THÔNG BÁO V/v: Vai trò của bác sĩ Nguyễn Xuân Ngãi và vấn đề mạo danh Đảng Dân chủ Việt Nam – Chiếu Điều lệ Đảng ban hành ngày 09 tháng 09, 2008; – Chiếu Chỉ thị Số 1/2010; – Chiếu buổi họp Ban Lãnh đạo Đảng Dân chủ Việt Nam ngày 26 tháng 5, […] Read more »
Quan điểm của Đảng Dân chủ Việt Nam về bài “Xây dựng và hoàn thiện cơ chế bảo hiến”
Đảng Dân chủ Việt Nam: Ngày 17/05/2012, Báo Lao Động đăng tải bài viết của nguyên Tổng Bí thư Đỗ Mười để mở đầu cho chuyên đề về cơ chế bảo hiến. Đảng Dân chủ Việt Nam hoan nghênh một số quan điểm tiến bộ trong bài viết, như việc khẳng định nhu cầu cần […] Read more »
CAN A MODUS VIVENDI BE DEVELOPED FOR THE SOUTH CHINA SEA CRISIS
The South China Sea stretches from the Strait of Taiwan in the north to Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the south, through which one-third of the world Read more »
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WORLD REPORT 2012: VIETNAM
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WORLD REPORT 2012: VIETNAM
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Events of 2011
The Vietnamese government systematically suppresses freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. Independent writers, bloggers, and rights activists who question government policies, expose official corruption, or call for democratic alternatives to one-party rule are routinely subject to police harassment and intrusive surveillance, detained incommunicado for long periods of time without access to legal counsel, and sentenced to increasingly long terms in prison for violating vague national security laws. Read more »
THE CRISIS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
The Scarborough Shoal standoff between the Philippines and China threatens to consume Southeast Asia.
For more than a month, the Scarborough Shoal, perhaps a good place to fish but not much more, has been the site of a tense and increasingly dangerous standoff between the Philippines and China. It has now begun to snowball, with hints of economic retaliation from China and rallies in Manila, the latest today in front of the Chinese Embassy, which drew an estimated 1,000 people. Read more »
BETWEEN THE TWO GIANTS: VIETNAM’S DILEMMA
To the north is China and across the Pacific is the United States, two powers facing off. In the middle and no less a part of this confrontation is Vietnam.
Vietnam is bordered by Cambodia and Laos to the west and China to the north. To the south, its nearest neighbors are Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore; and east across the South China Sea, one can find the Philippines. Vietnam has little reason to feel abandoned; yet, as Hanoi fights for possessions over the Paracel and Spratly Islands, it finds itself increasingly alone. Read more »