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...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...
...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....
...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...
...Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has blamed the country’s finance ministry, securities regulator and central bank for their lack of oversight, according to state media....
...Dang Tri Van, a water resources researcher at Vietnam’s Can Tho University....
...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....
...Enjoy’s fleet of hundreds of mobile vans and thousands of service workers was a hint that it was a distinctly old-school business....
...Pham Phuong Trinh, an office worker in Ho Chi Minh City, received her first Sinopharm jab in August when the death rate from Covid was rising....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi and Clive Cookson in London Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Twitter: @JohnReedwrites Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi...
...When most of Vietnam’s 96m citizens were celebrating the Tet lunar new year holiday, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc was at a government meeting declaring war on coronavirus....
...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....
...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...
...The pandemic coincided with Hanoi’s decision, in June, to assemble a task force to attract higher-quality foreign investment, headed by Pham Binh Minh, deputy prime minister....
...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....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi...
...john.reed@ft.com Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi contributed to this article * This article has been amended to show the index arbiter is MSCI...
...Dutch co-founders Xuan-Thu Nguyen, head of design, and Renée van Wijngaarden, head of communications and marketing, met just 14 months ago....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi Follow on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...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....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung and Chelsea Bruce-Lockhart...
...Vu Ha Van, a Yale professor of mathematics who has spent most of his career abroad (and who in the US goes by the name Van H Vu), was picked as Vingroup’s chief adviser on AI....
...Additional reporting by Pham Hai Chung in Hanoi Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...There’s little doubt that this is a journey prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc wishes to take....
...On Thursday evening, a court in the capital Hanoi sentenced Nguyen Van Dai, Le Thu Ha, Pham Van Troi, Nguyen Trung Ton, Nguyen Bac Truyen, and Truong Minh Duc under charges of “activities aimed at overthrowing...
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