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Im südchinesischen Meer kam es zu Zusammenstößen zwischen chinesischen und vietnamesischen Schiffen. Die ohnehin komplizierten Beziehungen beider Länder erreichen damit einen historischen Tiefstand.
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Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2014
Vietnam: Erneut zwei bekannte Blogger verhaftet
Vietnam: Erneut zwei bekannte Blogger verhaftet
Nicht mal einen Monat ist es her, dass ich über die Verurteilung des vietnamesischen Bloggers Pham Viet Dao schrieb.
Nun wurden wieder zwei bekannte Blogger in Vietnam verhaftet, und wieder lautet der Vorwurf “Missbrauch demokratischer Freiheiten”.
Nguyen Huu Vinh und dessen Mitarbeiter Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy sollen “üble Inhalte und falsche Informationen verbreitet haben, die das Ansehen und Vertrauen in staatliche Institutionen vermindert haben”. Grundlage für die Festnahme ist wieder Artikel 258 des Strafgesetzbuches, der “Missbrauch demokratischer Freiheiten gegen das Staatsinteresse”, der mit bis zu sieben Jahren Haft geahndet werden kann.
Lucie Morillon von den Reportern ohne Grenzen sieht hier eine negative Entwicklung in Vietnam:
Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2014
Vietnam Zwei regierungskritische Blogger festgenommen
Erneut haben die Behörden in Vietnam zwei bekannte regierungskritische Blogger verhaftet. Den Angaben zufolge wurde Nguyen Huu Vinh und Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy am Montag in der Hauptstadt Hanoi festgenommen. Ihnen wird Verstoß gegen den Artikel 258 vorgeworfen, was mit bis zu sieben Jahren Haft bestraft werden kann.
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read more (Newsticker der "Neue Zürcher Zeitung"
TOP NEWS U.S. criticizes Chinese oil rig move amid Vietnam protests
Tue, May 06 16:59 PM EDT
By Greg Torode
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday sharply criticized the movement of a huge Chinese oil rig that Vietnam says has entered its waters, the latest show of Beijing's growing assertiveness to raise alarm among smaller countries in the region.
The Vietnamese accusation came days after U.S. President Barack Obama visited Asia to underline his commitment to allies there, including Japan and the Philippines who are themselves locked in territorial disputes with China.
Obama, promoting a strategic "pivot" toward the Asia-Pacific region, also visited South Korea and Malaysia, but not China.
Vietnam has condemned the operation of the deepwater drilling rig in what it says are its waters in the South China Sea, and told China's state-run oil company to remove it.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters: "Given the recent history of tensions in the South China Sea, China's decision to operate its oil rig in disputed waters is provocative and unhelpful to the maintenance of peace and stability in the region."
"These events point to the need for claimants to clarify their claims in accordance with international law, and reach an agreement ... about what types of activities should be permissible within disputed areas," she added.
Vietnam also protested the move.
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Dienstag, 6. Mai 2014
Triebwerk eines Airbus explodiert Sekunden vor Start
Dramatischer Zwischenfall in Melbourne: Der Airbus A330 der Vietnam Airlines ist vermutlich nur knapp einer Katastrophe entgangen. Auf der Startbahn brannten Trümmer.
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Donnerstag, 1. Mai 2014
Reporter without Borders
For the first time ever, Reporters Without Borders is
publishing a list of profiles of “100 information heroes” for World Press
Freedom Day (3 May).
Among them there are three vietnameses
LE NGOC THANH
Vietnam /
Asia-Pacific
Anton le Ngoc Thanh
is a journalist and a Catholic priest. His work for Vietnam Redemporist News, a
Catholic news organization for which he has worked since the 1990s, has caused
him numerous problems with the Vietnamese authorities.
In 2012 he was stopped
for questioning on his way to Bac Lieu in the south of the country, where a
woman had set fire to herself in protest against her daughter, the blogger Ta Phong
Tan, being put on trial.
He was held for several hours for causing a traffic
accident while travelling on foot. He was arrested again last year during a demonstration
in support of the blogger and activist Dinh Nhat Uy, convicted for organizing a
campaign for the release of his jailed younger brother. Thanh is under constant
police surveillance and is frequently prevented from covering and publicizing
the human rights abuses that he has witnessed.
PHAM CHI DUNG
Vietnam /
Asia-Pacific
Like others who have
seen nomenklatura corruption up close, Pham Chi Dung returned his party card.
Instead he devoted himself to writing and developing a critique of Vietnam’s
political class, which he knows inside out. He was a military officer for many years
and was an aide to Truong Tan Sang in Ho Chin Minh City before Sang became
president in 2011.
He has written about public security and the dominant
cultural, economic and religious ideology. He was arrested on charges of “conspiring
to overthrow the government” and “anti-government propaganda” in July 2012 in
connection with articles about corruption and the government’s shortcomings,
but the investigation was abandoned and he was released seven months later.
His
PhD in economics, his 11 books and his many interviews for the BBC, RFI
and Radio Free Asia still do not protect him. His passport was
confiscated as he was about to board a flight to Geneva in February 2014 to
attend a conference on rights and freedoms in Vietnam.
TRUONG DUY NHAT
Vietnam /
Asia-Pacific
After starting out
as a reporter for regional police publications, Truong Duy Nhat worked for the
daily Dai Doan Ket (Great Solidarity). But he resigned as a state media
journalist in 2010 to become a prolific and outspoken blogger, calling his blog
– originally truongduynhat.vn and then, a year later, truongduynhat.org –
“Another point of view.”
He posted more than 1,000 articles, most of them his
own, in the space of three years. After four orders to close his blogs, he was
finally arrested in May 2013 and sentenced to two years in prison in connection
with 12 of his most vitriolic articles.
Seven months before his arrest, he
wrote: ““I am neither a criminal nor a reactionary. The handcuff and gun should
not be used against bloggers who sacrifice their interests to keep outspoken
blogs that are helping to change the party and the people.”
Demonstration gegen die Regierung in Saigon am 29.04.2014
Trotz Drohungen gingen die Menschen auf die Straße, anlässlich des 39.Jahrestages der gewaltsamen Niederwerfung Südvietnams.
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