In recent years, Thai businesses have been the most active players in mergers and acquisitions in Vietnam with many big deals worth billions of dollars. Recently, Thailand’s SCG Group announced the acquisition of a 70% stake in Duy Tan Plastic…
Vietnam in recent years has continued to have small reclamation activities in the Truong Sa (Spratlys) in the East Sea (South China Sea), according to satellite images and analysis by the US website’s Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) released on February…
There are different perspectives in the model of economic growth in Vietnam in 2021 proposed by domestic research institutes. However, it should be noted that there are key points that have been put forward by research institutes to recommend. In…
The macroeconomic report for the fourth quarter of 2020 of the Institute of Economic and Policy Research (VEPR), published on February 11, shows that Vietnam’s largest import market is China with $84.18 billion, and Vietnam’s largest export market is the…
Memories of war On this day 42 years ago, the short and bloody war took place between the two countries that were once called “communist brothers” Vietnam and China. China claims to “teach Vietnam a lesson.” At the dawn of…
Human rights activist blogger Nguyen Van Hai with the prominent nickname “Dieu Cay” has lived in exile in the US for more than six years. Since then, he has remained involved in administering the website of the Free Journalists Club.…
From 0:00 of February 16, Hai Duong is the first province in the country to be blocked since the blockade of Danang in August 2020. Hanoi is also applying strict measures such as closing schools and restaurants until February 28.…
After the Lunar New Year (or Tet), numerous Vietnamese people flock to festivals, pagodas, and conduct spiritual tours, not only at the places of the old village but on the remote roads of the country. That phenomenon raises some of…
We do not undercut, fabricate, or change the history. In the early hours of the morning of February 17, 1979, China’s authorities dispatched a large number of soldiers equipped with modern weapons they had at that time to blatantly attack…
The story of a suitcase containing dollars brought to the Central Commission for Inspection of the Communist Party of Vietnam, told by Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong on February 1, 2021 reminds former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s words on November…
On the website “Tieng Dan” on February 6, 2021, at the end of the article titled “The rule of law” or “Politics is the marshal,” author is lawyer Ngo Ngoc Trai concluded “Vietnam is on a roadmap to build a…
Dealing with COVID-19 pandemic was emphasized by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as the “immediate key task” of the Vietnamese leadership system. The new wave of pandemics taking place in Vietnam during the Lunar New Year or Tet is posing…
While the world economy declined at least 4% in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam is rated as a “bright star” in the region when the economy grows by nearly 3% (+2, 91%). The leader of the Communist Party…
After being labeled by the US as a “currency manipulator” last December for keeping the domestic currency (VND) from appreciating, Vietnam intervened again in the foreign exchange market and used what trading traders said as an unusual mean, according to…
A resident of Quang Nam province has been fined coldly by the police of Hai Chau District, Danang City for wrong parking and insulting the local police on social networks. The above information was given by the Danang Police to…
China completed 659 km of fence at the border with Burma in just 2 months. This is part of the project “Great Wall of the South” of China, stretching along the border from Burma (about 2,170 km) to Vietnam (nearly…
The Swiss-based global financial group UBS said that Vietnam’s economy grew faster than China last year and still has “huge potential.” However, UBS believes that investors in Vietnam still face some potential risks. Mr. Kelvin Tay, Regional Investment Director of…
Journalist Phan Bui Bao Thy, head of the representative office of Giáo dục & Thời đại (Education & Times) newspaper in Danang, on February 10, was probed and arrested for allegedly “setting up anonymous accounts on Facebook to defame leaders.”…
The personnel issues of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) continue to be the focus of public interest in Vietnam in the week prior to the 2021 Lunar New Year or Tet. On Tuesday, from…
At the end of the 2020 Lunar Year, the world is still raging by the COVID-19 pandemic and Vietnam is inevitable. Coronavirus has paralyzed many social activities, in Vietnam as well as everywhere. As for the people fighting for democracy…
China’s latest Coast Guard Law, passed by the country’s parliament on January 22, has sparked protests from countries in the East Sea (South China Sea) and the East China Sea. This law allows China’s Coast Guard to fire at foreign…
The new Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), the highest authority of the Party is decided at the 13th National Congress on the basis of the personnel plan proposed by the collective consensus of the Central Committee…
Vietnam’s National Assembly in the 2021-2026 term will strive to have 25-50 independent legislators, that is they are not members of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). Mr. Tran Van Tuy, head of the Delegate Working Committee under the…
In the list of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in the 13th term announced on January 31, 2021, Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court Nguyen Hoa Binh was given a seat to…
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has had a new lineup of members of the Central Committee for the 13th tenure with ten “special” cases, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was re-elected as the party’s chief for the third consecutive…
