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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...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year was On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. It’s a beautiful letter from a son to a mother who cannot read....
...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....
...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 National Assembly in March named Vo Van Thuong as president, the country’s second-highest position, following his predecessor’s resignation....
...Vincent Van Duysen, architect and designerOn Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong It’s a beautiful letter from a son to a mother who cannot read....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...Nguyen Dieu Linh, chairwoman of Vinhomes, said the KKR-led investment reflected international investors’ confidence in the company and the Vietnamese market....
...However, Pham Nhat Vuong, Vingroup’s chairman and Vietnam’s richest man, has recently said that his main focus was the VinFast car and scooter brand....
...Smart reads Rubbing elbows Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani, Vinigroup’s Pham Nhat Vuong and ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming — these are just a few of Asia’s technology magnates that he US private equity shop KKR has...
...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....
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