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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....
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...Chang Wen Lai, one of Ninja Van’s co-founders, told the Financial Times the company was “a year away” from an IPO....
...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....
...Spotlight Lai Chang Wen, co-founder and chief executive of south-east Asian logistics group Ninja Van, has 587m new reasons to be happy....
...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...
...Since the law’s introduction in June, police have arrested high-profile opposition figures such as activists Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow as well as Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy media tycoon....
...The marked shift of tone led to President Tsai Ing-wen being allowed to give a speech at Columbia University in 2019 and Vice-President William Lai to visit Washington this year, the first visit to the US...
...Backstage at Dries Van Noten’s masterful show, after both designers had taken a bow to a throng of well-wishers, I found Monsieur Lacroix. He was beaming....
...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...
...several days because he does it the old-fashioned way, which includes pin curls and sitting under a dryer in a pink hairnet like an old lady.” hershesons.com André Fu, architect“I’ve been going to Edward Lai...
...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....
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