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Vietnam should ask Cambodia to delay canal project: experts

Participants at a Vietnamese-sponsored consultation have suggested that Hanoi should ask Phnom Penh to delay a proposed  canal project for…

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Vietnam police arrest assistant to National Assembly chairman

Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has arrested Pham Tai Ha, deputy head of the country’s National Assembly office and assistant…

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Religious leader faces new charge in case that brought 5-year sentence

Investigators in southern Vietnam charged the 92-year-old leader of a Buddhist community with incest on Friday after gathering evidence –…

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Vietnam’s ‘Provisional National Government’ offers empty promises, lawyers say

More than 60 people in Vietnam have been given long prison sentences for being members of the so-called “Provisional National…

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3 Vietnamese land rights protesters released early from prison

More than four years after 3,000 police raided Dong Tam commune in the dead of night, three of the protesters…

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Van Thinh Phat case tests investor confidence in Vietnam

A Vietnamese court decision handing Truong My Lan a death sentence for masterminding a US$27 billion fraud has been met…

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Jailed Vietnamese writer honored with international award

An international pressure group representing writers, artists and journalists is presenting its top award to Vietnamese author, journalist and dissident…

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Coalition urges Apple to call out Vietnam’s persecution of climate activists

Tech giant Apple Inc. has a duty to call out Vietnam’s targeting of climate activists in line with its own…

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Van Thinh Phat chairwoman sentenced to death in Vietnam’s biggest fraud trial

Truong My Lan, the chairwoman of Vietnamese developer Van Thinh Phat, has been sentenced to death for masterminding a multi-billion-dollar…

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City bar association cancels membership of Vietnamese activist lawyers

The Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association has removed the names of lawyers Dang Dinh Manh and Nguyen Van Mieng…

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Khmer Krom group petitions for Vietnam to be removed from UN body

A group representing Vietnam’s Khmer Krom ethnic minority has sent a petition to the Secretary General of the United Nations…

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Vietnam warns that drought and saline intrusion could lead to water shortage

Facing drought and saltwater intrusions in southern Vietnam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on authorities to ensure people have…

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Suspected food poisoning in Vietnam leaves 1 student dead, nearly 40 hospitalized

In a case of suspected food poisoning in Vietnam, an elementary school student died after eating breakfast at an eatery…

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Report: US officials had sudden symptoms before Harris’ Hanoi visit

Close to a dozen U.S. officials suffered from unexplained symptoms just before Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Hanoi in…

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‘Know-it-all’ TikToker fined for saying Ho Chi Minh City is full of criminals

A Vietnamese pro-government TikToker with 900,000 followers has been issued a US$300 fine for saying on the social media platform…

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Vietnamese political prisoner denied traditional medicine

A prison in Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province is refusing to allow the family of political prisoner Nguyen Thi Tam to…

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Vietnam demolishes a lecture hall linked to Khmer Krom pagoda

A week after arresting its abbot, Vietnamese authorities on Monday demolished a lecture hall linked to a Buddhist pagoda serving…

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Is Vietnam on track to realize its semiconductor dream?

As Vietnam tries to position itself as an essential part of the global semiconductor supply chain, there is no shortage…

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Vietnamese police arrest 4 more Khmer Krom monks in pagoda dispute

Vietnamese police have arrested four more Buddhist monks from the Khmer Krom indigenous group in an ongoing clash over a…

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Detained Vietnamese activist denied access to lawyer

A Vietnamese activist, accused of “propaganda against the State” is being denied access to a lawyer, his family told Radio…

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