(HANOI, Vietnam) — Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country’s Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again.
This year alone, 460 Vietnamese men, women and children have arrived on Australian shores — more than in the last five years combined. The unexpected spike is …
Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party is not looking back on a good year. The country’s economy is in trouble; the authoritarian leadership is split; and what appear to be rival Communist Party factions, seeking to rouse the …
Grumbling over territory and marine boundaries, China and India and Vietnam go titting and tatting with pieces of paper.
Today picks: years of poor management leave Vietnam’s banks in unhealthy shape, concern’s over whether Mongolia’s mining boom comes at the expense of its citizens, and the Royal Family’s latest scandal comes at the cruellest …
Today’s required reading: The United States strikes strategic defense partnership with India, Vietnam’s political elite struggle to connect to the public and renewed violence further delays any chance of a solution to the Turkish …
This is not just about China. Depending on the dispute, it’s also South Korea vs. Japan, Japan vs. Taiwan, Taiwan vs. Vietnam, Vietnam vs. Cambodia, and numerous other permutations.
When it comes to feuds in the Pacific over islands and what lies beneath, it’s not simply a case of China against everyone else
In today’s choices: the conflict in Syria seeps over its borders, the Latin economies still enjoying the good times and tests of sovereignty in the South China Sea.
Today’s picks: resistance to Islamism in Mali, the illegal organs trade and more recriminations between China and the U.S. over the South China Sea.
