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Two popular Web sites blocked in Vietnam

(AP) - February 11, 2010 Two pioneering Web sites that stretched the limits of free expression in Vietnam say they have been hacked and shut down, just months after the communist government blocked the social networking site Facebook. Both sites had been critical of Vietnam’s policies toward China, a (...) (11/02/2010)


Vietnam court sentences democracy activist to 4 years as crackdown on dissent continues

(AP) - January 29, 2010 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. Pham Thanh Nghien, 32, was also given three years’ probation after a (...) (30/01/2010)


Vietnam to try democracy activists for subversion

(AP) - Vietnam will put a leading human rights lawyer and three other democracy activists on trial Wednesday, accusing them of a plot to overthrow the nation’s communist government, which regards the advocacy of political pluralism as treason. The four are accused of collaborating online with (...) (19/01/2010)


Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout

(AP) - Vietnam’s growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country’s communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks. (17/11/2009)


Vietnam shuts down Web site in dispute with China

(AP) - Vietnam has shut down a Web site it ran jointly with China, officials said Monday, as diplomatic tensions escalated over islands claimed by both countries. The two sides created the Web site in 2006 amid great fanfare in order to promote bilateral trade. But it became embroiled in their dispute (...) (18/05/2009)


Vietnam court convicts Catholics in land dispute

(AP) - HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A Vietnamese court convicted eight Catholics on Monday on charges of disturbing public order and damaging property during a series of prayer vigils to get back confiscated church land, but gave them light (...) (9/12/2008)


AP reporter detained, beaten by police in Vietnam

(AP) - BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — An Associated Press reporter in Vietnam was punched, choked and hit over the head with a camera by police who detained him Friday while he covered a Catholic prayer vigil in the communist country. Ben Stocking, the Hanoi bureau chief for The Associated Press, was (...) (20/09/2008)


Vietnam sentences American man to 6 months in jail on terrorism charges

(AP) - A court in southern Vietnam sentenced an American man of Vietnamese origin on Tuesday to six months in prison on terrorism charges and ordered that he be deported after serving his sentence, the presiding judge said. (13/05/2008)


Vietnam releases detained US pro-democracy activist

(AP) - Vietnam has released a detained U.S. pro-democracy activist and sent him back to the United States, state television reported Tuesday. (12/12/2007)


Vietnam Frees 3 U.S. Citizens

(AP) - Vietnam released three of four detained American citizens shortly after the U.S. ambassador demanded to see evidence of terrorism or other charges to justify their detention, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. (12/12/2007)