The Vietnamese police (the perpetrator has been identified as Senior Lieutenant Colonel Dang Viet Quang – Thoibao.de reported this before the trial: see here) used the German Heckler & Koch MP5 gun to shoot death of Mr. Le Dinh Kinh…
The severe punishment against three generations of Dong Tam communal leader Le Dinh Kinh is a sentence that many people uttered after hearing the sentence pronounced by the Trial Panel with two death sentences imposed on Mr. Le Dinh Kinh’s…
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Public Security Le Quy Vuong on September 14 said that Vietnam had “prevented attempts of “riot, terrorism, sabotage” and vows “not to allow the formation of opposing political organizations in the country,” according to the official…
Nguyen Si Binh For the Vietnamese, the phrase mediation and reconciliation has been heard a lot in the past, starting in the mid-century years, repeated every year until now but does not show anything new. Immediately after the 1975 event,…
Vietnam has just selected the Israeli company Controp as a supplier of surveillance systems for the new ships of its Coast Guard, Israel’s media cited the information from Controp on Sept 11. Control is a manufacturer specializing in photoelectric and…
China’s growing military actions in the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea) have pushed Hanoi and New Delhi closer together in an increasingly close military partnership seen as a counterbalance to China. The recent Chinese launch of…
The next part of the commentary will mention the process of Nguyen Duc Chung relieving the Dong Tam knot that won the hearts of the people, but made it uncomfortable for General Secretary cum President Nguyen Phu Trong, so now…
The Le-Trinh era junta returned to Vietnam in a situation that was consistent with the expectations of the totalitarian regime, where state violence was flaunted and sustained to frighten the people. The courts are instrumental under the direction of the…
To say “health of the political system” or “stability of institutions” are words that seem academic and scientific, but its main implication in the folk language is the question: when this regime will collapse and under what scenario will it…
The head of the Ho Chi Minh City Propaganda Department has just asked the public not to go too far about the million-dollar fortune of national legislator Pham Phu Quoc’s family, causing public discontent. The fact that the foreign press…