Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
This section contains articles on Vietnam and the former French Indochina as a whole (as well as the Sino-Indochinese crisis). Articles specificaly on Cambodia and Laos are placed in these national sections.
, by HRW
(Bangkok) – The Vietnamese authorities stopped several pro-democracy supporters from attending an event in Hanoi in support of Ukraine on March 5, 2022, following the Russian invasion, Human Rights Watch said today. The Ukrainian Embassy was holding “a charity bazaar dedicated to raising funds (...)
, by TRAN Angie Ngoc
While worker grievances about abuses and exploitation since 2015 have fallen on deaf ears with the renewal of a bilateral Vietnam-Saudi Arabia labour pact (2019-2024), a recent announcement from the official state media seems to appease recent bad publicity about labor export. It reveals an (...)
, by BUCKLEY Joe
Vietnam has a single state-led union federation, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL). However, the 2019 Labour Code legalised worker organisations (WOs) not affiliated to the VGCL. This is the first time the country has allowed any formal freedom of association. WOs are (...)
, by HIEP Le Hong
The recent corruption scandal involving Viet A Corp’s inflation of Covid-19 test-kit prices and payment of kickbacks shows that Vietnam’s intensified anti-corruption efforts have quite some way to go.
Since 2016, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has been conducting an intense anti-corruption (...)
, by NGUYEN Nhung, RATCLIFFE Rebecca
Migrant workers ate and slept in factories swarming with Covid, sealed off from outside world
For weeks, Hoang Thi Quynh* worked and slept inside a garment factory in Tien Giang province, in southern Vietnam. She would start her shift at 7.15am and then, after a day spent sewing sportswear (...)
, by HA Ngo
Bridging the gap between international commitments and national legislation
Since the 1980s, Vietnam has ratified a number of international human rights instruments and labour standards. However, Vietnam has neither signed nor ratified any instruments or labour standards related to domestic (...)
, by LONG Qiao
Vietnamese authorities say they are cracking down on a growing number of migrants crossing the border illegally from neighboring China, in an apparent reversal of previous trends.
Police in the border area of Lang Son in northern Vietnam, across the border from the southwestern Chinese Guangxi (...)
, by TURNER George
ConocoPhillips and Perenco try to stop £140m levy from sale of oilfields in key case for tax avoidance by multinationals
Two multinational oil companies have launched a pre-emptive legal strike, seeking to stop Vietnam from collecting taxes on the profits made in a major oil deal.
An (...)
, by PETTY Martin
HANOI (Reuters) - The Vietnam of today wasn’t what Le Hieu Dang had hoped for when he joined the Communist Party 40 years ago to liberate and rebuild a country reeling from decades of war and French and U.S. occupation.
The socialist system of the late revolutionary Ho Chi Minh has been (...)
, by SAUL Heather
“The extent of the public mourning was unscripted, as hundreds of thousands lined up over four days outside Giap’s house to pay their respects in an outpouring of grief.” The death of wartime General Vo Nguyen Giap has triggered public mourning in Vietnam as 150,000 people lined up to pay (...)
, by Kyodo News
HANOI — Vietnam’s state-run English-language newspaper Viet Nam News published an opinion ad Tuesday objecting to planned nuclear reactor exports by Japan.
The ad, sponsored by Days Japan, a monthly photojournalism magazine edited by Ryuichi Hirokawa, states that “the Japanese people are opposed (...)
, by ARUTCHELVAN S.
It was a great and emotional experience to visited Vietnam for an 8 day study tour in April 2011 as part of a 7 member PSM team. Vietnam has been the inspiration of many since the seventies. Many activists in the world today were inspired by the great Vietnamese revolution which ousted the (...)
, by Est-West Center
Vietnamese and Americans joined together in Hanoi last December for a happy celebration, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the entrance into force of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement signed in December, 2001. The gathering of current and former trade negotiators, diplomats, and (...)
, by Mainichi Shimbun
The governments of Vietnam and Japan will restart discussions in September on the provision of Japanese nuclear power technology to the Southeast Asian nation, it was revealed on Aug. 29.
Government officials from both nations are scheduled to meet again on Sept. 8 and 9 in Tokyo to work out (...)
, by TORODE Greg
With apologies to John Lennon, imagine that the Chinese fishing trawler captain now in detention in Japan was not a lone individual, but one of several hundred fishermen captured and held over the past 18 months or so. Imagine, too, that some of their boats had been rammed and sunk by Japanese (...)
, by HUU Ngoc
A French travelogue has likened The Story of Kieu, a Vietnamese literary gem, to the famous French novel Justine où Les Malheurs De La Vertu (The Misfortune Of Virtue).
In an article included in an unfinished manuscript he sent to his Vietnamese friends shortly before his death, Georges (...)
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