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...Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong has resigned after holding the position for just over a year, state media reported on Wednesday....
...While the presidency is a largely ceremonial position in Vietnam, Vo Van Thuong’s sudden resignation on Wednesday after just a year in office deepened political turmoil that is undermining investor confidence...
...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...
...Vo Van Thuong resigned as Vietnam’s president in March after only a year in office because of unspecified “violations” and “shortcomings”....
...As a result, Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at Singapore’s Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, said Vietnam was in “bureaucratic paralysis”....
...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...
...Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong became the second to resign in 14 months, heightening concerns among investors already worried about the consequences of a landmark $13bn embezzlement case involving one...
...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....
...The US president is in Vietnam to meet the country’s president Vo Van Thuong to strengthen relation with one of Asia’s fastest growing nations....
...Putin met Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán and Vietnamese president Vo Van Thuong on Tuesday, ahead of further meetings with Thai, Mongolian and Laotian leaders....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Biden’s itinerary: The US president is holding a meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart, Vo Van Thuong, in a bid to strengthen relations between the two....
...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...
...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....
...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...
...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...
...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....
...Head-on competition with Thai sugar producers “is going to be very tough,” Nguyen Van Loc, secretary-general of the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association (VSSA), told scoutAsia Research....
...“Climate change is gradual and adaptable,” says Nguyen Huu Thien, an environmentalist and consultant studying the delta....
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