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Category: Vietnam

Posted inVietnam

Early exit for Vietnam’s communist boss Trong?

by David Hutt May 6, 2022May 11, 2022

It’s possible that Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, could keep his top job until 2026, the next time the party meets and chooses its leaders. By then he would be 81, which would make him the oldest party boss in Vietnam’s history. Le Duan, a three-decade-long party leader, was […]

A policeman blocks photographers from taking pictures during an anti-China protest in front of the Opera House in Hanoi in a file photo. Photo: Reuters/Nguyen Lan Thang
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam unleashes the taxman on dissent

by David Hutt May 4, 2022May 9, 2022
Posted inVietnam

Russia-Vietnam ties put US in a sanctions dilemma

by David Hutt April 21, 2022May 4, 2022
Posted inVietnam

Hanoi shy to leave Moscow for the West over Ukraine

by Nile Bowie and David Hutt March 1, 2022March 16, 2022
Posted inVietnam

Biden undoes Trump’s damage to US-Vietnam ties

by David Hutt January 21, 2022February 4, 2022
Posted inVietnam

ExxonMobil stares down China for Vietnam gas

by Helen Clark December 7, 2021December 14, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Counting the cost of Vietnam’s Covid collapse

by David Hutt October 7, 2021October 9, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam’s commercial hub reopens after lockdown

by AT Contributor October 1, 2021October 1, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam’s economy suffers record contraction in Q3

by AT Contributor September 29, 2021September 29, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam’s lockdown hits world’s clothing giants

by Tran Thi Minh Ha and Alice Philipson September 29, 2021September 29, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Agent Orange atrocities didn’t end in Vietnam

by Mike Tharp September 22, 2021September 27, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Counting the cost of Vietnam’s Covid meltdown

by Bac Pham And Bennett Murray September 14, 2021September 21, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam gasps for air as Delta deals a lethal blow

by David Hutt September 8, 2021September 20, 2021
A policeman blocks photographers from taking pictures during an anti-China protest in front of the Opera House in Hanoi in a file photo. Photo: Reuters/Nguyen Lan Thang
Posted inVietnam

US, Vietnam still crucially apart on human rights

by Bac Pham And Bennett Murray August 26, 2021August 30, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Rise and fall of Vietnam’s most popular pirate site

by Le Dong Hai Nguyen August 24, 2021August 28, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Checkpoints shape life in locked-down Hanoi

by Tran Thi Minh Ha July 30, 2021July 30, 2021
Posted inVietnam

US removes Vietnam from currency manipulators list

by AT Contributor July 20, 2021July 20, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam’s biggest city enters two-week lockdown

by AT Contributor July 9, 2021July 9, 2021
Posted inVietnam

Vietnam’s VinFast revving up in Western markets

by David Hutt July 7, 2021July 10, 2021
Posted inVietnam

How Vietnam lost its pandemic-beating edge

by David Hutt June 18, 2021June 22, 2021

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