Vietnam adoptions banned for Americans

Go Vap Orphanage in southern Vietnam. Photo: Kerrilee Barrett
Claims that babies were being unlawfully removed from their natural mothers and sold to agencies in Vietnam have caused a ban on all Vietnamese adoptions to the US from July.
Leaked by The Associated Press last Thursday, the US Embassy document cited cases of fraud, corruption and baby-selling [...]

Vietnam: At least 14 arrests under the excuse of Olympic torch relay

01 May 2008
Peaceful protestors held despite being over 1,000 miles away from relay route
In yet another bitter twist in Vietnam’s pattern of repressing legitimate and peaceful dissent, the country’s authorities used the arrival of the Olympic flame to arrest at least 14 people – most of whom were over 1,000 miles away from the torch [...]