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The 18th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) closed its doors on 24 July and the overall positive results seem to have satisfied the 27 delegations (the ten ASEAN members and the 17 dialogue partners such as Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, US, the EU, Russia and India) who met in Bali. Nevertheless, despite the fact that [...]

In the last several weeks, China and Vietnam have been accusing each other over the disputed islands situated in the South China Sea. The last episode to rekindle tensions between the two former enemies occurred 26 May, when Chinese patrol boats intentionally severed a seismic cable towed by a Vietnamese survey vessel

Pham Thanh Nghien, giornalista e attivista per la democrazia, è stata condannata la scorsa settimana a quattro anni di reclusione da un tribunale di Haiphong, città portuale a 100 km a est di Hanoi, per aver violato l’articolo 88 del codice penale, ovvero per “aver esercitato propaganda contro lo Stato”. Arrestata nel settembre del 2008, [...]