Category: communist vietnam

Academic Prosecuted After Publication Calling for Reform of Vietnam’s Communist Party

July 30, 2022
Asia & Pacificcommunist vietnamNguyen Son LoVietnamWorld
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A Vietnamese academic, who published books detailing his suggestions for the improvement of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam, was charged with “abusing democratic freedoms” and banned from leaving the country. Nguyen Son Lo, 74, the former director of the SENA Institute of Technology Research and Development, was prosecuted and placed under house arrest by…

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One Man’s Escape From Communist Vietnam

March 18, 2021
Asia & PacificCensorship & Socialismcommunist vietnamFeatured TopicsLife & TraditionPeopleUSvietnamese boat peopleWorld
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There’s a different story for every “boat person” who escaped communist Vietnam. For one man, Binh Tran, his journey involved a boat he built with some friends. As the last Americans pulled out of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975, the communist North Vietnamese Army and the south’s communist Viet Cong forces captured Saigon, the…

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