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Vietnam, US Far Apart on Human Rights

By Chris Brummitt and Matthew Pennington April 19, 2013 Vietnamese authorities seeking to stop a well-known democracy activist from meeting an American diplomat last weekend

Vietnamese Folk Hero Gets Five-Year Sentence

April 5, 2013 By JAMES HOOKWAY And NGUYEN ANH THU HAIPHONG, Vietnam—Two Vietnamese fish farmers who laid mines and fired homemade guns at police attempting

US: Vietnam Backsliding On Human Rights

March 21, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration expressed concern Thursday about Vietnam’s “backsliding” on human rights and asserted that advancing individual freedoms is