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19.01.12 Vietnam Focus
January issue: Table of contents
SPOTLIGHT
- Is a crackdown ramping up? Tacit acceptance; International response; Criticism
given and deflected; Rule by law? Business must prevail
- Not just Bui Thi Minh Hang: Seventy-eight articles calling for human rights were
apparently seized from Khuong's home
- Criminal Code used against dissidents: Article 104 deals with tax evasion
POLITICS & SOCIETY
- Land rights back with a bang: The story in Hai Phong City is still unfolding
- Journalist arrested for bribing police: Exposure of corruption by the press is
sometimes encouraged by the government
- Powerful lobbies block reforms: The problem goes beyond high-level government
corruption
- Ring in the dragon
- Flaming bikes and cars
- Facebook in Vietnam, sort of: Facebook has been blocked since the end of 2009
- Hot Boy sign of the times? Attitudes are gradually changing
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- Cambodia's deputy PM visits Vietnam: Computer hacking up 10 per cent
- Vietnam–Ireland adoptions to resume: Sun 'climbed to power on a ladder of
Vietnamese bayonets
- Visit to Laos: Vietnam vies with China for influence
ECONOMY & ENERGY
- Qatar investing in Vietnam petchem: Neon will farm out blocks 120 and 105-110/04
- Neon to explore off coast: The government estimates the country has coal
reserves of 48.7 billion tons
- Coal production to increase
- Property market holds its own: Most property speculation in the larger cities
involves newer apartment blocks
- Japan partners on sat technology
- Tourism slated to go up: Vietnam plans to receive 7.5 million international
visitors by 2015
- Motorbike firms raise production
GREATER MEKONG
- Shots fired at Chinese vessel
- Testing the climate in Myanmar: Hydrotek is planning to move into wastewater
treatment
- Releasing prisoners: Human rights organisations believe the releases do not go
far enough
- Khmer Rouge trial resumes: So far court costs have run to some $150 million.
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