By Chia Chi Hsu • Sep 08, 2023
A shroud of secrecy hangs over a controversial sentence that has lingered for more than 15 years. Human rights advocates say the trial of Nguyen Van Chuong was unfair and that he may have been tortured to extract a confession

By Coby Hobbs • Aug 02, 2023
The highly publicised trial of 54 defendants closed with a slew of convictions for public officials implicated in bribery schemes during the height of the national Covid-19 response. But some analysts see layered political motivations beneath the hearings

By Govi Snell • May 26, 2023
Hanoi has launched an unusually thorough probe of the video-sharing platform's local operations. As authorities brand the app a social ill, concerns loom over both domestic speech restrictions and sovereignty issues with China