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...He was the latest casualty in a years-long corruption crackdown led by Communist party secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong....
...Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong has resigned due to “violations” and “shortcomings” after only a year in office, the ruling Communist party said on Wednesday, deepening political turmoil that risks undermining...
...As a result, Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at Singapore’s Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, said Vietnam was in “bureaucratic paralysis”....
...Thuong’s predecessor as president, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, resigned in January 2023 amid an overhaul of the government’s top ranks that also saw the departure of two deputy prime ministers....
...terms of scale and because it signals that the [Communist] party is willing to expand its anti-corruption campaign to the private sector despite potential risks that it might have on the economy,” said Nguyen...
...Nguyen Khac Giang, a Vietnamese research fellow at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, said he did not believe Vietnam’s economy would be significantly affected by the canal “given the relatively...
...The national assembly elected Vo Van Thuong, 52, as president on Thursday with 98.38 per cent of the vote, according to the government’s official news portal....
...The National Assembly in March named Vo Van Thuong as president, the country’s second-highest position, following his predecessor’s resignation....
...Meanwhile “Toyboat”, from the same album, becomes a handsome slow-burner in Sharon Van Etten’s hands....
...“The prolonged pandemic has seriously hurt the tourism industry,” Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam’s tourism and culture minister, said....
...Royal Academy cracks out an important Francis Bacon retrospective for the start of the year while the newly reopened Courtauld Institute — whose revamp has been pretty much universally lauded — exhibits Van...
...Maria Van Kerkhove, senior WHO epidemiologist, tweeted: “The variant detected is B.1.617.2 with an additional mutation(s), but more info soon. Remember: variants are constellations of mutations....
...“From a technical point of view, I haven’t seen anything like this,” says Rachel Terry of Van Oord, a Dutch maritime engineering firm, which supplied two ships for the project....
...Which leads to my question for you, Rana: if Afghanistan collapses — and President Ashraf Ghani becomes Biden’s Nguyen Van Thieu, the former South Vietnam president — will this president pay any price, politically...
...A mobile testing van was added in October. Early last year, prime minister Hun Sen ordered extra efforts to combat pollution after PM2.5 spiked to over 60 micrograms per cubic metre....
...The album opens with the jittery cross-stitch rhythms of “Noon Moon”, playing out in complex time, and closes with the two part “Mother Goddess”, an arrangement of a traditional Chau Van piece featuring...
...Dutch co-founders Xuan-Thu Nguyen, head of design, and Renée van Wijngaarden, head of communications and marketing, met just 14 months ago....
...Amsterdam, in van Tongeren’s name....
...Head-on competition with Thai sugar producers “is going to be very tough,” Nguyen Van Loc, secretary-general of the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA), told scoutAsia Research....
...“Climate change is gradual and adaptable,” says Nguyen Huu Thien, an environmentalist and consultant studying the delta....
...Cameras beside a railway bridge in eastern Oslo record his van every time he visits the local electrical supply shop and he is charged a toll....
...A Jan van de Cappelle marine painting (c1650-52) fared better, selling from the Northbrook collection (part of the Barings bank dynasty) for £1.6m (£1.9m with fees, est £400,000-£600,000)....
...Vu Ha Van, a Yale professor of mathematics who has spent most of his career abroad (and who in the US goes by the name Van H Vu), was picked as Vingroup’s chief adviser on AI....
...Nguyen Huu Phuc, who runs a small textile marketing company in Ho Chi Minh City, recalls how “very upset” he was when Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement in 2017...
...There’s little doubt that this is a journey prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc wishes to take....
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