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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”....
...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...
...Kazanas already captures biogas from cow dung and, instead of using chemical fertiliser, spreads homemade manure over the land....
...Chi Dung....
...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...
...Dung Duong, head of professional services at CBRE, a real estate company, noted that the government had undertaken a series of measures to kick-start demand this year....
...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....
...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....
...It shapes the opening gallery, Exiles and Dynasties, tracing how émigré artists, led by Van Dyck — his satiny extravaganza “A Lady of the Spencer Family”, attended by a spaniel darting off to chase a lizard...
...They are attracted by the piles of elephant dung on the road. A tourist van appears. The driver greets Magezi; in Luganda, he asks him, “No clients today?” Magezi points at me and the two men laugh....
...From the river we wearily climbed a last, long hillside to Limar, a village scented by animal dung and far from any road....
...Others have been sold, for example Chris Ofili’s “Holy Virgin Mary” (1996), a portrait of a black Madonna with elephant-dung breasts....
...Robots sweep up dung and store it separately while the air in his cattle shed is scrubbed by a filter. All the waste can also be used as fertiliser....
...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....
...Adding to the uncertainty, which stands in contrast to the CPV’s last congress in 2016, when Mr Trong beat rival Nguyen Tan Dung in a clear two-way race, party leaders have failed to narrow the field of...
...Additional reporting by Kim Dung Tong in Ho Chi Minh City and Grace Li in Tokyo. A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 19 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...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...
...The scarab may be a dung beetle but it has the longest pedigree of any amulet in the world, so popular a symbol of renewal and rebirth that it’s been used as a bodyguard for more than 4,000 years....
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