Vietnam arrests prominent journalist over Facebook posts
Authorities in Vietnam have arrested a leading independent journalist for 鈥榓busing democratic freedoms鈥� to undermine the state by posting articles on...
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Vietnam votes in public security minister as president
Vietnam鈥檚 rubber-stamp parliament voted in public security minister To Lam as the country鈥檚 new president on Wednesday, after a major anti-corruption campaign forced his predecessor to resign...
Unfurling love from the window
ON APRIL 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it 鈥楬ind鈥檚 Hall鈥�, dropping a large banner out the windows above the building鈥檚 entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States...
脨i锚n Bi锚n Ph煤 at 70
I HAD the most salutary email the other day, a reviving lift amid these, humanity鈥檚 darkest days, surely, in the memory of anyone living. It was from George Burchett, an Australian painter who resides in Hanoi, the city of his birth...
Vietnam temperature records tumble as heatwave scorches
Over 100 temperature records fell across Vietnam in April, according to official data, as a deadly heatwave scorches South and Southeast Asia....
US student Gaza rallies echo Vietnam, other demos: expert
Protest encampments, clashes with police, numerous arrests: for some observers, the demonstrations roiling university campuses across the United States over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza have sparked a sense of deja vu.
Vietnam property tycoon to die in multi-billion dollar bank fraud case
A top Vietnamese property tycoon was sentenced to death on Thursday in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated $27 billion in damages.