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Truong My Lan has been sentenced to death for her role in a $12 billion banking scam, as the ruling communists crack down on corruption, but is she taking the fall for someone else?

Vietnam has been rocked by its largest corruption scandal to date after authorities last month arrested a prominent real estate developer over allegedly embezzling nearly $12.4 billion

The largest corruption scandal in Southeast Asia's history has shaken Vietnam's anti-graft drive. Experts have warned that the country's economic stability may be at stake.

The largest corruption scandal in Southeast Asia's history has shaken Vietnam's anti-graft drive. Experts have warned that the country's economic stability may be at stake.

Vietnam is reluctant to include the 1979 conflict in history textbooks, continuing a decades-long silence.

During its recent COVID-19 outbreaks, the Vietnamese government has found itself trapped between the virus and a Sinophobic public.

New York, NY, October 1, 2021-Manufacturers looking to shift production out of China during the U.S.-China trade war piled into Vietnam, attracted by its low wages and the government’s business-friendly reputation, reports the Wall Street Journal. “But strict lockdowns to contain a Covid-19 wave in the largely unvaccinated country have crippled manufacturing since July, forcing companies such as Nike Inc. and Lululemon Athletica Inc. to shift production to other countries. That is prompting ...

Banyan Nguyen Phu Trong wins an unprecedented third term at an unprecedented age W HEN COMPARED with the vibrant bustle and chaos in the rest of Hanoi—where drag queens perform for rapturous audiences and break-dancers throw down moves on the city’s pavements—the five-yearly congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam could not have stood in starker contrast. The exactly spaced potted palms and bouquets; the serried ranks of 1,600-odd delegates (few of them women) all dutifully raising red...

Term Limits? Not for Vietnam’s Hard-Line Communist Leader Nguyen Phu Trong, 76, was named to a third term in office as party leaders were unable to reach consensus on a successor. The reappointment may have put off a transition to more pragmatic leadership. Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s top leader, at the Communist Party congress in Hanoi on Monday.Credit...Minh Hoang/Associated Press Feb. 1, 2021 BANGKOK — Under the rules of Vietnam’s Communist Party, its chief is to step aside at age 65...

January 25, 2021 Share Almost 1,600 leading members of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party meet this week to approve future policy and help select the nation’s top leaders amid talk whether the current party chief will stay. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, 76, defied conventional wisdom by winning a second term in 2016 against a favored opponent. Trong has made his name by presiding over economic growth and waging a popular war on corruption. There has been speculation the selectio...