HANOI (AFP) - - An imprisoned Vietnamese Catholic priest, whose release has been sought by US legislators, is in worsening health, his sister said Tuesday. More »
HANOI (AFP) - - An imprisoned Vietnamese Catholic priest, whose release has been sought by US legislators, is in worsening health, his sister said Tuesday. More »
HANOI (AFP) - - The naked, spiky-looking tree is not just Le Ham's pride and joy.
HANOI (AFP) - - A group of students whose overcrowded boat capsized were among eight Vietnamese people who drowned in separate weekend water accidents, an official and state media said on Monday.
HANOI (AFP) - - An internationally-recognised writer and prominent dissident told a court on Friday that an assault charge against her was fabricated, but the judge jailed her for three-and-a-half years.
HANOI, Vietnam - A Vietnamese court convicted a journalist and democracy activist of assault and sentenced her to three-and-a-half years in prison Friday in a one-day trial that rights groups said was meant to silence government critics.
HANOI, Vietnam - A Vietnamese journalist and democracy activist went on trial for alleged assault Friday as authorities continued a crackdown on dissent in which 16 people have been sent to prison in just over three months.
HANOI (AFP) - - Liberation fighters and former Communist Party officials in Vietnam have bitterly denounced what they say is a corrupt system whose leaders are sullying the country's hard-won independence.
HANOI (AFP) - - There has been a spike in human rights issues in Vietnam but dialogue, not harsher measures, is the way to respond, the United States ambassador said Wednesday.
HANOI (AFP) - - Vietnam will prevent "hostile forces" from exploiting democracy and human rights to sabotage the country's revolution, the Communist Party leader said Tuesday.
HANOI, Vietnam - A court in northern Vietnam has sentenced four men to death for trafficking heroin.
HANOI (AFP) - - A group of Vietnamese dissidents jailed for up to 16 years for trying to overthrow the communist regime have appealed their sentences, local media reported on Saturday.
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - - A human rights group accused Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Friday of trying to reverse political pluralism after the nation's main opposition leader was sentenced to jail this week.
HANOI (AFP) - - A Vietnamese court handed a four-year jail term to a writer on Friday for anti-state "propaganda", a court official said, the latest in a string of jailings of democracy activists by the communist state.
HANOI, Vietnam - An author and democracy activist who criticized Vietnam's communist government was sentenced Friday to four years in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the state, her lawyer said.
HANOI, Vietnam - Officials say a Vietnam War-era artillery shell has exploded in a school yard, shattering windows and terrifying hundreds of students.
HANOI, Vietnam - One of the world's most famous Zen masters made a plea Monday for religious freedom in his homeland, saying Vietnam's communist leaders have lost touch with their revolutionary ideals and Buddhist traditions.
HANOI (AFP) - - One of the world's most influential Buddhist monks made a plea for religious freedom in Vietnam Monday after his followers were forced from two temples.
HANOI (AFP) - - Observers from a global association of lawyers were barred last week from a controversial Vietnamese trial at which four dissidents were jailed, the group said Saturday.
HANOI (AFP) - - A Vietnamese woman was mauled to death by at least five guard dogs at a coffee farm in the country's Central Highlands, state-linked media reported Saturday.
HANOI (AFP) - - Vietnam is flouting its human rights commitments to its Southeast Asian neighbours, Human Rights Watch said Friday, after the controversial jailing of four democracy activists.
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