ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia The overreaction to the film’s alleged depiction of China’s “nine-dash line” claim is a feature, not a bug, of the country’s culture of censorship. Advertisement Vietnam’s decision to ban the highly anticipated film “Barbie” due to concerns over an alleged “offending image of the nine-dash line” has sent shockwaves through Hollywood and … Read more
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Advertisement Vietnamese authorities have arrested another leading environmentalist on charges of tax evasion, a government official said yesterday, continuing a worrying assault on civil society activists working on climate change. Nguyen Duc Thang, the deputy spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told a press briefing that Hoan Thi Minh Hong, 51, was detained in … Read more