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...Vietnam communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has further cemented his grip on power after parliament approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers on January 5....
...“The prolonged pandemic has seriously hurt the tourism industry,” Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam’s tourism and culture minister, said....
...Among the leading candidates rumoured to be in the running to replace Mr Trong is Tran Quoc Vuong, the current general secretary’s right-hand man and a leader of the anti-corruption campaign....
...Scarlet lettering on “for rent” signs is plastered on countless buildings across downtown Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, as well as in beach towns from Da Nang to Phu Quoc....
...Mr Trong became general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 2011, and was elected president by the country’s rubber-stamp parliament in October after the sudden death of Tran Dai Quang....
...Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died at age 61, state-controlled media in the communist-ruled country said on Friday....
...Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s powerful communist party chief, has been sworn in as the country’s 11th president after running as the sole candidate for the post....
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...Political certainty was strengthened by the smooth transition to the state presidency by secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong after the death of Tran Dai Quang, whose whereabouts and health status had been...
...Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc effectively kick-started solar development in April 2017, offering an attractive 9.35 US cents per kWh feed-in-tariff, applicable for 20 years, for projects which begin operating...
...“When the Vietnamese government fail to act in favour of the nation and its people, then we Vietnamese will stand up to protect our country,” Nguyen Manh Hien said in a text message....
...“We are heartened that Nguyen Van Dai does not have to endure more years of prison,” Duy Hoang, a spokesperson for Viet Tan, said on Friday....
...On Thursday evening, a court in the capital Hanoi sentenced Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thu Ha, Pham Van Troi, Nguyen Trung Ton, Nguyen Bac Truyen, and Truong Minh Duc under charges of “activities aimed at overthrowing...
...After the Apec meeting Mr Trump will fly to Hanoi for bilateral meetings with Vietnamese president Tran Dai Quang and other government officials, before heading to the Philippines as part of an extended...
...Nguyen Dac Viet Dung, Sendo’s chairman, says he plans to raise more money to keep growing....
...The signing ceremony in the presidential palace in Hanoi was also witnessed by Vietnamese president Tran Dai Quang and came on the first day of President Obama’s official visit to Vietnam, writes John Murray...
...Tran Dai Quang, Vietnam’s president, said the US decision was “clear proof that both countries have completely normalised relations”....
...Vietnam’s last emperor, Bao Dai, discovered golf while visiting France at the beginning of the 20th century....
...Vietnam Following the recent change in leadership, President Tran Dai Quang and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc took a tough public stance on tackling growing public debt, corruption and environmental issues...
...It is expected that Nguyen Xuan Phu, one of the five former deputy prime ministers, will become prime minister....
...In July, for example, the former chairman of state oil giant PetroVietnam, Nguyen Xuan Son, was arrested over the mismanagement of Vnd800bn at Dai Duong Commercial Bank – known as Ocean Bank – which is part-owned...
...Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen is a star in Communist-ruled Vietnam, but she was once a refugee from it....
...Both attended Quoc Hoc private high school in Hue....
...Nguyen Duc Thanh, director of the Vietnam Centre for Economic and Policy Research estimates the value of bad debts at around 180 to 300tn dong ($8.5bn to $14bn)....
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh in Hanoi...
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