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Das Ende der Selbstzerfleischung

31.12.2018 Marina Mai (tz) - Vor acht Jahren gründete sich der Bundesverband der Vietnamesen in Deutschland. Der Verein blieb unsichtbar – und zerlegte sich in Streitigkeiten. Nun wurde der Verband wegen Insolvenz aufgelöst. ...

Stability tests abound for Vietnam

31.12.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - What will Vietnam’s defining moment be in 2019? For the country’s growing but repressed pro-democracy movement, it will likely be the introduction on January 1 of a new cyber-security law that will give the ruling Communist Party vastly greater powers to censor the internet. ...

Minister demands harsher penalties for illegal migration after disappearances

31.12.2018 (Taipei Times) - Stricter penalties for immigration offenses are to prevent incidents such as the sudden disappearance of 148 Vietnamese tourists earlier this month, the Cabinet said on Saturday. ...

Vietnam Promises Big Privatization Push For 2019, But Reality May Fall Short

30.12.2018 Ralph Jennings (Forbes) - With Vietnam on track to grow its economy at more than 6% this year on the back of foreign investment in export manufacturing, it’s easy to forget that a communist party still runs this Southeast Asian nation and, in effect, many of its largest companies. ...

Vietnam's first privately owned airport opens for business

30.12.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - QUANG NINH PROVINCE, Vietnam -- Vietnam's first privately owned airport opened on Sunday, underscoring efforts by the debt-strapped government to tap private sources to fund key infrastructure projects. ...

Trans-Pacific Partnership to Enter Into Force on 30 December

30.12.2018 (Sputnik) - The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will enter into force on 30 December, 60 days after Vietnam, the seventh party to the TPP, had ratified the deal. ...

Tough South China Sea talks ahead as Vietnam seeks to curb China's actions

30.12.2018 Greg Torode (Reuters) - HONG KONG - Tough negotiations lie ahead over a new pact between China and Southeast Asian nations aimed at easing tensions in the South China Sea, as Vietnam pushes for provisions likely to prove unpalatable to Beijing, documents reviewed by Reuters suggest. ...

Vietnamese Activist Given Five-Year, Six-Month Prison Term for Defaming Government

28.12.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese democracy activist Huynh Truong Ca was sentenced on Friday by a court in southern Vietnam’s Dong Thap province to a five-year, six-month prison term for criticizing the country’s communist government in a series of online postings, state media and other sources said. ...

Taiwan: 152 Vietnam tourists 'disappear' during holiday

26.12.2018 (BBC) - The Taiwanese authorities are searching for 152 Vietnamese people who arrived on tourist visas last week and have since gone missing ...

Vietnam Court Rejects Activist’s Appeal of Lengthy Subversion Sentence

26.12.2018 (RFA) - A court in Vietnam threw out an appeal by Vietnamese activist Nguyen Trung Truc, a member of the online Brotherhood for Democracy advocacy group, against his 12-year jail sentence for subversion. ...

Scandal-Plagued Facebook Goes on Charm Offensive in Vietnam

25.12.2018 Ha Nguyen (VOA) - Before Facebook, Vu Kim Chi thought something was lacking in her job, which is to promote the economy in and around Vietnam's famed Ha Long Bay. Posting updates to her department's website, or photocopying missives to send to constituents, she said, was mostly one-sided. ...

Chinas Vorpreschen in Asien : Pekings Landnahme

22.12.2018 von Christoph Hein, Singapur (FAZ) - Seit fünf Jahren befestigt China Inseln im Südchinesischen Meer und baut damit seine Macht aus. Nun regt sich international Widerstand. Nur die Europäer bleiben außen vor. ...

Vietnam: How Facebook is being abused to silence critics in Germany

21.12.2018 (RSF) - Facebook is being systematically abused to censor Vietnamese bloggers living in exile. According to the information available to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in the last few months the social network has repeatedly deleted posts and also blocked the accounts of such individuals due to alleged violations of its “Community Standards”. ...

Vietnamese fisherman finds Chinese torpedo in his net

21.12.2018 (Asia Times) - On December 18, fisherman Tran Minh Thanh netted the torpedo about four nautical miles off the shores of An Hai commune in Tuy An, Phu Yen, Vietnam Plus reported. ...

Vietnam could allow the Holy See to appoint a nuncio ‘in the near future’

21.12.2018 Carol Glatz (Catholic Herald) - Delegations from the Vatican and from Vietnam reported continued progress in their discussions, including agreeing on “upgrading” relations with a permanent papal representative “in the near future,” a Vatican press statement said. ...

Bacterial resistance to last-resort antibiotic is spreading at alarming rate in Vietnam

21.12.2018 By Sally Robertson, B.Sc. (News-Medical) - Researchers at Osaka University have discovered that polymyxin E-resistant Escherichia coli is widely prevalent among people living in rural Vietnam. ...

Vietnam: Big Brother Is Watching Everyone

20.12.2018 (Human Rights Watch) - (New York) – Draft Cyber Security Decree Will Seriously Undermine Rights.

Vietnam should postpone the application of the Law on Cyber Security and revise it to bring it to conformity with international law, Human Rights Watch said today. ...

Dao women in Vietnam preserve traditional embroidery

20.12.2018 (Asia Times) - Intellectuals urge authorities to help ethnic groups preserve their culture and at the same time boost tourism. An increase in imports into the local Vietnamese market is threatening traditional embroidery, which ethnic Dao women are desperately trying to preserve. ...

Vietnam : pour la 1ère fois en 8 ans, 100 églises autorisées à fêter Noël en public

20.12.2018 (Portes Ouvertes) - Pour la première fois depuis 8 ans, des églises appartenant à l’Église Évangélique du Vietnam ont pu organiser un grand événement de Noël public en plein air. ...

BQ: Europäische Smartphone-Marke nach Vietnam verkauft

20.12.2018 Von Alexander Kuch (teltarif) - BQ, eine der letzten bekannten europäischen Smartphone-Firmen, verliert die Selbständigkeit. Vingroup, die größte private Unternehmensgruppe Vietnams, hat den spanischen Hersteller mehrheitlich übernommen. BQ konnte in den vergangenen fünf Jahren als europäischer Smartphone-Hersteller eine große Fan-Gemeinde in Europa erobern. ...

La vietnamita Vingroup se convierte en socio mayoritario de la matriz de BQ tras comprar un 51%

20.12.2018 (Finanzas) - La compañía tecnológica española BQ ha confirmado este jueves que Vingroup, el mayor holding privado de Vietnam, se ha convertido en el socio mayoritario de Mundo Reader, la empresa que está detrás de la marca BQ, tras la reciente adquisición de un 51% de su capital, según ha informado en un comunicado. ...

“Shift to Vietnam”

20.12.2018 (deutschland.de) - New EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement means Vietnam could compete with other large Asian countries. Marco Walde, GIC/AHK Managing Director Vietnam, explains why. Currently an average of 10 percent customs tax is levied on EU-products imported into Vietnam. ...

„Verlagerung nach Vietnam“

20.12.2018 (deutschland.de) - Mit dem neuen Freihandelsabkommen könnte Vietnam einem anderen großen asiatischen Land Konkurrenz machen. Marco Walde, AHK-Geschäftsführer Vietnam, sagt warum. ...

Viet Nam: Police raid major meeting of local NGOs in alarming step-up of repression

19.12.2018 (WebWire) - Police in Viet Nam’s capital, Hanoi, shut down a major annual meeting of grassroots groups and non-government organizations (NGOs) this morning in an alarming step-up of the authorities’ repression of civil society, said Amnesty International. ...

Vietnam: La policía irrumpe en importante reunión de ONG locales en un contexto de alarmante aumento de la represión

19.12.2018 (Amnistía Internacional) - Esta mañana, la policía ha puesto fin en la capital de Vietnam, Hanoi, a una importante reunión anual de ONG y grupos de base en el contexto de un alarmante aumento de la represión de la sociedad civil por parte de las autoridades, ha manifestado Amnistía Internacional. ...

Viêt-Nam. L’opération policière contre un grand rassemblement d’ONG marque une inquiétante montée de la répression

19.12.2018 (Amnesty International) - À Hanoï, la capitale du Viêt-Nam, ce matin, la police a mis fin à un important rassemblement annuel d’associations et d’organisations non gouvernementales (ONG), ce qui marque une inquiétante montée de la répression exercée par les autorités contre la société civile, a déclaré Amnesty International. ...

Vietnamese at Home and Abroad Present Eight-Point Petition Calling for Reform

19.12.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese civil society groups and individuals based both in Vietnam and abroad called on their government in a petition on Wednesday to implement political reforms, guaranteeing basic rights to assembly and freedom of the press and freeing prisoners jailed for peacefully expressing their views. ...

Ambassador’s Sudden Exit Amid Deportation Fight Was Totally Normal, State Department Says

19.12.2018 By Charles Dunst (Huffington Post) - Last year, the department ordered Ted Osius to leave his post — and his host country of Vietnam. Then it told diplomats to deny anything unusual took place. ...

Vietnamesische Regimekritiker - Bei Facebook rausgetrickst

18.12.2018 Marina Mai (taz) - BERLIN taz | Facebook hat seit Jahresbeginn zahlreiche Beiträge vietnamesischer Nutzer gelöscht und Benutzerkonten gesperrt. Allen gemeinsam war, dass sie sich in ihren Posts kritisch mit der Regierung in Hanoi auseinandersetzen. ...

New religion-control law changes little in Vietnam after 1 year

18.12.2018 (World Watch Monitor) - Christian leaders in Vietnam largely agree that little has changed since the new Law on Belief and Religion came into effect January 1, 2018. ...

Vietnam arrests former CEO of state oil firm: state media

18.12.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnam has arrested a former senior executive of a state-owned oil company for “abusing power to appropriate property”, state media reported on Tuesday. ...

Sons of Revolution: Vietnam’s New Protest Movement

17.12.2018 (The Diplomat) - The extraordinary eruption of nationwide protest in June 2018 highlighted widespread fears in the Vietnamese populace that growing Chinese investment in Vietnam could undermine the nation’s independence, and erode the legacy of founding father of the nation Ho Chi Minh. ...

«FIANCÉES DU MÉKONG»: LE DÉSESPOIR DES CÉLIBATAIRES CHINOIS

16.12.2018 (Le Matin) - À cause du manque de femmes en Chine, des millions d'hommes se tournent vers le marché du mariage, important leur fiancée du Vietnam. ...

Stop Trump from deporting Vietnamese immigrants

16.12.2018 (Mercury News) - It’s despicable that the president is attacking immigrants who enrich and strengthen American society. President Trump has no shame when it comes to his non-stop efforts to demonize immigrants. ...

Facebook accused of silencing critical Vietnamese bloggers

15.12.2018 (DW) - Facebook is being used to silence bloggers critical of Vietnam's government, according to Reporters Without Borders. The campaigners said there were 26 imprisoned media workers in the Southeast Asian nation. ...

Trade war buoys apparel industry in Bangladesh and Vietnam

15.12.2018 Tomoya Onishi and Akiwa Hayakawa (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI/MUMBAI -- The trade spat between Washington and Beijing is providing a tailwind for garment production hubs like Bangladesh and Vietnam, as more companies move away from China to avoid U.S. tariffs and sanctions. ...

Crowds rally in Westminster over Vietnamese deportation concerns

15.12.2018 (KABC) - WESTMINSTER, Calif. -- Large crowds gathered in Westminster Saturday to rally for Vietnamese refugees. Thousands marched out of a growing concern of the Trump administration's possible re-interpretation of a 2008 agreement protecting Vietnamese immigrants arriving before 1995. ...

Trump push to deport Vietnam War refugees scalds California GOP

15.12.2018 By Jeremy B. White (Politico) - ‘It’s not just bad social policy. It’s incredibly bad politics,’ said one Republican consultant. Anti-Trump sentiment helped Democrats topple every Republican House member in Orange County last month in the storied California conservative stronghold. ...

Vietnam Given Best Odds to Gain from Sino-US Trade Dispute

14.12.2018 Ralph Jennings (VOA) — The world’s largest contract assembler of consumer electronics, Foxconn Technology, as well as a prominent producer of wireless earphones may be in talks to locate production in Vietnam, instead of the once more obvious choice, China, to escape the Sino-U.S. trade dispute. ...

Vietnam: FDI explosion and trade wars

14.12.2018 By Dane Chamorro and Linh Nguyen (Forbes) - Vietnam has become Asia’s hottest investment destination. In the first quarter of 2018, the country became the fourth largest IPO market in the region, felling larger incumbents such as South Korea, Singapore and Australia. ...

Relatives of Jailed Vietnamese Democracy Activists Detail Prison Mistreatment to US Embassy Officials

14.12.2018 (RFA) - Four jailed Vietnamese members of the online Brotherhood for Democracy advocacy group are suffering from failing health and enduring ill treatment in prison, according to the wife of one activist, who raised concerns about their situation during a meeting with U.S. Embassy officials on Friday. ...

Kritiker über Facebook verfolgt

13.12.2018 (ROG) - Facebook wird offenbar systematisch missbraucht, um im Exil lebende Blogger aus Vietnam zu zensieren. Nach Informationen von Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG) hat das soziale Netzwerk wegen angeblicher Verletzungen der „Community Standards“ seit Monaten Beiträge gelöscht oder ganze Accounts gesperrt. ...

Tons of garbage washing up on beaches in Vietnam

13.12.2018 (Asia Times) - Da Nang’s sewers are unable to keep up with urbanization, says expert.

Heavy monsoon rainfall in Da Nang, Vietnam has left the city’s beaches covered in garbage after rainwater overloaded Da Nang’s domestic sewage system, ...

BMW and Bosch support Vietnam's vision for homegrown cars

13.12.2018 Tomoya Onishi and Togo Shiraishi (Nikkei Asian Review) - HANOI/PARIS -- Vingroup recruits European names to navigate a crowded market. As Vingroup prepares to become the first Vietnamese automaker next year, the country's biggest private conglomerate has enlisted help from European partners ...

Trump admin reinterprets 2008 agreement to allow deportation of Vietnam War refugees: report

12.12.2018 By John Bowden (The Hill) - The Trump administration has reportedly unilaterally reinterpreted a 2008 agreement between the U.S. and Vietnam in order to pursue deportation for certain Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before 1995. ...

Projektstart: Wasser im Mekongdelta nachhaltig nutzen

12.12.2018 (GFA) - Das Mekongdelta in Vietnam ist eine der vom Klimawandel am meisten betroffenen Regionen: Der Anstieg des Meereswassers, die Versalzung, ungereinigte Abwässer und die Übernutzung des Grundwassers gefährden die Lebensbedingungen von 17,5 Millionen Menschen. ...

Au Vietnam, des mères à la recherche de leurs filles vendues comme épouses en Chine

12.12.2018 Meo Vac, Vietnam | AFP - Vu Thi Dinh a passé des semaines à rechercher sa fille disparue avec sa meilleure amie au Vietnam près de la frontière chinoise, dans une région pauvre et montagneuse où des réseaux criminels enlèvent des adolescentes pour les vendre comme épouses en Chine. ...

Por tradición secuestran a jóvenes vietnamitas para ser casadas en China

12.12.2018 (BajoPalabra) - México, AFP.- Vu Thi Dinh pasó semanas buscando a su hija desaparecida con su mejor amiga en Vietnam, cerca de la frontera china, en una región empobrecida y montañosa, donde las redes criminales secuestran adolescentes para venderlas como esposas en China. ...

Vietnam seeks arrest of activist over Facebook posts

12.12.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI - Police in Vietnam have issued an arrest warrant for an activist accused of trying to overthrow the state by posting pro-democracy materials on Facebook. ...

Two Activists in Hiding, Accused of Trying to Overthrow Vietnam Government

11.12.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese democracy activists Nguyen Van Trang and Le Van Thuong are wanted for overthrowing their country’s communist government, police told RFA’s Vietnamese Service on Tuesday. ...

Weighing up political developments in Vietnam

11.12.2018 Author: Carlyle A Thayer (East Asia Forum) - The eighth plenum of the CPV Central Committee met in October to initiate planning for the 13th Congress in 2021, appointing five sub-committees charged with drawing up Vietnam’s next socio-economic plan, amending party statutes, and vetting possible candidates for the next Central Committee and Politburo. ...

Thousands of Myanmar women forced into marriage in China: study

10.12.2018 (SBS) - Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare look at an issue that grips the conflict-hit borderlands.

China has around 33 million fewer women than men due to the decades-long one-child policy. ...

How billions of discarded Tetra Paks cover Vietnam's beaches and towns

09.12.2018 Corinne Redfern (The Guardian) - More than 8bn Tetra Paks are sold every year in Vietnam – and only a few percent are recycled. It’s having a devastating effect on the environment. ...

Und wie viel wiegt dein Kind?

09.12.2018 Doris Griesser (DerStandard) - Der wirtschaftliche Aufschwung in Vietnam spiegelt sich im Essverhalten der Menschen wider. Körperfülle wird zum Statussymbol, Leidtragende sind Kleinkinder. Was steckt hinter dem Trend? ...

New roads, old war fan sale of Southeast Asian brides in China

07.12.2018 by Rina Chandran (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - China's decades-long one-child policy has left the country with far fewer women of marriage age than men. This has caused a spike in women being trafficked over the border from Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, researchers and rights groups say. ...

Jailed Vietnam Activist Punished for Not Pleading Guilty

07.12.2018 (RFA) - Vietnamese activist Nguyen Trung Ton, currently serving a 12-year jail sentence, is being punished by prison authorities for maintaining his innocence of charges he plotted to overthrow his country’s communist government, his wife said on Friday. ...

Friedensbotschafterin aus Vietnam erhält Dresden-Preis

06.12.2018 (t-online) - Die Vietnamesin Kim Phuc Phan Thi (55) bekommt für ihr Friedensengagement den 10. Internationalen Dresden Preis. Sie wurde 1972 mit einem Kriegsfoto bekannt. ...

Here’s why global carbon emissions will hit record highs in 2018

06.12.2018 By The Conversation (Asian Correspondent) - CARBON dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and industry are projected to rise more than 2 percent (range 1.8 percent to 3.7 percent) in 2018, taking global fossil CO₂ emissions to a new record high of 37.1 billion tonnes. ...

Spanish police arrest people smugglers from Vietnam

06.12.2018 (Washington Times) - MADRID (AP) - The European police agency says Spanish authorities have arrested 37 people suspected of belonging to a Vietnamese people-smuggling ring that has earned an estimated 13 million euros ($14.8 million). ...

Missio: Religionsfreiheit weltweit immer mehr unter Druck

05.12.2018 (SZ) - Aachen (dpa/lnw) - Die Religionsfreiheit gerät nach Angaben des katholischen Hilfswerks Missio weltweit immer mehr unter Druck. Die Zahl der Staaten, in denen Menschen wegen ihrer Religion durch staatliche Maßnahmen oder gesellschaftliche Anfeindungen hochgradig gefährdet seien, sei von 40 im Jahr 2007 auf 55 Staaten im Jahr 2016 gestiegen ...

Vietnam’s new power monopoly

05.12.2018 Author: Alexander L Vuving (East Asia Forum) - Vietnam’s top leadership positions, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the president, are traditionally held by two different people. This separation ceased to exist on 23 October 2018, when the National Assembly elected General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as president, filling the vacancy created by the sudden death of former president Tran Dai Quang on 21 September. ...

In the Party’s crosshairs, Fr Nam tried in Nghệ An

04.12.2018 by Peter Tran (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – Municipal authorities in Khánh Thành, Nghệ An province (north-central Vietnam), held a trial (phiên tòa đấu tố) of Fr Antoine Đặng Hữu Nam (pictured), vicar of Mỹ Khánh parish.

Having failed to get local Catholics involved, the administration of the mostly Catholic commune turned to neighbouring municipalities. ...

Tracing the safeguards against illegal logging in Vietnam

04.12.2018 by Chris Humphrey (Mongabay) - NGHE AN PROVINCE, Vietnam — An agreement on legally-sourced timber imports from Vietnam to the EU that was finally signed in October is now being held up against the reality on the ground in the Southeast Asian country. ...

Food Scandals Push Vietnamese to Seek Solutions

04.12.2018 Ha Nguyen (VOA) - HO CHI MINH CITY — Bich Ngoc loves Instagram food shots like any other self-respecting millennial, but not just for their photogenic allure: She gets on social media to check if certain cuisine is safe. Ngoc, 18, is among the growing number of Vietnamese who have become increasingly alarmed at the perils lurking in their rice bowls. ...

China Fuels Vietnam’s Protest Movement – Analysis

01.12.2018 By Tom Fawthrop (Eurasia Review) - The Vietnamese people, wary of Chinese expansionism, expect their leaders to control development, protecting culture and independence. ...

Germany, EU roll out funding to accelerate lower Mekong projects

01.12.2018 (The Nation) - Germany and the EU continue to grant new funding, worth €8.92 million ($10.15 million), to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to enhance the Mekong cross-border water cooperation among the lower Mekong countries – Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam ...

BUCHPREMIERE - Ngo Nguyen Dung - "Tausend Jahre im Augenblick"

01.12.2018 (Stadt Dortmund) - Geburt, Alter, Krankheit und Tod sind die ersten der vier Edlen Wahrheiten der buddhistischen Lehre. Sie stehen in dem vorliegenden Roman im Mittelpunkt von zwei Erzählsträngen, die Jahrhunderte getrennt voneinander ablaufen. ...

Hochrangige Leipziger Delegation auf dem Weg nach Vietnam

01.12.2018 (Leipziger Internet Zeitung) - Vom 1. bis 9. Dezember reist eine hochrangige Leipziger Delegation mit Vertretern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik unter Leitung des Ersten Bürgermeisters Torsten Bonew nach Vietnam. ...

Vietnam rolls out web monitor to control 'false information'

31.10.2018 By AFP (Daily Mail) - Vietnam said Wednesday it has set up a web monitoring unit that can scan up to 100 million news items per day for "false information", in a move that tightens its grip on internet freedom. Lawmakers passed a tough cybersecurity law in June requiring internet providers to store data in the country and remove "toxic content" if requested to do so. ...

Vietnam cyber law will guard against fake news, terrorism: security ministry

31.10.2018 (Reuters) - HANOI- A Vietnamese cybersecurity law that global technology companies and rights groups have warned could undermine development and stifle innovation, will protect the country from increasing cyber threats, the security ministry has said. ...

Could Vietnam become a casualty of the US-China trade war?

31.10.2018 By Emma Richards (Asian Correspondent) - AS the US-China trade war hots up, and economists warn of shrinking GDP growth and disrupted supply chains, there are some markets that are reaping the benefits of the face-off. ...

Vietnamesische Dissidenten: Im Visier des Regimes

30.10.2018 Von Adrian Bartocha, Torsten Mandalka und Jan Wiese, RBB (Tagesschau) - Vietnamesische Regimekritiker in Berlin berichten von Einschüchterung, Morddrohungen und Cyberattacken - mutmaßlich durch den Geheimdienst. Die Bundesanwaltschaft ist alarmiert. ...

"Der vietnamesische Geheimdienst ist sehr aktiv im Ausland"

30.10.2018 (rbb24) - In Vietnam werden Medien zensiert. Kritische Journalisten müssen mit Gefängnisstrafen rechnen. Der Geheimdienst des Landes übe auch auf diejenigen Druck aus, die sich nach Berlin abgesetzt haben, sagt Christian Mihr von Reporter ohne Grenzen im Interview. ...

Pacific Trade Pact to Start at End of 2018 After Six Members Ratify

30.10.2018 Reuters (VOA) - WELLINGTON — A landmark 11-member trade deal aimed at slashing barriers in some of Asia Pacific's fastest growing economies will come into force at the end of December, the New Zealand government said on Wednesday. ...

China legalisiert Nashorn- und Tigerprodukte

29.10.2018 (DerStandard) - Peking – China will den Handel mit Körperteilen bedrohter Tierarten wie Nashörner und Tiger zu bestimmten Zwecken erlauben. ...

Der lachende Dritte

28.10.2018 Von Christoph Hein, Singapur (FAZ) - Wenn zwei sich streiten, freut sich der Dritte. Die Streithähne der Weltwirtschaft sind derzeit Amerika und China. Der lachende Dritte könnte Südostasien sein. ...

Annual cost of Hanoi traffic reaches $1.2 billion

28.10.2018 (inquirer.net) - HANOI — Traffic congestion has cost Hanoi between US$1 and 1.2 billion per year and has made air pollution five times worse, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy under the Ministry of Transport said. ...

Vietnam : pasteur emprisonné privé de soins médicaux

28.10.2018 Daniel Hamicheil (L'Observatoire de la Christianophobie) - Le pasteur Nguyen Trung Ton, âgé de 46 ans, fait partie d’un groupe de quatre militants de l’association Fraternité pour la démocratie, condamnés à de lourdes peines de prison ferme le 5 avril 2018 pour « tentatives de renverser l’administration du peuple ». ...

Wasserkraft – Welches asiatische Land hat die meiste Leistung?

28.10.2018 (Philippinen Magazin) - Manila, Philippinen – Nach dem jüngsten Bericht über den Status der Wasserkraft haben Ostasien und der pazifische Raum die höchste jährliche Zunahme der Wasserkraftkapazität, wobei China den größten Anteil der installierten Kapazität beisteuert. ...

P.E.I. resident's book shares harrowing journey as one of the ‘boat people’ fleeing Vietnam

28.10.2018 Desiree Anstey (The Guardian) - CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - Thien Tang was 14 when he joined the millions of refugees escaping war-torn Communist Vietnam between 1979 and 1980 by means of an overcrowded boat.

He knew before leaving home of the dangers the voyage would entail but not their extent. ...

Südchinesisches Meer – Xi Jinping ordnet Kriegsvorbereitungen an

28.10.2018 (Philippinen Magazin) - Xi Jinping soll seinen Streitkräften befohlen haben, sich auf einen Krieg vorzubereiten. Dieses Statement gab der chinesische Staatschef während eines Inspektionsbesuch beim Militär ab, das für das Südchinesische Meer zuständig ist. ...

Coast guard competition could cause conflict in the South China Sea

27.10.2018 Author: Yang Fang, ANU (East Asia Forum) - Claimants of the South China Sea are investing significant resources in modernising their respective coast guards. These fleets, commonly called ‘white hulls’, play a strategic role in asserting sovereignty and enforcing national jurisdiction. As bellwether claimants such as China and Vietnam gradually upgrade both the capabilities and operational mandate of their ‘white hulls’, the risks of skirmishes grow higher. ...

"Umsetzbare Lösungen" für die Konflikte im Südchinesischen Meer?

26.10.2018 Rodion Ebbighausen (DW) - Im Südchinesischen Meer belauern sich die Anrainer seit Jahren. Alle Initiativen, um die Spannungen zu vermindern, sind im Sand verlaufen. Nun präsentiert ein internationales Expertenteam vom CSIS Lösungsvorschläge. ...

Vietnamese Communist Party Members Quit Over 'Discipline' of Dissident Publisher

26.10.2018 (RFA) - Two members of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party have publicly resigned after the government announced a prominent publisher would be disciplined for printing books diverging from the party’s political line. ...

Viet Nam: blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh released into exile

24.10.2018 (PEN International) - PEN International welcomes the release of blogger and government critic Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known by her pen name Me Nâm (‘Mother Mushroom’), on 17 October 2018. Me Nam had been serving a 10-year prison sentence ...

Vietnam: la blogueuse Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh libérée et forcée à l'exil

24.10.2018 (PEN International) - PEN International salue la libération de la blogueuse Nguyn Ngoc Nhu Quynh, critique du gouvernement vietnamien aussi connue sous son nom de plume Me Nâm (« Mère Champignon »), le 17 octobre 2018. ...

China’s ivory ban pushes trade to neighbouring countries

24.10.2018 By Mike Gaworecki (Asian Correspondent) - WHEN China banned all commercial trade in elephant ivory and shuttered its domestic ivory markets at the end of 2017, conservationists applauded the measure. But they also warned that if China’s neighbours didn’t take similar action, the ivory trade would simply shift to those countries. ...

Letter: Jailed Vietnamese Activist Nguyen Van Hoa Suffers Abuse in Prison

24.10.2018 (RFA) - A friend of jailed Vietnamese activist blogger Nguyen Van Hoa released a summary of a letter Hoa had last month sent to his family from prison describing physical abuse and ploys to coerce him into testifying against other activists in cases with which he had no connection. ...

Woman hurls shoe at Vietnam officials in land protest

24.10.2018 (Asia Times) - A Vietnamese woman threw her shoe at a congressional delegation on Saturday in protest of the government’s policies on compensation for land repossession. ...

Jailed Vietnamese Dissident’s Husband Files Second Protection Plea

24.10.2018 (RFA) - The husband of jailed Vietnamese dissident Tran Thi Nga says he is worried about her safety as she serves her sentence at Gia Trung prison in Gia Lai Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. ...

Vietnam: why blogger Mother Mushroom went free

24.10.2018 By Hunter Marston (The Interpreter) - During US Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ two-day visit to Vietnam last week, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) quietly released the high-profile dissident blogger known as ‘Mẹ Nấm,’ or Mother Mushroom, on the condition of her exile to the United States. ...

Vietnam Begins Life Under New Strongman President Nguyen Phu Trong

24.10.2018 By Charlie Campbell / HANOI (Time) - Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who was confirmed by the Southeast Asian nation’s rubberstamp parliament as also its new President late Tuesday, making him the first person to hold both titles since founding father Ho Chi Minh in the 1960s. ...

Vietnam: blogger Me Nâm (Mother Mushroom) released into exile

23.10.2018 (English PEN) - 'I will continue to raise my voice until there is human rights in Vietnam, real human rights'.

English PEN welcomes the news that blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known by her pen name Me Nâm (Mother Mushroom) has been released and reunited with her family. ...

Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh (Mother Mushroom) - Status: Released

23.10.2018 (PEN America) - Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, who blogs under the name Me Nam or “Mother Mushroom,” is a Vietnamese political and environmental activist. After years of government surveillance, harassment, and intimidation, on October 10, 2016, Me Nam was arrested in Khanh Hoa and charged under Article 88 of the Penal Code for “conducting propaganda against the State.” ...

Jailed Vietnamese Activist in Failing Health, Unable to Walk

23.10.2018 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese democracy activist Nguyen Trung Ton, a member of the online Brotherhood for Democracy advocacy group, is in failing health in prison and unable to walk owing to an untreated injury suffered in a beating two years ago, according to his wife. ...

Vîet-Nam : entre le Grand Frère et l'ancien ennemi, qui choisir?

23.10.2018 par Xavier Martinet (france culture) - Avec l'élection aujourd'hui du secrétaire général du PCV Nguyen Phu Trong au poste de président du pays, le Vietnam accentue sa centralisation politique. ...

Vietnam - Nguyen Phu Trong neuer Präsident

23.10.2018 (Deutschlandradio) - Die Nationalversammlung in Hanoi wählte den Vorsitzenden der regierenden Kommunistischen Partei, Nguyen Phu Trong, zum neuen Staatschef. ...

Líder del Partido Comunista es el nuevo presidente de Vietnam

23.10.2018 (Cooperativa) - La Asamblea Nacional de Vietnam eligió en Hanoi a Nguyen Phu Trong, secretario general del Partido Comunista, como nuevo presidente del país ...

Vietnam party chief Trong formally named president

23.10.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - Vietnamese lawmakers elected Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong as president, making him the first leader to hold both titles since the nation's founder, Ho Chi Minh. ...

Despite Trump, Xi’s China is not a leading power

23.10.2018 By Xuan Loc Doan (Asia Times) - Citing a source close to the Chinese government, the South China Morning Post reported on October 11 that China is testing the waters to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). ...

Vietnam’s quandary: red or green?

22.10.2018 Greg Earl (The Interpreter) - A hand-crafted map on the wall of the Vietnam Academy of Agriculture Sciences (VAAS) neatly captures the country’s strategic vulnerabilities as it emerges as a dynamic new regional player. ...

Philippe au Vietnam du 2 au 4 novembre

22.10.2018 (Le Figaro) - Edouard Philippe se rendra du 2 au 4 novembre au Vietnam pour marquer "le double anniversaire des 45 ans de relations diplomatiques et des cinq ans du partenariat stratégique" entre les deux pays, a annoncé aujourd'hui Matignon. ...

Melting glacier in China draws tourists, climate worries

21.10.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - YULONGXUESHAN, China - Millions of people each year are drawn to Baishui's frosty beauty on the southeastern edge of the Third Pole--a region in Central Asia with the world's third largest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland that's roughly the size of Texas and New Mexico combined. ...

CMC Corporation aus Vietnam unterzeichnet strategische Vereinbarung mit dänischem Partner

21.10.2018 (ots/PRNewswire) - Kopenhagen, Dänemark - Die vietnamesische CMC Corporation hat am 20. Oktober 2018 im Rahmen des Vietnam-Denmark Business Forum ein Abkommen zur strategischen Zusammenarbeit mit Approxima, einem Partner aus Dänemark, unterzeichnet. ...

Vietnam dissident Khoi urges Facebook to protect freedom of expression

20.10.2018 (Daily Mail) - Mai Khoi, a dissident musician dubbed Vietnam's Lady Gaga, has appealed to Facebook's directors to safeguard freedom of expression as the government looks to bolster its control of the web. ...

Vietnam: une chanteuse dissidente appelle Facebook à s'engager "pour la liberté d'expression"

20.10.2018 (RTBF) - Mai Khoi, une musicienne dissidente surnommée la "Lady Gaga" du Vietnam et régulièrement censurée par le régime de Hanoï, a appelé vendredi Facebook à s'engager davantage pour la liberté d'expression dans son pays, à l'issue d'une rencontre avec les dirigeants du réseau social à San Francisco. ...

Vietnam Expands Decades Long Effort To Crack Down On Any Dissent Online By Demanding Data Be Kept In The Country

20.10.2018 Mike Masnick (Techdirt) - It's no secret that the Vietnamese government is no fan of the open internet. All the way back in 2002 we wrote about the government requiring people to register just to create a website. ...

Vietnam dissident 'Mother Mushroom' describes prison hunger strikes

20.10.2018 (Reuters) - A Vietnamese dissident known as “Mother Mushroom” went on hunger strike three times during her imprisonment before Hanoi released her, she said on Friday after arriving in the United States. ...

Slovakia threatens to freeze relations with Vietnam over kidnapping case

20.10.2018 (Reuters) - BRATISLAVA - Slovakia has threatened to freeze relations with Vietnam over the case of a Vietnamese businessman who Germany says was kidnapped by Vietnamese agents and smuggled back home through Slovakia, the Slovak foreign ministry said on Saturday. ...

Vietnams Bergbau muss in die Modernisierung investieren

19.10.2018 Von Frauke Schmitz-Bauerdick (GTAI) - Hanoi - Marktzugang für ausländische Investoren häufig mühsam. Vietnam ist reich an Rohstoffen. Während der Kohlebereich schwächelt, gewinnt der Abbau von Eisenerzen an Bedeutung. ...

Corporate Security Guards Attack Indigenous Protesters in Rural Vietnam-Amnesty International

19.10.2018 By Eugene Whong (RFA) - Security guards employed by Indian-owned RK Viet Nam on September 27 attacked a group of protesters at the company’s marble quarry in Lam Thuong commune, Yen Bai province, according to a statement by Amnesty International. ...

MFA: Slovak-Vietnamese Relations Frozen until Hanoi Explains Abduction

19.10.2018 (TASR) - Bratislava - Slovak-Vietnamese bilateral relations will be frozen until Slovakia receives a credible explanation from Hanoi as to how its kidnapped citizen ended up in Vietnam, Foreign and European Affairs Ministry spokesman Boris Gandel told TASR on Friday ...

How Vietnam Benefits From US Strategy in the South China Sea

19.10.2018 (The Diplomat) - The Trump administration’s free and open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy is quickly gaining more definition. In recent days, however, U.S. officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, have started to comment publicly on details of the strategy. ...

EU and Vietnam sign an agreement for better enforcement of forest law, governance and trade

19.10.2018 (Council of the EU) - On 19 October 2018, a voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) between the European Union and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on forest law enforcement, governance and trade (FLEGT) was signed in Brussels in the margins of the EU-ASEM summit. ...

«Vietnam profitiert vom US-chinesischen Handelskrieg»

19.10.2018 Markus Winkler (finews) - Schon seit einigen Jahren ist der Trend zur Verlagerung von Produktionskapazitäten von China nach Vietnam zu beobachten, weil dort viele Arbeitskräfte besser ausgebildet und erst noch viel günstiger sind. ...

Vietnamese delegation did not have visa. We gave them exception

18.10.2018 (Spectator) - The Vietnamese delegation, which planned to take off from Bratislava bound for Moscow last year, were reportedly missing a Schengen visa in one of the 12 passports submitted to Slovak border control. The Interior Ministry explained that one of the delegation’s members had lost their diplomatic passport and was given an exception. ...

Das ist Europas Asien-Strategie gegen Trump

18.10.2018 Till Hoppe, Frederic Spohr, Eva Fischer (Handelsblatt) - ... Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Europa und den asiatischen Ländern war vielfach nicht einfach – obgleich die EU zuletzt mit Japan, Singapur und Vietnam wichtige Freihandelsabkommen abschließen konnte. ...

Wegen der Touristen - Vietnams Hauptstadt Hanoi verhängt 2021 ein Verbot für Hundefleisch

18.10.2018 (TRAVELBOOK) - In Hanoi soll der Verzehr von Hundefleisch verboten werden. Das Gesundheitsministerium der Stadt habe kürzlich bekannt gegeben, dass das Schlachten von Hunden und der Handel mit Hundefleisch abgeschafft würden ...

Exiled Vietnamese blogger: I'm not alone advocating freedom

18.10.2018 (Daily Mail) - HOUSTON (AP) - A prominent blogger freed from prison in Vietnam on condition that she live in exile in the United States says she is glad to be reunited with her family and that she knows she is not alone in advocating for freedom. ...

Une blogueuse vietnamienne dissidente fait voeu de poursuivre sa lutte

18.10.2018 (L'Express) - Chicago (AFP) - Une dissidente vietnamienne, arrivée mercredi soir aux Etats-Unis après avoir été libérée en pleine visite du ministre américain de la Défense Jim Mattis au Vietnam, a fait voeu de poursuivre sa lutte, dès sa descente d'avion. ...

Vietnamese Blogger 'Mother Mushroom' Arrives in US

18.10.2018 (VOA) - A dissident Vietnamese blogger imprisoned for defaming the country's Communist government is celebrating her first day of freedom on U.S. soil. ...

20 Jahre Haft für vietnamesischen Umweltaktivisten

18.10.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Vietnam geht weiter gegen unbequeme Kritiker vor: Ein vietnamesisches Gericht hat eine langjährige Haftstrafe sowie einen Hausarrest für einen Umweltaktivisten bestätigt. Der 52-jährige Le Dinh Luong müsse für 20 Jahre ins Gefängnis und 5 Jahre in Hausarrest, ...

Vietnamese Court Upholds 20-year Imprisonment of Democracy Campaigner Le Dinh Luong in His Appeal

18.10.2018 (Defend The Defenders) - On October 18, the Higher People’s Court in Hanoi rejected the appeal of human rights defender and environmentalist Le Dinh Luong, upholding the sentence of 20 years in prison and five years of probation given by a lower court. ...

Viêt-Nam. Dans le sillage de la libération de « Mère Champignon », les autorités doivent libérer les nombreux détracteurs pacifiques emprisonnés

17.10.2018 (Amnesty International) - En réaction à la libération de la blogueuse « Mère Champignon » au Viêt-Nam, Nicholas Bequelin, directeur régional pour l'Asie de l'Est et du Sud-Est à Amnesty International, a déclaré : ...

Vietnamese Medical Doctor Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Printing 3,300 Leaflets

17.10.2018 (Defend The Defenders) - Authorities in Vietnam have sentenced local medical doctor Nguyen Dinh Thanh to seven years in prison for printing 3,300 leaflets which he produced to call for peaceful demonstration to protest two bills on Special Economic Zones and Cyber Security, state media has reported. ...

Vietnam lässt Bloggerin "Mutter Pilz" vorzeitig frei

17.10.2018 (DW) - Zehn Jahre Haft wegen Propaganda gegen den Staat, so lautete das Urteil gegen Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh. Nun kam die regierungskritische Bloggerin, bekannt als Me Nam ("Mutter Pilz"), frei - musste aber in die USA ausreisen. Der Südostasien-Direktor von Amnesty, Nicholas Bequelin, wies aber auch auf das Schicksal anderer Regierungskritiker hin. "Auch wenn Mutter Pilz jetzt nicht mehr in Haft ist, war die Bedingung für ihre Freilassung doch das Exil. Und es gibt über 100 weitere Menschen, die noch im Gefängnis sitzen. ...

Mother Mushroom: Vietnam frees blogger on condition she move to US

17.10.2018 (The Guardian) - Vietnam has freed a well-known blogger after two years in prison on the condition that she leave for the United States. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known as “Mother Mushroom,” was arrested in October 2016 and sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of defaming the Communist government. ...

Bekannte vietnamesische Bloggerin aus der Haft entlassen

17.10.2018 (Deutschland today) - Hanoi (AFP) - In Vietnam ist eine bekannte regierungskritische Internetbloggerin vorzeitig aus der Haft entlassen worden. Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh wurde am Mittwoch per Flugzeug in die USA gebracht, wie ein Mitarbeiter der Regierung in Hanoi und Freunde der Nachrichtenagentur AFP sagten. Quynh war im Juni 2017 wegen staatsfeindlicher Propaganda zu zehn Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt worden. ...

Libération d'une blogueuse vietnamienne dissidente, partie pour les Etats-Unis

17.10.2018 (France Soir) - Une dissidente et blogueuse vietnamienne connue sous le nom de plume Me Nam ou "Mère champignon", a décollé mercredi pour les Etats-Unis après avoir été libérée de prison où elle purgeait dix ans de prison, selon des sources concordantes. ...

Liberada en Vietnam la bloguera 'Madre Seta' a condición de que se exilie en el extranjero

17.10.2018 (Europa Press) - Las autoridades de Vietnam han liberado este miércoles a la famosa bloguera vietnamita Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, conocida como 'Madre Seta' --o 'Nam Me', en vietnamita-- bajo condición de que abandone el país. ...

Vietnam’s Mother Mushroom is freed, leaves for United States

17.10.2018 (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails today’s release of the Vietnamese blogger known as Mother Mushroom, who immediately left for the United States, and calls on the authorities to free all the other citizen-journalists imprisoned in Vietnam. ...

Vietnam: Renowned blogger 'Mother Mushroom' released under condition of exile

17.10.2018 (Amnesty International UK) - Responding to news of the release of popular Vietnamese blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, also known by her blogging pseudonym, Mẹ Nấm “Mother Mushroom”, in Vietnam, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty East and South East Asia Regional Director, said: “This good news, which comes as a relief after two years behind bars, should also be a reminder of Vietnam’s worsening record of jailing anyone who criticises the regime". ...

EU pushes for approval of trade agreement with Vietnam

17.10.2018 (Reuters) - BRUSSELS - The European Commission submitted for approval on Wednesday a free trade agreement with Vietnam, its first comprehensive open markets deals with a developing Asian country.

The EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements will need approval from the EU’s 28 members and from the European Parliament, some of whose members have expressed concern over Vietnam’s human rights record. ...

Europäische Kommission legt dem Rat Handels- und Investitionsabkommen mit Vietnam vor

17.10.2018 (aktiencheck) - Die Europäische Kommission hat heute (Mittwoch) die Handels- und Investitionsabkommen zwischen der EU und Vietnam angenommen und so den Weg für ihre Unterzeichnung und ihren möglichen Abschluss geebnet. ...

Commission presents EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements for signature and conclusion

17.10.2018 (European Commission) - The European Commission today adopted the EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements, paving the way for their signature and conclusion. ...

Vietnam: Second trial brings blogger’s total prison sentence to nine years

16.10.2018 (RSF) - Do Cong Duong will now have to serve a total of nine years after a court in Bac Ninh, on the outskirts of Hanoi, imposed the five-year sentence on 12 October on a charge of “abusing democratic freedom.” ...

Durchatmen: Vietnams Hauptstadt Hanoi will ihre Luftqualität verbessern

16.10.2018 (DW) - Um die Luftqualität in der vietnamesischen Hauptstadt Hanoi merklich zu verbessern, müssen die Einwohner ihre Gewohnheiten ändern. Aber wie bringt man die Menschen dazu, ihre geliebten Mopeds stehenzulassen?

Wie schlecht die Luft in Hanoi ist, sieht und riecht man an jeder Ecke. ...

Vertragsarbeiter*innen in der DDR: „Heute können sie keine Kinder mehr kriegen, weil sie kaputt sind“

16.10.2018 Seyda Kurt (ze.tt) - Isolation, rassistische Gewalt, Abtreibungszwang − das erlebten Vertragsarbeiter*innen in der DDR. Rund 60.000 von ihnen kamen aus Vietnam. Drei Zeitzeug*innen erzählen uns ihre Geschichte. ...

Zuwanderungsgesetz: Sachsen-Anhalt erhofft sich mehr Einwanderer aus Ukraine, Indonesien oder Vietnam

16.10.2018 (Epoch Times) - Sachsen-Anhalts Wirtschaftsminister Armin Willingmann (SPD) drängt die Bundesregierung, das geplante Fachkräftezuwanderungsgesetz „so schnell wie möglich“ vorzulegen. ...

Strict new cybersecurity laws will come into effect in Vietnam DESPITE pleas from Google and Facebook

15.10.2018 By Peter Lloyd (Daily Mail) - Vietnam is preparing to strictly enforce a new cybersecurity law requiring global technology companies to set up local offices and store data locally despite pleas from Facebook, Google and other firms, a government document showed. ...

Vietnam’s plastic end-users set to gain as US-China trade spat intensifies

15.10.2018 (S&P Global Platts) - The global plastics supply chain is changing as the US-China trade war intensifies, and Vietnam’s plastic resin end-users are poised to benefit. ...

Mekong Delta fights high-tide flooding

14.10.2018 (The Straits Times) - HANOI • The local authorities in Vietnam's Mekong Delta are taking steps to mitigate the impact of flooding caused by high tides during the annual flood season. ...

Say a prayer for Vietnam’s forgotten Montagnards

13.10.2018 By Dan Southerland (Asia Times) - Communist regime's repression of the ethnic minority that supported the US during the Vietnam War has been largely invisible but is starting to come to light. The Montagnards, who were some of the American Army’s most loyal allies during the Vietnam War, are now hidden from view and simply trying to survive under a repressive state. ...

Guadeloupe author wins alternative prize in Nobel absence

13.10.2018 (The National) - A jury picked Conde from the list, which also included Vietnamese-Canadian writer Kim Thuy, British author Neil Gaiman and Japan's Haruki Murakami. Guadeloupean author Maryse Conde on Friday won an alternative award formed in protest to the Nobel Literature Prize ...

Literatur: Preis für Geschichten aus dem Mekong-Delta

12.10.2018 (deutschland.de) - Der LiBeraturpreis 2018 geht an die vietnamesische Schriftstellerin Nguyen Ngoc Tu für ihren Erzählband „Endlose Felder“ (Mitteldeutscher Verlag). Ihre Geschichten spielen zwischen Wasser und Land. Den roten Faden bildet der Fluss, der Mekong – von dem alles Übel ausgeht, aber auch das seltene Glück. ...

EU-Asien-Gipfel mit 53 Länderchefs - Putin schickt Medwedew

12.10.2018 (Tiroler Tageszeitung) - Brüssel (APA) - Ein Monsterprogramm mit mehreren EU-Gipfeln gibt es nächste Woche von Mittwoch bis Freitag in Brüssel. Nach dem Brexit-Gipfel der EU Mittwochabend folgt Donnerstag zunächst das Treffen der europäischen Staats- und Regierungschefs, ehe es danach mit dem EU-Asien-Gipfel weitergeht. ...

How the 'Lady Gaga of Vietnam' was effectively banned from singing in her own country

12.10.2018 Catherine Clifford (CNBC) -"I used to be a pop star," Mai Khoi says in her presentation at the Oslo Freedom Forum this September. Two years ago, Khoi was a successful musician with multiple albums... she grew bored of the Vietnamese pop industry thanks to the country's restrictive censorship system. "I couldn't feel free," ...

Vietnamese muss wegen Facebook-Post fünf Jahre in Haft

12.10.2018 (derStandard) Mann beschuldigte lokale Behördenvertreter der Korruption.

Wegen "Missbrauchs demokratischer Freiheiten" ist ein Aktivist für Landrechte von einem Gericht im Norden Vietnams zu einer Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt worden. ...

Vietnam blogger sentenced again after Facebook posts

12.10.2018 (Daily Mail) - Vietnam on Friday jailed a blogger who posted critical material on Facebook for five years, his second sentence in less than a month as a hardline administration tightens its grip on dissent. ...

Un militant condamné à cinq ans de prison

12.10.2018 (24heures) - Un militant vietnamien, déjà condamné il y a quelques semaines à quatre ans de détention, s'est vu infliger vendredi une nouvelle condamnation à cinq ans de prison pour avoir diffusé sur Facebook des articles et vidéos critiques à l'encontre du régime communiste. ...

How a Trump decision on trade became a setback for democracy in Vietnam

12.10.2018 By Simon Denyer and David Nakamura | The Washington Post (Stars and Stripes) - It was one of US President Donald Trump’s very first acts: to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping 12-nation trade agreement that had been the centrepiece of President Barack Obama’s strategic “rebalance” toward Asia. ...

Vietnamese Activist Released From Prison After Serving Six-Year Term

11.10.2018 (RFA) - Jailed Vietnamese activist Dinh Nguyen Kha was freed from prison on Thursday after serving a six-year term for handing out leaflets criticizing government policy over disputed islands in the South China Sea. ...

Vinfast startet Autoproduktion - Deutsch-vietnamesische Freundschaft

11.10.2018 (Stern) - Einen großen Aufschlag stellt man sich eigentlich anders. Doch Vinfast, junger Autobauer aus Vietnam, ließ es bei seinem ersten Auftritt in Europa trotz Publikumsmagnet David Beckham zurückhaltend angehen. Dabei haben die Vietnamesen nicht nur in Asien große Pläne. ...

Thailand arrests two after finding tiger body parts in bag

11.10.2018 (Daily Mail) - Thai authorities have arrested two men accused of trying to smuggle tiger bones and meat to Vietnam on a bus, police said Thursday. ...

Deux Vietnamiens arrêtés en Thaïlande avec de la viande de tigre

11.10.2018 (Metro) - Deux Vietnamiens ont été arrêtés dans le nord de la Thaïlande en possession d’os et de viande séchée de tigre qu’ils souhaitaient revendre dans leur pays, a-t-on appris jeudi auprès des autorités locales. ...

Saigon Boomtown!

11.10.2018 (Focus) - Vietnams Boomtown Nummer eins, Saigon, ist Trendsetter in Sachen Kunst und Kulinarik. Wir haben uns zwischen Moderne und Vergangenheit umgesehen und geschlemmt. ...

Over 60 Vietnamese arrested for passport offences in Ops Noda raid

11.10.2018 (The Star Online) - JOHOR BARU: Police detained 68 Vietnamese nationals for various passport offences during a raid at a restaurant in Stulang Laut here. ...

Freihandelsabkommen mit Vietnam: Kein freier Handel ohne freie Gewerkschaften!

10.10.2018 (Webseite Barbara Lochbihler) - Das Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und Vietnam ist heute Thema einer Anhörung im Handelsausschuss des Europaparlamentes. Die menschenrechtspolitischen Sprecherinnen der Grünen/EFA-Fraktion im Europaparlament und der Bundestagsfraktion von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Barbara Lochbihler und Margarete Bause, kritisieren, dass es keine ernsthaften Bemühungen Vietnams gibt, Abhilfe für die gravierenden arbeits- und menschenrechtlichen Probleme des Landes zu schaffen. ...

In Berlin entführter Vietnamese - Angeblich hat keiner etwas gewusst

10.10.2018 (taz) - BERLIN | Mitten in Berlin wird ein Vietnamese vom Geheimdienst seines Landes entführt und niemand bekommt etwas mit – kann das sein? Die Entführung des Ex-Politikers Trinh Xuan Thanh ist mehr als ein Jahr her, nun bezieht die Bundesregierung zum ersten Mal Stellung zu offenen Fragen. ...

Vietnam's Crackdown on Dissidents Isn't New

10.10.2018 by Heather Stur (The National Interest) - It is the same old routine of human-rights violations.

Kim Nga’s nightmare began earlier this month when she received a mysterious message from her husband’s phone saying police had arrested him in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her husband, Ngo Van Dung, a blogger and journalist, ...

Vietnam cyber law set for tough enforcement despite Google, Facebook pleas

10.10.2018 Mai Nguyen (Reuters) - HANOI - Vietnam is preparing to strictly enforce a new cybersecurity law requiring global technology companies to set up local offices and store data locally despite pleas from Facebook, Google and other firms, a government document showed. ...

Is Vietnam moving towards autocracy?

10.10.2018 (The Straits Times) - BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Vietnam's ruling Communist Party appears to be undermining its "collective leadership" system by nominating its chief Nguyen Phu Trong as the country's president, to replace Tran Dai Quang who died last month. ...

Hanoi's dependence on imported textiles will cause trade woes

10.10.2018 (Nikkei Asian Review) - Why Vietnam must do more than cut and sew. Vietnam is on track to become the world's second-biggest exporter of textiles and clothing this year, but it is too soon to celebrate. ...

L'axe Pékin-Moscou, grande peur de l'Occident

09.10.2018 Fabien Herbert (Asialyst) - Le rapprochement est inédit au regard de la rupture sino-soviétique des années 1960 et du conflit frontalier qui opposa les deux États en 1969. Moscou et Pékin sont amenés aujourd’hui à repenser leur stratégie internationale, en cherchant de nouveaux partenaires et alliés. ...

Mekong-Japan partnership strategy agreed at Tokyo summit

09.10.2018 (The Asahi Shimbun) - Five Southeast Asian leaders joined Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the State Guest House in Tokyo on Oct. 9 to adopt an agreement to strengthen ties between their nations and Japan.

The agreement, titled “Tokyo Strategy 2018,” was adopted by Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as Japan, at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting. ...

Asiens Mekong Gipfel findet dieses Jahr in Japan statt

09.10.2018 von hanako (Sumikai) - Am Dienstag findet in Tokyo der sogenannte Mekong Gipfel statt. Ziel ist dabei, eine freie und offene Indo-Pazifik-Region mit nachhaltiger Entwicklung zu erzielen. ...

Leader of banned Vietnam Buddhist Sect Expelled from Thanh Minh Zen Monastery

08.10.2018 (RFA) - A high-profile human rights activist and supreme patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) has been expelled from the Thanh Minh Zen monastery in Ho Chi Minh City, where he had been under house arrest since 2003, supporters said. ...

China Reshapes The Vital Mekong River To Power Its Expansion

06.10.2018 Michael Sullivan (NPR) - ... The Golden Triangle is known for being a drug-trafficking hub. The monthly patrols aim "to make the border river safer," according to China's Xinhua News Agency, after the killing of 13 Chinese sailors in 2011. But some analysts see a different interpretation: intimidation. ...

Vietnam: près de 10.500 hectares de forêts ont été détruits illégalement depuis 2015

06.10.2018 (mapecology) - Hanoï – Près de 10.500 hectares de forêts de la province de Dak Lak (Centre) ont été détruits illégalement depuis 2015, a indiqué dans un rapport la délégation provinciale du ministère de l’Agriculture et du développement rural. ...

Staatsbegräbnis für Vietnams Ex-Staats- und Regierungschef Do Muoi

06.10.2018 (Der Farang) - HANOI (dpa) - Er war einer der ältesten noch lebenden Ex-Staats- und Regierungschefs weltweit: Nach seinem Tod im Alter von 101 Jahren hat sich Vietnam nun mit einem Staatsbegräbnis von Do Muoi verabschiedet. ...

Is Vietnam sliding deeper into authoritarianism?

05.10.2018 Author Benjamin Bathke (DW) - On September 21, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang passed away after a long illness. To fill the vacancy, the Communist Party Central Committee nominated General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as the sole candidate for president ...

Nguyễn Phú Trọng like Ho Chi Minh as Vietnamese president and party leader

05.10.2018 (AsiaNews) - Hanoi – Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party (Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam) has nominated its General Secretary, Nguyễn Phú Trọng (pictured), for the post of President of Vietnam. Now his nomination goes to the National Assembly for approval, a foregone conclusion. ...

Vietnamese Activists Given Long Prison Terms After One-Day Trial

05.10.2018 (RFA) - Five Vietnamese activists were sentenced Friday in a Ho Chi Minh City court after being found guilty in a one-day trial of involvement in a political group that authorities deemed to have challenged Vietnam’s Communist one-party system. ...

Vietnam encarcela a cinco personas por intento de golpe de Estado

05.10.2018 (europa press) - Vietnam encarcela a cinco personas por intento de golpe de Estado.

Cinco personas han sido condenadas a entre ocho y 15 años de cárcel por intento de golpe de Estado, según han confirmado fuentes policiales al término del juicio celebrado en Ciudad Ho Chi Mihn, la antigua Saigón. ...

The Promise and Pitfalls of Hydropower Development Along the Mekong River

05.10.2018 (World Politics Review) - The collapse of a dam this summer in southeastern Laos, which triggered massive flooding that killed dozens and displaced thousands of people, has brought a renewed focus on hydroelectric dams in mainland Southeast Asia. ...

Vietnam's children and the fear of climate change

04.10.2018 By David Shukman (BBC) - One little girl draws a nightmarish picture of people calling for rescue as they drown in rising water. Another sketches a huge snake with sharp teeth to show the power and danger of flooding. ...

All of Vietnam’s power is in Trong’s hands

04.10.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is set to assume the presidency, an unprecedented consolidation of power that could make him the Xi Jinping of Vietnam. ...

Wann fällt der erste Schuss im Südchinesischen Meer?

04.10.2018 (Philippinen Magazin) - Manila, Philippinen – Die Spannungen zwischen Washington und Peking gewinnen in unregelmäßigen Abständen an gefährlicher Schärfe. Der jüngste Zwischenfall im Südchinesischen Meer ist ein deutlicher Beweis dafür. ...

Vietnam is the most globalized populous country in modern history

03.10.2018 By Dan Kopf (Quartz) - In 2017, Vietnam’s trade as a percentage of GDP reached over 200%. This is the highest level for any country with over 50 million people in the World Bank’s data, which goes back to 1960. Of the world’s twenty most populous countries, it blows away number two Thailand at 122%. ...

Vietnam : le chef du PC, tenant de la ligne dure, devrait devenir président

03.10.2018 (RTBF) - Le secrétaire général du Parti communiste vietnamien Nguyen Phu Trong, un tenant de la ligne dure, devrait prochainement devenir le président de son pays et ainsi être le premier à cumuler ces deux postes depuis Ho Chi Minh ...

Vietnam's hardline party leader to become president

03.10.2018 (Daily Mail) - Vietnam Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong was nominated Wednesday to become the country's president, effectively making him the most powerful person ...

A muffled cry for freedom in Vietnam

03.10.2018 By David Hutt (Asia Times) - Ruling Communist Party has clamped down hard on budding pro-democracy groups, repression rights groups say is turning the country into a giant prison. ...

Vietnam: End Repression Against Activists

03.10.2018 (Human Rights Watch) - Vietnam National Self-Determination Coalition Members on Trial.

Vietnam should drop politically motivated charges against five pro-democracy campaigners from a political group that challenges the Communist Party of Vietnam’s monopoly on power, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should immediately release them without conditions. ...

Vietnams Ex-Generalsekretär Do Muoi mit 101 Jahren gestorben

02.10.2018 (NZZ) - Der ehemalige vietnamesische Staats- und Regierungschef Do Muoi ist tot. Der ehemalige Generalsekretär der Kommunistischen Partei starb am Montag im Alter von 101 Jahren ...

Do Muoi, Vietnam’s Leader in Economic Transition, Dies at 101

02.10.2018 By Seth Mydans (NYT) - Do Muoi, a Vietnamese revolutionary who served for six years as the country’s leader during its transition to a market economy under a Communist government, died on Monday in Hanoi. He was 101. ...