Tag: Vietnams
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Hazards of Being Greenish in Vietnam’s Red Mediascape
[ad_1] By: Nguyễn Vũ Last July, the popular Vietnamese online outlet Zingnews, a unit of one of the country’s top digital groups, suddenly disappeared despite having won international awards. It has never been seen again despite a government announcement that the suspension would last for only three months, accompanied by a fine of VND243.5 million…
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The US, Vietnam’s Tendentious Rights Relationship
[ad_1] By: Nguyễn Vũ Joe barely mentions it As the United States and Vietnam have increasingly found common cause on strategic issues in the South China Sea and the bid to keep China at bay over international navigation and occupation of strategic islets, Washington has had to hold its nose and turn a blind eye…
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At least 56 dead as a fire engulfs a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi
[ad_1] A fire in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital killed at least 56 people, including at least four children, and injured at least 37, authorities said Wednesday. The fire started just before midnight Tuesday in a building housing about 150 residents. Firefighters contained the blaze, but the building’s location at end of a…
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Plenty of blame to go around in Vietnam’s COVID repatriation flight bribery scandal — Radio Free Asia
[ad_1] Following a two-week trial, a Hanoi court last month convicted 54 defendants, including senior diplomats, for collecting over $7.4 billion in bribes to arrange government flights home for Vietnamese citizens stranded overseas during COVID pandemic lockdowns. The COVID-19 repatriation flight scandal is not Vietnam’s largest corruption case in monetary terms, but it involved 25…
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Police arrest activists for Khmer Krom minority in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region — Radio Free Asia
[ad_1] Three members of Vietnam’s Khmer Krom ethnic group who are suspected of distributing books about indigenous peoples’ rights were arrested on Monday in the Mekong Delta region, authorities told local media. One of the three men was To Hoang Chuong of Tra Vinh province. Radio Free Asia’s Vietnamese Service reported last month that he…
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Vietnam’s communists are constrained domestically in choice between the US and China — Radio Free Asia
[ad_1] It wasn’t the Communist Party that lifted the Vietnamese out of poverty; the people did it themselves. The country’s free-market revolution was the result of bottom-up pressure from the masses who broke the command-economy so much that the communist government had to accept a private sphere of business. Their pilfering from state-run companies and…
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Thani Al Zeyoudi meets Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh as UAE Seeks Stronger Trade and Investment Ties – Business – Economy and Finance
[ad_1] His Excellency Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Overseas Commerce, has attended a bilateral assembly with His Excellency Pham Minh Chin, Prime Minister of Vietnam, throughout a high-level go to to Hanoi. Their excellencies welcomed the start of negotiations in direction of a Complete Financial Partnership Settlement (CEPA), the primary…
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RMS Synergy and Vietnam’s Haduco set up Malaysia OSV joint venture
[ad_1] Haduco Malaysia’s marine service supplier RMS Synergy has established a three way partnership firm with Vietnamese OSV proprietor and operator Hai Duong Petroleum and Marine Company (Haduco). By way of the formation of Haduco RMS, RMS Synergy stated it has secured a long-term constitution of an anchor dealing with tug provide (AHTS) vessel and…
