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.