Vietnam Plays the Blame Game Over the Fish Kill Disaster-RFA | Jul 26, 2016 The owners of the Formosa Ha Tinh steel mill have accepted responsibility for a chemical spill that devastated the fishing industry along Vietnam’s central coast, but questions still remain over how the Taiwan firm’s industrial project and its faulty pollution controls won government approval. Vietnamese lawmaker Vo Kim Cu, a key […]
World Bank: Human Rights All But Absent in New Policy-HRW | Jul 21, 2016 (Washington, DC) – The World Bank has refused to acknowledge its human rights obligations in its new policy framework, Human Rights Watch said today. The bank’s third, and most likely final, draft of its new environmental and social framework, published on July 20, 2016, does not require the bank to […]
Vietnam Top Legislator Criticizes Activists for Voicing against China’s Violations-by Vu Quoc Ngu, July 26, 2016 Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, who on July 22 took oath as chairwoman of Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly for the second time within three months, has criticized local activists for expressing their concerns about China’s violations of the country’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China Sea), […]
HCM City-based Environmentalist Tortured in Police Station for Filming, His Mouth Sealed with Tape-By Vu Quoc Ngu, July 27, 2016 Nguyen Phuong, an environmental activist in Ho Chi Minh City was held for hours and tortured in a police station in Phu Xuan commune, Nha Be district on July 18 after filming the facility, according to local social networks. According to Tin Mung Cho Nguoi Ngheo news website, […]
South China Sea: Australia in three-way rebuke of China-SMH | Jul 26, 2016 Beijing: The Australian government has issued a strong joint statement with the United States and Japan calling on China to abide by a Hague tribunal’s ruling on the South China Sea. The three countries issued the statement late on Monday at the conclusion of the trilateral strategic dialogue held between Foreign […]
VIET NAM: SERIES OF ATTACKS ON POLITICAL ACTIVISTS, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND THEIR RELATIVES MUST BE INVESTIGATED-Amnesty International | Jul 22, 2016 Three recent attacks on people who have been deliberately knocked off their motorbikes appear to be part of a wider series of attacks against political activists, human rights defenders and their relatives. Amnesty International urges the Viet Nam authorities to immediately and impartially investigate these incidents and bring the […]
VIET NAM: MINORITY GROUP’S PROTEST MET WITH VIOLENCE-Amnesty International | Jul 22, 2016 A spontaneous demonstration by ethnic and religious minority Ede in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam on 14 July was violently suppressed, resulting in injuries to around 20 demonstrators. The arrests and incommunicado detention of at least seven demonstrators raises serious concerns about torture and ill-treatment. A huge police operation […]
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