Vietnam Archives

VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Can dragon fruit serve as an alternate crop for rice?

By VERA Files | Dec 08, 2022 1:50 PM

Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos said recently that farmers can earn more by planting dragon fruit alternately with rice. “’Yung Taiwan malaki ang demanda ng dragon fruit (Taiwan has a high demand for dragon fruit). Eh [but] they can only plant dragon fruit three or four times, three or four months of the […]

Agriculture, dragon fruit, farmers, Malaysia, Philippines, Sandro Marcos, taiwan, Vietnam

Fact Check Filipino

VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Puwede bang alternatibong pananim sa palay ang dragon fruit?

By VERA Files | Dec 08, 2022 1:50 PM

Ang dragon fruit ba ay isang magandang alternatibong pananim sa palay? Maaari bang i-export ang prutas sa Taiwan?

Agriculture, dragon fruit, farmers, Malaysia, Philippines, Sandro Marcos, taiwan, Vietnam

FACT CHECK NED FC

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri falsely claims PH has ‘very free media’ compared to Malaysia, Singapore

By VERA Files | Nov 14, 2022 4:49 PM

Press freedom in the Philippines does not fare better than Singapore and Malaysia, according to the Paris-based World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.

ABS-CBN, Impunity, Journalism, Malaysia, Media, Migz Zubiri, Philippines, Press Freedom, red-tagging, Reporters Without Borders, Singapore, Vietnam

Fact Check Filipino

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Zubiri na may ‘napakamalayang media’ ang PH kumpara sa Malaysia, Singapore hindi totoo

By VERA Files | Nov 14, 2022 4:49 PM

Iginiit na “hindi patas” ang ginawa ng Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ng United Nations na ipahayag ang kanilang mga alalahanin sa mga ulat ng mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa bansa, kabilang ang pagkakapatay sa mamamahayag na si Percy Lapid, maling iginiit ni Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri na ang Pilipinas ay may “napakamalayang media” kumpara sa mga bansang tulad ng Malaysia, Singapore at Vietnam.

ABS-CBN, Impunity, Journalism, Malaysia, Media, Migz Zubiri, Philippines, Press Freedom, red-tagging, Reporters Without Borders, Singapore, Vietnam

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COVID-19 Watch FACT CHECK

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Photo of child in PPE taken in Vietnam, NOT in PH

By VERA Files | Aug 25, 2021 2:15 PM

The Ho Chi Minh Center for Disease Control has given more information about the child’s hospitalization.

COVID-19, Vietnam

News

Fact-checking, Vietnamese Style

By Uyen Diep
Reporting ASEAN | Feb 18, 2021 9:14 AM

“Fake news are created by humans. Thus, only humans can recognize and solve this issue.” This motto appears on the website of Southeast Asia’s newest fact checker – the government-run Vietnam Anti-Fake News Center.

fact-checking, Vietnam

Commentary

ASEAN unlikely to conclude ‘meaningful’ COC in South China Sea – Vietnamese academic

By Ellen T. Tordesillas | Jan 11, 2020 2:59 PM

A Vietnamese academic pierced whatever illusion about the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea being worked out between ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and China and being coordinated by the Philippines.

COC, South China Sea, Vietnam

Vietnam delivered when Philippines needed it most

Dec 15, 2014 8:07 AM

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT means a lot to the Philippines that Vietnam submitted a Position Paper to the Arbitral Tribunal of the United Nations that is handling the complaint filed by the Philippines against China on the conflict in the South China Sea. Probably so as not to further antagonize China, with whom […]

China, UNCLOS, Vietnam

Banner Yahoo

Vietnam supports PH position: UN tribunal has jurisdiction on South China Sea dispute

Dec 13, 2014 2:31 AM

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS The Philippine case against China’s nine-dash line before the United Nations Arbitral Tribunal gained support from Vietnam in a statement it submitted to the court in The Hague on Thursday. The Vietnam Foreign Ministry said the tribunal has jurisdiction to settle disputes concerning the interpretation of the U.N. Convention on […]

China, Philippines, South China Sea, UNCLOS, Vietnam