Vietnam
Vietnamese economy hit by global crisis
By John Braddock, October 12, 2009
According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam’s year-on-year economic growth slowed to 3.9 percent in the first half of 2009, down from 6.2 percent in 2008 and 8.5 percent in 2007, a...
ASEAN summit: amid talk of cooperation, economic rivalry on the rise
By John Chan, March 5, 2009
The annual summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok last weekend followed what is becoming a familiar pattern at top-level international gatherings. Amid a sharp downtu...
Row over Internet
By John Chan, September 22, 2008
Relations between Vietnam and China deteriorated over the past fortnight after Hanoi formally protested at online discussions in China about a war with Vietnam. While only a small layer of Chinese nat...
McCain in Vietnam: the ugly face of American imperialism
By Patrick Martin, May 3, 2000
The twenty-fifth anniversary of victory of the National Liberation Front in Vietnam was marked by parades and official ceremonies in Ho Chi Minh City and elsewhere in the country, and by a flood of me...
