The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on global economies over the past year, causing economic clusters or slowing growth in many countries. How does that affect budgets and defense spending in a world full of hotspots and at…
On May 12, the US State Department released a 2020 report on Vietnam’s religious freedom, which noted that some unrecognized religious groups continued to be harassed by the government, such as threats harass, conflict, discrimination between religious groups, interfering internal…
Vietnam’s government has called for “copyright exemption” to the Covid-19 vaccine and also said it would “produce vaccines by themselves for domestic use next year.” Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, May 13, called on countries to share information,…
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on May 12 that Japan “strongly opposes” China’s growing assertiveness at sea in a phone call with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Tokyo is deeply concerned about “unilateral efforts to change the status quo in…
Vietnamese airlines have been excited about direct flights to the US. However, the biggest difficulty is not technical, but commercial, even under the controlled Covid 19 pandemic. Ambition to flight to the US In early November last year, Bamboo Airways…
At a meeting with voters to “campaign for elections” on May 9 in Haiphong, National Assembly’s Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said that if he continues to be elected as a member of the parliament and its chairman of the 15th…
The Vietnamese leaders have just promised to submit to the 15th National Assembly to “promptly” revise the 2013 Land Law, a controversial law in the communist country that considers land to be owned by the state. On the morning of…
The British Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr. Gareth Ward, recently visited the Press Museum in Hanoi, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, while also highlighting the role of the free press. The British diplomatic mission on May 3 posted…
It took 20 years after the end of the war for Vietnam and the US to normalize their relations and more than a quarter of a century later, the two former enemies still could not upgrade their relationship to strategic…
It took a month after the US presidential election, the Vietnamese leaders sent their congratulations to Mr. Joe Biden. In Vietnam, people know Donald Trump better and expected him to be re-elected more than Joe Biden. That is because not…
