Press Freedom in Vietnam Fades from View
As Vietnam’s annual East Sea Conference gets underway this week, Bill Hayton, former BBC correspondent in Hanoi, who was invited to attend by the Foreign Ministry’s think tank to attend, has been banned from entry by the Ministry of Public Security.
“Vietnam is a country that bans authors because of what they write,” Hayton wrote in an email. “I know thi…
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