ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON Sun Aug 8 - Cold War enemies the United States and Vietnam demonstrated their blossoming military relations Sunday as a U.S. nuclear supercarrier floated in waters off the Southeast Asian nation's coast -- sending a message that China is not the region's only big ...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- An international human rights group has honoured six Vietnamese activists for their courage in the face of political persecution in Vietnam.
The six were among 42 writers from 20 countries to receive the annual Hellman/Hammmett award, New York-based Human Rights Watch ...
HANOI, Vietnam -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chided
Vietnam on Thursday for intolerance of dissent and infringement of
Internet freedom, even as she celebrated its 15 years of normalized
relations with the United States.
Mrs. Clinton said she raised the issues of jailed democracy activists,
attacks on religious groups and curbs on social-networking Web sites
during a meeting with Vietnam’s deputy prime minister, Pham Gia Khiem.
Their convent has already been bulldozed to build a public square but the defiant Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in Vinh Long still refuse to let themselves submitted to injustice.
The Vatican appointment of a “non-resident representative” to Vietnam
has upset some local Church leaders while others welcomed the
appointment.
“I’m really confused,” said Father Jean Baptiste Huynh Cong Minh,
Cardinal Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Man of Ho Chi Minh City told Viet
Catholic, “because this morning when I met with the cardinal he seemed
to know nothing about the move either.”
