Vietnam Government Sensitive to Criticism

16/09/09

The Vietnamese government seems to be taking a hard line against critics these days. Several bloggers and journalists who had covered sensitive issues such as relations with China have been detained.

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Thanks to the economic boom most Vietnamese are satisfied with the government but isolated cases of dissent worry the authorities

On Tuesday, the country's only independent think tank, the Institute for Development Studies in Hanoi, was forced to shut down just two years after being set up because of new state restrictions on scholars.

In a statement, the institute said the act of banning open opposition was "unscientific, unprogressive and undemocratic".

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Thomas Bärthlein finds out from Martin Gainsborough, an expert on Vietnamese politics at Bristol University in the UK, how nervous the Vietnamese government is about criticism

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Thomas Bärthlein finds out from Martin Gainsborough, an expert on Vietnamese politics at Bristol University in the UK, how nervous the Vietnamese government is about criticism

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