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...Vietnam communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has further cemented his grip on power after parliament approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers on January 5....
...“The prolonged pandemic has seriously hurt the tourism industry,” Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam’s tourism and culture minister, said....
...Among the leading candidates rumoured to be in the running to replace Mr Trong is Tran Quoc Vuong, the current general secretary’s right-hand man and a leader of the anti-corruption campaign....
...Scarlet lettering on “for rent” signs is plastered on countless buildings across downtown Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, as well as in beach towns from Da Nang to Phu Quoc....
...One afternoon in Hanoi, I met Nguyen Anh Tuan, an activist who belongs to Vietnam’s small but vocal dissident community....
...Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc effectively kick-started solar development in April 2017, offering an attractive 9.35 US cents per kWh feed-in-tariff, applicable for 20 years, for projects which begin operating...
...“When the Vietnamese government fail to act in favour of the nation and its people, then we Vietnamese will stand up to protect our country,” Nguyen Manh Hien said in a text message....
...Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen is a star in Communist-ruled Vietnam, but she was once a refugee from it....
...Both attended Quoc Hoc private high school in Hue....
...Additional reporting by Nguyen Phuong Linh in Hanoi...
...Quoc Nam respectively....
...Le Quoc Quan, a democracy activist and lawyer, believes there will be more conflicts in Vietnam until the land law is reformed to allow full private ownership....
...When Nguyen Quang Huan, a 47-year-old Hanoi businessman, told friends he wanted to stand for Vietnam’s Communist party dominated parliament, they told him he was “crazy”....
...But Nguyen Quoc Anh, now acting chief executive, said foreign investors should be reassured by the government’s commitment. “[The Politburo decision] is very clear,” he said. “Vinashin cannot go down....
...Nguyen Quoc Hung, a city government official, said that many reports had overstated the expense of the celebrations, which he put at 150bn-200bn dong ($7.7m-$10.3m)....
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