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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...
...18th-century Burmese pagan disciples, royal Congolese ceremonial totems… I also have lots of contemporary works by Marlene Dumas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jenny Saville, Oscar Murillo, Alvaro Barrington, Luc...
...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....
...This year, Theo Auffret and Petermann Bédat, and Frederique Constant and Christiaan van der Klaauw have joined in....
...The directors of the Cinéma du Look movement in Paris, including Luc Besson, were obsessed with surface and gloss to match their themes....
...Far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and members of his “France Unbowed” party who were at Sainte-Soline, said police had used stun grenades indiscriminately....
...“The only thing they have in common with a watch is that they tell the time, but there is so much more to them in terms of artistic appeal,” says Belgian collector Luc Van Cauwenbergh....
...Meanwhile “Toyboat”, from the same album, becomes a handsome slow-burner in Sharon Van Etten’s hands....
...As well as Dhont, a special 75th Anniversary Prize went to Cannes stalwarts Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for Tori and Lokita, a tightly gripping drama that sheds light on the exploitation of migrant workers...
...In a Trade Secrets interview, Luc Van den hove, Imec’s chief executive, says it will be setting up a research facility in the US to connect with universities (and federal dollars) there....
...“The prolonged pandemic has seriously hurt the tourism industry,” Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam’s tourism and culture minister, said....
...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....
...Building the extension from the sea has replaced a typical land-based building site with “essentially a floating factory”, says Jean-Luc Nguyen, Monaco’s director of public works....
...Her parents relocated to the Camargue in the early 1950s, where her ornithologist father Luc set up an environmental research centre called Tour du Valat....
...He coaxed world-class directors — Ivo van Hove, Patrice Chéreau, Luc Bondy, Peter Brook — to showcase bold new work there....
...Almost every weekend in Paris, convoys of white police vans speed from place to place, sirens blaring, to unload squads of officers in anti-riot gear to monitor demonstrations or break up protests....
...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...
...A catalogue is published by Hatje Cantz/Van Gogh Foundation....
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