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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

Mourners Clash with Vietnamese Authorities

March 18, 2013 Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police during a funeral this weekend in northern Vietnam, officials and state media said Monday, in