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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...
...with undeniable wow: a minimalist bedroom dominated by a vast fringe-curtained bed and a living space plastered in images of his gowns and hung with actual examples....
...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...
...There are swishing, waist-long sautoirs hung with medallions and giant tassels; enormous clips that models threaded on silk belts and wore rakishly at the hip; and shoulder-grazing girandole earrings that...
...Botticelli to Van Gogh, the gallery’s tour to Shanghai Museum in 2023, was its best-attended special exhibition ever — 420,000 visitors....
...I just was sitting there and I hung up, and Matt and I looked at each other and I just went, oh my God, she’s not in the van. She’s not in the van. So then, of course, you know, where is she?...
...The staging company lugged it around town in a van....
...“Don’t get hung up about job titles: ask, what are the skills that are going to give you opportunities to grow?”...
...jour (or la formule): that day’s set menu, the best affordable lunch on earth in two or three courses, made from whatever fresh ingredients the restaurant had had delivered that morning by a double-parked van...
...Today we will interview the chief executives of Trafigura, Vitol, Gunvor, Mercuria and Castleton Commodities and also hear from former Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden in his first public interview...
...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...
...Both Van Hulle and Nixon are Beckett scholars (they are co-directors of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project) and so there’s plenty of Beckettiana here....
...To my right lay Bosch and van der Weyden. Past the Flemish and Netherlandish galleries beckoned the luminous panels and cryptic gestures of the Gothic art section....
...in honour of Hung Shing, a fishermen and maritime traders’ deity known as the “god of the Southern Sea”....
...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....
...At the Impressionist exhibitions, drawings and pastels hung confidently among the canvases whereas at Paris’s traditionally academic Salon, they languished in separate, less prestigious galleries....
...The National Assembly in March named Vo Van Thuong as president, the country’s second-highest position, following his predecessor’s resignation....
...My eyes must have done the talking because he didn’t say anything else, just hung his head and stood aside. And I went past him, and creaked open the door....
...I rang every man with a van I knew (and a lot that I didn’t) and with huge luck found someone who happened to have an empty van and was 30 minutes away....
...It hung in my childhood bedroom for years....
...The rural idyll is soon shattered by several thundering explosions as two white vans are hit by various artillery shells and burst into flames. “Isn’t that just a wonderful sight?”...
...“Street Scene with a Bakery by the Town Wall” shows the wooden walkway above a shop, where a diagonally hung white cloth displays loaves and buns....
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