Sexual Harassment Scandals and a Grotesque Masculine Society
On the evening of October 20, several major South Korean news outlets, including SBS News, The Korea Times, The Korea Herald, and MK, reported...
The Price of Preserving Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum
Many years after his death, the public in Việt Nam realized that Hồ Chí Minh left a will expressing his wish to be cremated...
Three Key Takeaways About Việt Nam’s Communist Party Election on Its General Secretary
Each congress of the Communist Party of Việt Nam draws significant public attention. Among its many proceedings, the selection of the General Secretary always...
The Vietnamese Tradition of Patriotism and Protest
A 1975 article in the U.S. newspaper The Forum once described Vietnamese refugees protesting to urge the United Nations to let them return home....
Việt Nam’s Push for Information Control—Parallels From Abroad
The Vietnamese government has long been implementing a national project to digitize and store citizens’ data for administrative purposes. The scope of this data...
Hoàng Xuân Chiến Harassment Scandal and the Challenge for Việt Nam’s “Bamboo Diplomacy”
On Oct. 24, Deputy Minister of National Defense of Việt Nam Hoàng Xuân Chiến appeared on Human Rights Watch’s “Hall of Shame.” Chiến was...
From the Colonial Period to Today: How Workers’ Unions in Việt Nam Lost Independence
In 1953, a Vietnamese worker labored for nearly two hours to afford a loaf of bread, while an American worker could buy the same...
The Alchemy of Activism
Thirteen years ago, my path into activism began. For more than two decades, I had lived in denial, self-contempt, and secrecy because of my...
Deputy Defense Minister Accused of Sexual Harassment in South Korea; Việt Nam’s National Assembly Convenes Its Final Session of the 15th Term
Key Events Deputy Minister of National Defense Hoàng Xuân Chiến accused of sexual harassment in South Korea; Tô Lâm’s UK Visit Seeks Top-Level Strategic...