It is time to catch up with most recent news from Vietnam!
Weekly round-up: Vietnam
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Not the busiest week up in the PDR, but we did note a few things.
Read moreImage: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Hieucd, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0 International
It has been an eventful week in Vietnam.
Read moreSIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (May 1, 2012) U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) anchors off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Blue Ridge is on patrol in the Asia-Pacific and in Sihanoukville for a port visit. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Cmdr. Sarah A. Stancati/Released); CC BY-NC
This week's round up of China-Cambodia related news.
Read moreRather busy week in Lao - as no doubt everyone has been following the military events along the border with the Cambodia
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News coming out of the country this week has been dominated by a diplomatic spat between Germany and Vietnam over the alleged disappearance and abduction of Trinh Xuan Thanh, a Vietnamese politician and businessman, by Vietnamese intelligence operatives in Berlin.
Read moreImage: Poipet (Thai border), Cambodia. 2; James Antrobus; CC BY 2.0
It is no secret that Cambodia’s borders are quite porous. Much of the illegal cross-border trade seems to be accomplished with a nod and a wink – there are established, though of course informal, understandings as to how to get people and goods across formal, legal border crossings, as well as informal border crossings which seem to be well known and accessible, as the author discovered in the course of her field work in Cambodia.
Read moreThis Week in Lao: Are We Starting to See "Balancing" Against China?
Read moreContinuing our "Weekly Round Up" Series - today we head north of the border to Laos.
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