Free From Vietnam
An activist's release shows pressure from Washington works. Hanoi rarely delivers good news on human rights, which makes the release this week of Nguyen Quoc Quan all the more notable. Mr. Quan, an American citizen, was freed Wednesday...
Chinese sex tape scandal unearths corruption in Bo Xilai’s...
By Malcolm Moore, Beijing 11:41AM GMT 26 Nov 2012 A scandalous set of sex tapes featuring Chinese government officials has lifted the lid on a blackmail ring in Chongqing under Bo Xilai, the city's disgraced Communist party...
Take Action: Million Hearts, One Voice Campaign
Please join us in a worldwide campaign to stop the arbitrary detention of citizen journalists and democracy activists in Vietnam. Our goal is to reach 100,000 signatures by International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2012. Your...
Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
By DAVID BARBOZA BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely...
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In Hard Times, Open Dissent and Repression Rise in Vietnam
Posted by bvnpost on 27-04-2013
Thomas Fuller (NY Times) –
A slum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Wide dissatisfaction has followed the boom of the 1990s. HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but... US upset Vietnam dissidents blocked from meeting
Posted by bvnpost on 17-04-2013
WASHINGTON – The United States voiced concern on Monday after Vietnamese authorities prevented two activists from meeting a US official who was visiting Hanoi for talks on human rights.
US officials said that they had invited pro-democracy campaigner Pham Hong Son and human rights lawyer Nguyen... President Barack Obama said: Boston Bombings an Act of Terrorism
Posted by bvnpost on 16-04-2013
AP – President Barack Obama said Tuesday the deadly Boston Marathon bombings were an act of terrorism but investigators do not know if they were carried out by an international or domestic organization, or perhaps by a “malevolent individual.” (April 16)
Vietnamese Folk Hero Gets Five-Year Sentence
Posted by bvnpost on 06-04-2013
By JAMES HOOKWAY And NGUYEN ANH THU – The WSJ
HAIPHONG, Vietnam—Two Vietnamese fish farmers who laid mines and fired homemade guns at police attempting to evict them were convicted and sentenced to five years in prison Friday in a case that has cast a spotlight on the contentious issue of land... Response to Vietnamese newspaper’s criticism of 2013 Netizen Prize
Posted by bvnpost on 23-03-2013
In an article published online on 14 March, the Vietnamese daily Nhan Dan criticized the fact that the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to the Vietnamese citizen-journalist and blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh.
Like his compatriots Ta Phong Tan and Nguyen Hoang Vi, Chenh was singled out... A Former POW on Vietnam, Four Decades Later
Posted by bvnpost on 15-03-2013
Sen. John McCainI’ve made friendships with former enemies. A regret is that they don’t yet enjoy the freedoms Americans hold dear.
By John McCain
Forty years ago on March 14, my fellow prisoners of war in North Vietnam and I, dressed in cheap civilian clothes that had been provided to the... Vietnam Allows Visit by Amnesty International
Posted by bvnpost on 08-03-2013
By GERRY MULLANY March 6, 2013
From the left Loyer Nguyễn văn Đài, Mr Frank Jannuzi (Amnesty International), Doctor Phạm Hồng SơnHONG KONG — The Vietnamese government has opened a dialogue with Amnesty International, allowing the human rights group to meet with crucial dissidents and government... Declaration of Free Citizens
Posted by bvnpost on 06-03-2013
We, the undersigned, stand by the journalist, Nguyễn Đắc Kiên, call upon our fellow citizens to join us in declaring:
1. We not only want to abolish Article 4 in the Constitution, but also to have a Constitutional Congress to establish a new constitution that truly reflects the will of our... Chinese culture : Racism with a nationalist twist
Posted by bvnpost on 27-02-2013
Rose Tang :
Racism with a nationalist twist.
This sign is on the front door of a restaurant named “Beijing Snacks” or “百年卤煮” near Prince Gong’s Mansions (恭王府) at Houhai Lake, a popular tourist spot just to the north of the Forbidden City in Beijing.... The Law Society of Upper Canada Expresses Grave Concerns about the Arrest and Detention of Human Rights Lawyer Le Quoc Quan
Posted by bvnpost on 25-02-2013
The Law Society of Upper Canada is gravely concerned about the arrest and detention of human rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan in Vietnam.
Reliable reports indicate that on December 27, 2012, Le Quoc Quan, human rights lawyer and blogger, was arrested by the police while dropping off his daughter at school.... French Communist party says adieu to the hammer and sickle
Posted by bvnpost on 13-02-2013
The GuardianSunday 10 February 2013 13.23 GMT
PCF replaces communist symbol with five-pointed star of European far left alliance to the horror of traditionalists
France’s Communist party has undergone a revolution and dropped the hammer and sickle from its membership cards.
The party (PCF) is... Free From Vietnam
Posted by bvnpost on 11-02-2013
An activist’s release shows pressure from Washington works.
Hanoi rarely delivers good news on human rights, which makes the release this week of Nguyen Quoc Quan all the more notable. Mr. Quan, an American citizen, was freed Wednesday after eight months in detention and deported back to his family... VIDEO: Shoe Thrown at Ahmadinejad Outside Mosque in Cairo
Posted by bvnpost on 09-02-2013
The Times:
Ahmadinejad humiliated by shoe attack as Cairo visit turns sour
Ahmadinejad humiliated by shoe attack as Cairo visit turns sourLarge crowd outside a Cairo mosque as Mahmoud attempts to get to his vehicle. The one guy on the left has his shoe in his hand.
محاولة الاعتداء... Jailed Blogger Blasts Government
Posted by bvnpost on 08-02-2013
February 6, 2013
A prominent Vietnamese blogger’s critical note to the authorities finds its way out of prison.
In a petition that has been smuggled out of prison, Vietnam’s most prominent jailed blogger has blasted the communist authorities for imposing a harsh sentence on him and questioned the... Vietnam’s New Religion Decree Termed a Step Backward
Posted by bvnpost on 05-02-2013
Legal recognition will now take at least 23 years; decree aims to end house churches.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Morning Star News) – Protestant Christians and leaders of other faiths in Vietnam are criticizing a new decree on religion that went into effect this year as a significant step backward,... Has China Lost Myanmar?
Posted by bvnpost on 29-01-2013
As Myanmar’s messy democracy turns to the West, Beijing debates stirring up ethnic tensions to rile the government and maintain its leverage.
By Yun Sun
Foreign Policy, January 15, 2013
The rapid changes in Myanmar since President Thein Sein began democratic reforms in 2011 present China with a... Vietnamese Blogger Le Anh Hung arrested and interned in a mental institution in Hanoi
Posted by bvnpost on 27-01-2013
Blogger Lê Anh Hùng.2013-01-26 | | Vietnam Committee on Human Rights
PARIS, 26 January 2013 (VIETNAM COMMITTEE) – The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights strongly denounces the virtual kidnapping of Vietnamese blogger Lê Anh Hung and his internment in a mental institution in Hanoi.
At 10.15am on Thursday... Is Thanh the man?
Posted by bvnpost on 27-01-2013
A scandal-ridden party lashes out at dissent and tries to tackle corruption
EARLIER this month Vietnam’s courts handed out long jail sentences to 14 young democracy activists and bloggers accused, on the flimsiest of evidence, of subverting the state. Even by the sorry standards of the country’s... Vietnam’s Trials
Posted by bvnpost on 25-01-2013
The Wall Street Journal
January 14, 2013
Hanoi prosecutes its citizens for peaceful dissent.
A Vietnamese court convicted 14 democracy activists last week and sentenced them to a range of punishments from probation to 13 years in prison. Sources in the dissident community now tell us that a date has... David Cameron should call for release of prisoners of conscience in Viet Nam as top party official visits UK
Posted by bvnpost on 25-01-2013
Amnesty International
Posted: 23 January 2013
Prime Minister David Cameron should call on Viet Nam’s government to halt its crackdown on freedom of expression and release all prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said on the first day of an official visit to the UK by Nguyen Phu Trong, the... Vietnam’s propaganda agents battle bloggers online
Posted by bvnpost on 20-01-2013
January 19, 2013, 5:05 am
HANOI (AFP) – After harassment and prison failed to silence Vietnam’s dissident bloggers, the communist government started building an army of propaganda agents to infiltrate chatrooms and sing the regime’s praises.
A man watches a video posted on a popular... China rocked by five sex scandals in six days
Posted by bvnpost on 06-12-2012
By Malcolm Moore, Beijing 06 Dec 2012
A Chinese police chief who kept two sisters as his mistresses has become the fifth government official in six days to be embroiled in a sex scandal.
Qi Fang, the head of the police force in Wusu, a city of 200,000 people in the far Western region of Xinjiang, is... Chinese sex tape scandal unearths corruption in Bo Xilai’s Chongqing
Posted by bvnpost on 30-11-2012
By Malcolm Moore, Beijing
11:41AM GMT 26 Nov 2012
A scandalous set of sex tapes featuring Chinese government officials has lifted the lid on a blackmail ring in Chongqing under Bo Xilai, the city’s disgraced Communist party boss.
Bo Xilai, Chongqing's former party secretary Photo: APSo far,... China sacks Communist official who appeared in sex tape
Posted by bvnpost on 30-11-2012
China has sacked a district Communist Party official after images of him having sex with his mistress were splashed across microblog websites.
The logo of Sina Corp's Chinese microblog website 'Weibo' Photo: REUTERS
The case highlights the influence of China’s fast-growing microblogging... Wen Jiabao: Please Forget Me
Posted by bvnpost on 23-11-2012
– Josh Chin.
The Wall Street Jounal
Chinese Communist Party leaders typically do all they can to ensure their names earn a permanent spot in the history books, scratching and biting so their signature ideas – Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, Jiang Zemin’s Three Represents, and the latest,... Take Action: Million Hearts, One Voice Campaign
Posted by bvnpost on 19-11-2012
Please join us in a worldwide campaign to stop the arbitrary detention of citizen journalists and democracy activists in Vietnam.
Our goal is to reach 100,000 signatures by International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2012.
Your signature counts and your active participation has far-reaching impact.
Join... Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
Posted by bvnpost on 03-11-2012
By DAVID BARBOZA
BEIJING — The mother of China’s prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao’s political campaigns. And during childhood, “my family was extremely poor,” the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said in a speech last year.
But... 9-11-2012 Rep. Sanchez speaks on H. Res. 484
Posted by bvnpost on 16-09-2012
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez
H. Res. 484 calls on Vietnamese authorities to respect basic human rights and cease abusing vague national security provisions.
LorettaSanchezLive :
9-11-2012 Rep. Sanchez speaks on H. Res. 484
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... Vietnam’s Phony War on Terror
Posted by bvnpost on 01-09-2012
Hanoi is forced to call a dissident a dissident.
Associated Press/ Vietnam News Agency Vietnamese-American pro-democracy activist Nguyen Quoc Quan.Sometimes being Orwellian is too much even for Communists. So it is with news that Hanoi has changed the charges against a U.S. citizen it arrested... Inside North Korea’s gulag
Posted by bvnpost on 23-06-2012
Twisted by hunger and cruelty, Shin In Geun betrayed his mother, and then watched her hang
Shin In Geun is the only known person to have ever escaped from a North Korean labor camp. Photo: REUTERS/Jacky NINE YEARS AFTER watching his mother’s hanging, Shin In Geun squirmed through the electric... South Korea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh
Posted by bvnpost on 07-05-2012
By HYUNG-JIN KIM | Associated Press
South Korean customs officials say they will crack down on pills containing human flesh being smuggled from China and believed to be a panacea for diseases. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-korea-cracks-smuggling-human-flesh-capsules-article-1.1073628#ixzz1uDVaCM3Y... Free The Press:Vietnamese Blogger Dieu Cay
Posted by bvnpost on 19-04-2012
Vietnamese Blogger Dieu Cay
Imprisoned Since 2008
Blogger Điếu Cày Nguyễn Văn Hải
Nguyen Van Hai, better known as Dieu Cay, which means “the peasant’s water pipe,” has been imprisoned in Vietnam since 2008. Dieu Cay is creator of the popular blog “BlogDieuCay” and a founding member...