Before I did any work for Will’s story, I got the impression that his involvement in these protests were merely coincidental. That he was just some Vietnamese American who just so happened to stumble his way into the protests. I wanted to know what his motivations were.
Human rights activist Nguyễn Văn Oai is on trial again, after having previously served four years in prison on charges of attempting to overthrow the government. Oai became a father while in prison awaiting trial. His wife Hồ Thị Linh Châu posted a letter to him on her Facebook page, just before he was originally due to appear in court.
Reporter Kathy Triệu is back with another modern refugee story -- one that chronicles the journey of two strong-willed Vietnamese mothers, Trần Thị Lụa and Trần Thị Thanh Loan. They recount fhow several attempts to flee Việt Nam for Australia led them instead to a detention center in Indonesia.
Loa’s newest reporter Thúy Vi Cao explores the meaning of “black” in Black April and examines all that colors our understanding of victory, tragedy, and trauma.
The tech industry’s lack of gender and racial diversity is often a major discussion point every year at the Internet Freedom Festival.We talk to Gaba Rodriguez, who is a computer engineer working to build feminist infrastructures.
Quyên Ngô talks with Melanio Escobar of Humano Derecho Radio Estacion of Venezuela. They talk about what it’s like to broadcast a 24/7 mix of punk rock and human rights, often in the midst of a national crisis.
Han Hui Hui, a 26-year-old blogger from Singapore, was forcefully removed from a Select Committee hearing in Parliament by Singaporean officials on Thursday, March 29.
Before participants from 130 countries arrived in Valencia for the Internet Freedom Festival, a smaller group from all different fields gathered to talk about connectivity, online and offline, in one particular country: Việt Nam