The World Bank recently released a report, which said that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Vietnam decreased in April, but “generally remained stable” in the first 4 months this year. In a report called “Vietnam Macroeconomic Update”, the World…
With the number of independent candidates decreasing compared to previous elections and the dominance of the Communist Party in Vietnam’s National Assembly, international media said that the upcoming May 23 election was “useless” because only create more monopoly of the…
Article 19, May 20, 2021 The recent arrests of independent candidates running in the upcoming National Assembly election, apparently in reprisal for their social media activity, underscores the intolerance that the Vietnamese government has for critical voices, said ARTICLE 19.…
Threats from China Until recent years, China’s rise in many fields has made the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea) area a dangerous “gunpowder barrel” in the world. China’s important goal is to monopolize the sea, thereby…
According to the method of “the party nominate, people, elect,” the results of the 15th National Assembly election are “pre-determined” and cannot be changed, but economic growth will be reduced by the impact of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. Responding…
The logo of Alibaba Group outside its headquarters in Zhangzhou, China. An investor group of Chinese technology group Alibaba has just signed an investment of $400 million in the retail branch of Masan Group in Vietnam, which has a thriving…
China is proposing to hold a foreign ministerial meeting with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next month – a summit that will help expand and strengthen China’s recent “diplomatic attack” in Southeast Asia. This year marks the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has just said that it is considering an offer from an unnamed vaccine manufacturer in Vietnam to become a center for the production of COVID-19 vaccines using mRNA technology, according to Reuters. Last week, Vietnamese…
Vietnam has just recorded one more death from coronavirus while the number of new infections per day rose to a new record, causing many residential and local communities to be locked down to prevent the spread of the disease in…
At a regular press conference on May 13, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s Spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang raised Hanoi’s position against China’s dispatch of nearly 300 ships to Whitsun Reef which is a part of the Truong Sa (Spratlys) where Vietnam…
