambodian fishermen. From the outside Nha Hang Lang Nghe, in Danang, looks like any other respectable restaurant in Vietnam. ...
Vietnam smartphone makers break from Samsung empire
02.07.2018 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Vietnamese companies, including some that are new to the sector, plan to launch or expand production of smartphones, in a challenge to foreign makers, especially Samsung Electronics, which dominates the market in the country. ...
Eine Reise ins alte Vietnam – bevor es zu spät ist
02.07.2018 Von Thomas Vitzthum (Welt) - Vietnam hat sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten tiefgreifend gewandelt. Noch gibt es Gegenden, in denen es beschaulich zugeht. Wer dieses ursprüngliche Leben sehen will, muss sich allerdings sputen. ...
One Year After Mother Mushroom’s Imprisonment, Signs of Hope in Vietnam
29.06.2018 By Prachi Vidwans and Joy Park (The Diplomat) - Despite rising repression, the democratic awakening of the Vietnamese people continues. One year ago on June 29, Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh found herself in prison, staring down a 10-year sentence. It has not been an easy year. Far from it. Prison authorities have made life unnecessarily difficult for Quynh, ...
28.06.2018 Escrito por el equipo chino de Global Voices Lingua, Traducido por Andrea González (Global Voices Español) - En 2016, los residuos tóxicos provenientes de la planta de acero de Formosa, de dueños taiwaneses, provocaron un desastre masivo en la vida marina de Vietnam. ...
What is fueling social unrest in Vietnam?
27.06.2018 By Gary Sands (Asia Times) - The detention of an American citizen in Vietnam, arrested while participating in a protest in Ho Chi Minh City, has again drawn international media attention to social unrest in this fast-growing nation of close to 100 million. ...
‘Don’t give our land away’: the clash of interests in Vietnam’s anti-China protests
23.06.2018 (SCMP) - The first sign of trouble came on a Saturday earlier this month when more than 1,000 workers went on strike at a Taiwanese shoe factory in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, blocking a highway. ...
Vietnams Sorgen: „Die Chinesen übernehmen unser Land“
23.06.2018 Urs Wälterlin (Handelsblatt) - In Vietnam wächst die Opposition gegen die Expansionspolitik und den wachsenden wirtschaftlichen Einfluss Chinas. Und das Volk will noch mehr. ... Seit China begonnen hat, auf einigen der Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer militärische Infrastruktur zu bauen, wird in Vietnam die Frustration über den mächtigen Nachbarn zunehmend auch im Alltag spürbar. ...
Mass Protests Sweep Vietnam for the First Time in Decades
23.06.2018 By Vu Quoc Ngu (truthout) - “An Arab spring has started to emerge in Vietnam,” said Pham Chi Dung, a former member of the ruling Communist Party, following the largest and most widespread protests in years. ...
Vietnam tottering over Chinese t-shirts and tourists
23.06.2018 Author: Gary Sands, Wikistrat (East Asia Forum) - A humble t-shirt typically goes unnoticed, except when it displays an inflammatory statement or draws attention to a social cause its wearer chooses to advertise. Recent weeks have seen a few such t-shirts — featuring maps of China — draw significant outrage on social media. ...
EU Should Stand Up for Vietnam’s People - Use Trade Pact to Demand Rights Improvements
22.06.2018 - Claudio Francavilla (HRW) - Cecilia Malmström, the European Union’s trade commissioner, will hold talks on Monday with Trần Tuấn Anh, Vietnam’s trade and industry minister, about concluding a long negotiated Free Trade Agreement. Based on the EU Commission’s figures, the pact could boost Vietnam’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 15 percent. ...
Vietnam Mass Protests Expose Hanoi’s China Dilemma
21.06.2018 By Tom Fawthrop (The Diplomat) - The huge nationwide protests that rocked Vietnam last week have highlighted Hanoi’s headaches in dealing with China, both as a hostile power in the South China Sea and as a key trading partner and economic investor. ...
Ex-Aussenminister: Vietnam stellt ernstes Sicherheitsrisiko dar
21.06.2018 Markéta Kachlíková (Radio Praha) - Der ehemalige Außenminister Lubomír Zaorálek (Sozialdemokraten) hält Vietnam für einen Brennpunkt des organisierten Verbrechens. ...
NGOs take Formosa Plastics to task over marine disaster in Vietnam
20.06.2018 (Focus Taiwan) - Taipei (CNA) - Scores of Vietnamese expatriates in Taiwan and local activists staged a rally in Taipei on Wednesday, demanding that the Formosa Plastics Group take responsibility for the 2016 marine disaster caused by toxic industrial waste from its steel plant in Ha Tinh, Vietnam. ...
Peking will Muslime in Lagern umerziehen
19.06.2018 Von Kai Strittmatter, Peking (SZ) - Weil Peking Unabhängigkeitsbestrebungen befürchtet, sollen in der Provinz Xinjiang bereits Hunderttausende Uiguren und Kasachen interniert worden sein. ...
In Vietnam, distrust of government's China policy fuels protests
19.06.2018 Martin Petty (Reuters) - MANILA - Protests by thousands of people in cities across Vietnam are showing just how easy it is to unite public opinion and mobilise dissent when an issue has one key ingredient: China. ...
Vietnam Internet Crackdown Damages Plans to Become Blockchain Hub
19.06.2018 Tim Copeland (NewsBTC) - Vietnam legislators approved a cybersecurity bill on June 12 putting tighter rules on tech companies from the start of 2019. Vietnam has been recognised as a potential hub for blockchain activity but doubts still remain over regulatory uncertainty. ...
Katholiken protestieren gegen Internet-Überwachung
19.06.2018 (katholisch.de) - Tausende Katholiken haben sich in Vietnam in der vergangenen Woche an den Demonstrationen gegen ein neues Cybersecurity-Gesetz beteiligt. Mehrere Hundert Demonstranten seien bei den Demonstrationen verletzt und zum Teil verhaftet worden, berichtet UCAnews. ...
Catholics injured as police suppress protests in Vietnam
19.06.2018 (UCANews) - Catholics have been caught up in a police crackdown aimed at suppressing opposition to a proposed special economic development plan and the approval of a controversial cybersecurity law. ...
Eight more held over economic zone law protests
19.06.2018 (The Star) - HANOI: Vietnamese police have arrested eight more people after protests a week ago over a proposed law on special economic zones that protesters fear would fall in the hands of Chinese investors, state media reported. ...
In Vietnam, Discontent Lurks Under Surface of Economic Success
19.06.2018 By John Boudreau (Bloomberg) - Vietnam boasts one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, optimistic citizens and a stable government. But below the surface of positive data points lies discontent that spilled over during recent protests across the country. ...
Obispo vietnamita critica al presidente de su país por censurar el uso de internet
19.06.2018 (InfoCatólica) - Mons. Michael Hoàng Đức Oanh, obispo emérito de Kontum (Vietnam), ha dirigido al presidente Trần Đại Quang una dura crítica por aprobar nuevas restricciones al uso de Internet. También ha condenado a los sacerdotes que votaron a favor de la ley ...
Thousands Protest in Vietnam Against Foreign Investment Plans
18.06.2018 (The Irrawaddy) - Thousands of people in central Vietnam demonstrated peacefully on Sunday against government plans to lease new economic zones to foreign investors, witnesses told Reuters, a few days after protesters in a nearby province clashed with police. ...
Vietnam: Fears of China-takeover fuel second week of protests
18.06.2018 (Asian Correspondent) - PROTESTS against proposed special economic zones and foreign investment in Vietnam entered their second week on Sunday as thousands demonstrated peacefully in provinces and cities across the country. ...
An American Grad Student Has Been Jailed In Vietnam After Attending A Protest
18.06.2018 Megha Rajagopalan (BuzzFeed News) - An American grad student was badly beaten, dragged down the street and jailed in Vietnam after he joined a large demonstration in Ho Chi Minh City last week, his family says. ...
2018 International Press Freedom Award winners
18.06.2018 (BizCommunity) - The Committee to Protect Journalists will honour journalists from Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Vietnam with its 2018 International Press Freedom Awards. The journalists have faced legal action, physical attacks, threats, and arrests in retaliation for their work. ...
Le Vietnam serre la vis aux réseaux sociaux
18.06.2018 Par Frédéric Noir (RFI) - Le Parlement vietnamien vient d’adopter une loi sur la cybersécurité, qui vise à restreindre les libertés sur les réseaux sociaux. L'étau se resserre dans le pays communiste où aucune dissidence n'est tolérée. ...
Thousands hold peaceful protests in Vietnam against foreign investment plans
17.06.2018 (Reuters) - Thousands of people in central Vietnam demonstrated peacefully on Sunday against government plans to lease new economic zones to foreign investors, witnesses told Reuters, a few days after protesters in a nearby province clashed with police. ...
From Vietnam, Without Love: The Child Brides Of China
17.06.2018 By Yen Duong (SCMP) - In the rural mountains of Vietnam, young girls are disappearing from their homes with increasing regularity. Many turn up across the border, sold as wives for the price of a buffalo. ...
Südchinesisches Meer – China und USA auf Konfrontation
16.06.2018 (Philippinen Magazin) - In weniger als zehn Jahren soll China die USA als größte Wirtschaftsmacht der Welt ablösen. Parallel dazu rüstet Peking auch militärisch auf. ...
RSF calls for repeal of Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law
15.06.2018 (Reporters without borders) - Approved by 423 votes to 15 by the national assembly on 12 June, without any changes, the new law is largely a copy-and-paste version of the cybersecurity law that took effect in China in June 2017. ...
CPJ announces 2018 International Press Freedom Award winners
14.06.2018 (CPJ) - New York, June 14, 2018--The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor journalists from Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Vietnam with its 2018 International Press Freedom Awards. ...
14.06.2018 (UN Human Rights - Asia) - The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia is concerned with the passing of the controversial Cyber Security Law by the National Assembly on Tuesday, which contains a number of provisions that are in contravention with Viet Nam’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). ...
RSF appelle les députés vietnamiens à abroger la loi sur la cybersécurité
13.06.2018 (Reporters sans frontières) - L’Assemblée nationale du Vietnam a adopté cette semaine une loi contre la cybercriminalité draconienne, inspirée du modèle chinois. Reporters sans frontières (RSF) appelle les députés à abroger au plus vite ce texte qui porte gravement atteinte à la liberté d’informer. ...
Viet Nam: New Cybersecurity law a devastating blow for freedom of expression
12.06.2018 (Amnesty International) - Reacting to the news that Viet Nam’s National Assembly has voted to pass a deeply repressive new cybersecurity law which grants the government sweeping powers to limit online freedom, Clare Algar, Amnesty International’s Director of Global Operations said: “This decision has potentially devastating consequences for freedom of expression in Viet Nam. ...
Vietnam's new law tightens control of the internet
12.06.2018 By Zoey Chong (cnet) - Vietnam is taking a leaf out of China's book when it comes to regulating the internet. ...
China warns citizens in Vietnam after protests fuel anti-Chinese sentiment
12.06.2018 (ABC) - China has warned its citizens in Vietnam after protesters clashed with police over a government plan to create new economic zones for foreign investment that has fuelled anti-Chinese sentiment in the country. ...
Vietnamesen demonstrieren gegen Sonderwirtschaftszonen
11.06.2018 (DW) - Die vietnamesische Regierung will ausländische Investoren fördern und plant ein Gesetz zu Sonderwirtschaftszonen. Die Demonstranten fürchten den Ausverkauf des Landes an China. Einen ersten Erfolg konnten sie verbuchen. ...
Vietnam Says `Anti-State' Groups Incite Nationwide Protests
11.06.2018 By John Boudreau (Bloomberg) - Vietnam said the groups behind Sunday’s protests against proposed laws demonstrators view as curbing Internet freedom and favoring Chinese investors were trying to damage the country’s image, after the rare display of public activism reportedly turned violent. Thousands of demonstrators from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City rallied against draft cyber and economic-zone laws being considered by the National Assembly that some view as curbing Internet freedom and favoring Chinese investors. ...
Vietnam detains 100 after protests turn violent
11.06.2018 (Mail Online) - Authorities in Vietnam have detained more than 100 people after protesters pelted government buildings with rocks and Molotov cocktails, injuring dozens of police officers, state media reported Monday. ...
11.06.2018 (Nouvelles Du Monde) - Les haut-parleurs enfilés entre les palmiers qui bordent la plage ont dit aux citoyens de rester calmes. Le message était que trois nouvelles zones économiques spéciales prévues que les critiques craignaient seraient dominées par la Chine voisine n’étaient pas encore gravées dans la pierre. “Reste sage, sois calme. Rentrer chez soi! Retournez à la vie quotidienne. Ne joignez pas les protestations “, a déclaré la voix prim en vietnamien dans la ville balnéaire de Nha Trang dans le centre-sud du Vietnam. ...
Vietnam protests bigger than ‘anti-China’ nationalism
11.06.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - Massive demonstrations against sovereignty-eroding SEZ legislation gave voice to wider grievances about the Communist Party's repressive rule ...
Vietnam protests over feared 99-year leases for China
11.06.2018 (Asian Correspondent) - PROTESTS blocked streets in several major Vietnamese cities on Sunday over plans for new special economic zones, which many fear would be dominated by investment from Chinese firms. ...
Une tortue verte meurt après avoir ingéré trop de plastique
11.06.2018 (Paris Match) - Les vétérinaires ont tenté pendant deux journées de sauver la tortue après son échouage sur une plage mais en vain. Sacs plastiques, élastiques, filets de pêche: quelques jours après le décès d'une baleine, une grosse tortue verte, espèce protégée, est morte en Thaïlande d'avoir ingurgité trop de plastique. ...
Miles de vietnamitas se manifiestan en contra del Gobierno
10.06.2018 (el Periódico) - Miles de personas se manifestaron en las principales ciudades de Vietnam en contra de los planes del Gobierno de aprobar una restrictiva ley de ciberseguridad y crear zonas económicas especiales que favorecen el control de inversiones de China. Las principales protestas se produjeron en Hanoi, la capital, y en Ho Chi Minh (antigua Saigón), ...
Para Vietnam, la libertad de expresión es una 'ofensa contra la seguridad nacional'
09.06.2018 (El Ojo Digital) - 'En Vietnam, no existe tal cosa como un "prisionero de consciencia", y no existe allí lo que se dicen arrestos de personas con motivo de "expresar libremente su opinión"', sentenció la vocera del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores vietnamita Le Thi Thu Hang a periodistas en abril pasado. Pero lo cierto es, precisamente, lo opuesto. ...
G7 : des Vietnamiens manifestent à La Malbaie pour l'environnement
09.06.2018 Un texte de Roxanne Simard (Radio Canada) - Les manifestants étaient peu nombreux dans la zone de libre expression à La Malbaie samedi, en marge du G7. C'est finalement un regroupement de Vietnamiens, qui dénonçait les actions du gouvernement communiste vietnamien en matière d'environnement, qui a retenu l'attention. ...
Sommet du G7: la sécurité dissipée d’ici le 20 juin à La Malbaie
09.06.2018 Arnaud Koenig-Soutière (Le Journal de Quebec) - ... LA MALBAIE | Le Sommet du G7 est maintenant chose du passé à La Malbaie, mais ce n’est que d’ici le 20 juin que les mesures de sécurité visible seront complètement dissipées. La «zone de libre expression» s’est justement animée pour la dernière journée du Sommet du G7, samedi, alors que plus d’une centaine de manifestants s’y sont réunis sur l’heure du midi, dont des membres de la communauté vietnamienne ...
Vietnam: le dissident Nguyen Van Dai libéré et exilé en Allemagne
09.06.2018 (RFI) - Le dissident vietnamien Nguyen Van Dai et son assistante Le Thu Ha ont été libérés jeudi 8 juin après deux ans de détention. Ils ont aussitôt été placés dans un avion pour l'Allemagne. Un nouvel exemple de l'exil forcé des figures critiques du Vietnam. ...
Analysts: US Military Moves in South China Sea Little Help to Vietnam, Philippines
08.06.2018 Ralph Jennings (VOA) - TAIPEI, TAIWAN — U.S. B-52 bombers sent over the disputed South China Sea this week will, for lack of a broader foreign policy, fall short of empowering smaller countries to resist China’s maritime sovereignty claims, analysts say. ...
Warum Vietnam Trinh Xuan Thanh freilassen will
08.06.2018 von Justus Bender und Morten Freidel (FAZ) - Die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Vietnam befinden sich auf einem Tiefpunkt – seit der Entführung des Geschäftsmannes und ehemaligen Funktionärs Trinh Xuan Thanh aus Berlin nach Hanoi im vergangenen Sommer. Auf den öffentlichen Kanälen beider Länder herrschte seitdem angespannte Stille. Bis zum Freitag. ...
In Berlin entführter Vietnamese könnte freikommen
08.06.2018 (rbb24) - Der in Berlin entführte und in seinem Heimatland verurteilte vietnamesische Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh könnte einem Medienbericht zufolge freikommen. Wie die „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“ in ihrer Samstagsausgabe unter Berufung auf mehrere Quellen berichtet, gibt es eine Zusage der Regierung in Hanoi an Deutschland, ...
Aus Berlin verschleppter Vietnamese soll freikommen
08.06.2018 (Der Tagesspiegel) - Er war aus Berlin entführt und in seiner Heimat zu lebenslänglich verurteilt worden. Nun hat Vietnams Regierung laut "FAZ" zugesagt, den Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh "mittelfristig" freizulassen. ...
Vietnamesischer Dissident freigelassen
08.06.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - BERLIN - Nguyen Van Dai, der prominenteste vietnamesische Dissident, hat in der Nacht zum Freitag die vietnamesische Haftanstalt verlassen und ist am Freitag morgen auf dem Frankfurter Flughafen eingetroffen. Er wird gemeinsam mit seiner Frau und einer ebenfalls aus der Haft entlassenen Kollegin in Deutschland leben. ...
DRB-Menschenrechtspreisträger Van Dai in Freiheit
08.06.2018 (Deutscher Richterbund) - Berlin. Der Deutsche Richterbund (DRB) hat mit großer Freude auf die Ausreise des vietnamesischen Menschenrechtlers Nguyen Van Dai reagiert. ...
Vietnam lässt prominenten Bürgerrechtler ausreisen
08.06.2018 (FAZ) - Vietnam hat den prominenten Bürgerrechtler Nguyen Van Dai vorzeitig aus der Haft entlassen und nach Deutschland ausreisen lassen. Der 49 Jahre alte Anwalt für Menschenrechte landete am Freitag gemeinsam mit seiner Ehefrau an Bord einer Linienmaschine in Frankfurt am Main. ...
Vietnam lässt Bürgerrechtler Dai frei und nach Deutschland ausreisen
08.06.2018 (DW) - 15 Jahre Gefängnis und fünf weitere Jahre Hausarrest, so lautete das Urteil eines Gerichts in Hanoi gegen den Rechtsanwalt Nguyen Van Dai vom April. Damals hatte das Gericht den Gründer des Netzwerks "Bruderschaft für Demokratie" für schuldig befunden, einen Umsturz gegen die Regierung geplant zu haben. Nun wurde der 49-Jährige freigelassen und kann nach Deutschland ausreisen. ...
Dissident lawyer freed from Vietnam jail, now in Germany
08.06.2018 (Daily Mail) - A Vietnamese pro-democracy activist jailed for 15 years for "attempting to overthrow" the Communist state arrived in Germany on Friday hours after being released from prison. ...
Germany welcomes freed Vietnamese human rights lawyer
08.06.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI/BERLIN - Human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai has arrived in Germany after his release from prison in Vietnam, the German foreign ministry said on Friday, two months after a conviction for attempting to overthrow the state that carried a 15-year jail term. ...
Human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, released and exiled to Germany
08.06.2018 Hanoi (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The well-known human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai and another member of Brotherhood for Democracy were released from prison yesterday evening and boarded a plane bound for Germany. ...
Le dissident vietnamien Nguyen Van Dai a été libéré et se trouve en Allemagne
08.06.2018 (Europe1) - L'avocat et dissident vietnamien Nguyen Van Dai, condamné à 15 ans de prison dans son pays, a été libéré et se trouve en Allemagne, a annoncé vendredi le ministère allemand des Affaires étrangères. ...
Expulsa Vietnam a dos disidentes
08.06.2018 (El Diario) - Hanói— Las autoridades vietnamitas excarcelaron y expulsaron del país a un prominente abogado de derechos humanos y a otro disidente, y los envió a ambos a Alemania, dijo un grupo pro-democracia el viernes. ...
Vietnam disidencia - Berlín informa de que disidentes vientamitas liberados están en Alemania
08.06.2018 (La Vanguardia) - Berlín (EFE).- El Gobierno alemán informó hoy de que el defensor de los derechos humanos vietnamita Nguyen Van Dai y su asistente, Le Thu Ha, fueron puestos en libertad y se encuentran ya en Alemania, adonde llegaron acompañados también de la mujer del activista. ...
Vietnam pone en libertad a un activista condenado por intentar derrocar al Gobierno
08.06.2018 (europapress) - HANÓI (Reuters/EP) - El abogado y activista vietnamita de Derechos Humanos Nguyen Van Dai ha sido puesto en libertad este viernes dos meses después de ser condenado a quince años de prisión por sedición y ha abandonado el país rumbo a Alemania. ...
Vietnamese public opposes SEZ land-lease proposal
07.06.2018 (InterGame) - Vietnam’s proposal for three special economic zones continues to spark debate in the ongoing National Assembly sitting, reports Asia Gaming Brief. The proposal for investors to lease land for up to 99 years facing fierce public opposition. ...
Hanoi selling out economic zones to Beijing
06.06.2018 by Paul Nguyen Thanh (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – "What the authorities are doing is selling out our country to China," said Mr Thuận, a Catholic elementary school teacher, reacting to upcoming trade agreements between the Vietnamese government and its Chinese "communist brothers". Like him, millions of Vietnamese fear that the authorities will subject the country to the will of Beijing, when on 15 June the National Assembly votes a bill on "special administrative-economic zones". ...
Hanoi Residents Protest Confiscation of Their Homes For New Parking Lot
06.06.2018 (RFA) - More than 20 residents of a road built near a dyke in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi turned out on Tuesday to protest local authorities’ planned confiscation of their homes to make way for a new parking lot and a park, local sources said. ...
Hanói ‘vende a muy bajo precio’ zonas económicas a Beijing
06.06.2018 de Paul Nguyen Thanh (AsiaNews) - Hanói – “Lo que están haciendo las autoridades es vender nuestro país a China. Es cuanto declara el señor Thuận, maestro católico de una escuela primaria, sobre los próximos acuerdos comerciales entre el gobierno de Hanói y los “hermanos comunistas” chinos.
Vietnam: Jail Looms For Pastor, Activists As Appeals Fail
06.06.2018 (Eurasia Review) - A pastor and three other members of the Brotherhood for Democracy group have lost their appeals against convictions for trying to overthrow the communist government, a development that international rights groups have blasted as a violation of their rights. ...
Vietnamese Political Prisoner Tran Thi Nga Back in Touch With Family
06.06.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese political prisoner Tran Thi Nga, after having been cut off from seeing her family for several months as part of disciplinary measures, was able to call her husband this week and a family visit to her in jail may take place next week, ...
Mai Khoi, la voix de la dissidence du Vietnam
05.06.2018 (Le Monde) - Armée de sa guitare, accompagnée d’envoûtantes percussions et d’un saxophone, elle chante, dans un crescendo presque dissonant : « A l’intérieur ; tu as le temps de penser, tu as le temps de te repentir, de regretter (…) d’avoir été un traître à la nation, de maintenir le peuple dans le noir et de l’oppresser. » Le titre de la chanson : Camp de rééducation. ...
50 nations 'curbing plastic pollution'
05.06.2018 By Roger Harrabin (BBC) - Fifty nations are now taking action to reduce plastic pollution, according to the biggest report so far from the UN. ...
Plastic wasteland: Asia's ocean pollution crisis
05.06.2018 (AFP) - About eight million tonnes of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans every year, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic being tipped into the sea every minute of every day. ...
Les mers d'Asie, poubelles plastiques de la planète
05.06.2018 Par Jenny VAUGHAN avec les bureaux d'Asie de l'AFP (France Soir) - Au Vietnam des sacs plastiques recouvrent la mangrove, en Thaïlande une baleine est morte après en avoir ingurgité 80, les îles indonésiennes n'ont parfois plus rien de paradisiaques ...
05.06.2018 Joachim Eggers (DW) - Zum Weltumwelttag rufen die UN zum Kampf gegen den Plastikmüll auf. [Video] ...
Los mares, vertederos de plástico del planeta
05.06.2018 Sonia Arrieta (El Diario Vasco) - El mar se ha convertido en un vertedero difuso, carente de fronteras, que permite a la basura extenderse por todo el planeta. Las cifras son alarmantes. ...
Southeast Asia's plastic "addiction" blights world's oceans
05.06.2018 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ... As World Environment Day on Tuesday takes place and the United Nations calls for the "biggest-ever worldwide cleanup" of plastic pollution, experts are focused on Southeast Asia, home to four of the world's top marine plastic polluters. ...
En el Día del Medio Ambiente, el mundo le declara la guerra al plástico
05.06.2018 (Infobae) - Un informe de la ONU encendió las alarmas sobre la producción de plásticos y la ínfima proporción de los mismos que son reciclados cada año ...
Dramáticos tsunamis de plástico
05.06.2018 (LaTeja) - Mares de Asia emplastican al planeta. Si no hacemos nada de aquí al 2025 habrá 250 millones de toneladas de residuos en las aguas mundiales. En Vietnam, las bolsas de plástico cubren los manglares, ...
Ostdeutschland: Doppelt heimatlos?
04.06.2018 Ein Gastbeitrag von Angelika Nguyen (Die Zeit) - Sind Ostdeutsche wie Migranten? Keine schlechte Idee, findet Angelika Nguyen. Aber auch innerhalb der DDR verlief eine Grenze: zwischen weißen und nicht-weißen Ossis. - Da war sie wieder, im März dieses Jahres, mit dem Film Das schweigende Klassenzimmer: die westdeutsche Ansprache an die Ostdeutschen. ...
Drastic plastic: Vietnam beach awash with tide of blue waste
04.06.2018 Kham Nguyen, Thinh Nguyen (Reuters) - THANH HOA, Vietnam - There’s almost more plastic than sand on this long, tree-lined beach: Plastic helmets, plastic furniture and the plastic leg of a shop mannequin all jut out of an ocean of blue plastic bags. ...
Vietnam: Mehr Sonne und Wind, aber auch mehr Kohle?
04.06.2018 Wolfgang Pomrehn (Telepolis) - Vietnam hat sich den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energieträger vorgenommen. Premierminister Nguyen Xuan Phuc kündigte in einem Gespräch mit der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters an, die jährliche Strommenge dieses Sektors von derzeit 58 Milliarden Kilowattstunden (TWh) auf 101 TWh im Jahre 2020 und 186 TWh im Jahre 2030 auszuweiten. ...
Thailand plans regional infrastructure fund to reduce China dependence
04.06.2018 Yukako Ono (Nikkei Asian Review) - BANGKOK -- Thailand is taking the lead in creating a regional fund with its neighbors, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, to back infrastructure and other development projects and to lessen reliance on Chinese investment. ...
Vietnam upholds sentence for prominent human rights activists
04.06.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - A Vietnamese court on Monday upheld prison sentences against four human rights campaigners convicted of attempting to overthrow the state, a lawyer said. ...
China’s hypocritical stance on maritime militarization
04.06.2018 By Xuan Loc Doan (Asia Times) - A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson last Thursday accused the United States of “staging a farce of a thief crying ‘stop thief.'” The allegation was made by Hua Chunying when she was asked to comment on Washington’s recent strong criticisms of Beijing’s militarization of the South China Sea. ...
Boat People, passeport pour l’enfer - la critique du film
03.06.2018 Virgile Dumez (à voir à lire) - Apocalypse then ! Sur un scénario mélodramatique, Ann Hui signe une œuvre sèche et sans concession qui tire à boulets rouges sur le régime communiste vietnamien des années 80. Abrupt, mais indispensable. ...
U.S. weighs more South China Sea patrols to confront 'new reality' of China
03.06.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - SINGAPORE--The United States is considering intensified naval patrols in the South China Sea in a bid to challenge China's growing militarization of the waterway, actions that could further raise the stakes in one of the world's most volatile areas. ...
EE.UU. acusa a Beijing de militarizar el Pacífico para intimidar y coercionar
03.06.2018 (La Pagina) - El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, James Mattis, denunció que Beijing busca “militarizar” el Mar de China con la instalación de sofisticados equipos de armamentos en los islotes creados recientemente, y que se encuentran en territorio en disputa. ...
USA gehen auf Konfrontation zu China - ein wenig
02.06.2018 (DW) - Das Südchinesische Meer ist für die gesamte Region von immenser Bedeutung. Die USA versprechen den Ländern dort jetzt Unterstützung, wenn es darum geht, sich gegen die Großmacht in Peking zur Wehr zu setzen. ...
Le chef du Pentagone accuse la Chine d'"intimidation" en mer de Chine méridionale
02.06.2018 (Romandie) - Le renforcement des positions militaires de la Chine dans les eaux contestées de la mer de Chine méridionale et l'installation de systèmes d'armes sophistiqués le long de ce couloir maritime stratégique est destiné à "intimider" et "contraindre" ses voisins, a accusé samedi le chef du Pentagone, Jim Mattis. ...
US and China trade barbs over South China Sea island-building
02.06.2018 Simon Roughneen (Nikkei Asian Review) - SINGAPORE-- After U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis accused China of "intimidation" and "coercion" in the disputed South China Sea on Saturday, a Chinese general responded by saying that "countries accusing China" are the ones causing tension in the region. ...
Is Facebook helping Vietnam’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists?
02.06.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - Activists say the US social media giant is obliging Communist Party requests to block and take down democracy and rights-related content. ...
Vietnam Blogger 'Mother Mushroom' in Hunger Strike Over Prison Treatment
01.06.2018 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known also as “Mother Mushroom” has launched a hunger strike in protest at her treatment in prison, refusing to eat prison food she says sickens her, her mother told RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Friday. ...
Vietnam banker gets 30 years for embezzling millions
01.06.2018 (Daily Mail) - A Vietnamese banker has been jailed for 30 years and fined $700 million for embezzlement and wrongdoing, reports said Friday as the government forges ahead with its massive anti-graft sweep. ...
Vietnam hit by iodine deficiency again
27.05.2018 (The Star) - HANOI: Iodine deficiency, which can causes mental retardation, has come back to Vietnam, especially in mountain communities, the country’s National Hospital of Endocrinology said. ...
U.S. warships sail near South China Sea islands claimed by Beijing
27.05.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - WASHINGTON--Two U.S. Navy warships sailed near South China Sea islands claimed by China on Sunday, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in a move likely to anger Beijing as President Donald Trump seeks its continued cooperation on North Korea. ...
To Vietnam, Freedom of Expression Is a ‘National Security Offense’
25.05.2018 Sang Hyuk Park / Olivia Enos (The Daily Signal) - “In Vietnam, there is no such thing as a ‘prisoner of conscience,’ and there’s no such thing as people being arrested for ‘freely expressing opinion,’” Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang told reporters in April. The exact opposite is true. ...
The Hanoi People's Committee identifies ten possible disasters
25.05.2018 (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – The risks include radioactive dust from three nuclear power plants in southern China, damages to a dyke on the Red River, as well as fires, explosions and collapses affecting about 1,600 obsolete apartment buildings. ...
EDAG entwickelt erstes E-Auto für Vietnam
25.05.2018 (FuldaInfo) - Wiesbaden. Der Deutsche Entwicklungsdienstleister EDAG hat von dem Unternehmen VinFast Manufacturing und Trading Company Limited den Auftrag zur Gesamtentwicklung des ersten Elektrofahrzeugs für den vietnamesischen Markt erhalten. ...
Hanói, el Comité del pueblo individua ‘10 posibles desastres’
25.05.2018 (AsiaNews) - Hanoi - Entre los riesgos están los polvos radioactivos provenientes de las 3 centrales nucleares situadas en el sur de China. Otro escenario desastroso es el daño en el dique que está en el Río Rojo. Incendios, explosiones y colapsos podrían interesar a unos 1.600 habitantes de la ciudad. ...
Satellitenbilder zeigen, dass sich gerade ein unheilvoller Krieg zusammenbrauen könnte
25.05.2018 Tara Francis Chan (Business Insider Deutschland) - Aus Satellitenaufnahmen geht hervor, dass China etwa 400 Gebäude auf einer Insel im Südchinesischen Meer gebaut hat. Das könnte ein Hinweis darauf sein, dass Peking die Errichtung eines Militärstützpunktes auf der Insel plant. ...
China von Pazifikmanöver ausgeladen
24.05.2018 (Philippinen Magazin) - Manila, Philippinen – Die chinesische Armee ist von einem gemeinsamen Militärmanöver der Pazifik-Anrainer ausgeladen worden. ...
Vietnam to temporarily stop accepting scrap plastic imports
24.05.2018 By Ma Nguyen (Asia Times) - If the goal of certain Chinese tourists is to rile up Vietnam, then one surefire way to do so would be to enter the country wearing provocative T-shirts flouting Hanoi’s territorial claims in the South China Sea. ...
Vietnam to temporarily stop accepting scrap plastic imports
24.05.2018 (Waste Dive) - A letter from Vietnam's Tan Cang-Cai Mep International Terminal (TCIT) obtained by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) notes there has been "overcapacity" at the Tan Cang-Cat Lai Terminal, causing the terminal to temporarily stop accepting scrap materials. ...
Vietnamese Court Upholds Sentences of Hoa Hao Buddhists Convicted For ‘Disrupting Public Order
24.05.2018 (RFA) - An appeals court in Vietnam on Thursday upheld the jail sentences of six members of an unofficial branch of Vietnam’s Hoa Hao Buddhist community convicted in February in the country’s An Giang province on charges of disrupting public order during a confrontation with authorities last year, ...
U.S. raises concerns about Vietnam's proposed cybersecurity law
24.05.2018 By Mai Nguyen, James Pearson (Reuters) - HANOI - The United States has raised concerns with Vietnam about its proposed cybersecurity law, the U.S. Embassy said on Thursday, amid activists’ fears the new legislation will cause economic harm and crackdown on online dissent in the communist-ruled country. ...
Vietnamese Rights Lawyer Stripped of His License to Practice
24.05.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese human rights lawyer Vo An Don has been stripped of his license to practice law in a ruling received on Thursday from the national Vietnam Bar Association ...
Vietnamese Dissident Questioned Over Banned Books
23.05.2018 (RFA) - Police in Vietnam’s northeastern port city of Hai Phong brought a dissident writer and former political prisoner in for questioning on Wednesday after a young man brought three copies of a politically sensitive book to his home, asking the man to “explain” them to him. ...
Drilling down: Risky hunt for oil in Vietnam's South China Sea blocks
23.05.2018 James Pearson, Greg Torode (Reuters) - HANOI/HONG KONG - Some oil blocks off Vietnam’s sprawling coastline fall within an area of the South China Sea demarcated by China’s “nine-dash line”, the basis for Beijing’s controversial claims to most of the resource-rich waterway. Last week, sources said Rosneft Vietnam BV, a unit of Russian state oil firm Rosneft, was concerned its recent drilling in one such block could upset Beijing. ...
US slaps steep import duties on Chinese steel shipped from Vietnam
23.05.2018 (Business Times) - THE US Commerce Department on Monday slapped heavy import duties on steel products from Vietnam that originated in China after a final finding they evaded US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy orders. ...
USA erheben Zölle auf chinesischen Stahl aus Vietnam
22.05.2018 (Handelsblatt) - Washington Die USA haben Zölle auf Stahl aus Vietnam angehoben, der nach Washingtoner Darstellung aus China stammt. ...
Vietnam Is A Test For What Happens When The U.S. Abandons Climate Diplomacy
22.05.2018 By Alexander C. Kaufman (Huffington Post) - ... Nearly a year after President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accords, Vietnam has effectively become a canary in the coal mine for how closely other nations will stick to the global agreement’s goals as the U.S. abandons them. ...
New Chinese dam on the Mekong to have devastating environmental consequences
22.05.2018 by Peter Hung (AsiaNews) - With an investment of almost US$ 5 billion, China is set to build the Sambor dam in Cambodia. According to experts, it will have a very negative impact on the natural environment and on the Cambodians and Vietnamese living in the Mekong Delta. ...
Vietnamese Women Chain Themselves Inside Homes to Protest Evictions in Quang Nam Province
22.05.2018 (RFA) - About 10 Vietnamese women evicted by local government authorities in Dien Ban village in central Vietnam’s Quang Nam province chained themselves inside their homes on Tuesday to prevent police from forcibly removing them. ...
This Clean Energy Champion Is Out To Break Vietnam's Coal Habit
21.05.2018 Jill Baker (Forbes) - In 2017, the city of Hanoi enjoyed just 37 days of clean air the entire year, with contaminant levels four times those deemed acceptable by the World Health Organization.
This April, however, the decarbonization movement was given a boost of international recognition, as the esteemed Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots advocacy was awarded to the first Vietnamese recipient ...
Danh Vo : après le Guggenheim de New York , le Capc de Bordeaux
21.05.2018 Judith Benhamou (Les Echos) - Danh Vo (né en 1975 au Vietnam, élevé au Danemark, qui vit à Berlin) a occupé pendant 3 mois et et jusqu’au 9 mai dernier le colimaçon de toutes les gloires, celui du Guggenheim de New York. Ainsi c’est Alberto Giacometti qui lui succédera en juin. ...
Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer - Chinas Bomber machen Nachbarn Angst
21.05.2018 Von Volker Petersen (n-tv) - Als die Räder des chinesischen Langstreckenbombers H-6K am Freitag auf den Asphalt der Landebahn aufsetzten, könnte eine neue Phase im Konflikt um die Herrschaft über das Südchinesische Meer begonnen haben. Es ist das erste Mal, dass solche Flugzeuge auf einer der Inseln landen, heißt es vom Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. ...
Manila: ‘Serious concern’ over Chinese bombers in disputed waters
21.05.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - MANILA--The Philippines expressed "serious concerns" over the presence of China's strategic bombers in the disputed South China Sea and its foreign ministry has taken "appropriate diplomatic action," the spokesman of President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday. ...
Vietnam says Chinese bombers in disputed South China Sea increase tensions
21.05.2018 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - HANOI (Reuters) - Recent activity by China's strategic bombers in the South China Sea's Paracel Islands seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty over the disputed territory, Vietnam's foreign ministry said on Monday. ...
Vietnam acusa a China de disparar la tensión regional por desplegar bombarderos en aguas en disputa
21.05.2018 (Europa Press) - HANOI (Reuters/EP) - Vietnam ha acusado este lunes a China de iniciar una nueva escalada de tensión en la región al desplegar bombarderos en las islas Parecel, ubicadas en el Mar de China Meridional, cuya soberanía reivindican varios países del Sureste Asiático. ...
Erdöl-Projekt trübt Verhältnis zwischen Russland und China
21.05.2018 (Sputnik Deutschland) - Peking hat öffentlich seine Unzufriedenheit über die neuen Bohrarbeiten von Rosneft Vietnam im Südchinesischen Meer geäußert. Die Tochterfirma des russischen Erdölunternehmens Rosneft ist nun besorgt, dass das Projekt die Beziehungen zwischen Russland und China belasten könnte. ...
U.S. criticizes China’s militarization of disputed waters
20.05.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - BEIJING--The Pentagon criticized what it called China's "continued militarization" of island outposts in the disputed South China Sea, where the Chinese air force landed long-range bombers for the first time, putting entire Southeast Asia within their range. ...
Vietnam drives to revive its ‘moral’ revolution
20.05.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - Nguyen Phu Trong is on a crusade to purge corruption, reaffirm ideology and restore revolutionary purity as the Communist Party seeks to regain its flagging legitimacy. ...
Formosa Plastic's 2nd furnace in Vietnam steel mill starts production
19.05.2018 (Focus Taiwan) - Taipei, May 19 (CNA) The second furnace of Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group (FPG)'s steel mill in Vietnam has started production on a trial basis, a step which is expected to generate additional revenue for the group. ...
China’s naval build-up is a threat to regional peace
19.05.2018 By Xuan Loc Doan (Asia Times) - In an editorial on May 13 — the day the as-yet-unnamed 50,000-ton Type 001A vessel and the country’s first “combat” aircraft carrier headed out for its first sea trial — the Global Times said “China is gradually stepping into an era of dual aircraft carriers” ...
China air force lands bombers on S.China Sea island
19.05.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - Reuters - SHANGHAI-- China's air force has landed bombers on islands and reefs in the South China Sea as part of a training exercise in the disputed region, it said in a statement. ...
Erstmals chinesische Kampfjets auf umstrittenen Inseln gelandet
19.05.2018 (NZZ) - (afp) - China hat zum ersten Mal Kampfflugzeuge zu den umstrittenen Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer geschickt. Mehrere Kampfjets unterschiedlicher Typen seien auf einem Flugfeld gelandet, teilte die chinesische Luftwaffe am Freitag mit. ...
Pékin envoie ses bombardiers stratégiques s’exercer en mer de Chine méridionale
19.05.2018 (Sputnik France) - Des avions des forces aériennes chinoises, y compris des bombardiers stratégiques Xian H-6, sont arrivés sur des îles en mer de Chine méridionale dans le cadre d’exercices militaires. ...
Bombarderos estratégicos chinos entran en acción en el mar de la China Meridional
19.05.2018 (RT) - Un grupo de bombarderos estratégicos chinos llevaron a cabo una serie de simulacros de emergencia en una isla de arrecife situada en el mar de la China Meriodional con el objetivo de entrenar maniobras de despegue, aterrizaje y alcance de objetivos, informó este viernes Xinhua. ...
Vietnam set to tighten clamps on Facebook and Google, threatening dissidents
18.05.2018 Mai Nguyen, Jonathan Weber (Reuters) - HANOI/SINGAPORE - A struggle over internet laws in Vietnam is pitting a government keen on maintaining tight control against U.S. technology companies trying to fight off onerous new rules - with the country’s online dissidents among the biggest losers. ...
South China Sea, Beijing lashes out against Russian-Vietnamese drills in the disputed waters
18.05.2018 (AsiaNews) - The Lan Do field "Red Orchid" is located in Block 06.1, 85 km inside an area claimed by China and Vietnam. Hanoi: "Operations are authorized and carried out in areas under Vietnamese sovereignty and jurisdiction". Experts fear for Sino-Russian relations. ...
2018 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue
17.05.2018 (US Department of State) - Today, the Department of State hosted the 22nd session of the U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue. Ambassador Michael Kozak of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and Director General Pham Hai Anh of the Department of International Organizations in the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs led their respective delegations in the Dialogue. ...
Provincial Police Level Phony Charges Against Vietnamese Catholics Attacked by Thugs
17.05.2018 (RFA) - A Vietnamese Catholic priest and members of his parish in north-central Vietnam’s Nghe An province have submitted a letter to local authorities asking that they be allowed to provide testimony on behalf of another parishioner whom authorities are prosecuting on phony charges related to a land dispute incident. ...
Former Vietnamese Prisoner of Conscience Do Thi Minh Hanh Barred from Going to Germany
17.05.2018 (Defend the Defenders) - On May 16, Vietnam’s security forces in Ho Chi Minh City blocked former prisoner of conscience Do Thi Minh Hanh from taking an international flight to Germany to visit her mother. ...
17.05.2018 (Defend the Defenders) - Five Vietnamese lawyers have issued a joint statement calling on the authorities to provide proper medical treatment for jailed prisoner of conscience Tran Hoang Phuc. ...
Des Chinois au Vietnam en T-shirts montrant la Chine et les territoires contestés
17.05.2018 (Sputnik France) - Un groupe de touristes chinois voyageant au Vietnam ont pensé à un habit particulier pour leur déplacement dans l'aéroport international de Cam Ranh. Ils ont ainsi mis des T-shirts avec une image de la carte de la Chine comprenant 80% de la mer de Chine méridionale ...
Vietnamese Ambassador: Abducted entrepreneur had never been to Slovakia
17.05.2018 (The Slovak Spectator) - Slovakia was in no way involved in kidnapping Vietnamese entrepreneur Trinh Xuan Thanh, claims PM Pellegrini. The Vietnamese Ambassador in Bratislava, Minh Trong Duong, officially announced to the Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Ministry that Vietnamese businessman Trinh Xuan Thanh had never been to Slovakia ...
As Rosneft's Vietnam unit drills in disputed area of South China Sea, Beijing issues warning
17.05.2018 James Pearson (Reuters) - HANOI - Rosneft Vietnam BV, a unit of Russian state oil firm Rosneft, is concerned that its recent drilling in an area of the South China Sea that is claimed by China could upset Beijing, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Wednesday. ...
Offshore-Bohrung: Rosneft kommt China im Südchinesischen Meer in die Quere
17.05.2018 (russland.CAPITAL) - Die Sorgen der Niederlassung von Rosneft in Vietnam, dass China die Arbeit des Unternehmens auf dem Ölfeld Nam Con Son vor der südvietnamesischen Küste negativ wahrnehmen könnte, sind berechtigt. Rosneft begann am 15. Mai Arbeiten an einem neuen Bohrloch im Lan Do-Feld ...
Future development - Vietnam’s manufacturing miracle: Lessons for developing countries
17.05.2018 Sebastian Eckardt, Deepak Mishra, and Viet Tuan Dinh (Brookings) - If you are reading this blog post on a smart phone, there is a good chance that you are looking at a device that was made in Vietnam. Worldwide, one in 10 smartphones is produced in Vietnam. ...
Study Says China-Backed Dam Would Destroy Mekong
17.05.2018 By Stephen Wright (U.S. News & World Report) - BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese-backed plan for Cambodia to build the Mekong River's biggest dam would destroy fisheries that feed millions and worsen tensions with Vietnam, the downstream country with most to lose from dams on the waterway, according to a three-year study commissioned by the Cambodian government. ...
Rosneft begins drilling LD-3P production well offshore Vietnam
16.05.2018 (Compelo) - Rosneft Vietnam has commenced drilling of LD-3P production well in the Lan Do field located off the southern coast of Vietnam. ...
Vietnamese ambassador should offer an explanation of the alleged abduction
16.05.2018 (The Slovak Spectator) - Slovak authorities still cannot rule out that a Vietnamese citizen was kidnapped on-board the government plane that flew the Vietnamese delegation from Prague to Bratislava – for talks with Slovak counterparts – and then continued to Moscow, although Interior Minister Denisa Saková insists that nobody on-board was handcuffed or kept there by force. ...
Chinese tourists ordered to remove controversial T-shirts at airport
16.05.2018 Joanna Whitehead (The Independent) - A group of Chinese tourists wearing T-shirts depicting the disputed South China Sea were stopped by Vietnamese police upon arrival at Cam Ranh airport on Sunday evening and asked to remove them. ...
« Lady » Vietnam, de Joué-lès-Tours à Las Vegas
16.05.2018 Par Frédéric Potet (Le Monde) - Thannie Bui, 57 ans, devrait représenter la France dans la catégorie « lady » à l’élection de Miss Vietnam Global, organisée par des expatriés. Partira, partira pas ? Esthéticienne à Joué-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire), Thannie Bui a été sélectionnée à l’élection de Miss Vietnam Global, un concours de beauté dont elle ignorait tout il y a encore un an. ...
Chinese tourists spark ire in Vietnam with controversial shirts
15.05.2018 (Daily Mail) - A photo of Chinese tourists wearing T-shirts depicting Beijing's claims to the disputed South China Sea has sparked online anger in Vietnam, prompting calls for the visitors to be deported. ...
The Beginning of a Political Doi Moi? Takeaways From the VCP’s Seventh Plenum
15.05.2018 By Nicholas Chapman (The Diplomat) - The Vietnamese Communist Party’s (VCP) Seventh Plenum of the 12th Central Committee meeting took place last week. In the build-up to this event, it was widely anticipated that we would see new faces within the Politburo, the top decisionmaking body of the Central Committee. ...
Vietnamese Party Member Given Suspended Sentence For Child Molestation
15.05.2018 (RFA) - A court in southern Vietnam’s Vung Tau province has reduced the prison term previously imposed on a convicted child molester, citing the man’s age and his long service to the country’s ruling Communist Party, Vietnamese sources say. ...
15.05.2018 By Isabelle Taft (The Diplomat) - The Facebook posts started on April 19. A young intern at Tuoi Tre, the country’s most prestigious newspaper, had been raped by her supervising editor and attempted suicide, the messages by Vietnamese journalists said. ...
Nikkei Asia Prizes 2018: The man who lowered Vietnam's child mortality rate
15.05.2018 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- The Vietnam National Children's Hospital, located in the heart of Hanoi, is not only the premier center for pediatric medicine in Vietnam, it is also one of the largest facility of its kind in Southeast Asia ...
German police seize wedding rings in people-smuggling raids
15.05.2018 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - BERLIN - Police raided 20 flats in Berlin and Brandenburg on Tuesday and arrested three men suspected of being members of a gang smuggling Vietnamese people into Germany, officers said. The men - two aged 57 and 35 from Vietnam and one 26-year-old German - were suspected of ...
Scheinehen: Razzia gegen Menschenschleuser
15.05.2018 (ZDF) - Die deutsch-vietnamesische Bande soll Scheinehen arrangiert haben: In Berlin und Brandenburg ist die Polizei mit einer Großrazzia gegen mutmaßliche Menschenschleuser vorgegangen. Bei den verhafteten Verdächtigen handelte es sich um zwei vietnamesische Männer im Alter von 35 und 57 Jahren, sowie eine 26 Jahre alte Deutsche. ...
Pollution Clouds Vietnam's Rapid Economic Growth
15.05.2018 Ha Nguyen (VOA) - HO CHIN MINH CITY — The air quality in Vietnam overall does not quite rival that in China or India when it comes to pollution. But it is bad and getting worse. ...
'Adapting to uncertainty' needed in face of climate shocks - experts
15.05.2018 by Zoe Tabary (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - LONDON - What do an Ethiopian coffee grower, a Colombian fisherman and a Vietnamese rice farmer have in common? ...
China will keinen Plastikmüll mehr importieren — das hat Folgen für Deutschland
14.05.2018 (Business Insider) - Die deutsche Recyclingbranche verspricht sich von dem chinesischen Importstopp für Plastikabfälle neue Geschäftschancen. Seit dem 1. Januar dürfen Plastikabfälle und andere Abfallsorten nicht mehr nach China eingeführt werden. Seither zeige sich, dass der Müll stärker nach Vietnam oder Malaysia exportiert werde, sagte Probst. ...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Saková is lying about the abduction of a Vietnamese citizen
14.05.2018 (The Slovak Spectator) - The Interior Minister insists Slovak authorities did not cooperate in the kidnapping of a Vietnamese dissident by the Vietnamese delegation but admits the video evidence is no longer available. ...
Vietnam rejects ex-politburo member's graft appeal
14.05.2018 (Daily Mail) - A Vietnamese court Monday rejected an appeal by a former politburo member Monday who is serving a 13-year corruption sentence for overseeing a loss-making investment as head of the country's largest oil firm. ...
China testet ersten eigenen Flugzeugträger
13.05.2018 (DW) - Chinas erster selbst gebauter Flugzeugtäger ist zu umfassenden Seetests ausgelaufen. Der noch namenlose Träger stach am frühen Morgen von Dalian aus in See, wie die chinesischen Staatsmedien berichteten. ...
Denkmal für Rupert Neudeck in Troisdorf eingeweiht
13.05.2018 Von Hans-J. Wimmeroth (General-Anzeiger) - TROISDORF. Seit Samstag erinnert ein Denkmal in Troisdorf an Rupert Neudeck, den Gründer der Hilfsorganisation Cap Anamur. Zur Einweihung kamen rund 600 Festgäste, darunter Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Schäuble, Neudecks Witwe Christel und viele ehemalige Boat-People. ...
Denkmal für „Cap Anamour“-Gründer - Wolfgang Schäuble erinnert an Rupert Neudeck
13.05.2018 Von Dieter Krantz (KSTA) - Troisdorf - Ein Denkmal für Rupert Neudeck? Darin sah nicht nur die Familie des zutiefst bescheidenen und uneitlen Aktivisten zunächst einen Widerspruch, ließ sich aber überzeugen. Und so erinnert nun seit Samstag eine Bronzetafel in Troisdorf an den 2016 verstorbenen Gründer von Cap Anamur/Komitee Deutsche Not-Ärzte und Grünhelmen ...
Denkmal für Rupert Neudeck in Troisdorf enthüllt
12.05.2018 (WDR) - In Troisdorf bei Bonn ist am Samstag (12.05.2018) ein Denkmal für Cap-Anamur-Gründer Rupert Neudeck präsentiert worden. Der Gedenkstein ist durch Spenden von den sogenannten "Boatpeople" finanziert worden. Neudeck hatte mit seiner Hilfsorganisation mehr als 11.000 vietnamesische Flüchtlinge aus dem chinesischen Meer gerettet. ...
Slowakei fordert von Vietnam entlastende Beweise im Entführungsfall
11.05.2018 (Wirtschaft) - Die slowakische Regierung hat Vietnam aufgefordert, Beweise vorzulegen, die ausschließen, dass das Entführungsopfer Trinh Xuan Thanh in einem slowakischen Regierungsflugzeug aus Europa ausgeflogen wurde. ...
La nouvelle puissance chinoise
11.05.2018 par Émilie Frenkiel (La Vie des idées) - Lors du XIXe congrès du Parti communiste chinois en octobre 2017, Xi Jiping a révélé une vision ambitieuse et idéologique de l’avenir de la Chine. Juliette Genevaz revient ici sur la particularité de ce modèle politique et sur les objectifs de développement économique et de politique étrangère. ...
El dilema de Vietnam: abrir más el mercado sin perder soberanía
11.05.2018 Telma Luzzani (Sputnik) - "Hay preocupación dentro del Partido Comunista por el rumbo a seguir en el modelo vietnamita, para que la estructura económica lograda hasta hoy no transforme negativamente los valores de la sociedad. Preocupan la corrupción y el despilfarro", aseguró el analista Rubén Guzzetti ...
Certains poissons du Vietnam pourraient être toxiques
11.05.2018 Marie-Ève Dumont (TVA Nouvelles) - Des poissons et des crevettes qu’on importe du Vietnam seraient «potentiellement toxiques», s’inquiète un cardiologue québécois d’origine vietnamienne qui demande au Canada de faire des vérifications sur place. ...
Vietnam arrests oil execs as anti-graft sweep broadens
10.05.2018 (Daily Mail) - Vietnam arrested the chairman and chief accountant of a leading state-run oil refining firm Thursday for alleged abuse of power and property appropriation, as the government forges ahead with its massive anti-graft sweep. ...
Die Lage im Südchinesischen Meer spitzt sich zu
10.05.2018 (Philippinen Magazin) - Nachdem China Raketen auf Inseln in der Wirtschaftszone der Philippinen installiert hat, steht Präsident Duterte vor einem Dilemma. Denn er braucht China als Investor und hat Amerikaner vergrault. ...
China has put missiles on islands in the South China Sea
10.05.2018 (The Economist) - An American admiral slipped a startling admission into testimony submitted to the Senate last month. After almost five years of dredging and fortifying reefs in the disputed Spratly Islands, lying between the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam, “China is now capable of controlling the South China Sea in all scenarios short of war with the United States,” reported the officer, Philip Davidson, who has been nominated by President Donald Trump to lead America’s armed forces in the Pacific. ...
Geheimdienstkrimi im Hochsicherheitstrakt
09.05.2018 Von Marina Mai (nd) - Der Saal 145 des Berliner Kammergerichtes ist ein Hochsicherheitstrakt. Im Saal 145 wird seit Ende April einem 46-jährigen Vietnamesen der Prozess gemacht, ...
Investment floods into Mekong Delta
09.05.2018 Yukako Ono (Nikkei Asian Review) - BANGKOK -- The Mekong Delta once sheltered Viet Cong guerrillas as they battled U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. Today the area is the country's "rice bowl," providing half of the national rice supply. ...
Vietnam asks China to withdraw military equipment from South China Sea
08.05.2018 by Reuters (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - HANOI, May 8 (Reuters) - Vietnam requested on Tuesday that China withdraw military equipment from the South China Sea, following media reports this month that China had installed missiles there. ...
La « guerre du sable » : prémices d’un conflit informationnel majeur
07.05.2018 (Infoguerre) - Phénomène impossible à chiffrer la guerre du sable présente des tendances lourdes. Présenté comme une ressource illimitée, sa surexploitation est expliquée par la demande exponentielle du secteur de la construction en particulier en Chine. ...
Prozess in Berlin - Zeugen bekräftigen: Vietnamese wurde aus Berlin entführt
07.05.2018 von Kerstin Gehrke (Der Tagesspiegel) - „Niemals wäre er freiwillig zurückgekehrt“, sagt ein Zeuge im Prozess um die Entführung des vietnamesischen Geschäftsmannes aus. Die Vietnamesin verbarg ihr Gesicht, als sie am Montag von drei Personenschützern in den Gerichtssaal begleitet wurde. Die 49-Jährige hat Angst. ...
Berufung zurückgezogen - Trinh Xuan sieht „keine Chance auf Gerechtigkeit"
07.05.2018 Von Katrin Bischoff (Berliner Zeitung) - Die Frau, die den Saal 145 a des Kammergerichts an diesem Montag betritt, wird von drei Personenschützern flankiert. Vor dem Saal haben weitere Sicherheitsbeamte Posten bezogen. Es herrscht die höchste Sicherheitsstufe. ...
'Kidnapped' Vietnam oil exec withdraws life sentence appeal
07.05.2018 (Daily Mail) - A Vietnamese oil executive allegedly kidnapped from Germany withdrew his appeal against a life sentence for corruption Monday, as Slovakia distanced itself from reports its plane was used to brazenly abduct him. ...
« Enlevé » en Allemagne et condamné au Vietnam, un ex-responsable retire son appel
07.05.2018 (Journal du Cameroun) - Un ex-dirigeant d’une entreprise pétrolière publique vietnamienne « enlevé » en Allemagne en 2017 et condamné à vie dans son pays pour corruption a retiré lundi son appel contre ce verdict, a annoncé le Parti communiste vietnamien. ...
06.05.2018 Paula Boyer (La Croix) - Cette mégapole de 10 millions d’habitants est un séduisant cocktail de modernité et d’authenticité, d’architecture contemporaine et de quartiers coloniaux, de bars branchés et de métiers traditionnels. ...
24 Viet fishermen caught in M’sia
05.05.2018 (The Star) - PEKAN: Twenty-four Vietnamese fishermen on two foreign boats were detained in an operation by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency in waters off Kuala Pahang, Nenasi and Pulau Tioman. ...
New port to transform Vietnam's north into industrial gateway
05.05.2018 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- Vietnam's coastal city of Haiphong will open a deep-water port this month, taking a step toward becoming a key maritime link in the north and enhancing the country's position in the global supply chain. ...
Prisoner of Conscience Tran Anh Kim Suffers Serious Diseases while Serving 13-year Imprisonment
05.05.2018 (Defend the Defenders) - Vietnamese prisoner of conscience Tran Anh Kim, who is serving his 13-year prison sentence on alleged subversion, is suffering a number of serious diseases, including prostate glandinflammation, according to his wife Nguyen Thi Thom. ...
Entführter Vietnamese Trinh Xuan Thanh - Wer saß in Flug SSG004?
04.05.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - Im Jahr 2017 wurde in Berlin ein Vietnamese entführt. Half die Slowakei dabei, ihn aus der Europäischen Union zu schaffen? Am 26. Juli 2017 um 11.26 Uhr landen vier Vietnamesen auf dem Prager Flughafen, mit einem Linienflug von Czech Airlines aus Paris kommend. ...
Behind the lobbyists who drew Trump to Vietnam
04.05.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - The Washington-based lobbying firm hired by a major Vietnamese military-run company to promote its defense-related interests is at the center of legal proceedings brought against a close associate of US President Donald Trump. ...
Repsol exige a Vietnam indemnizaciones por un proyecto de mil millones
04.05.2018 (Expansión) - Repsol está en conversaciones con la compañía estatal petrolera de Vietnam, PetroVietnam, y las autoridades de ese país para ser compensada por la paralización del proyecto Red Emperor en aguas disputadas con Pekín en el mar de China Meridional. ...
White House warns China: There will be 'consequences' for militarization of South China Sea
04.05.2018 (CNBC) - The White House warned China Thursday of "consequences" for its ongoing militarization of the hotly contested waters of the South China Sea. ...
Australia preocupada por la militarización del Mar de China Meridional
04.05.2018 (La Vanguardia) - Sídney (Australia) (EFE) - El Gobierno australiano expresó hoy su preocupación ante la información periodística sobre el envío por parte de China de misiles de crucero al disputado Mar de China Meridional, que Pekín reclama casi en su totalidad. ...
Pékin a encore renforcé ses capacités d’interdiction et de déni d’accès en mer de Chine méridionale
04.05.2018 par Laurent Lagneau (Zone Militaire) - Selon des sources du renseignement américains citées par CNBC, Pékin a installé des missiles anti-navire (YJ-12) et sol-air (systèmes de défense aérienne HQ-9) sur les récifs de Fiery Cross [Yongshu], Subi [Zhubi] et Mischief [Meiji], tous situés dans l’archipel des Spratleys, en mer de Chine méridionale, soit à l’est du Vietnam et l’ouest des Philippines. ...
Senior Vietnamese police official found dead amid illegal gambling probe
04.05.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - A senior official at a Vietnamese police department in charge of high-tech crimes was found dead in his office on Friday, state media reported. ...
Unterwegs im ehemaligen Saigon - Buntes Treiben in Ho Chi Minh City
04.05.2018 Carolina Lermann (Blick) - Der Garküchen-Geruch steigt in die Nase, laute Musik dröhnt durch die Gegend. Es ist 22 Uhr und 28 Grad – die 650 Meter lange Partystrasse Bui Vien dreht langsam auf. ...
Visa-Ausnahmeregelung für Deutsche verlängert
04.05.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Trotz der gegenwärtigen Belastung der Beziehungen hat Vietnam die Visa-Ausnahmeregelungen für Bundesbürger verlängert. Dies gab die Regierung des kommunistischen Ein-Parteien-Staats am Freitag in Hanoi bekannt. ...
La presse censurée en chansons
04.05.2018 (Slate) - Alors que de nombreux régimes exercent une censure implacable sur les organes de presse et internet, des journalistes mettent leurs critiques en musique pour les faire tourner via des plateformes de streaming musical type Spotify ou Deezer. ...
Vietnam Tightens the Screws on the Internet
04.05.2018 By: David Brown (Asia Sentinel) - Vietnam’s legislature is expected to vote on a national cybersecurity law by May 12. If enacted, the new law won’t be good for the economy or for people who vent dissident opinions online. ...
Report: Vietnam's Relentless Repression of Montagnard Christians
03.05.2018 (Campaign To Abolish Torture In Vietnam- CAT-VN) - Vietnamese authorities continue to target indigenous minority Christians known as Montagnards for harsh persecution, according to a 25-page report published today by the Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO) and the Campaign to Abolish Torture in Vietnam (CAT-VN). ...
The Uncensored Playlist: how news is being turned into pop to bypass repressive regimes
03.05.2018 Derek Robertson (The Guardian) - Music streaming services such as Spotify are freely available even where social media and search engines are banned, so the Uncensored Playlist has recruited journalists from five repressive regimes to spread the news via song. ...
How money trumped Marx in post-war Vietnam
03.05.2018 By David Hutt (Southeast Asia Globe) - Two centuries after the birth of Karl Marx, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has embraced capitalism with open arms – but its economic success has yet to trickle down to its working class. ...
Mit dieser Aktion zeigt China, wie skrupellos es seine Weltmacht-Pläne vorantreibt
03.05.2018 David Choi (Business Insider) - China zeigt seine Muskeln. Laut einem CNBC-Bericht hat das Reich der Mitte erstmals Marschflugkörper auf Atollen in der Spratly-Insgelgruppe stationiert. Die Inselgruppe wird von mehreren Staaten wie Vietnam oder Taiwan beansprucht. ...
China stationiert offenbar Raketen auf umstrittenen Spratly-Inseln
03.05.2018 (Stern) - China rüstet auf: Das Land hat offenbar Raketen und Marschflugkörper auf den umstrittenen Spratly-Inseln stationiert. Damit hat das Militär seine Reichweite bedeutend ausgeweitet. ...
Der Mekong wird salzig und führt weniger Wasser
03.05.2018 Manfred Rist (NZZ) - Die zahlreichen Staudämme am Mekong sind zwar gute Stromlieferanten. Doch sie verändern den Fluss grundlegend. Nicht nur im südlichen Delta machen sich die Menschen Sorgen. ...
Fall Trinh Xuan Thanh - Spur nach Bratislava
02.05.2018 (Spiegel Online) - Vietnamesische Agenten entführen einen Landsmann aus Berlin - was hat die Slowakei damit zu tun? Beim Treffen mit Angela Merkel erwarteten Ministerpräsident Pellegrini unangenehme Fragen. ...
Redemptorist priest meeting healthcare needs of 400 S Vietnamese veterans in Đà Nẵng
02.05.2018 Trung Tin (Asia News) - Ho Chi Minh City – Fr Joseph Đinh Hữu Thoại, a Redemptorist Father, offers free health care to more than 400 former South Vietnamese soldiers living in precarious conditions in central Vietnam. ...
Đà Nẵng, sacerdote redentorista para la asistencia sanitaria a los 400 veteranos del sur
02.05.2018 Trung Tin (Asia News) - El p. Joseph Đinh Hữu Thoại, sacerdote de los padres redentoristas, lanzó un programa de asistencia sanitaria gratuita para más de 400 soldados sud-vietnamitas que viven en condiciones precarias en Vietnam central. ...
Vietnam manufacturing improves in April
02.05.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - TOKYO - Vietnam manufacturing growth picks up in April with sharp increase in new orders and output, particularly strengthening firms in export markets, according to an industry gauge. ...
Vietnam’s Seventh Plenum: What to Watch
01.05.2018 By David Hutt (The Diplomat) - Though Vietnamese politics usually grabs international headlines during the country’s quinquennial Party Congresses, other important intervening political events often go unnoticed. A case in point is this month’s 7th Plenum of the Central Committee, where could be as many as three new faces entering the Politburo, the Vietnamese Communist Party’s top decision-making body. ...
Vietnam’s Trong Cleans Out the Party
30.04.2018 By: David Brown (Asia Sentinel) - Vietnam’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong looks like a genial grandpa but he’s tough as nails. He is sure things were better many years ago, when Vietnam was still poor but the ruling Communist Party was still pure. ...
Minh-Tri Truong, de boat people à commandant au SPVM
30.04.2018 Pascal Robidas (Radio Canada) - La chute de Saïgon, le 30 avril 1975, marquait la fin de la guerre du Vietnam. La famine, la pauvreté et le régime totalitaire communiste ont entraîné le départ de milliers de migrants surnommés boat people lorsqu'ils sont arrivés massivement au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe. ...
German media: Vietnam kidnapping throughout Slovakia
30.04.2018 (The Slovak Spectator) - It seems that last year’s visit of the Vietnamese public security minister and his entourage to Slovakia was used to cover for the abduction of a dissident Vietnamese entrepreneur who had previously emigrated to Germany. ...
Entführung eines Vietnamesen - Auswärtiges Amt bat slowakischen Botschafter zum Gespräch
30.04.2018 Von Severin Weiland (Der Spiegel) - Agenten entführten in Berlin einen vietnamesischen Ex-Politiker. Nun führen Spuren in die Slowakei. Der Botschafter des EU-Partners wurde nach SPIEGEL-Informationen kürzlich vom Auswärtigen Amt zum Gespräch geladen. ...
Verschleppter Vietnamese : Slowakei lieh Entführern von Trinh Xuan Thanh Regierungsflugzeug
29.04.2018 (FAZ) - Es mehren sich die Hinweise, dass die Slowakei an der Entführung des Vietnamesen Trinh Xuan Thanh aus Berlin im Juli 2017 beteiligt war. So stellte das Land nach Informationen der F.A.Z. einer ranghohen vietnamesischen Delegation ein Regierungsflugzeug zur Verfügung, mit dem sie nur drei Tage nach der Operation in Berlin von der slowakischen Hauptstadt nach Moskau reiste. ...
Präparierter Thunfisch in der Schweiz aufgetaucht
29.04.2018 (Blick) - Vietnamesische Fischer haben Thunfisch illegal gefärbt, um mehr Geld verlangen zu können. Schweizer Lebensmittelkontrolleure haben die präparierten Fische auch in der Schweiz entdeckt. ...
Vietnamese wegen Geldwäsche im Visier deutscher Ermittler
27.04.2018 (FAZ) - Gegen den im vergangenen Jahr in Berlin entführten und in seiner Heimat verurteilten Vietnamesen Trinh Xuan Thanh und seine Frau ist einem Bericht zufolge in Deutschland wegen Geldwäsche ermittelt worden. ...
Investors excited by Vietnam – the “mini-China”
27.04.2018 By: Alice Gråhns (MoneyWeek) - Vietnamese stocks have produced the best gains in Asia so far this year, says John Reed in the Financial Times, with the benchmark VN Index up 17%. A flurry of flotations has helped drum up excitement, but investors have also been enticed by Vietnam’s ‘mini-China’ story”. ...
Living in the shadow of Ho Chi Minh City’s high-rises
26.04.2018 Yen Duong (TRT World) - Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, is home to 13 million people. Each of those 13 million people jostle for space in the economic hub of communist Vietnam, one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Within a decade, Vietnam witnessed a rapid economic transformation, yet at the same time, the country’s inequality is increasingly widened. ...
China’s Intimidation Exposes Vietnam’s Lack of Deterrence
26.04.2018 Bill Hayton (Chatham House) - Hanoi does not seem to have a strategy to develop the resources that international law says rightfully belong to it. And the economic costs of this predicament are rising.
Vietnam has lost another sea battle: a $200 million oil and gas development project — known as the ‘Red Emperor’ development — off Vietnam’s southeast coast has been suspended, possibly cancelled. ...
ASEAN to air fears over China's reclamation in South China Sea
26.04.2018 Cliff Venzon (Nikkei Asian Review) - SINGAPORE -- Southeast Asian leaders will voice concerns over China's large-scale reclamation in the disputed South China Sea during their two-day meeting here, according to an initial draft of the summit statement, bringing to the fore an issue that was avoided last year. ...
The Hidden Hand Of A Casino Company In Trump’s Contact With Vietnam
25.04.2018 By Justin Elliot (Pro Publica) - Trump’s first call with the Vietnamese prime minister was arranged by Marc Kasowitz, a Trump personal lawyer who has another client with business interests in Vietnam. ...
Lange geplante Entführung : Die Liebesfalle für Trinh Xuan Thanh
25.04.2018 von Morten Freidel (FAZ) - In Berlin steht ein Mann vor Gericht, der in die Verschleppung des vietnamesischen Funktionärs verwickelt sein soll. Immer mehr Einzelheiten kommen nun ans Licht ...
Vietnamese Environmental Activist’s Sentence Upheld on Appeal
24.04.2018 (RFA) - An appeals court in Vietnam’s central Nghe An province today upheld a 14-year prison term handed in February to environmental activist Hoang Duc Binh, sending him back to prison to serve his sentence, Binh’s lawyer told RFA’s Vietnamese Service. ...
Allemagne: un Vietnamien en procès pour un enlèvement spectaculaire
24.04.2018 (Courrier international) - Un tribunal allemand a commencé mardi à juger un Vietnamien soupçonné d'avoir aidé à l'enlèvement spectaculaire d'un compatriote à Berlin sur ordre du régime communiste de Hanoï, selon un scénario digne de la Guerre Froide. ...
Suspected Vietnamese agent on trial for Berlin kidnapping
24.04.2018 Fabian von der Mark, Jefferson Chase (Berlin) (DW) - A court is hearing testimony in the case of a suspect accused of helping abduct a Vietnamese businessman in a Cold War-style kidnapping in Berlin. Experts say this is a case of all-too-common espionage. ...
Prozessauftakt gegen Vietnamesen in Berlin - Eine Entführung wie in einem Agententhriller
24.04.2018 Von Ulf Morling (RBB) - Mitten in Berlin werden am helllichten Tag ein Mann und eine Frau in ein Auto gezerrt und verschwinden. Der Mann wird in seiner Heimat Vietnam zu zweimal lebenslanger Haft verurteilt. Am Dienstag begann in Berlin der Prozess gegen einen mutmaßlichen Helfer der Entführung ...
German court tries Vietnam man over 'Cold War-style' abduction
24.04.2018 (Daily Mail) - Germany will put on trial Tuesday the only suspect held over what it calls a brazen Cold War-style kidnapping by Vietnamese secret agents that has badly bruised bilateral ties. ...
Una corte alemana juzga a un vietnamita por secuestro "al estilo de la Guerra Fría"
24.04.2018 (SWI) - Una corte alemana comenzó el martes a juzgar a un vietnamita sospechoso de haber ayudado en 2017 en el espectacular secuestro de un compatriota en Berlín, por orden del régimen comunista de Hanoi, en un escenario digno de la Guerra Fría. ...
Caffeine boost - Makers of battery-powered coffee mixture arrested in Vietnam
24.04.2018 Khanh Vu (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnamese police have arrested five people suspected of using battery chemicals to dye waste coffee beans, the Ministry of Public Security’s online newspaper, Cong An Nhan Dan, said on Tuesday, apparently passing the mixture off as black pepper. ...
Prozess um vietnamesische Entführung - Von Agenten und ihren Helfern
23.04.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - BERLIN | Am Dienstag beginnt in Berlin der Prozess um die Entführung des Ex-Politikers Trinh Xuan Thanh. Im Mittelpunkt steht Vietnams Geheimdienst. Hinter der Entführung soll der vietnamesische Geheimdienst stecken. ...
Was wir von einer Datenbank politischer Gefangener in Vietnam lernen können
22.04.2018 Geschrieben von Mong Palatino, Übersetzt von Alice Scherlies (Global Voices) - Die im Januar 2018 ins Leben gerufene vietnamesische Datenbank für politische Gefangene stellt ausführliche und aktualisierte Informationen über politische Gefangene des Landes zur Verfügung. ...
Der Gucci-Kommunismus in Vietnam
22.04.2018 (kurier.at) - 50 Jahre Tet-Offensive. Das Land oszilliert zwischen Offenheit und Diktatur, zwischen Fortschritt und Umwelt-Gau. Das heurige Erinnerungsjahr ist auch eines an den Vietnamkrieg. ...
Flüchtlinge sollen nicht mehr in die Heimat reisen dürfen
21.04.2018 (Blick) - (Bern) Flüchtlinge sollen nicht in ihr Herkunftsland zurückreisen dürfen. Das verlangt die Staatspolitische Kommission des Nationalrates und befürwortet eine parlamentarische Initiative von Gregor Rutz (SVP/ZH) mit diesem Ziel. Der Bundesrat hat bereits ein härteres Durchgreifen in Aussicht gestellt. ...
South China Sea: Australian Navy Vessels En Route to Vietnam Received Warnings From Chinese Navy
21.04.2018 By Ankit Panda (The Diplomat) - Earlier this week, reports emerged in the Australian press that three Royal Australian Navy vessels en route to Vietnam for a three-day goodwill port call were involved in a confrontation with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLAN) in the South China Sea. ...
Vietnamese teen's escape from the China trafficking trade that sold her mother
21.04.2018 (ABC) - When So was 13, she was stolen from her Vietnamese mountain town and sold in China. Just months before, her mother Do had sold herself across the border to save her life. ...
Zugriff in Berlin - Vietnamesischer Geheimdienst plante Entführung über Monate
20.04.2018 Von Martin Knobbe (Der Spiegel) - Er geht an einem Sommermorgen mit seiner Freundin im Berliner Tiergarten spazieren, da schlagen die Agenten zu. Sie packen das Liebespaar und drängen es in einen silbernen VW-Bus, der zur vietnamesischen Botschaft in Berlin-Treptow rast. ...
Vietnamese pastor imprisoned for faith says his suffering was a 'gift from God'
20.04.2018 (Christian Today) - A Vietnamese pastor who was jailed for his faith has related the intense abuse he experienced in jail, but said that his imprisonment was a 'gift' from God. ...
Beamte beschlagnahmen 12 Tonnen gefälschten Kaffee mit gefährlichen Inhaltsstoffen
20.04.2018 (ThailandTIP) - Dak Nong, Vietnam. Die vietnamesischen Behörden haben bei einem familiengeführten Kaffeeproduzenten ein Razzia durchgeführt und sind dabei auf zahlreiche schädliche Inhaltsstoffe gestoßen, mit denen der Kaffee gepantscht und gestreckt wurde. ...
Vietnam upgrades heavy armour fleet
20.04.2018 Dmitry Fediushko, Moscow (IHS Jane's 360) - The People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) is upgrading its fleet of heavy armoured vehicles, Russian and Vietnamese defence sources have told Jane's. ...
Southeast Asian Nations Make Efforts to Reduce Plastic Waste, But They Are Still Not Enough
20.04.2018 (RFA) - Southeast Asian nations are taking measures to reduce pollution from plastic waste and promote the recycling of plastic products in keeping with the focus of this year’s Earth Day on April 22, but efforts in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar are falling short. ...
Hundreds of Villagers Hold Officials Hostage Over Vietnam Power Plant Plans
20.04.2018 (RFA) - Hundreds of villagers in central Vietnam’s Binh Dinh province held five local officials hostage for a day before releasing them late on Friday to demand that authorities free more than a dozen people detained for holding an environmental protest, according to sources. ...
Immigrants deported by U.S. to Vietnam have ‘no job, no money’
20.04.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - It wasn't until Pham Chi Cuong saw the plane waiting to deport him from the United States that it sank in that he was about to be sent back to Vietnam, the country he fled in 1990. ...
Dragon Tiles Recovered in Vietnam
20.04.2018 (Archaeology Magazine) - HANOI, VIETNAM—Vietnam Net reports that recent excavations in Hanoi’s Imperial Citadel of Thang Long have uncovered traces of large buildings dating from about A.D. 1000 to 1400 in an area to the east of the Kinh Thien Palace. ...
16.04.2018 Escrito por Loa, Traducido por Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe (Global Voices) - Seis activistas recibieron sentencias de entre siete y 15 años de cárcel acusados de subversión tras un juicio de duró un día en Hanói. ...
Vinh diocese holds vigil for the victims of the Formosa environmental disaster
16.04.2018 J.B. An Dang (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – The Vietnamese government has admitted that the 2016 disaster killed at least 115 tonnes of sea fish, 140 tonnes of farmed fish and 67 tonnes of clams. Fishermen from the coastal provinces are still left without a livelihood. ...
Vinh, vigilia diocesana por las víctimas del desastre ecológico provocado por Formosa Group
16.04.2018 J.B. An Dang (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – El gobierno vietnamita ha reconocido que el desastre de 2016 mató cuando menos 115 toneladas de peces de mar, 140 toneladas de peces de piscifactorías y 67 toneladas de almejas. Siguen desocupados los pescadores de las provincias costeras. ...
US envoy to Vietnam quit in protest at Trump plan to deport thousands of refugees
13.04.2018 Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian) - Ted Osius says administration asked him to press Vietnam to accept the deportees, who had mostly fled to America after 1975. ...
Environmental Damage, Corruption as Poorer Southeast Asian States Ship Sand to Singapore
13.04.2018 A commentary by Dan Southerland (RFA) - Sand has become a hot commodity needed to support construction work in Southeast Asia. The demand for sand has sharply driven up prices for sand in recent years, drawing the attention of unscrupulous local officials, businessmen, and sand-dredging companies. ...
Machen Flüchtlinge Urlaub in der Heimat? Schweizer Fall sorgt für Wirbel
12.04.2018 (Huffington Post) - Es ist ein Vorwurf, der auch in Deutschland immer wieder laut wird: Flüchtlinge würden Urlaub in ihrer Heimat machen. Also in die Gebiete reisen, aus denen sie wegen der prekären Sicherheitslage geflohen waren. ...
Viet Nam: UN experts call for change after jailing of rights defenders
12.04.2018 (OHCHR) - GENEVA – A group of UN experts* has urged Viet Nam not to crackdown on civil society or stifle dissent after the jailing of seven human rights defenders for "conducting activities to overthrow the people's government". ...
Vietnam Jails 3 More Democracy Activists, Drawing Condemnation From Rights Defenders
12.04.2018 (RFA) - Vietnam jailed three democracy activists after brief, separate trials on Thursday, adding to a growing list of political prisoners from a major crackdown on critics and dissenters in the one-party state that has drawn widespread international criticism. ...
Two Vietnam activists jailed amid government crackdown
12.04.2018 Alejandra Lopez (The National) - TWO activists have been handed lengthy prison sentences in Vietnam as communist authorities step up their crackdown on dissent. ...
Schauprozess - Regierungskritiker in Vietnam verurteilt
10.04.2018 (DW) - Nguyen Van Tuc plane, die Regierung in Vietnam zu stürzen, so die Einschätzung der Richter. Sie verurteilten den Dissidenten zu 13 Jahren Gefängnis. Menschenrechtler hingegen sehen Tuc als Vorkämpfer für Demokratie. ...
Menschenrechtsaktivisten in Asien klagen Mark Zuckerberg an
10.04.2018 von Mathias Peer (Wirtschatfswoche) - Bangkok - Facebook gerät in Asien zunehmend unter Druck: Aktivisten werfen Mark Zuckerberg vor, autoritäre Regime zu stützen und zu wenig gegen Rassenhass zu tun. ...
Vietnamese Activists, Journalists Cry Foul After Being Hit by Facebook’s Takedown Policy
09.04.2018 By Paul Eckert (RFA) - Dozens of Vietnamese civil society organizations, human rights activists and journalists hit out at Facebook on Monday, telling CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter that his company was doing communist Hanoi’s bidding by shuttering their accounts during a severe crackdown on dissent in the one-party state. ...
Gyde Jensen setzt sich für Nguyen Bac Truyen ein
09.04.2018 (Deutscher Bundestag) - Die Vorsitzende des Menschenrechtsausschusses des Deutschen Bundestages, Gyde Jensen (FDP), fordert die Revision des Prozesses gegen den vietnamesischen Rechtsanwalt Nguyen Bac Truyen. „Ich möchte erreichen, dass er freigelassen wird“, sagt Jensen am Montag, 9. April 2018. ...
Das Schicksal der Regimekritiker in Vietnam: Haft fernab der Heimat
09.04.2018 Hai Tran (Forum Vietnam 21) - Die Regimekritiker in Vietnam müssen nicht nur mit unverhältnismäßig hohen Gefängnisstrafen rechnen, in der Regel von 10 bis zu 15 Jahren Haftstrafe mit anschließend bis zu 5 Jahren Hausarrest, sie werden auch von ihren Familienangehörigen isoliert, indem man sie ohne Ankündigung von einem Gefängnis in ein fern von ihrer Heimat liegendes Gefängnis verlegt. ...
Parodie de justice au Vietnam pour six dissidents sacrifiés
06.04.2018 (Actualitté) - Présentés par les autorités comme dissidents, ils sont six à avoir été condamnés ce 5 avril. Des peines de prison qui vont de 7 à 15 ans — des sanctions terribles. Le régime communiste les accusait d’avoir tenté de renverser le gouvernement : ils écopent des plus lourdes peines vues ces dernières années. ...
Menschenrechtsbeauftragte Kofler zur Verurteilung von vietnamesischen Menschenrechtsaktivisten
06.04.2018 (Auswärtiges Amt) - Die Menschenrechtsbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Bärbel Kofler, sagte zur Verurteilung von Nguyen Bac Truyen, Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thu Ha, Pham Van Troi, Truong Minh Duc und Nguyen Trung Ton zu hohen Haftstrafen heute (06.04.) ...
Marie-Luise Dött fordert die Freilassung des vietnamesischen Rechtsanwalts Nguyen Van Dai
06.04.2018 (marie-luise-doett.de) - Die Bundestagsabgeordnete Marie-Luise Dött erklärt zu der Verurteilung des vietnamesischen Rechtsanwalts Nguyen Van Dai und fünf anderen Menschenrechtlern am 6. April 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam: „Mit Bestürzung habe ich heute erfahren, dass der bekannte Menschenrechtsanwalt Nguyen Van Dai vom Volksgericht in Hanoi wegen „Aktivitäten zum Umsturz der Volksregierung“ zu 15 Jahren Haft und 5 weiteren Jahren Hausarrest verurteilt worden ist. ...
Richterbund über Verurteilung von Bürgerrechtlern in Vietnam bestürzt
06.04.2018 (Deutscher Richterbund) - Berlin. Der Deutsche Richterbund (DRB) hat die Verurteilung von Menschenrechtsaktivisten in Vietnam scharf kritisiert. Am Donnerstag waren in Hanoi sechs Bürgerrechtler zu langjährigen Haftstrafen zwischen 7 und 15 Jahren verurteilt worden. ...
Dissidenten in Vietnam verurteilt - 15 Jahre für den Wunsch nach Rechten
06.04.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - BERLIN | Wegen „Umsturzversuchen“ sind sechs vietnamesische Bürgerrechtler zu langen Haftstrafen verurteilt worden. Ihr Delikt: ein Manifest für Demokratie. Das Volksgericht in Hanoi hat am Donnerstag sechs vietnamesische Bürgerrechtler wegen „Vorbereitung eines Umsturzversuches“ zu Freiheitsstrafen zwischen sieben und 15 Jahren verurteilt. ...
Statement by the Spokesperson on the sentencing of human rights activists in Vietnam
05.04.2018 (EEAS) - The sentencing today of Mr Nguyen Van Dai, Ms Le Thu Ha, Mr Pham Van Troi, Mr Nguyen Trung Ton, Mr Nguyen Bac Truyen and Mr Truong Minh Duc as part of an extensive enforcement of the national security provisions of the Penal Code continues the negative trend of prosecuting and sentencing human rights activists and bloggers in Vietnam. ...
05.04.2018 (Europa Press) - La Unión Europea (UE) ha denunciado este jueves que las condenas dictadas contra el abogado vietnamita de Derechos Humanos Nguyen Van Dai y otros cinco activistas violan las convenciones internacionales de Derechos Humanos suscritas por Vietnam. ...
Vietnam jails six pro-democracy activists
05.04.2018 (SBS) - A court in Vietnam has handed down a total of 66 years in prison and 17 years under house arrest to six pro-democracy activists. A few foreign diplomats, including from Australia, Germany, the EU and US, were allowed to attend the trial although the court refused access to foreign media. ...
Ingresa en prisión un abogado y activista vietnamita acusado de intentar derrocar al Gobierno
05.04.2018 (Europa Press) - HANOI (Reuters/EP) - El abogado vietnamita de Derechos Humanos Nguyen Van Dai ha ingresado en prisión este jueves junto con otros cinco compañeros activistas, según ha confirmado su mujer. Dai, de 48 años, ha sido sentenciado a 15 años de cárcel por incitar al "derrocamiento del Gobierno". ...
Six Vietnam activists jailed for attempt 'to overthrow state'
05.04.2018 (The Daily Mail) - Six activists were jailed for between seven and 15 years on Thursday for "attempting to overthrow the state", the harshest sentences in years as the communist country tightens its grip on critics. ...
Six Vietnamese bloggers get exceptionally long jail terms
05.04.2018 (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges Vietnam’s partners to press for an end to the government’s intolerable current crackdown after a Hanoi people’s court passed sentences of fifteen, nine and seven years in prison on six bloggers at the end of a summary trial today. ...
Lange Haftstrafen für sechs vietnamesische Regimekritiker
05.04.2018 (DW) - Im kommunistischen Vietnam müssen kritische Geister damit rechnen, als Aufrührer abgestempelt und entsprechend hart bestraft zu werden. Das ist auch bei dem Anwalt Nguyen Van Dai und seinen Mitstreitern nicht anders. ...
Vietnam: six blogueurs condamnés à des peines de prison d’une lourdeur sans précédent
05.04.2018 (RSF) - Aujourd’hui jeudi 5 avril, à l’issue d’une journée de procès qui confine à la parodie de justice, les six blogueurs proches de la Fraternité pour la démocratie (FPD), un groupe qui documente en ligne les violations des droits de l’homme au Vietnam, ont été condamnés à un total de 66 ans de prison et 17 ans de résidence surveillée par la Cour populaire de Hanoi. ...
Vietnam protestors clash with police ahead of activist trial
05.04.2018 By Agence France-Presse Hanoi (The Nation) - Several protesters were hauled off by plainclothes police in Vietnam Thursday as they marched to the trial of a prominent lawyer and five other activists charged with "attempting to overthrow the state". ...
Amnesty publishes list of prisoners of conscience in Vietnam
05.04.2018 (Ekklesia) - There are at least 97 prisoners of conscience in jails in Vietnam, many of whom are kept incommunicado in squalid conditions and routinely subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, new research by Amnesty International has revealed. ...
Vietnam tiene casi un centenar de presos de conciencia, según Amnistía
03.04.2018 (eldiario.es) - Al menos 97 personas están encarceladas en Vietnam por razones políticas, muchas de ellas incomunicadas en condiciones precarias y sujetas a tortura y otros maltratos, según denunció hoy Amnistía Internacional (AI).
Vietnam: New Research Reveals Almost 100 Prisoners Of Conscience As Crackdown On Dissent Intensifies
03.04.2018 (Amnesty International) - There are at least 97 prisoners of conscience languishing in jails in Vietnam, many of whom are kept incommunicado in squalid conditions and routinely subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, new research by Amnesty International reveals today. ...
How Beijing is winning in South China Sea
03.04.2018 By Peter Apps (Japan Today) - LONDON - Earlier this month, the USS Carl Vinson became the first American aircraft carrier to visit Vietnam since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Coming alongside the news that a record 23 nations from Southeast Asia and beyond would be joining biennial naval exercises in the eastern Indian Ocean, it was a potent reminder of just how eager the nations surrounding the South China Sea are to embrace powerful allies to fend off a rising China. ...
PetroVietnam says South China Sea tensions to hurt offshore operations
03.04.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - State-run Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, or PetroVietnam, said on Tuesday that tensions in the South China Sea will hurt its offshore exploration and exploitation activities this year. ...
Vietnam receives six more Metal Shark boats from US
03.04.2018 Ridzwan Rahmat, Singapore (Jane's 360) - The Vietnam Coast Guard has taken delivery of another six US-built patrol vessels. Delivery comes amid increasingly cordial relations between Washington and Hanoi. ...
Former South Vietnamese general and prime minister receives the baptism in the Catholic Church
03.04.2018 J.B. An Dang (AsiaNews) - San José – Trần Thiện Khiêm (pictured), a former general and prime minister of the Republic of (South) Vietnam, received the baptism in California (United States). ...
18 Jahre Haft für hohen KP-Funktionär
30.03.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Ein ranghoher Vertreter der kommunistischen Partei Vietnams muss wegen Unterschlagung für 18 Jahre hinter Gitter. Ein Gericht in Hanoi verurteilte Dinh La Thang am Donnerstag ...
Südchinesisches Meer: Satelliten-Bilder enthüllen Militärmanöver Chinas
27.03.2018 (The Huffington Post) - Maritime Machtdemonstration: China zieht im Südchinesischen Meer mit 40 Schiffen, U-Booten und dem Flugzeugträger Liaoning eine Kampfübung durch. Das zeigen Satellitenfotos, die der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters vorliegen. ...
Vietnam briefly detains dissident singer after European tour
27.03.2018 HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese singer and activist Do Nguyen Mai Khoi, an outspoken campaigner for free speech, was briefly detained at an airport in the capital Hanoi on Tuesday after flying home from Europe, her husband told Reuters. ...
France's Bouygues, EDF sign deals during Vietnam leader visit
27.03.2018 (Reuters) - PARIS - French construction group Bouygues (BOUY.PA) signed a 1.5 billion euro ($1.86 billion) contract to finance, build and operate a metro line in the Vietnamese city of Hanoi, the French presidency said on Tuesday. ...
26.03.2018 (HRW) - (New York) – Vietnam should drop all charges against the pro-democracy activist Nguyen Viet Dung and release him immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. The police arrested him in September 2017 and charged him with conducting propaganda against the state. ...
Online Vietnam Democracy Group Slams Government Move to Try Dissidents
26.03.2018 (RFA) - The online Brotherhood for Democracy advocacy group today slammed Vietnamese authorities’ arrests and upcoming trial of five group members, calling the scheduled April 5 court hearing a violation of Vietnam’s international commitments to protect the peaceful expression of political views. ...
Chinesische Boote rammten vietnamesische Fischer in umstrittenem Meer
26.03.2018 (derStandard) - Im Territorialstreit zwischen China und Vietnam um Gebiete im Südchinesischen Meer ist es zu einem neuen Zwischenfall gekommen. Nach Angaben aus Vietnam wurden zwei Boote des staatlichen vietnamesischen Fischereibetriebs VFS von chinesischen Schiffen angegriffen. ...
Aquatic Pollution: Strenuous Struggle of Locals
25.03.2018 Kate Chesterson translation (VNTB) Life threatened by seriously affected aquatic pollution has pressed locals into continual demonstrations, regardless of the fact that some were summoned to work with police or even imprisoned. This has been one of the social affairs currently in the mass media spotlight in central Vietnam during the past few years ...
U.S. warship sails near disputed South China Sea island, officials say
24.03.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - WASHINGTON/BEIJING--A U.S. Navy destroyer carried out a "freedom of navigation" operation on Friday, coming within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built by China in the South China Sea, U.S. officials told Reuters. ...
24.03.2018 (VCHR) – Three France-based human rights organizations, the FIDH, the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) and the League for Human Rights (LDH) have sent an Open Letter to French President Emmanuel Macron on the occcasion of the visit of Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng to France (25 – 27 March 2018). ...
24.03.2018 (VCHR) – PARIS – Trois organisations basées en France, la FIDH, le Comité Vietnam pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (VCHR) et la Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH) ont écrit une Lettre Ouverte au Président français Emmanuel Macron à l’occasion de la venue à Paris du Secrétaire-général du Parti Communiste (PCV) du Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng pour une visite officielle en France (25 au 27 mars 2018). ...
Asia braces for US tariffs causing flood of Chinese steel
23.03.2018 Hiroshi Kotani and Akira Hayakawa (Nikkei Asian Review) - BANGKOK/HYDERABAD, India -- With U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum having taken effect on Friday, Asian nations are bracing for an influx of cheap steel. ...
Vietnam: Viele Tote bei Großbrand in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
23.03.2018 (DW) - Bei einem Brand in einem Hochhaus sind in der Millionenmetropole Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt mindestens 13 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Weitere 14 wurden mit teils lebensgefährlichen Verletzungen ins Krankenhaus gebracht. ...
Vietnam halts South China Sea oil drilling project under pressure from Beijing
23.03.2018 James Pearson, Henning Gloystein (Reuters) - HANOI/SINGAPORE - Vietnam has halted an oil drilling project in the “Red Emperor” block off its southeastern coast licensed to Spanish energy firm Repsol (REP.MC) following pressure from China, three sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Friday. ...
Un conflicto entre China y Vietnam amenaza con paralizar un proyecto de Repsol
23.03.2018 (El Pais) - Un conflicto por aguas jurisdiccionales entre China y Vietnam puede dar al traste con un proyectode prospección de petróleo en el que participa Repsol. ...
France asked to put “forbidden” questions to visiting Vietnamese leader
23.03.2018 (RSF) - When Vietnamese Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong visits France next week, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the French authorities to ask him the questions that are forbidden in Vietnam, questions about his crackdown on the freedom to inform in his country. ...
23.03.2018 (RSF) - A l’occasion de la venue en France du secrétaire général du Parti communiste vietnamien à partir de dimanche, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) appelle les autorités à lui poser les questions interdites sur l’état déplorable de la liberté de la presse dans son pays. ...
Eisdiele in Vietnam : Bitte eine Kugel Eis aus pürierter Nudelsuppe!
23.03.2018 von Till Fähnders (FAZ) - Was macht ein Bayer in Vietnam? Nicht etwa Schweinshaxe, sondern exotisches Speiseeis. Lust auf eine Kugel Eis mit Fischsoßengeschmack? ...
Vietnam Transfers Political Prisoner Tran Thi Nga to Jail Far From Her Home Province
22.03.2018 (RFA) - Political prisoner Tran Thi Nga was transferred to a distant prison in Vietnam without informing her family, her partner, Phan Van Phong, told RFA's Vietnamese Service on Wednesday ...
22.03.2018 By Quyen Do (Los Angeles Times) - Lotus, Orange County's largest Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant, isn't run by a famous restaurateur or chef. Instead, you'll find a group of Vietnamese Buddhist monks and nuns in the kitchen. ...
Scheinehen vermittelt – Polizei geht gegen Schleuserbande vor
21.03.2018 (Welt) - Schleuser sollen deutschen Frauen Tausende Euro bezahlt haben, damit sie Männer aus Vietnam heirateten. Mit einer Razzia in vier Bundesländern ist die Polizei am Mittwoch gegen eine mutmaßliche Schleuserbande vorgegangen. ...
Vietnam: UN experts concerned by threats against factory workers and labour activists
20.03.2018 (OHCHR) - GENEVA – UN human rights experts* express their concern about reports that women workers at two Samsung Electronics factories in Viet Nam, as well as labour activists, have been subjected to intimidation and harassment after they raised concerns about working conditions at the plants. ...
Vietnam Transfers Political Prisoner Nguyen Van Oai to Remote Jail
20.03.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese authorities have transferred prisoner of conscience Nguyen Van Oai to a remote prison far from his wife and hometown without notifying his family ...
Ex-politburo member faces second graft trial Vietnam
20.03.2018 (Daily Mail) - A former politburo member went on trial in Vietnam Monday in his second corruption case this year, as the communist state continues its public crackdown on powerful figures in politics and business accused of graft. ...
Single Moms in Vietnam Stage Fake Weddings So Society Doesn’t Judge Them
19.03.2018 by Ryan General (NextShark) - Pregnancy before marriage is highly frowned upon in Vietnam particularly in the northern countryside where traditional social norms are still well-preserved. The strong belief has reportedly resulted in over 300,000 abortions per year in the country ...
19.03.2018 (Focus) - Einen 29-jährigen vietnamesischen Staatsangehörigen überprüften Zollbeamte am späten Freitagabend in einem Nachtzug aus Basel auf der Fahrt nach Freiburg. Die Beamten stellten fest, dass im Ausweis eine gänzlich andere Person abgebildet war. ...
Dramatic Photos Show How Sand Mining Threatens a Way of Life in Southeast Asia
15.03.2018 By Vince Beiser, Photographs and Additional Reporting by Sim Chi Yin (National Geographic) - Vietnam is a prime example of a little-known global threat: the mining of river sand to build the world’s booming cities. One afternoon last year, Ha Thi Be, 67, was sitting with her son in her tiny coffee shop in the town of Hong Ngu, looking out on the lazy Tien River, the main branch of the Mekong in Vietnam. Suddenly, the ground beneath them gave way. The river bank was crumbling into the water. ...
15.03.2018 By Linh Dinh (LewRockwell) ... Although there are certainly rich illegal immigrants, most tend to be poorer than the locals, so in Cambodia, which is even more impoverished than some Sub-Saharan countries, many Vietnamese are in truly sad shape. ...
Vietnam is next target for Amazon, a newcomer in Southeast Asia
15.03.2018 Atsushi Tomiyama (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI -- With its move into Vietnam, Amazon.com seeks to cater to a fast-rising middle class, but faces logistical hurdles as well as no shortage of rivals. ...
Danh Vo: ‘Take My Breath Away'
15.03.2018 By Shiv Kotecha (FRIEZE) - Encountering the found objects and letters, certificates, photographs, sliced and sutured sculptures, installation pieces and wall-texts that compose Danh Vo’s world of objects, now on view in his mid-career survey ‘Take my breath away’ at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, can be a disarming experience. ...
Das Massaker von My Lai aus vietnamesischer Sicht
15.03.2018 Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - Vor 50 Jahren ermordeten US-Soldaten mehr als 500 Zivilisten im vietnamesischen Dorf My Lai. In der von der Partei kontrollierten Erinnerungskultur des Landes spielt das Massaker dennoch nur eine untergeordnete Rolle. ...
My Lai: Lektionen aus einem Massaker
15.03.2018 Clare Richardson (DW) - Am 16. März 1968 fiel eine Kompanie junge Soldaten in ein dicht besiedeltes Gebiet im Nordosten Südvietnams ein. Ihr Auftrag: alle Vietcong in der Gegend zu vernichten. Doch statt Kämpfern fanden sie Zivilisten vor. Die Truppen schlachteten Frauen, alte Männer, Kinder ab. ...
Vietnamese trainee made to engage in decontamination work in Fukushima
15.03.2018 (Japan Today) - TOKYO - A Vietnamese man who came to Japan under a foreign trainee program was made to engage in radioactive decontamination work in Fukushima Prefecture without his knowledge, a foreign workers support group heard Wednesday. ...
Germany weighs up Vietnam spymaster link to abduction
14.03.2018 (DW) - German federal prosecutors have reportedly opened a probe into a top Vietnamese spy's role in an abduction in Berlin. The incident has caused a major crisis between Berlin and Hanoi. ...
Generalbundesanwalt ermittelt gegen Vietnams Geheimdienst-Vizechef
13.03.2018 Von Georg Mascolo und Ronen Steinke (SZ) - Der Generalbundesanwalt hat nach Informationen von Süddeutscher Zeitung, NDR und WDR Ermittlungen wegen Spionage und Freiheitsberaubung gegen den Vizechef des vietnamesischen Geheimdiensts eingeleitet, Duong Minh Hung. ...
Entführter Vietnamese - Vize-Geheimdienstchef im Visier
13.03.2018 Von Markus Grill und Georg Mascolo, NDR/WDR (Tagesschau) - Der Generalbundesanwalt ermittelt gegen den Vize-Chef des vietnamesischen Geheimdienstes. Er soll nach Informationen von NDR, WDR und SZ von einem Berliner Hotel aus eine Entführung gesteuert haben. ...
Staatliche Verbrecher - In Sichtweite des Kanzleramts
13.03.2018 Von Georg Mascolo und Ronen Steinke (SZ) - Manchmal bringen Staatsanwälte etwas zu Papier, dem dann eigentlich nur noch ein passender Buchdeckel fehlt. Dann wäre das Werk ein lesenswerter Thriller. Nur dass es kein Produkt der Fantasie ist, sondern ein Stück grobe Wirklichkeit. ...
Vietnam and U.N. to build storm-proof housing for coastal communities
12.03.2018 by Michael Taylor (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - KUALA LUMPUR - Thousands of families on Vietnam's typhoon-battered coast will receive free storm-proof houses, which can help pull them out of poverty, government and United Nations officials said. ...
Eine Hochzeit vorgaukeln - Miet-Bräutigam als Retter
12.03.2018 (FAZ) In Vietnam boomt das Geschäft mit vorgetäuschten Hochzeiten. ...
Tag gegen Internetzensur: Verbotene Texte als Popsongs
12.03.2018 Ingo Dachwitz (Netzpolitik) - Mit Musik gegen Zensur: Reporter ohne Grenzen hat zum heutigen Tag gegen Internetzensur ein Album mit verbotenen Texten herausgebracht. Für die Aktion „Uncensored Playlist“ wurden in ihren Heimatländern zensierte Texte von fünf Autorinnen und Autoren aus Ägypten, China, Thailand, Usbekistan, Vietnam und Thailand in Popsongs verwandelt. ...
Vietnam’s aged communists ruling on borrowed time
11.03.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - Concerns about the longevity of senior leaders are weighing heavily on Vietnam’s long-ruling Communist Party. The Politburo recently ruled that top-ranking officials will now have to undergo regular medical checks every six months, with a Party unit established to monitor the results. ...
Welttag der Internetzensur - Sag es mit Musik
11.03.2018 (SZ) - Zum Welttag gegen Internetzensur an diesem Montag verschafft die Organisation Reporter ohne Grenzen ingesamt zehn in den Ländern ihrer Autoren verbotenen Texten internationales Gehör. Auch dort, wo sie eigentlich niemand sehen sollte, können die texte empfangen werden. ...
Hung Le, hanging out for a laugh at himself and others
10.03.2018 By Thuy On (The Age) - THE CRAPPIEST REFUGEE, Hung Le, Affirm Press, $29.99
When comedian Hung Le was growing up in Melbourne in the 1970s and '80s, he had a eureka moment when he realised some Vietnamese refugees were good at maths and some weren't. He recognised he sat firmly in the latter camp. ...
A Vietnamese Zen master’s simple advice on how to build generosity of spirit
09.03.2018 By Ephrat Livni (Quartz) Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh probably makes for a very good houseguest. He abides by a simple practice: Whenever you visit someone’s home, do their dishes for them. ...
Who Were the Real Nationalists in Vietnam?
09.03.2018 Stephen B. Young (NYT) - The Tet offensive was a turning point in the Vietnam War for Vietnamese nationalism. With North Vietnam having been turned over to the Communists by the French in 1954, Vietnam’s southern provinces had become a haven for non-Communist nationalists. ...
Germany presses charges in case of kidnapped Vietnamese oil executive
08.03.2018 (Oil and Gas Republic) - Karlsruhe, Germany – German public prosecutors have pressed kidnapping charges against a 47-year-old Vietnamese man for the abduction of a Vietnamese oil executive who was spirited from Berlin last year so he could appear at a corruption trial in Hanoi. ...
Auch ohne die USA: Elf Länder schließen Pazifik-Handelsabkommen CPTPP
08.03.2018 (Business Insider Deutschland) - Nach der Absage der USA an das geplante Pazifik-Handelsabkommen TPP machen die verbliebenen Länder nun Ernst. Regierungsvertreter aus Kanada, Japan, Australien, Neuseeland, Mexiko, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei und Singapur unterzeichneten am Donnerstag in Santiago de Chile das Nachfolgeabkommen CPTPP ...
Prisoner of conscience Trần Thị Nga transferred to remote region during Lunar New Year
08.03.2018 CTV Danlambao * Translated by Jasmine Tran (Danlambao) - The Vietnamese government has transferred prisoner of conscience Trần Thị Nga from Hà Nam to Đắk Trung prison, which is located in a remote region of Cứ M'gar district, Đắk Lắk Province. Đắk Lắk is over a 1000 kilometres from Hà Nam. ...
Un évêque vietnamien meurt en pleine messe
07.03.2018 (La Croix) - Mgr Paul Bùi Van Dọc, archevêque de Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville, au Vietnam est décédé en pleine messe mardi 6 mars, dans la basilique pontificale Saint-Paul-hors-les murs à Rome, a annoncé l’agence AsiaNews ...
TPP 11: How Asia took the lead in free trade
07.03.2018 Yasu Ota, Nikkei Asian Review columnist, Shuichi Maruyama, Nikkei staff writer (Nikkei Asian Review) - SINGAPORE/MEXICO CITY -- The trans-Pacific pact will help business, but hopes remain for a US return.
Duong Ngoc Minh is sometimes called Vietnam's "Catfish King" for his role in creating a global market for panga, a fish known for its low price, white flesh and mild flavor. ...
Vietnamese trainee alleges he was misled into taking part in Fukushima decontamination work
07.03.2018 By Magdalena Osumi (The Japan Times) - The Justice Ministry is investigating a case involving a Vietnamese man brought to Japan under the government’s foreign trainee program who alleges he was duped into taking part in cleanup work in areas devastated by the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities said Wednesday. ...
The archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City dies in Rome during his ad limina visit
07.03.2018 J.B. An Dan (AsiaNews) - Vatican City - The archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City, Msgr. Paul Bùi Văn Đọc died yesterday in Rome during the ad limina visit, just a day after his meeting with Pope Francis along with other Vietnamese prelates. ...
Fake weddings, rented grooms on the rise in Vietnam
07.03.2018 (NewsBytes) - The business of fake weddings and grooms/guests on rent has seen an unprecedented rise in Vietnam over the last decade, courtesy societal and filial pressure on youngsters to conform to traditions. ...
Germany charges Vietnamese man in ex-oil executive kidnapping
07.03.2018 (Reuters) - BERLIN - German prosecutors have charged a Vietnamese citizen for helping to kidnap high-profile oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh in central Berlin last July, from where he was whisked to Vietnam and imprisoned as part of a corruption crackdown. ...
Anklage erhoben im Fall des verschleppten Vietnamesen
07.03.2018 (SZ) - Im Fall des aus Deutschland nach Vietnam entführten Geschäftsmanns Trinh Xuan Thanh hat die Bundesanwaltschaft Anklage gegen einen 47 Jahre alten Vietnamesen erhoben. Er soll unter anderem in Prag einen Transporter angemietet haben, der für die Entführung benutzt wurde ...
First Metro Projects in Vietnam Risk Bigger Problems Than Delays
06.03.2018 By Tali Trigg (Scientific American) - Underground line projects in Saigon and Hanoi are examples of the challenges of transport ventures that are not delayed by technical issues but by a lack of administrative planning, technical cooperation and effective implementation. ...
Corruption fueling deforestation in Cambodia
05.03.2018 (DW) - Cambodia's forests are being felled at a shocking rate, as poachers and corrupt officials profit from the black market trade in rare wood species, which is being exported to Vietnam — and beyond. ...
Vorstellung der MiSO-Mitgliedsvereine Vietnam-Zentrum-Hannover e.V. und MRVN e.V.
05.03.2018 (MiSO-Netzwerk Hannover) - ... Deutschland ist zwar schon lange ein Einwanderungsland, aber es ist noch lange keine Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Hierzu einige Anmerkungen von Dang Chau Lam, Vorstandsmitglied des Vietnam-Zentrums e.V. und Gründungsmitglied des MiSO-Netzwerks Hannover. ...
Portaaviones de EEUU atraca en Vietnam tras cuatro décadas
04.03.2018 (HispanTV) - Por primera vez desde el final de la guerra de Vietnam hace más de cuatro décadas, Estados Unidos ha enviado un grupo de buques militares, encabezado por el portaaviones USS Carl Vinson, a la ciudad vietnamita de Da Nang, el cual arribará este lunes en medio de la escalada de tensión con China. ...
Catholics attacked by 'Red Flags' for seeking explanation over school fees
03.03.2018 (AsiaNews) - Hanoi - The militants of "Hội Cờ Đỏ" (Red Flags) attacked the parents of Catholic children excluded from a school in the Dien Doai municipality (Nghệ An province), after the families refused to pay what they have called "exorbitant fees". ...
Persécution des chrétiens au Vietnam
03.03.2018 Aloys Evina, pasteur protestant (Le Journal Chrétien) - La persécution des chrétiens est en augmentation au Vietnam, où le pouvoir communiste exerce un contrôle accru sur les églises. Les fonctionnaires du village ont violemment frappé un jeune chrétien appelé Dang pour l’inciter à renoncer à sa foi en Jésus. ...
03.03.2018 (AsiaNews) - Hanói (AsiaNews/RFA)- Los militantes de “Hội Cờ Đỏ” (banderas Rojas) agredieron a los padres de los niños católicos excluidos de una escuela estatal de Dien Doai (provincia de Nghệ An), después que las familias rechazaron pagar aquellas que definieron como “cuotas exorbitantes”. ...
Vietnam : la santé du pasteur Nguyen Trung Ton se détériore
03.03.2018 Isabelle Goepp (Le Journal Chrétien) - La santé de Nguyen Trung Ton, un pasteur chrétien qui défend la démocratie au Vietnam, est très mauvaise depuis qu’il a été emprisonné en juillet 2017. ...
Amerikas Marine taucht wieder vor Vietnams Küste auf – diesmal mit friedlichen Absichten
03.03.2018 (NZZ) - Erstmals seit dem Ende des Vietnamkriegs besucht ein amerikanischer Flugzeugträger das südostasiatische Land. Die beiden ehemaligen Kriegsgegner knüpfen auch im militärischen Bereich wieder engere Bande. ...
Cómo el café levantó a Vietnam de las cenizas tras el desastre de la guerra
03.03.2018 (BBC) - Si preguntas por ahí de dónde viene el café, las respuestas que te darán probablemente incluirán países como Brasil o Colombia, tal vez Jamaica y seguramente alguno más. Pero rara vez escucharás: "Vietnam".
Un programme jésuite vient au secours des couples en crise
03.03.2018 (Églises d'Asie) - Dix mille couples catholiques vietnamiens ont pu dépasser les tensions familiales et resserrer les liens du mariage, grâce à un programme lancé par un prêtre jésuite vietnamien aux États-Unis, il y a trente ans. ...
Thüringen - Azubis kommen zunehmend aus Vietnam, Ukraine, Südeuropa
03.03.2018 (inSüdthueringen) - Immer häufiger bleiben Lehrstellen in Thüringen unbesetzt. Um ihren Fachkräftebedarf zu sichern, setzen Betriebe zunehmend auf Auszubildende mit ausländischem Pass. ...
Mekong through photographers’ eyes: ‘disaster after disaster’
02.03.2018 (The Third Pole) - Photographers Gareth Bright and Luke Forsyth travelled from the sea to the source of the Mekong and found people struggling to adapt to rapid changes. “People are losing their culture. For example, in Laos we stayed in a village 60 kilometres south of Luang Prabang. People lived there for 400 years in the same way and they were in relocation camps for the construction of the Nam Kong dam. ...
EU-Handelskommissarin Malmström denkt über Vergeltung nach
02.03.2018 Von Christoph Hein, Singapur (FAZ) - Die drohenden Strafzölle aus Amerika belasten die Aktienkurse und lassen Asiaten und Europäer näher aneinanderrücken. ... Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der wachsenden Probleme mit Amerika sucht Malmström die Nähe zu den Asiaten. Während das Abkommen in Singapur an Detailfragen hängt, wurde es in Vietnam durch die Entführung eines geflohenen Unternehmenschefs am helllichten Tag aus Berlin ausgebremst. ...
Au Vietnam, bienvenue chez «Maman Chance»
02.03.2018 Par Arnaud Bédat (L'illustre) - Depuis vingt-cinq au Pays du dragon et des rizières, la Genevoise Aline Tim Rebeaud se dévoue sans compter pour les laissés-pour-compte du Vietnam, redonnant un sourire à ceux qui n’en avaient plus. ...
Vietnam activist in hiding after book interrogation
01.03.2018 (Daily Mail) - A high-profile Vietnamese writer says she has gone into hiding after being interrogated about her banned book and placed under de-facto house arrest by plainclothes police, vowing Thursday to continue pressing for democracy in the one-party state. ...
Vietnamese Democracy Advocate's Health Failing in Prison, Wife Says
01.03.2018 (RFA) - A Vietnamese pastor and democracy advocate held in custody since last July is in failing health in jail, with injuries suffered in a beating last year still not fully healed, the man’s wife says. ...
Vietnam suspends steel firms after pollution protests
01.03.2018 (PressTV) - Two steel plants in central Vietnam were ordered to suspend production, according to an official statement Thursday, following reports of protests by residents complaining of polluted air and water from the factories. ...
Call for release of environmental activists jailed over protesting on toxic spill in Vietnam
01.03.2018 (ClientEarth) - ClientEarth is joining the United Nations experts call to release individuals jailed for protesting against a discharge of toxic industrial chemicals into coastal waters of Viet Nam. ...
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wirbt um vietnamesische Pflegekräfte
01.03.2018 (SZ) - Schwerin (dpa/mv) - Vietnamesen sollen helfen, den Pflegenotstand in der Alten- und Krankenpflege in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern zu beenden. Wirtschaftsstaatssekretär Stefan Rudolph ist am Donnerstag mit einer 15-köpfigen Delegation für sieben Tage nach Vietnam gereist ...
Le nouveau rapport du VCHR dénonce une véritable offensive contre les libertés au Vietnam
28.02.2018 (Quê Mẹ) - PARIS (VCHR) – Dans un nouveau rapport de 36 pages intitulé « Libertés Niées, Évaluation de la Situation des Droits de l’Homme au Vietnam au cours du 2ème cycle de son Examen Périodique Universel », le VCHR fait état d’une des pires répressions contre la société civile, les défenseurs des droits de l’Homme, les blogueurs, les dissidents et les fidèles religieux. ...
Giant US warship to make historic Vietnam visit
28.02.2018 (Nine News) - The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson will reportedly make a historic visit to Vietnam next month as part of the US Navy's largest multinational disaster response exercises in the Indo-Pacific region. ...
Wie bitte?! Polizei nimmt Vietnamesen fest und findet Schießkugelschreiber
27.02.2018 (Express) - Mönchengladbach - Nein, hier handelt es sich nicht um James Bond. Deshalb waren Beamte der Bundespolizei Freitagnacht auch umso erstaunter, als sie auf der A 52 den Wagen eines Vietnamesen untersuchten. ...
Cambodia, Laos losing the last of their trees
27.02.2018 By Dan Southerland (Asia Times) - Despite official pledges to halt the trade, smugglers in Cambodia and Laos are finding ways to illegally ship timber to neighboring Vietnam. The precious hardwood is often used in furniture factories that ship their products largely to China. ...
Well-known Vietnamese journalist hounded, facing imminent arrest
27.02.2018 (Reporters Without Borders) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Vietnamese government's persecution of the journalist Pham Doan Trang and her family and calls for international pressure on the regime. After being picked up for questioning during the weekend, Trang is currently under house arrest and could be facing imminent arrest. ...
La conocida periodista Pham Doan Trang, interrogada y vigilada, teme una detención inminente
27.02.2018 (elmercuriodigital) - Reporteros Sin Fronteras condena la persecución a la periodista Pham Doan Trang y a su familia, y pide a la comunidad internacional que presione al régimen vietnamita. Pham Doan Trang fue interrogada este fin de semana y está en la actualidad en arresto domiciliario, ...
RSF appelle à faire pression sur le Vietnam avant l’arrestation imminente d’une célèbre journaliste
27.02.2018 (Reporters sans frontières) - La journaliste Pham Doan Trang a été arbitrairement placée en détention par la police vietnamienne, ce week-end à Hanoi. Reporters sans frontières (RSF) condamne les pressions exercées sur elle et sa famille, et appelle les autorités à mettre un terme à la vague de répression qui touchent les acteurs de l’information, sans quoi Hanoi va devoir en payer les conséquences. ...
Vietnam im Gold-Rausch, Geschäfte vielerorts ausverkauft
26.02.2018 (Goldreporter) - Gold-Shops in Vietnam haben am vergangenen Wochenende einen Kundenansturm erlebt. Ein besonderer Feiertag zum Start des neuen Jahres war der Anlass. ...
Über die Hälfte der Studienkollegiaten kommt aus Asien
26.02.2018 (SZ) - Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - 690 Ausländer haben sich im Wintersemester 2017/18 in Hessen auf ein Hochschulstudium vorbereitet. Die größten nationalen Gruppen stellten Vietnam (82), China (58) ...
World Economic Forum gibt Sicherheits-Reisereport 2017 bekannt
24.02.2018 (Pattaya Blatt) - Die Sicherheit für Reisende in vorher völlig sicheren Ländern wurde im letzten Jahr erschüttert. So stürzte Deutschland vom 20. Platz der Reiseländer auf Platz 51 ab. ...
10 Vietnamese arrested in prostitution ring bust
24.02.2018 (CNA) - Taipei - A National Immigration Agency (NIA) specialized operation brigade in Taipei busted a prostitution ring on Thursday and arrested 10 Vietnamese women and three Taiwanese johns, the agency said Saturday. ...
Vietnam: Asiens aufsteigender Drache
24.02.2018 Von Sven Heckle (Börse-Online) - Mit starken Kursgewinnen honoriert die vietnamesische Börse das kräftige Wirtschaftswachstum. Läuft es weiterhin so gut, könnte der Sprung vom Frontier Market zum Emerging Market folgen. ...
The 'forgotten' My Lai: South Korea's Vietnam War massacres
24.02.2018 By James Griffiths (CNN) - Tran Thi Duoc was 16 when the soldiers came to her village. They wore camouflaged uniforms and helmets and carried long, black rifles. Behind them, in a neighboring hamlet to the northwest, she and other villagers could see smoke from burning houses rising into the bright, midday sky. ...
Southeast Asia is in the grip of a biodiversity crisis
23.02.2018 (Asian Correspondent) - RICH in wildlife, Southeast Asia includes at least six of the world’s 25 “biodiversity hotspots” – the areas of the world that contain an exceptional concentration of species, and are exceptionally endangered. ...
Dieses Schiff aus China ist keine Waffe, könnte aber den nächsten großen Krieg auslösen
23.02.2018 Brennan Weiss (Business Insider) - China hat ein neues Bagger-Schiff vorgestellt, das in Asien einzigartig sein wird. Mit dem Schiff könnte der Konflikt rund um ein strittiges Gebiet im Südchinesischen Meer eskalieren. ...
Inhaltliche Unterschiede zwischen TPP und CPTPP
23.02.2018 Manfred Rist (NZZ) - Auf Druck der USA waren bei den ursprünglichen TPP-Verhandlungen etliche Anliegen eingebracht worden. Einen Teil davon haben die elf Vertragsstaaten im CPTPP-Abkommen nun ausgeklammert. ...
Vietnam’s new internet law will make the economy lag
22.02.2018 Author: Phan Le (East Asia Forum) - Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) thinks it is killing two birds with one stone by passing new laws regulating data storage. But it could soon find out it has no use for two dead birds while the stone flies off and damages the economy. ...
Final version of TPP deal released; rules pushed by U.S. shelved
22.02.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - WELLINGTON/SYDNEY--The final version of a landmark deal aimed at cutting trade barriers in some of Asia-Pacific's fastest-growing economies was released on Wednesday, signaling the pact was a step closer to reality even without its star member the United States. ...
Phan Thiết Catholics celebrate New Year with poor families
22.02.2018 Ngoc Lan (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City – Lunar New Year (Tết) celebrations, which this year fall during Lent, are for Vietnamese Catholics an opportunity to engage in social outreach and charity in favour of the downtrodden. ...
Is Vietnam Going the Way of China?
22.02.2018 By Nguyen Khac Giang (The Diplomat) - The Communist Party of Vietnam seems, in some ways, to be following the path laid down by Beijing. When the Communist Party of China (CPC), under the rule of President Xi Jinping, started its fearsome anti-corruption campaign to crack down on both “tigers and flies” after the 18th National Congress in 2012, Vietnamese internal politics remained a tug-of-war between Nguyen Phu Trong and the then-Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. ...
Südkorea, Japan, Vietnam - Kims Hacker spionieren auf breiter Front
20.02.2018 (n-tv) - IT-Sicherheitsexperten haben eine weitere nordkoreanische Hackergruppe identifiziert, die auf breiter Front Südkorea, Japan und Vietnam ausspähen soll. ...
Why are foreign banks fleeing Vietnam?
20.02.2018 By Pham Chi Dung (Asia Times) - Vietnam has seen a growing number of foreign banks withdraw from its under-banked economy, the latest indication that all is not as well as Communist Party officials often claim. ...
EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement
20.02.2018 Martin Russell (EPRS) - The free trade agreement (FTA) with Vietnam has Although the content of the FTA was already agreed in 2015, ratification has been delayed by a 2017 opinion of the European Court of Justice. been described as the most ambitious deal of its type ever concluded between the EU and a developing country. ...
What Happened in the Former South Vietnam After the War Ended in April 1975?
20.02.2018 (PRWeb) - “The World Looked Away: Vietnam After the War” (published by Archway Publishing) by Dave Bushy is the true story of Quoc Pham, a former South Vietnamese naval officer, his wife, Kim-Cuong, and their family. The book offers a glimpse into what unfolded when the Vietnam War ended. ...
Learning From the Hue Massacre
20.02.2018 Olga Dror (NYT) - The Battle for Hue, part of the Tet offensive, started with an assault by communist forces in the wee hours of Jan. 30, 1968. The fighting, which lasted until Feb. 24, was the largest urban engagement of the war. During the communist takeover, the southern communists and the N.V.A. forces organized so-called liberated zones, conducted indoctrination sessions, rationed food, conscripted youth for labor and combat, and identified enemies, and sometimes their family members, in the local population for denunciation and death. ...
Vietnam’s Internet is in trouble
19.02.2018 By Dien Luong (The Washington Post) - HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Vietnamese authorities have harped of late on the urgency of fighting cybersecurity threats and “bad and dangerous content.” ...
Und dann kommt die Einladung zum Entenblutessen
19.02.2018 Von Vanessa Vu (Die Zeit) - In Vietnam kontrolliert der Staat alle Medien. Selbst in Deutschland sollen Vietnamesen nicht die Wahrheit sagen und schreiben – sonst werden sie bedroht und angegriffen. Weit im Osten Berlins führt in einem unscheinbaren Backsteingebäude ein schmaler, dunkler Flur zu Lê Trung Khoa. ...
Migranten-Schmuggel per Flugzeug aus der Ukraine nach Ungarn
17.02.2018 (Die Presse) - In Ungarn ist vor Tagen ein Schmuggel von Migranten per Kleinflugzeug aufgedeckt worden. Die Maschine vom Typ Antonow An-2 aus der Ukraine landete mit acht Vietnamesen und drei Afghanen an Bord bei Kállósemjén auf einem Feld und blieb im Schlamm stecken. ...
Il y a 40 ans, un marin dieppois venait en aide aux boat-people
16.02.2018 Loïc Potier (Paris-Normandie) - Télévision. Mardi 20 février, sur France 2, l’émission Infrarouge, consacrée aux faits de société, fera revivre l’épopée du cargo « Île de lumière ». Le Dieppois François Herbelin faisait partie de cette aventure humanitaire. ...
L’armée chinoise est bien partie pour coloniser la mer de Chine
16.02.2018 par Yohan Demeure (Science Post) - Depuis une poignée d’années, la Chine fait tout pour se rendre maîtresse des mers proches de son espace d’influence. Comment ? En intensifiant sa mainmise sur les archipels en mer de Chine, également revendiqués par certains de ses voisins. ...
Lunar New Year: Redemptorists for homeless veterans
16.02.2018 Hung Quoc (AsiaNews) - Ho Chi Minh City - On feast days for the Lunar New Year, the Redemptorist Fathers of Saigon launched "Forever together, with the hope and expectation of war veterans ", a solidarity initiative aimed at the Vietnamese southern soldiers survivors of the '55 -'75 conflict. ...
Why Vietnam Isn’t Talking About 1968
15.02.2018 By Bennett Murray (Politico) - Fifty years after a turning point in the Vietnam War, the country’s communist government is stamping out public discussion of painful memories. ...
Entführung eines Vietnamesen in Berlin - Verdächtigter kommt wohl vor Gericht
15.02.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - Die Ermittlungen rund um den Fall des Ex-Politikers Trinh Xuan Thanh aus Vietnam sind in vollem Gange. Die Anklage eines Fahrers steht bevor - Wegen Teilnahme an der Entführung des vietnamesischen Ex-Politikers Trinh Xuan Thanh aus Berlin nach Hanoi im letzten Sommer steht die Anklage eines mutmaßlichen Mitentführers durch die Bundesanwaltschaft in Karlsruhe unmittelbar bevor. ...
NGO gives human rights award to Vietnamese blogger
14.02.2018 (Prague Daily Monitor) - Prague (CTK) - Vietnamese blogger Pham Doan Trang will receive the Homo Homini award for human rights promotion from the Czech People in Need humanitarian organisation at the beginning of the One World film festival on March 5, Zuzana Gruberova, from the NGO, told CTK. ...
Au Vietnam, deux catholiques écologistes condamnés à de lourdes peines
14.02.2018 Claire Lesegretain (La Croix) - Pour avoir soutenu des pêcheurs vietnamiens, après la grave pollution provoquée par l’aciérie taïwanaise Formosa, deux chrétiens ont été condamnés, le 6 février, à 14 ans et à 2 ans de prison. ...
London sends warship to South China Sea: 'Our right'
13.02.2018 Sydney (AsiaNews / Agencies) - A British warship will sail from Australia next month and cross the South China Sea, to assert the rights to freedom of navigation in the waters at the center of an international dispute that sees China as a protagonist according to Gavin Williamson, UK Secretary of Defense, affirms today. ...
Vietnam clean water dwindling due to lack of treatment infrastructure
13.02.2018 (Water & Wastes Digest's) - Over the past two decades, Vietnam has seen their water reserves suffer drastic reductions. Due to this, average water consumption levels per person in 2025 are expected to be one fourth of what they were in 1990. ...
Vietnamese Authorities Transfer Jailed Blogger Mother Mushroom to Remote Prison
12.02.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese authorities have transferred ailing jailed blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh to a remote prison more than 620 miles from her former location in the city of Nha Trang on the country’s south central coast without notifying her family, her mother said Monday. ...
El drama de muchas niñas en Vietnam: secuestradas y vendidas para bodas en China
10.02.2018 (20minutos) - En el norte de Vietnam las niñas están desapareciendo. Estas niñas, algunas de tan solo 13 años, son víctimas del "tráfico de novias". Son secuestradas y llevadas a China para ser vendidas al matrimonio. ...
Vietnamese City Rescinds Directive Curtailing Press Freedom
10.02.2018 Thuc Pham (VOA) - WASHINGTON — One day after Danang authorities issued guidelines requiring the local press to obtain official approval before disseminating content, city officials rescinded the order in the face of public outcry. ...
Hoa Hao Buddhist Family, Friends Handed Prison Terms in Vietnam
09.02.2018 (RFA) - Four family members belonging to an unofficial branch of Vietnam’s Hoa Hao Buddhist community were convicted on Friday in the country’s An Giang province on charges of disrupting public order during a confrontation with authorities at their home last year. ...
Procesan a familia budista Hoa Hao por reunirse a rezar
08.02.2018 (AsiaNews) Hanói - Mañana se desarrollará, en la sede del tribunal del distrito de An Phu, provincia suroccidental de An Giang, el proceso de cuatro miembros de una familia perteneciente a la secta budista de Hoa Hao, no reconocida por el gobierno. Se los acusa de “haber perturbado el orden público” durante una dura confrontación con las autoridades, ocurrida el año pasado en su casa. ...
Une église de maison fermée à Quang Binh au Vietnam
08.02.2018 Isabelle Goepp (Le Journal Chrétien) - Les chrétiens d’une église de maison à Quang Binh au Vietnam ont été contraints de ne plus de rencontrer après une visité de la police le premier jour de cette année. Comme cette communauté religieuse n’est pas reconnue, les autorités de police ont déclaré qu’elle devait attendre la décision du gouvernement la concernant. ...
Brief eines Reisenden - Warum ich an Vietnam verzweifle
08.02.2018 Hannes Soltau (Der Tagesspiegel) - Das Versprechen: einsame Palmenstrände und Exotik. Die Realität: Lärm, Geschäftemacher, gierige Kommunisten. Ein flehender Appell an ein eigentlich traumhaftes Land. ...
Vietnam: das Hanoier Regime schickt die Bürger ununterbrochen wie am laufenden Band ins Gefängnis
08.02.2018 (Forum Vietnam 21) - Harte Haftstrafen gegen sechs Dissidenten innerhalb einer Woche - Ununterbrochen wie am laufenden Band schickt Vietnam, ein Staat mit einem Einparteisystem, Kritiker und Bürgerrechtler ins Gefängnis: am 31.01.2018 Tran Hoang Phuc, Nguyen Van Dien, und Vu Quang Thuan (Demokratieaktivist), am 02.02.2018 Dr. Ho Van Hai (Umweltschützer) und am 06.02.2018 Hoang Duc Binh und Nguyen Nam Phong (Umweltaktivist). ...
Vietnam: End Repression Against Religious Activists
07.02.2018 (HRW) - (New York) – Vietnam should suspend charges against six Hoa Hao Buddhist followers and investigate whether police actions against them were taken for discriminatory reasons or religious persecution, Human Rights Watch said today. Criminal trials for the six on public order charges are scheduled for February 9, 2018, before the People’s Court in An Phu district, An Giang province. ...
Meinungsfreiheit - USA und Deutschland kritisieren Haftstrafen vietnamesischer Aktivisten
07.02.2018 (DW) - Mit dem Urteil setze das kommunistische Vietnam seinen "Kurs der Unterdrückung von Zivilgesellschaft sowie Meinungs- und Demonstrationsfreiheit" fort, so die Menschenrechtsbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Bärbel Kofler. ...
07.02.2018 (Auswärtiges Amt) - Zur Verurteilung des vietnamesischen Menschenrechtsaktivisten Hoang Duc Binh zu 14 Jahren Haft sagte die Menschenrechtsbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Bärbel Kofler, heute (07.02.):
Erneut ist in Vietnam ein Aktivist zu einer hohen Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt worden, der sich friedlich für inhaftierte Menschenrechtsverteidiger, Umweltschutz und unabhängige Gewerkschaftsarbeit eingesetzt hat. Die vietnamesische Regierung setzt damit ihren Kurs der Unterdrückung von Zivilgesellschaft sowie Meinungs- und Demonstrationsfreiheit fort – das gilt vor allem mit Blick auf die präzedenzlos hohe Haftstrafe für Vergehen wie 'Missbrauch demokratischer Rechte' und 'Widerstand gegen die Staatsgewalt'. ...
ASEAN 'concern' resurfaces over contested waters with China
07.02.2018 Takashi Nakano (Nikkei Asian Review) - SINGAPORE -- The situation in the South China Sea, where China has moved aggressively amid conflicting territorial claims, was highlighted as a source of concern in an ASEAN foreign ministers' statement released Tuesday, with Singapore taking a more balanced approach as this year's chair than the Philippines did in 2017. ...
Photos show Beijing’s militarisation of South China Sea in new detail
06.02.2018 (The Guardian) - Beijing has been accused of building “island fortresses” in the South China Sea after a newspaper in the Philippines obtained aerial photographs offering what experts called the most detailed glimpse yet of China’s militarisation of the waterway. ...
Pressefreiheit - Umweltaktivist in Vietnam zu 14 Jahren Haft verurteilt
06.02.2018 (DW) - Der prominente Blogger hatte eine Protestaktion gegen eine Stahlfabrik per Livestream im Internet verbreitet. Ein Mitstreiter wurde zu zwei Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt.
Der 35-jährige Blogger Hoang Binh habe jahrelang Anti-Regierungs-Propaganda verbreitet, Widerstand gegen Funktionäre geleistet und demokratische Freiheiten missbraucht, um Aufruhr anzuzetteln, befand ein Gericht in Zentralvietnam. ...
Vietnam jails activist for 14 years for livestreaming pollution march
06.02.2018 (The Guardian) - A court in central Vietnam has sentenced an activist to 14 years in jail for livestreaming fishermen marching to file a lawsuit against a Taiwan-owned steel plant’s spill of toxins into the ocean.
Hoang Duc Binh, 34, was convicted of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the state, organisation and people, and opposing officers on duty, following a trial on Tuesday by the people’s court in Nghe An province, lawyer Ha Huy Son said. ...
Un blogueur vietnamien condamné à quatorze ans de prison
06.02.2018 (Reuters) - Le blogueur dissident vietnamien Hoang Duc Binh a été condamné mardi à 14 ans de prison pour abus de liberté démocratique et opposition à des agents de l‘Etat, a annoncé son avocat. “Le procès a été conduit sans preuve et sans objectivité”, a déclaré l‘avocat de Hoang Binh, Ha Huy Son, joint par téléphone. ...
Condenaron a 14 años de cárcel al bloguero Hoang Duc Binh
06.02.2018 (AsiaNews) - Hanói - Las autoridades vietnamitas han condenado hoy a Hoang Duc Binh, importante bloguero disidente, a 14 años de cárcel por “haber abusado de la libertad democrática en contraste con los intereses del Estado y opuesto resistencia a oficiales en servicio. Es cuanto refiere el abogado Ha Huy Son, legal del sindicalista y activista por los derechos humanos. ...
Karl Marx ohne Bier und Petrol
05.02.2018 Manfred Rist, Singapur (NZZ) - Wie kapitalistisch, weltoffen, innovativ und kreativ ist Vietnam heute? Müssen Investoren diese offenbar so dynamische südostasiatische Volkswirtschaft wirklich im Auge behalten? Grundsätzlich ja, aber zur Aufnahme in der MSCI-Emerging-Market-Index reicht es noch nicht. ...
Vietnam: vier Jahre Haft für Dr. Ho Van Hai, einen Umweltaktivisten
05.02.2018 haduong (Forum Vietnam 21) - Der Umweltaktivist Dr. Ho Van Hai, ein praktizierender Allgemeinmediziner, wurde bereits vor dreizehn Monaten, am 2. November 2016 in Ho Chi Minh-Stadt (ehemals Saigon) verhaftet. Am 01.02.2018 wurde Dr. Ho Van Hai, 52, also nach 13 Monaten in Haft, in Saigon ohne seine Anwälte hinter verschlossenen Türen vor Gericht gestellt. Mit Bezug auf den Artikel 88 des Strafgesetzbuches hat ein sogenanntes Volksgericht in Saigon den Mediziner wegen "staatsfeindlicher Propaganda" zu vier Jahren Gefängnis und zwei Jahren Hausarrest verurteilt. ...
In Berlin entführter Vietnamese erneut zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt
05.02.2018 Von Christoph Sator und Bac Pham (Berliner Zeitung) - Bereits zum zweiten Mal innerhalb von nur 14 Tagen ist ein mutmaßlich aus Deutschland entführter Vietnamese in seiner Heimat zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden. Damit ist der offenbar im Berliner Tiergarten entführte Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh immerhin einem Todesurteil entgangen ...
Vietnamesischer Ex-Politiker vor Gericht - Zweimal lebenslänglich
05.02.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - Ein Gericht in Hanoi verurteilt den aus Berlin entführten Ex-Funktionär Trinh Xuan Thanh erneut. Dieser spricht von einer „Säuberungsaktion“. ...
Ex-PetroVietnam exec given second sentence for graft
05.02.2018 (The Taipei Times) - AFP, HANOI - A Vietnamese former oil executive allegedly kidnapped from Germany yesterday was jailed for life for embezzlement, state media reported, his second life sentence tied to a corruption crackdown. ...
Vietnam: nouvelle condamnation à la prison à vie pour un apparatchik enlevé en Allemagne
05.02.2018 (Le Point) - AFP - Un ancien apparatchik du régime communiste vietnamien, enlevé en Allemagne l'été dernier, a été condamné lundi à la prison à vie pour détournement de fonds, pour la deuxième fois en huit jours. ...
05.02.2018 (EUROPA PRESS) - Un tribunal de Vietnam ha condenado este lunes a cadena perpetua por corrupción al exalto cargo de PetroVietnam Trinh Xuan Thanh, quien fue sentenciado a esta misma pena hace dos semanas por cargos similares en otro caso contra él. ...
Four years in prison for Vietnamese blogger
02.02.2018 (RSF) - After Vietnamese blogger Ho Van Hai’s four-year jail sentence at the end of secret trial yesterday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the international community to step up its pressure on Vietnam to end its repeated violations of the freedom to inform. ...
Vietnam: 4 ans de prison pour l'auteur d'un blog critique du gouvernement
02.02.2018 (laminute.info) - Un blogueur vietnamien a été condamné à quatre ans de prison pour “propagande anti-étatique”, selon les médias officiels de ce pays communiste, qui ne cesse de durcir sa répression contre les opposants. Ho Van Hai, médecin de 54 ans, a été arrêté en novembre 2016 ...
Quatre ans de prison pour le blogueur vietnamien Ho Van Hai
02.02.2018 (RSF) - Le blogueur vietnamien Ho Van Hai a été condamné jeudi à une peine de quatre ans de prison pour “propagande contre l’Etat” à l’issue d’un procès à huis-clos. Reporters sans frontières (RSF) appelle la communauté internationale à intensifier sa pression sur le pays pour que cessent ces violations répétées de la liberté d’informer. ...
Prisión para un médico en Vietnam por difundir propaganda contra el estado
02.02.2018 (La Vanguardia) - Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) (EFE) - Un tribunal de Vietnam condenó a cuatro años de cárcel a un médico acusado de difundir propaganda contra el estado por publicar varios artículos críticos con el régimen comunista, informó hoy la prensa local. Ho Van Hai, de 54 años, ...
Vietnam doctor jailed for 'anti-state' posts
02.02.2018 (Daily Mail) - A doctor in Vietnam has been sentenced to four years in jail for "anti-state propaganda", state media reported, as part of a fresh wave of convictions in the one-party state accused of waging a crackdown on critics. ...
Prozess in Vietnam - Offenbar keine Todesstrafe für entführten Geschäftsmann
02.02.2018 (Spiegel Online) - Nach seiner mutmaßlichen Entführung aus Berlin steht ein vietnamesischer Geschäftsmann in Hanoi vor Gericht. Jetzt zeichnet sich ab: Der frühere Parteifunktionär könnte um eine Todesstrafe herumkommen. In einem ersten Verfahren war Trinh Xuan Thanh bereits zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt worden - wegen Korruption und Misswirtschaft. ...
Phu Yen wind farm receives investment go-ahead
02.02.2018 (Modern Power Systems) - A project to build a 300 MW wind farm, to be named HBRE-Phu Yen Wind Power Plant has received investment clearance and will be constructed in Tuy An district, Phú Yên Province, in the south of Vietnam. ...
A Former Refugee Reflects On The Vietnam War And Starting Over In The U.S.
02.02.2018 (NPR) - Lan Cao was just 7 years old when military forces launched an attack in her city outside of Saigon, Vietnam, in 1968. But she still remembers the chaos. The North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong launched similar attacks in more than 100 other South Vietnamese locations in what became known as the Tet Offensive. ...
US citizen accused of 'insulting' Vietnamese national hero
01.02.2018 (BBC) - Daniel Hauer lives in Vietnam, is married to a local woman and speaks fluent Vietnamese.
He has a wide local following on Facebook and Youtube for his English language teaching videos and his observations about Vietnamese and Western culture. ...
Vietnam Disidencia - Tres activistas condenados a prisión en Vietnam por delitos contra el Estado
01.02.2018 (La Vanguardia) - Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), 1 feb (EFE).- Un tribunal de Vietnam condenó a tres activistas pro democracia a penas de cárcel por delitos de "propaganda contra el Estado", cargo que se suele imputar a quienes critican al régimen comunista, informaron hoy medios locales. ...
Ein Bild und seine Geschichte - Als der General einen Vietcong erschoss
01.02.2018 Von Christoph Sator und Jochen Leffers (Spiegel) - Der Polizeichef von Saigon tötet einen Mann in Zivil per Kopfschuss. Das ist der Moment, den der US-Fotograf Eddie Adams am 1. Februar 1968 festhielt. So entstand vor genau 50 Jahren eines der berühmtesten Bilder der Kriegsfotografie. Adams sagte später immer wieder, dass er die Aufnahme bereue. Weil sie aus dem Kontext gerissen worden sei, nur eine "Halbwahrheit", so der Fotograf aus Pennsylvania ...
Tet offensive: A reporter looks back
01.02.2018 Dan Southerland (The Myanmar Times) - It was 50 years ago, but I still vividly recall the attack on Saigon. Like many others, I woke up in the South Vietnamese capital on January 30, 1968, thinking that I heard firecrackers exploding to celebrate Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year. ...
El autor de esta imagen de Vietnam siempre se arrepintió
31.01.2018 Martín Caparrós (El Pais Semanal) - Tendemos a fiarnos de las imágenes, pero estas también mienten, incluso sin estar manipuladas. Muchas veces solo nos ofrecen medias verdades.
El 1 de febrero de 1968 Eddie Adams tenía 34 años y llevaba tres cubriendo la guerra de Vietnam para Associated Press. ...
Vietnam Jails Three Democracy Advocates Over Online Postings
31.01.2018 (RFA) - A court in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi sentenced three democracy activists to long jail terms on Wednesday after convicting them of criticizing the country’s one-party communist government online, sources said.
Vu Quang Thuan, 51, Nguyen Van Dien, 35, and Tran Hoang Phuc, 23, were found guilty of “spreading propaganda against the state” ...
Mehrjährige Haftstrafen für Dissidenten in Vietnam
31.01.2018 (SN) - Wegen regierungskritischer Videoclips sind drei Dissidenten in Vietnam zu mehrjährigen Haftstrafen verurteilt worden. Ein Gericht in Hanoi befand die Männer im Alter von 23 und 51 Jahren am Mittwoch für schuldig, ...
Brot für die Welt beklagt zunehmende Einschränkungen von Bürgerrechten
31.01.2018 (Stern) - Die Hilfsorganisation Brot für die Welt hat sich alarmiert über Einschränkungen von Bürger- und Freiheitsrechten in der Welt geäußert. 173 Staaten behinderten in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß die Arbeit von Menschenrechtlern, Journalisten und politischen Aktivisten ...
Alltag Klimawandel: Leben mit Taifun und Dürre in Vietnam
30.01.2018 Kerstin Schweizer (DW) - Vietnam kommt wegen des Klimawandels kaum zur Ruhe. Immer wieder wird das Land von Stürmen, Fluten und Dürren heimgesucht. Die Menschen in den Dörfern versuchen, sich den Folgen, so gut es geht, anzupassen. ...
Vietnam's FPT scores major software contract from German utility
30.01.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - Ho Chi Minh City -- FPT Software, a subsidiary of Vietnamese information technology group FPT, has signed a $100 million contract to provide technological solutions for Germany-based utility Innogy for the period 2018-2024. ...
In Vietnam, life in the shadow of climate change
30.01.2018 Kerstin Schweizer (DW) - Climate change has hit Vietnam hard. The country is beset by storms, floods and droughts. Those living in villages are trying to adapt to the new reality of extreme weather, but it's not easy. ...
30.01.2018 (SCMP) - Air pollution in Hanoi is due to a number of factors, including a rise in construction works, an increase in car and motorcycle use, and agriculture burning by farmers ...
Vietnam: viviendo a la sombra del cambio climático
30.01.2018 Kerstin Schweizer (DW) - El cambio climático está golpeando con fuerza a Vietnam. El país se ve afectado por tormentas, inundaciones y sequías. Quienes viven en las aldeas intentan adaptarse a la nueva realidad, pero no es fácil. ...
30.01.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Der zweite Prozess gegen den mutmaßlich aus Deutschland entführten vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh soll an diesem Freitag fortgesetzt werden. Dies sagte sein Anwalt Nguyen Van Quynh in Vietnam am Montag der Deutschen Presse-Agentur. ...
Da wurde den Amerikanern klar: Der Vietnamkrieg ist nicht zu gewinnen
30.01.2018 Peter Winkler, Washington (NZZ) - In den frühen Morgenstunden des 31. Januar 1968 begannen Truppen der kommunistischen Vietcong-Guerilla und reguläre Einheiten Nordvietnams eine Überraschungsoffensive gegen das proamerikanische Südvietnam. ...
29.01.2018 Von Patrick Landthaler (ETF Extra Magazin) - In fast allen aufstrebenden, asiatischen Schwellenländern haben sich die Konjunkturdaten in den vergangenen Monaten weiter verbessert. China, Vietnam, Indonesien & Co. – das Wachstum im vierten Quartal vergangenen Jahres lag jeweils teils deutlich über den Erwartungen. ...
Vietnam: Drop Charges, Release Democracy Activists
29.01.2018 (HRW) - (New York) – The Vietnamese government should immediately drop all charges and release rights activists Vu Quang Thuan, Nguyen Van Dien, and Tran Hoang Phuc, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
Mass declared illegal in Nghệ An under a new law that hinders religious activities
29.01.2018 Joseph Huy (AsiaNews) – Hanoi - The Mass celebrated on 23 January in Song Ngọc parish, in the diocese of Vinh, has been declared "illegal” by the People's Committee of Quỳnh Ngọc, a municipality in the north-central province of Nghệ An. ...
La nouvelle loi vietnamienne sur la religion inquiète les chrétiens
29.01.2018 Billy Graham (Journal Chretien) - Une nouvelle loi sur la croyance et la religion entrée en vigueur le 1er janvier au Vietnam inquiète les chrétiens car elle menace de limiter leurs libertés. ...
Nghệ An: Misas "ilegales". La nueva ley busca ‘obstaculizar las actividades religiosas’
29.01.2018 Joseph Huy (AsiaNews) – Hanói - La misa celebrada el 23 de enero pasado en la parroquia de Song Ngọc, en la diócesis de Vinh, es “ilegal”. Es lo que establece el Comité del pueblo de la comuna de Quỳnh Ngọc, en la provincia centro-septentrional de Nghệ An, que en un comunicado oficial amonesta al vicario y al Comité pastoral de la iglesia. ...
Be Concerned About China's Growing "Unilateral Assertion," Says Ex-Diplomat Shyam Saran
29.01.2018 (New Delhi Television) - JAIPUR: India should be concerned about the "inroads" China is making in its neighbourhood and must work more closely with countries like the US, Japan and Vietnam to counter Beijing's rise and "unilateral assertion", former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran has said. ...
Hué, el principio del fin de Vietnam
29.01.2018 Jorge Vilches (La Razon) - Aprovechó el Vietcong el alto el fuego por el año nuevo local para sorprender a sureños y norteamericanos y asestar, el 30 de enero de 1968, el primer golpe de la Ofensiva del Tet ...
Hué era la vieja capital del Imperio de Annan.
„Noch immer träume ich von den Leichen“
28.01.2018 von: Uwe Siemon-Netto (BamS) - „Ich habe genug vom Tod“, war die Headline meiner Reportage in der BamS über die kommunistische Têt-Offensive in Südvietnam vor genau 50 Jahren. Es war das grauenvollste Erlebnis in meiner Laufbahn als Journalist. Noch heute träume ich von Massengräbern mit den Leichen ermordeter Frauen und Kinder in der alten Kaiserstadt Hué, wo bis zu 6000 Zivilisten starben. ...
Prozess gegen mutmaßlich entführten Manager unterbrochen
28.01.2018 (Handelsblatt) - Hanoi - Der zweite Prozess gegen den mutmaßlich aus Deutschland entführten Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh in Vietnam ist auf unbestimmte Zeit unterbrochen worden. ...
Les Accords de Paris signés en 1973 n'apportent pas encore la paix au Vietnam
27.01.2018 Par Véronique Laroche-Signorile (Le Figaro) - Un paix bien lointaine. Le 27 janvier 1973 les Accords de Paris sont signés au Centre des conférences internationales, avenue Kléber, dans le XVIe arrondissement de la capitale. Il s'agit d'un «accord sur le cessez-le-feu et le rétablissement de la paix au Vietnam». ...
Davos: Globalisierung muss weitergehen - Umstrittene Abkommen auch ohne USA
26.01.2018 (RT) - Auf dem Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos verkündete der kanadische Premierminister Justin Trudeau am Dienstag, dass das Transpazifische Handelsabkommen TPP ohne die USA fortgesetzt wird. Die elf verbliebenen Partnerstaaten hätten sich auf einen neuen Vertrag geeinigt. ...
How China Used Schools to Win Over Hanoi
26.01.2018 Olga Dror (NYT) - In December 1966, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or North Vietnam, and the People’s Republic of China signed an agreement to establish schools for North Vietnamese children in China, with China providing the facilities, funds and equipment. ...
Vietnam arrests former executive in widened graft crackdown
26.01.2018 (The Washington Post) - HANOI, Vietnam — Police in Vietnam arrested the former chairman of a scandal-hit major state-owned conglomerate for alleged abuse of power as communist authorities step up their crackdown on graft. ...
Hong Chau: It’s about time we saw more diversity in Hollywood
26.01.2018 By Hayley Campbell (The Pool) - Hayley Campbell meets the Golden Globe-nominated actress ahead of her new film, out this week. I just want more diversity in just what’s available as a person who loves to go to the movies,” says Hong Chau, the Golden Globe-nominated star of Alexander Payne’s new movie, Downsizing. ...
Vietnam: Crackdown on Rights Activists - Pro-Environment Supporters Targeted
24.01.2018 (Human Rights Watch) - (New York) – Vietnam should drop charges against human rights defender Hoang Duc Binh and another defendant, Nguyen Nam Phong, and immediately release them, Human Rights Watch said today. Both men have been charged under the criminal code for taking part in protests and advocacy in relation to the massive marine disaster caused by the Taiwanese steel company Formosa along the central coast of Vietnam in April 2016. ...
Ausbeutung in Vietnam: 1.200 Paar Schuhe für 9 Dollar
24.01.2018 (Oxfam) - Die 32-jährige Duong Thi Lan arbeitet in einer Fabrik in der Dong Nai Provinz in Vietnam. Dort näht sie Absätze und Sohlen für Schuhe internationaler Marken zusammen. Sie arbeitet sechs Tage die Woche, neun Stunden am Tag, erhält etwa 1 US-Dollar pro Stunde. Pro Tag arbeitet sie an 1.200 Paar Schuhen ...
Shark fins found drying on embassy roof in Chile
23.01.2018 (Lailailaila) - Vietnamese ministries are scrambling to clarify a controversial report that claims officials in Chile have been drying shark fins on the roof of the Vietnamese embassy. Chile passed a nationwide ban on shark finning in 2011. ...
Amnesty kritisiert Urteil gegen Geschäftsmann
22.01.2018 (Deutschlandradio) - Amnesty International hat die lebenslange Haftstrafe gegen den vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh als politisch motiviert bewertet. ...
22.01.2018 Von Vanessa Steinmetz (Spiegel Online) - Vietnam, eines der letzten kommunistischen Regime der Welt, wird immer repressiver. Das zeigt die Entführung und Verurteilung eines Geschäftsmannes aus Berlin. Im Juli war Trinh Xuân Thanh aus seinem Exil in Berlin entführt worden. In Vietnam musste er sich wegen Korruption einem Gericht stellen; das verurteilte ihn nun zu lebenslanger Haft. ...
Vietnam jails former oil executives in graft case
22.01.2018 (PressTv) - A former oil executive has been sentenced to life in prison and a former high-ranking Vietnamese government official has received a lengthy prison term at the end of a major corruption trial. Foreign media were not allowed to attend the two-week trial ...
Vietnam: Der lange Arm des Regimes in Hanoi
22.01.2018 von Irene Zöch (DiePresse) - Berlin/Wien. Der Fall rund um den vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh liest sich wie ein Politthriller aus den internationalen Bestsellerlisten. Am gestrigen Montag kam es zu einem vorläufig letzten Kapitel: Der 52-Jährige wurde in Hanoi nach einem zweiwöchigen Prozess der Misswirtschaft und Unterschlagung für schuldig befunden. ...
Vietnam oil exec 'kidnapped' from Germany jailed for life
22.01.2018 Tran Thi Minh Ha (Mail & Guardian Online) - A Vietnamese former state oil executive who was allegedly kidnapped from Germany was jailed for life on Monday for embezzlement, in the highest-profile corruption trial to target the communist country’s business and political elite. ...
Vietnam: prison à vie pour l’apparatchik corrompu
22.01.2018 (RFI) - On avait beaucoup parlé l’été dernier de cet apparatchik vietnamien enlevé par les services secrets dans un parc en Allemagne. Ce lundi 22 janvier, il a été condamné à la prison à vie à Hanoï pour corruption. ...
Prisión por corrupción para exdirectivos de empresa estatal en Vietnam
22.01.2018 (WRadio) - Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), 22 ene (EFE).- Un tribunal de Vietnam impuso hoy penas de prisión a más de una docena de exdirectivos de PetroVietnam por un caso de corrupción en la empresa estatal de hidrocarburos, informó la prensa estatal. ...
Vietnam verurteilt aus Berlin entführten Manager
22.01.2018 (T-Online) - Die vietnamesische Justiz hat den Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh wegen Misswirtschaft und Unterschlagung zu einer lebenslangen Gefängnisstrafe verurteilt. Der Manager hatte in Deutschland Asyl beantragt und hielt sich bis Juli in Berlin auf. ...
What’s Behind the Demise of Vietnam’s 'Captain Sidewalk'?
19.01.2018 By Erin Cook (The Diplomat) - An ambitious plan to clear the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and return the sidewalks to pedestrians virtually whimpered to death this month with the resignation of its fiercest and most controversial proponent. ...
China is a disruptive force, US Pacific military chief says
18.01.2018 By Sanjeev Miglani (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - NEW DELHI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. military's Pacific command called China a disruptive power in the Indo-Pacific region on Thursday and urged countries in the area to build capabilities and work together to ensure free and open seas. ...
18.01.2018 (Human Rights Watch) - (New York) – Vietnam’s repression of human rights and democracy activists increased significantly in 2017, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2018. ...
Vietnam redobla sus esfuerzos para controlar internet
18.01.2018 Eric San Juan (14ymedio) - (EFE).- El aumento de la contestación ciudadana en blogs y redes sociales ha obligado al régimen socialista de Vietnam a redoblar esfuerzos para controlar los contenidos de internet, para lo que busca la colaboración de grandes empresas como Google y Facebook. ...
Nghệ An, confirman condena del activista católico Nguyen Van Oai
17.01.2018 (AsiaNews) – Hanói – Un tribunal de la provincia centro-septentrional de Nghệ An confirma la pena de reclusión para el bloguero católico Nguyen Van Oai, rechazando su apelación y llevándolo nuevamente a prisión. ...
Angeklagter bittet im TXT-Prozess um Milde
17.01.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Im Korruptionsprozess gegen den mutmaßlich aus Deutschland entführten vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh hat der Angeklagte um ein mildes Urteil gebeten. ...
Vietnam oil executives apologize to Communist Party in corruption trial
17.01.2018 Mi Nguyen (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnamese executives on trial for losses at a scandal-hit state oil firm used their final statement in court on Wednesday to apologize to the ruling Communist Party, media said, as Vietnam’s biggest corruption trial for years draws to a close. ...
Vietnam’s corruption crackdown is targeting the powerful. Has it gone too far?
16.01.2018 by Jessica Meyers (Los Angeles Times) - The world learned of Vietnam’s anti-corruption drive on a warm summer day in Berlin, when park goers reportedly watched as agents crammed a Vietnamese oil executive into a car. ...
The Press Is Under Attack In Southeast Asia And It's Only Going To Get Worse
16.01.2018 Megha Rajagopalan (BuzzFeed News) - From Vietnam to Indonesia, press freedom in Southeast Asia is deteriorating, spurred by the rise of authoritarian governments and enabled by the Trump administration's relative indifference to human rights issues. ...
Vietnam upholds jail term for dissident amid crackdown on activists
15.01.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - A court in Vietnam upheld a five-year prison sentence on Monday for a dissident convicted of anti-state activities who violated the terms of his probation, state media said, the latest ruling in a series against activists. ...
Vietnam adjusts to the Trump era
15.01.2018 Editorial Board (East Asia Forum) - The past year has been one of readjustment for Vietnam as it was forced to adapt to the new economic and geopolitical realities of the Trump presidency. ...
Revisiting Vietnam 50 Years After the Tet Offensive
15.01.2018 By Nguyen Qui Duc (Smithsonian Magazin) - A few years ago, a French-German TV crew visited my home in Hanoi for an interview on how Vietnam had changed since the end of the war with America. We talked of postwar problems, We also talked of history. At one point, our conversation veered toward the events surrounding the Tet Offensive, in January 1968. It took but a few seconds for the government media minder, an official of the foreign ministry, to stop us. ...
Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Nguyen Van Oai - Intensive Crackdown on Rights Campaigners
14.01.2018 (HRW) - (New York) – Vietnam should drop charges of violating probation against the veteran human rights activist Nguyen Van Oai and allow him to go home, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
Vietnam: Die ersten Klimaflüchtlinge
12.01.2018 Wolfgang Pomrehn (Telepolis) - Vietnam hat ein Problem. Ein Klimawandel-Problem. Der äußerste Süden des Landes, das Mekong-Delta, ist nicht nur für die Wirtschaft des Landes und die Versorgung seiner Bewohner von besonderer Bedeutung, es ist auch durch das ansteigende Meer besonders gefährdet. ...
Book Review: Cultural Stagnation bred by Vietnamese censorship
12.01.2018 (Asia Sentinel) - Can a nation develop commerce but not its culture? Thomas Bass’ new book Censorship in Vietnam: Brave New World takes a deep dive into the perilous world of Vietnamese expression. It is a country with some of the world’s least penetrable politics. ...
12.01.2018 Jutta Lietsch (taz) - Selten war es so voll in unserem Café in der Berliner Rudi-Dutschke-Straße wie Mittwochabend. Die taz hatte zu einer ihrer Diskussionsveranstaltungen geladen, im Mittelpunkt stand diesmal: Vietnam und sein Umgang mit Journalisten und Bloggern – unter der Überschrift „Der lange Arm Hanois?“. ...
Benedictine monks in Thiên An resist pressures and interference from local authorities
12.01.2018 Nguyen Van (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – The monks of the Benedictine monastery of Thiên An, in the archdiocese of Huế (Thừa Thiên Huế province), have launched a protest against the interference by the authorities in the life of their community. ...
Vietnam’s “cyber-troop” announcement fuels concern about troll armies
12.01.2018 (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to learn that Vietnam has announced the deployment of 10,000 “cyber-troops” to combat online dissent. ...
Thien An, presiones e injerencias: monjes benedectinos contra las autoridades locales
12.01.2018 Nguyen Van (AsiaNews) - Hanói – Los monjes de monasterio benedictino de Thiên An, en la arquidiócesis de Huế (provincia centro-septentrional de Thừa Thiên Huế), protestan contra la injerencia en la vida de su comunidad. ...
12.01.2018 (RSF) - Le Vietnam a annoncé le déploiement d’une armée de 10.000 “cyber-inspecteurs”, qui aura pour objectif affiché de combattre la dissidence en ligne. RSF alerte sur cette tendance inquiétante des Etats qui consiste à monter des armées de trolls pour mieux cibler, attaquer et faire taire les journalistes et médias indépendants. ...
Vietnamese Former Political Prisoner Arrested For 'Distributing Anti-State Materials Online'
12.01.2018 (RFA) - A former political prisoner arrested in December by police in southeastern Vietnam’s Dong Nai province was taken into custody without a warrant and with no word given to his family as to when he may be released, the man’s son said. ...
What’s Behind Vietnam’s New Military Cyber Command?
12.01.2018 By Prashanth Parameswaran (The Diplomat) - On Monday, Vietnam officially announced what the government characterized as a designated cyberspace operations command. The development was just the latest in a series of moves we have seen from the Southeast Asian state ...
Climate change is driving migration from Vietnam’s Mekong delta
11.01.2018 By Alex Chapman and Van Pham Dang Tri (Climate Home) - Saltwater intrusion and drought are destroying crops in one of the most fertile places on earth, prompting an exodus of farmers. ...
Dieser globale Konflikt könnte 2018 eskalieren – und kaum jemand beachtet ihn
11.01.2018 Von Josh Groeneveld (Huffingtonpost) - Es geht um künstliche Inseln - und einen möglichen Krieg zwischen China und den USA. Die Inselgruppen Paracel und Spratly liegen mitten im Nirgendwo, auf hoher See zwischen Vietnam, China, den Philippinen und Malaysia. ...
Keine Todesstrafe für entführten Geschäftsmann in Vietnam gefordert
11.01.2018 (Handelsblatt) - Im Prozess um den mutmaßlich aus Deutschland entführten vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh sieht die Staatsanwaltschaft von der Forderung der Todesstrafe ab. Dies bestätigte Thanhs deutsche Anwältin am Donnerstag der Deutschen Presse-Agentur. ...
Vietnam seeks lengthy jail terms for former officials of state oil firm: media
11.01.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - Prosecutors in Vietnam were seeking long jail terms on Thursday for a former member of the country’s ruling politburo and a high-profile former official over losses of hundreds of millions of dollars at a state oil firm, domestic media said. ...
Hanoi debuting scandal-plagued SOEs with executives in court
11.01.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam or PVN) is sending three subsidiaries to market this month with initial public offerings (IPOs) that coincide with corruption trials involving former senior officials. ...
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10.01.2018 Mi Nguyen, Alex Dobuzinskis (Reuters) - HANOI/LOS ANGELES - Vietnam is gripped by its highest profile corruption trial in memory, but some spectators are questioning whether the Communist Party elite in the dock were charged because of infighting in the ruling class or a crackdown on abuse of office. ...
10.01.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Trinh Xuan Thanh steht in Vietnam vor Gericht, ihm droht die Todesstrafe. Der Geschäftsmann wurde vermutlich vom Geheimdienst seines Heimatlandes aus Deutschland entführt. An den Berichten der vietnamesischen Staatsmedien über den Prozess gibt es Zweifel. ...
09.01.2018 Von Arne Perras (SZ) - Die Regierung in Hanoi hat sich durch die mutmaßliche Entführung eines Vietnamesen aus Deutschland in ein verwerfliches Abenteuer gestürzt. Sie will die Korruption bekämpfen, doch sie tut das mit falschen Mitteln. Außenpolitisch zahlt das Land dafür einen hohen Preis. ...
Refugee Becomes First Vietnamese-American Politician Elected in Massachusetts
08.01.2017 By Bryan Ke (Nextshark) - Dean Tran, the first Vietnamese-American politician to ever win a Massachusetts State Senate seat, has been sworn-in after a victory by 700 votes at a special election in December 2017 to replace Jennifer Flanagan. ...
Vietnam: début du procès de Trinh Xuan Thanh, enlevé à Berlin l'été dernier
08.01.2018 Frédéric Noir (RFI) - A Hanoï, au Vietnam, débute ce lundi 8 janvier 2018 le procès d’un ancien responsable d’une société pétrolière enlevé à Berlin en juillet dernier. Accusé de corruption par le régime communiste, il risque la peine de mort. ...
Berliner Vietnamesen haben Angst, sich zu äußern
08.01.2018 Von Nancy Fischer (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) - Im Sommer 2017 wird in Berlin ein Mann in ein Auto gezerrt und verschleppt. Wenig später taucht er in Vietnam auf - im Gefängnis. Jetzt steht er dort vor Gericht. Die Berliner Vietnamesen halten sich in dem Fall äußerst bedeckt. ...
Vietnam sets up command center for cyberspace defense
08.01.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnam announced on Monday the creation of a cyberspace operations command to protect its sovereignty on the Internet, ...
KORRUPTIONSPROZESS IN VIETNAM - Entführung ist Vertrauensbruch
08.01.2018 (Die Bundesregierung) - In Hanoi hat der Korruptionsprozess gegen Trinh Xuan Thanh begonnen - einen vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann, der im August 2017 aus Deutschland entführt worden war. Die Entführung auf deutschem Boden sei inakzeptabel und habe das Vertrauen zwischen Vietnam und Deutschland gestört, so Regierungssprecher Seibert. ...
Wie sich Vietnam ins internationale Abseits manövrierte
08.01.2018 Von Arne Perras (SZ) - Was hatte man sich nicht alles vorgenommen, damals, 2011, als die Kanzlerin nach Hanoi gereist war. Deutschland und Vietnam versicherten einander, wie gut es doch um die Beziehungen beider Länder stünde. Doch dann wurde es im Sommer 2017 schlagartig frostig. ...
Lawyer: Thanh won't get a fair trial in Vietnam
08.01.2018 (DW) - Petra Schlagenhauf, German lawyer of "kidnapped" Vietnamese oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh, tells DW that she doesn't expect a fair trail for her client in Hanoi. ...
Prozessauftakt in Hanoi - Mutmaßlich in Berlin entführtem Vietnamesen droht Todesstrafe
08.01.2018 (Stern) - In Hanoi hat der Prozess gegen einen vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann begonnen, der vermutlich in Berlin entführt wurde. Der Vorfall hat zu diplomatischen Verwerfungen zwischen Deutschland und Vietnam geführt. ...
Explainer: What's Behind Vietnam's Corruption Crackdown?
08.01.2018 (U.S. News & World Report) - HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam brought 22 executives to court over losses at the state oil firm on Monday, in the most important trial of a widening crackdown on corruption. Among those being tried was the first politburo member to be arrested in decades. ...
Die internationale Dimension des Fall Trinh Xuan Thanh
08.01.2018 Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - Trinh Xuan Thanh sieht sich in Hanoi mit zwei Vorwürfen konfrontiert. Zum einen soll er als Chef des staatlichen Unternehmens PVC, einer Tochterfirma des staatlichen Öl- und Gaskonzerns PetroVietnam, Geld veruntreut und durch Missmanagement erhebliche finanzielle Schäden verursacht habe. ...
Berlin 'kidnapping': Nowhere to run from Vietnam's anti-corruption campaign
08.01.2018 Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - The trial of a Vietnamese oil executive, who was "kidnapped" after fleeing to Berlin, has drawn attention to a widespread anti-corruption campaign in Vietnam that is having implications for the country's image abroad. ...
Vietnam: la dimensión internacional del caso Trinh Xuan Thanh
08.01.2018 Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - La campaña anticorrupción de Vietnam trasciende fronteras: este lunes comienza el proceso contra el exfuncionario del partido comunista vietnamita Trinh Xuan Thanh, que había sido secuestrado en Berlín. ...
Aus Berlin entführter Vietnamese vor Gericht
08.01.2018 (DW) - Mit einem Großaufgebot an Polizei hat in Vietnams Hauptstadt Hanoi der Korruptionsprozess gegen einen mutmaßlich aus Deutschland nach Vietnam entführten Geschäftsmann begonnen. Dem ehemaligen kommunistischen Funktionär Trinh Xuan Thanh wird vorgeworfen, sich als Chef eines staatlichen Baukonzerns persönlich bereichert zu haben. ...
Trial of Vietnam oil executive allegedly kidnapped in Germany begins in Hanoi
08.01.2018 (DW) - The high-profile corruption trial against 22 former oil executives, including a manager Germany accuses Vietnam of kidnapping in Berlin last year, began in Hanoi on Monday. ...
Sudden fall of top Viet officials raises questions
07.01.2018 Tan Hui Yee (The Straits Times) - One was a property developer-cum-intelligence officer who fled Vietnam, only to be deported back to his home country. Another was a Lexus-driving former state enterprise executive who sought asylum in Germany, ...
07.01.2018 Von Ronen Steinke, Berlin (SZ) - Die deutsche Regierung setzt sich gerade für eine Reihe von politisch Inhaftierten ein, vor allem in der Türkei. Journalisten, Menschenrechtler, Pilger. Da fällt dieser eine dann ziemlich aus dem Rahmen. Weder ist der Mann, dessen Prozess an diesem Montag beginnt, ein Deutscher, ...
Vietnam: Familie zahlt vor Prozess Entschädigung
07.01.2018 (DiePresse) - Kurz vor Beginn des Prozesses gegen einen mutmaßlich aus Deutschland nach Vietnam entführten Geschäftsmann hat dessen Familie versucht, mit einer Geldzahlung einen Strafnachlass zu erwirken. ...
Bekanntester Blogger Vietnams Bui Thanh Hieu: „Das vietnamesische System muss weg“
06.01.2018 von Silvia Perdoni (Berliner Zeitung) - Er hatte seinem Freund mehrmals zu Bodyguards geraten. Das erzählt Bui Thanh Hieu gleich am Anfang des Gesprächs. Er ahnte, dass die mächtigen Männer, die den Freund zur Flucht aus der gemeinsamen Heimat Vietnam getrieben hatten, ihn auch in Berlin suchen würden. ...
Vietnamese Former Political Prisoner Held on ‘Public Disorder’ Charge
05.01.2018 (RFA) - A Vietnamese democracy advocate was taken into custody in Hanoi on Thursday by police who charged him with disorderly conduct after they broke up a lunch meeting held with friends at a local restaurant, sources said. ...
Entführter Vietnamese - Diplomatischer Streit spitzt sich zu
05.01.2018 (ARD) - Die mutmaßliche Entführung eines Managers von Berlin nach Vietnam belastet bereits seit Monaten die Beziehungen beider Länder. Vietnam sperrt internationale Medien von dem Prozess aus. Der deutschen Anwältin des Managers wurde die Einreise verweigert. ...
Bundesregierung besteht auf Beobachter bei Korruptionsprozess in Vietnam
05.01.2018 (DW) - Am Montag beginnt in Vietnam der Prozess gegen den mutmaßlich aus Deutschland entführten Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh. Die kommunistische Regierung hat die ausländischen Medien von dem Verfahren ausgeschlossen. Das deutsche Außenministerium will sich nicht so leicht abfinden lassen. Man habe den vietnamesischen Botschafter ins Auswärtige Amt eingeladen und ihm die "nachdrückliche Bitte" vorgetragen, einen Beobachter in das Verfahren schicken zu können, teilte eine Sprecherin des Ministeriums in Berlin mit ...
Vietnam: How Are Anti-Corruption and Factional In-fighting Linked?
05.01.2018 Carlyle A. Thayer (Thayer Consultancy) - At the 12th National Congress of the Vietnam Communist Party, to use an expression by a retired American diplomat David Brown, “an anything but [Prime Minister Nguyen Tan] Dung coalition” formed and prevented him from becoming the next party Secretary General. ...
Der Fall TXT – erst verschleppt, dann Todesurteil?
04.01.2018 (Hannoversche Allgemeine) - Hanoi - Die mutmaßliche Entführung eines Vietnamesen aus Deutschland belastet die Beziehungen zwischen Berlin und Hanoi massiv. Jetzt kommt der Geschäftsmann vor Gericht. Ihm droht ein hartes Urteil – bis hin zur Todesstrafe. ...
Vietnam To Send 100,000 Workers Abroad Annually
03.01.2018 (Bernama) - HANOI -- Vietnam plans to send 100,000 to 120,000 workers to other countries each year by 2020, according to its Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs ...
Vietnam: Public Security Officer Charged with Revealing State Secrets
03.01.2018 Carlyle A. Thayer (Thayer Consultancy) - ... The two cases have some elements of similarity. Both Trinh Xuan Thanh and Phan Van Anh Vu sought to avoid arrest in Vietnam by fleeing to Germany and seeking asylum. German law does not permit extradition to countries where a death penalty could be imposed. But Anh Vu was charged under Article 263 of the Penal Code and this only imposes lengthy sentences from two to fifteen years. ...
Vietnamese Catholics Protest Officials’ Interference in Their Parish
03.01.2018 (RFA) - Leaders of a Catholic monastery in north-central Vietnam’s Thua Thien Hue province are protesting authorities’ interference in the life of their community, accusing local officials of seeking to have their senior priest removed from his office, sources say. ...
Politische Entführung : Der Mann, der zu viel weiß
03.01.2018 von Till Fähnders, Singapur (FAZ) - Dem in Berlin entführten vietnamesischen Geschäftsmann Trinh Xuan Thanh droht in seiner Heimat ein Prozess wegen Korruption. Nun könnte aber ein inhaftierter Landsmann brisante Details zum Fall offenbaren. Der Vorwurf wiegt schwer. Ein Mann, der sich derzeit im Gewahrsam der singapurischen Einwanderungsbehörde befindet und in Deutschland eine Aufenthaltsgenehmigung beantragen möchte, soll wichtige Informationen über die Entführung des Vietnamesen Trinh Xuan Thanh aus Berlin im vergangenen Sommer haben. ...
Kommt Licht in Berlin-Vietnam-Fall ?
03.01.2018 (Der Farang) - SINGAPUR (dpa) - Ein Vietnamese verschwindet in Berlin, ein anderer wird in Singapur festgenommen. Hat das eine mit dem anderen zu tun? Während in Hanoi der Prozess gegen einen mutmaßlich aus Deutschland entführten Ex-Funktionär bevorsteht, sorgt nun die Festnahme eines wegen Geheimnisverrats gesuchten Vietnamesen in Singapur für Aufsehen. ...
Vietnamesischer Geheimdienstler fürchtet Schlimmes bei Abschiebung aus Singapur
03.01.2018 (24matins.de) - Ein in Singapur festgenommener vietnamesischer Geheimdienstoffizier mit Hintergrundwissen zum Fall des offenbar aus Berlin entführten Vietnamesen Trinh Xuan Thanh befürchtet für den Fall seiner Auslieferung an Vietnam schlimme Folgen. ...
Singapore arrests Vietnamese spy linked to Berlin kidnapping
03.01.2018 (DW) - A lawyer has urged Berlin to help a detained intelligence officer, who has "valuable information" and wants to go to Germany. The man has been accused of "revealing state secrets," a crime punishable by death in Vietnam. ...
Fugitive Vietnam agent concerned for his safety if sent home
03.01.2018 (Daily Mail) - A fugitive Vietnamese intelligence officer detained in Singapore has "serious concerns" for his well-being if he were sent home, his lawyer warned Wednesday, a move that could see him condemned to death. ...
Force 47 – The Vietnamese brigade tasked with fighting “wrongful views” spreading online
02.01.2018 By Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs) - Force 47 is a brigade composed of 10,000 cyber warriors to fight online dissent in Vietnam, a new threat to freedom of speech in the country. ...
Vietnamesischer Geheimdienstler will nach Deutschland ausreisen
02.01.2018 (Spiegel Online) - Nach der Festnahme eines vietnamesischen Geheimdienstoffiziers in Singapur hat dessen deutscher Anwalt die Aufnahme seines Mandanten in Deutschland beantragt. Phan Van Anh Vu, der in Vietnam wegen des Verrats von Staatsgeheimnissen gesucht wird, drohe im Fall seiner Abschiebung in seiner Heimat die Todesstrafe, heißt es in dem Schreiben des Anwaltsbüros an die deutsche Botschaft in Singapur. ...
Vietnamese fugitive detained in Singapore seeks passage to Germany
02.01.2018 By John Geddie and Madeline Chambers (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - SINGAPORE/BERLIN (Reuters) - A Vietnamese tycoon detained in Singapore is seeking passage to Germany to avoid being sent back home where he could face the death penalty, his lawyers said on Tuesday. Phan Van Anh Vu, 42, who media say is wanted in Vietnam for revealing state secrets, was detained in Singapore ...
Fugitive Vietnamese businessman detained in Singapore, lawyers say
02.01.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - SINGAPORE (Reuters) -- A real estate developer wanted by Vietnamese authorities amid a crackdown on corruption has been detained in Singapore, lawyers representing him said on Tuesday. ...
Anwalt fordert Aufnahme von in Singapur festgenommenem Vietnamesen in Deutschland
02.01.2018 (Stern) - Die Affäre um den offenbar vom vietnamesischen Geheimdienst aus Berlin entführten Vietnamesen Trinh Xuan Thanh weitet sich aus. Nach der Festnahme eines flüchtigen vietnamesischen Geheimdienstoffiziers in Singapur hat dessen deutscher Anwalt die Aufnahme seines Mandanten in Deutschland beantragt. ...
Entführung von Berlin nach Vietnam - Mitwisser in Singapur in Haft
01.01.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - BERLIN taz | Ein vietnamesischer Geheimdienstoffizier hat sich ins Ausland abgesetzt. Fluchtziel: Deutschland. Er will Interna über die Entführung des vietnamesischen Expolitikers Trinh Xuan Thanh aus Berlin nach Hanoi vom vergangenen Sommer sowie brisante Unterlagen den Ermittlern in Berlin preisgeben, sagt der Berliner Blogger Bui Thanh Hieu der taz. ...
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