Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release from prison of French-Vietnamese blogger Pham Minh Hoang and calls on Vietnam's Communist Party-led government to remove the continuing restrictions on him and free the nine other journalists still behind bars.

Nguyen Thu Tram and Nguyen Ngoc Quang threatened with imprisonment after collaborating with the Guardian on a story about harassment of pro-democracy activists

Bangkok - Authorities must stop harassing journalists reporting on public demonstrations in Vietnam, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On Sunday, police detained and interrogated three reporters who were covering anti-China protests in Hanoi where around a dozen demonstrators were arrested.

Hanoi - Police in Vietnam have arrested the wife of a local journalist after she confessed to burning him to death.

Le Hoang Hung, 51 ans, journaliste d’investigation pour le journal Nguoi Lao Dong (Travailleurs), est décédé le 29 janvier 2011 des suites de ses blessures, dix jours après avoir été sauvagement agressé par le feu.

A Vietnamese journalist says one of her colleagues has suffered severe burns after an intruder broke into his house, doused him with chemicals and set him on fire while he was sleeping.

A Vietnamese journalist was arrested Thursday for allegedly threatening to write negative stories about a cement company unless he was paid off, state-controlled media said.

The prime minister of Vietnam, a country whose media ranks as one of the world's least free, has compared journalists to soldiers who must serve the nation, a report said Wednesday.

A prominent state-linked Vietnamese newspaper on Friday made a rare direct attack against a draft decree which, the paper reported, would tighten restrictions on journalists.

HANOI - Vietnamese police released blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh on Saturday after more than a week in detention under investigation on state security grounds, her mother said by telephone from the beach town of Nha Trang.

HANOI — A Vietnamese journalist has been arrested for allegedly violating national security laws, her editor said Tuesday, insisting the detention had no link to her work for a prominent news website.

HANOI — Vietnam will grant an early release to a journalist jailed for his aggressive coverage of a government corruption scandal, an official said Friday.

HANOI - A U.S.-based human rights group denounced the recent firing of two Vietnamese newspaper editors, saying Friday that the incident signaled a clampdown by the communist government on the state-controlled media.

The conviction of two senior journalists in Hanoi last week had more to do with tussles within the leadership of the ruling Vietnam Communist Party than anything else. The much-derided show trial of the journalists and two anti-corruption investigators indicates the intensity of the conflict between the party's conservatives and reformists. The loser appears to be Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

HANOI — Vietnam on Tuesday put on trial two reporters who helped expose a major state corruption scandal, in a case seen as a test on the limits of media freedom in the communist country.