Counting the Cost: Who Will Finance Việt Nam’s Ambitious $49.1 Billion Rail Project?
Thiên Lương wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on June 18, 2025. A proposal from VinSpeed and THACO, two major companies...
Việt Nam Slashes Use of Death Penalty: Eight Crimes Removed, Including Corruption and Drug Offenses
Key Events Việt Nam Abolishes Death Penalty for Corruption Amid Wave of High-Profile Trials Chinese Survey Ship Operates Near Việt Nam Coast Within EEZ,...
Facebook Under Scrutiny: Legal Initiatives for Vietnam Presents New Report at IGF 2025
On June 23, 2025, at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Lillestrøm, Norway, Trần Quỳnh Vi, representative of Legal Initiatives for Vietnam (LIV), presented...
Too Fast, Too Furious: Việt Nam’s War on Flat-Rate Taxes
Minh Viễn wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on June 20, 2025. A new government policy is forcing small businesses across...
An ‘Invisible Sword’: New Decree Targets Việt Nam’s Lawyers
Anh Băng wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on June 20, 2025. The Vietnamese government has just issued Decree 121/2025/NĐ-CP, a...
Why has Việt Nam’s ‘Blazing Furnace’ Campaign Failed?
This article is the final installment of a special series on anti-corruption in Asia. It is based on research published in 2019 by scholars...
Freedom of Expression in Việt Nam – Final Part: Whose Voice Is Heard? Press, Protest, and Assembly in the Country Today
Lê Giang wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on June 12, 2025. As Việt Nam enters what some have described as a new...
An Incomplete Social Contract: The Legacy of Việt Nam’s 2013 Constitution
Bảo Khánh wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on May 7, 2025. Thúc Kháng translated this into English for The Vietnamese Magazine. The...
Shrouded in Secrecy: Việt Nam’s Government Reform and the Question of Transparency
Bảo Khánh and Sùng Chính wrote this Vietnamese article, published in Luật Khoa Magazine on June 17, 2025. A sweeping government restructuring campaign is underway in...