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House Panel to Probe Vietnamese Rights Concerns

(CNS News) - Vietnam’s communist government, which over the past year achieved its aims of securing normalized trade relations with the U.S. and being removed from a religious persecution blacklist, continues to abuse human rights, U.S. lawmakers will be told on (...) (6/11/2007)


Bush Plays Host To Vietnam — Reformers Seek Pressure

(Chicago Tribune) - As President Bush prepares to meet at the White House on Friday with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet, leaders of a movement pressing for democratic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have been making the rounds on Capitol Hill reminding leaders here that, despite normalized (...) (22/06/2007)


Vietnamese groups meet with Sanchez and Pelosi to take up democratic reform with the nation’s president

(Orange County Register) - Rep. Loretta Sanchez and three Vietnamese community leaders met with the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday to make sure she knows what their concerns are about that country’s government before she sits down with its president (...) (21/06/2007)


President meets with O.C. residents

(The Orange County Register) - Activists meet with President Bush to talk about fight for democracy, crackdown on dissidents in Vietnam. Orange County democracy activists this week wrote an important chapter in the saga of their fight for democracy against the communist government in Vietnam. Four activists – Diem Do, Cong (...) (1/06/2007)


Bush meets with backers of Vietnamese democracy

(Mercury News) - A handful of Vietnamese-American activists took their campaign directly to the White House on Tuesday, urging President Bush to openly support democracy in Vietnam. They also asked the U.S. government to pressure the communist government, which has launched a crackdown on dissent in recent (...) (31/05/2007)


Vietnam crackdown on human rights sparks call to action

(Baptist Press) - WASHINGTON (BP)—The United States should compel Vietnam to reverse its crackdown on human rights that occurred after the communist regime received favorable treatment from Washington, witnesses said at a recent congressional hearing. (15/05/2007)


Viet Tan Meets with Geneva Radical Party

(Geneva – Switzerland) On April 18, 2007, leaders of the Parti Radical Genevois (Geneva Radical Party) opened the doors of their headquarters to welcome the delegation of Viet Tan lead by its chairman Do Hoang Diem. The Radical Party plays an important role in Swiss political life on the state (...) (25/04/2007)


Parti Démocrate-Chrétien welcomes Viet Tan in Geneva

(Geneva – Switzerland) - A Viet Tan delegation, headed by Chairman Do Hoang Diem, received a warm welcome from the Parti Démocrate-Chrétien (PDC or Christian Democratic Party) at its central office in Geneva. (21/04/2007)


Panel reveals efforts for democracy in Vietnam

(Chris Eldredge) - If communist Vietnamese authorities find out that a representative of the democratic organization Bloc 8406 had lectured UCLA students by phone about the movement for democracy in Vietnam, he could be arrested. (4/04/2007)


Vietnam called ripe for change

(Orange County Register) - The movement for democracy in Vietnam is gaining momentum in the homeland as well as among Vietnamese communities all over the world, a local activist said Sunday. Diem Do , chairman of the Vietnam Reform Party established in 1982 with the goal of securing democracy for Vietnam, spoke to local (...) (12/10/2006)