Việt Nam qua báo chí nước ngoài 4/2011 ( tiếng Anh )

Moody's: Negative Outlook on Vietnam Reflects Uncertainty (Wall Street Journal 20/4/11)

"Moody's Investors Service Inc. said Wednesday its negative outlook on Vietnam reflects balance of payments uncertainty, with any change contingent on recent tightening measures arresting inflationary pressures and containing the volatile exchange rate."

Vietnam Backs Human Traffickers and Forced Labor in US, Suit Says Courthouse News Service 15/4/11 )

Fifty-five Vietnamese workers say they were charged exhorbitant fees for jobs in America, then forced into indentured servitude and finally abandoned eight months later, "penniless and facing possible deportation."  

Workers buried alive in Vietnamese quarry disaster (World Socialist Web Site 12/4/11 )

 "The regime’s actual indifference toward workers’ safety can be gauged from the paltry compensation of $239 paid to each victim’s family, with even less, $144, for each injured miner. Such is the worth of a worker’s life in the misnamed “Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” which has become a cheap labour platform for transnational corporations."

Vietnam the most affordable destination for Australian tourists ( The Australian 12/4/11 )

"Vietnam rocketed to the top of the latest Expedia HiFX Foreign Exchange Index, which measures currency fluctuations against the Australian dollar to find the best-value destinations for travellers".

 Vietnam's economy: growing too fast ( F.T. 7/4/2011 )

 "Vietnam, which has been battling regular bouts of economic instability, is one of the few fast-growing countries in the world where investors want to see growth slow down."

 Not a prayer for US-Vietnam diplomacy ( Asia Times Online 6/4/2011 )

"For years, human-rights groups and concerned US Congressmen have complained about Vietnam's abysmal freedom of religion record. The US State Department, keen to foster ties with Hanoi in a bid to counterbalance China's regional rise, has through its silence effectively validated Vietnam's consistent denials about committing human-rights abuses, including its persecution of the Montagnards."

Two Vietnamese to Stand Trial for Broadcasts Into China ( Epoch 5/4/2011 )

"The Epoch Times obtained a copy of the indictment against them. It makes clear that the Vietnamese government arrested the men in response to pressure from Beijing, applied through a March 5, 2010, diplomatic memo sent by the Chinese Embassy to the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security."

 

Vietnamese Activist's Call for Democracy Draws Unusually Wide Public Support ( New York Times 3/4/2011 )

" His arrest appeared to be part of a tightening of controls throughout 2010 on freedom of expression, including the harassment and arrest of writers, political activists, lawyers and bloggers. Dissident Web sites were disabled by digital attacks, and new regulations restricted the use of public Internet cafes. Public protests over evictions and the confiscation of church property were put down by force."

Vietnamese Communists' Fear Factor is Rising ( American Thinker 3/4/2011 )

"Vietnam's pucker factor must have ratcheted up several notches when the UN approved a No-Fly Zone over Libya, a strong show of international support of the democracy advocates there.  Libya's brutal dictatorship and the communist regime in Vietnam have a lot in common.  Could it be that the Vietnamese peoples' "wall of fear" might also crumble? " 

 

 Vietnam: Pham Tuan ( Financial Times 1/4/2011 )

" During his eight-day sojourn at the Salyut 6 space station, Tuan beamed back messages hailing Vietnam’s long struggle for independence and thanking the Communist party “for having trained me and given me wings to fly into space”.

Back on planet Earth, the hungry Vietnamese people were not so easily taken in. A popular rhyme at the time pondered: “We have no rice, we have no noodles, so why are you going into space Mr Tuan?”" ( " Nhân dân thiếu gạo, thiếu mì. Mày vào vũ trụ làm gì hở Tuân?" )


Việt Nam qua báo chí nước ngoài 3/2011 ( tiếng Anh )