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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...
...A few came to define Vietnam: Malcolm Browne’s photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc. Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect....
...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....
...For Leon Quang Le, a Vietnamese director, operating in the country means he needs to have back-up plans in case he is ordered to axe a scene by censors....
...“They think that when they arrest all the high-profile activists like these four, they can silence all activists,” Nguyen Quang A, a prominent activist, told the Financial Times....
...Meanwhile “Toyboat”, from the same album, becomes a handsome slow-burner in Sharon Van Etten’s hands....
...Nguyen Ngo Quang told a government meeting on vaccine trials that Nano Covax had already begun third stage human trials, the first time a vaccine developed in south-east Asia had reached the milestone, the...
...“The prolonged pandemic has seriously hurt the tourism industry,” Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam’s tourism and culture minister, said....
...Hong and her brother then rode double on a motorbike heading to their hometown in Quang Binh Province, 1,100km away....
...Masan, founded and chaired by billionaire Nguyen Dang Quang, also said it was in advanced discussions on a further strategic investment of $300m-$400m from other investors, which it said it expected to close...
...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....
...The outbreak, first reported in the northern provinces of Quang Ninh and Hai Duong, is the largest in Vietnam since the country reported its first cases of the disease in January 2020....
...“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....
...“Vietnam is the only market where you can do deals,” Truong Quang, YKVN managing partner, said in an interview at his law office, overlooking the colonial French cathedral and post office in Ho Chi Minh...
...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...
...“Origin” opens with Ngô Hòng Quang vocals and swirls of synth, “The Quest” with a press roll of drums and “Square Earth” with accented fiddle and a patter of percussion....
...“Vietnam’s aviation market has a lot of potential and is developing strongly, but it also has large companies already in operation,” Nguyen Viet Quang, Vingroup’s deputy chairman and chief executive, said...
...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....
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