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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...
...The pair were on the teams responsible for two $10bn-plus fundraisings that closed in 2008, DD’s Eric Platt reports....
...transition to a resilient and sustainable agricultural sector, in line with the European green deal and its Farm to Fork and biodiversity strategies, is fundamental to food security,” von der Leyen’s spokesman Eric...
...“The federal prosecutor’s office has effectively opened an investigation,” Eric Van Duyse, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor, confirmed, but declined to give further details....
...Defending that infrastructure had become “a geopolitical, security and also an economic imperative”, said Tinne van der Straeten, the Belgian energy minister who chaired a closed-door lunch with her fellow...
...Europe events: Elizabeth Rosenberg, US assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, and Eric Van Nostrand, assistant secretary for economic policy, travel to Brussels to discuss enforcing...
...Kira Richards Matthew Wong | Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort is at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam until 1 September...
...Dutch immigration minister Eric van der Burg told reporters in Brussels last week that he needed to analyse the results of an EU fact finding mission to Bulgaria that has just taken place....
...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...
...And finally Often painting two canvases a day, Vincent van Gogh produced 70 works in his final prolific months....
...“There’s no free personal space, especially early on, when we were in a passenger van or a cargo van,” Quesada says. “If somebody’s having a bad day, they’re literally right next to you....
...There’s a Van Dyck that is under suspicion, but there’s nothing provably wrong with the picture. Other pictures that were anonymously accused of being Hebborn fakes definitely aren’t....
...Read the FT’s full interview with Jean-François van Boxmeer....
...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....
...Photographer’s assistants, Bastien Santanoceto and Eric Ancel. Digital operator, Rebecca Lièvre at Imagin. Stylist’s assistants, Cecilia Baistrocchi, Tommaso Palamin and Jorge García Valero....
...The National Assembly in March named Vo Van Thuong as president, the country’s second-highest position, following his predecessor’s resignation....
...Eric and I were lucky enough to meet him earlier this year, at Munger’s home in Los Angeles....
...Eric Van Duyse, a spokesperson for the prosecutor, said this meant “the case is advanced enough that detention is no longer justified”, and there was no risk of flight, manipulation of evidence or collusion...
...Eric Van Duyse, spokesperson for the Belgian prosecutor, spoke of a “direct link between the drug money and the lawful economy”....
...In 2018, at the age of 80, he published his debut novel, Die dao van Daan van der Walt, under the pseudonym Lodewyk G du Plessis. It won six of the most prestigious Afrikaans literary prizes....
...On stage, Van Hove and co-adaptor Koen Tachelet invite you into that experience....
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