Filmmaker Raoul Peck and author Viet Thanh Nguyen discuss their road to making art that’s political and subversive. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck highlights the roots of violence and inequality today. He is best known for his Oscar-nominated documentary – I Am Not Your Negro about civil rights icon James Baldwin…
Lam’s appointment comes after a major anticorruption drive that analysts say he has weaponised for his benefit. Vietnam’s rubber-stamp parliament has approved public security minister To Lam as the country’s new president after a major anticorruption campaign forced his predecessor to resign. In line with the one-party state’s usual procedures,…
To Lam has been public security minister since 2016 and has taken a hard line on human rights movements in the country. Vietnam’s governing Communist Party has nominated the public security minister to be the next president, state media reported, months after his predecessor stepped down as part of a…
Vietnam is ramping up efforts to join other Asian nations like India, Japan, China, and South Korea in exploring the distributed ledger technology, also called the blockchain tech. The country recently launched its Academy of Blockchain and AI Innovation (ABAII) with the aim to train a million people in using…
Tran Qui Thanh was found guilty of scamming investors over loans issued in 2019 and 2020. Vietnam’s top soft drinks tycoon was jailed for eight years on Thursday in a $40m fraud case – the latest high-profile business figure snared in the country’s sweeping crackdown on corruption. The communist nation’s wide-ranging…
Hanoi, Vietnam – In the Vietnamese capital’s Thanh Xuan district, where labyrinthine alleys bustle with residential life and the energy of nearby universities, memories of last year’s deadly apartment fire linger. Late on the night of September 12, 2023, a blaze ripped through an apartment building on Khuong Ha Street…
Hanoi, Vietnam – At a private venue tucked away in a narrow alley in Hanoi’s city centre, a group of more than 20 people listened attentively to Saleem Hammad, a charismatic, 30-year-old Palestinian man, as he spoke in fluent Vietnamese. Hammad, who runs a business in Vietnam, shared an incident…
Vo Van Thuong is the latest high-profile figure to resign amid a corruption crackdown. Vietnam’s president has resigned after only a year in office. Vo Van Thuong is the latest high-profile figure to resign amid a corruption crackdown in a country important to both China and the West. So, why…
Governing party says that Thuong’s ‘shortcomings’ had negatively affected the reputation of the party and the state. Vietnam President Vo Van Thuong has resigned after a little more than a year in office due to “violations” and “shortcomings”, the governing Communist Party has said. Thuong is the second president to…
Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam – The white-walled room in a house on the outskirts of Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam’s coffee capital, is quiet. The only thing breaking the silence is the occasional beep of an electronic scale, or the sound of coffee being poured into a measuring glass. A handful…
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