Environmental hero arrested Vietnam’s state-controlled media recently reported that the Security Investigation Agency of the Hanoi City Police Department has arrested Ms. Nguyen Thi Khanh – Director of the Green Innovation Development Center (GreenID) on charges of tax evasion. Ms.…
On February 17, 1979, China launched a massive attack on the entire northern border of Vietnam. The fierce border war between the two “communist” countries persisted until 1989 in some locations. However, so far, “the third Indochina war,” as some…
Vietnam has just voiced its interest and desire to cooperate with the US, a few days after Washington announced the Indo-Pacific strategy in which Vietnam is mentioned as one of the leading partners in the world with which the US…
For the fifteenth year in a row, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has proposed to put Vietnam on the list of “countries of particular concern” (CPC) on religious freedom. The one-party state has so far maintained…
Japan’s second-biggest refiner, Idemitsu Kosan, has just said it has no plans to provide new financial support to Vietnam’s Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical, which has had to cut output by 80% due to lack of funding, Reuters quoted a…
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has just approved a new Country Program Document for Vietnam for the period 2022-2026 and a $120 million financial support package for the Southeast Asian nation, Vietnam News Agency reported this on February 6,…
About 17 million Vietnamese students and students went to school for the first time on February 7 after nearly a year of interruption of face-to-face learning due to restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Southeast Asian country prepares…
Vietnam is experiencing a widespread shortage of gasoline with many gas stations across the country hanging signs of running out of petrol, stopping selling while the government is inspecting and severely punishing gas stations who hoard goods and wait for…
A priest has just been murdered in a church in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, which is considered an area where religious activities are restricted by the authorities in Vietnam. Father Joseph Tran Ngoc Thanh, of the Dak…
Samsung C&T Corp., a construction company under the Korean Samsung Group, has just signed a contract to build a combined cycle power plant worth $510 million in Vietnam. Yonhap News reported on February 2 right after Samsung C&T company made…
