On 24 May 2012, four Vietnamese human rights defenders active in the promotion of economic, social, and cultural rights in Vietnam received sentences for distributing pro-democracy leaflets.

Hai Phong Bishop voiced his support and called for justice being done on Peter Doan Van Vuon and his family

Local authorities, hooligans and police intensify attacks, threats and acts of violence against Catholic religious and laity trying to defend their parish from unlawful dispossession.

A conference organized by the diocese of Saigon in memory of the martyrs canonized by Blessed John Paul II.

The beating and arrest of at least 30 peaceful Falun Gong demonstrators outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi yesterday is an unacceptable violation of freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today.  

The beating and arrest of at least 30 peaceful Falun Gong demonstrators outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi yesterday is an unacceptable violation of freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today.  

At 2:30 pm in the afternoon of November 3, an aggressive mob of hundreds of people assigned by the Vietnamese communist government, under the support of many security/police forces, attacked the church of Thai Ha all at once.

Vietnamese customs discovered nearly 600 kilograms of African elephant tusks hidden in a shipping container of rubber from Tanzania, authorities said Friday.

Hanoi - A US-based rights group on Wednesday urged Vietnam to close drug rehabilitation centres following accusations of torture and forced labour by former detainees

HANOI - A DISSIDENT Vietnamese priest with a brain tumour went on a one-week hunger strike after authorities returned him to prison last month, his family said on Friday.

The world is about to meet the real Nguyen Tan Dung. The prime minister of Vietnam was formally elected to his second term last week by the country’s legislative branch, the National Assembly. 

HANOI, Aug 2 (Reuters) - State oil and gas Petrovietnam group has launched the 2011 licensing round to cover nine blocks offshore Vietnam, the first offer in four years and its biggest in recent years, as the country works on reversing declining oil output and exports.

Return of Father Nguyen Van Ly to Prison

Vietnam's one-party parliament is to elect Nguyen Tan Dung for another term as prime minister on Tuesday, confirming him as the country's most powerful politician at a time of economic crisis.

VN-News 07.25.2011

Dear compatriots in Vietnam and abroad Ladies and International Human Rights Agency. 

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years during the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 80.

DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — Three U.S. Navy ships were welcomed Friday by former foe Vietnam for joint training, despite China's irritation following weeks of fiery exchanges between the communist neighbors over disputed areas of the South China Sea.

AUSTRALIAN trade officials met or spoke with a colonel from a Vietnamese spy agency 18 times before suggesting to a Reserve Bank currency firm that it hire him as an agent in an arrangement that is now expected to lead to more corruption charges as part of the nation’s biggest bribery probe.