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Party chief To Lam’s son promoted to top ranks within Vietnam’s police force

To Long, believed to be the only son of Vietnam’s top leader To Lam, has been promoted to a senior…

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Tax enforcement drive in Vietnam leads to mass closures of shops, small businesses

Images of deserted markets and shuttered shops are circulating across Vietnamese social media – not the result of a pandemic,…

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US resettlement freeze leaves Vietnamese refugee fearing deportation from Thailand

Vietnamese asylum seeker An and his family had one foot in the door to resettlement in the United States —…

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VietJet Air asks government to go after its online critics

Read about this topic in Vietnamese. VietJet Air, Vietnam’s biggest private commercial airline, has asked the mayor of Hanoi to…

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Vietnam communist party budget is the elephant in the room as To Lam cuts costs

Read about this topic in Vietnamese. Since becoming general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, To Lam has drawn…

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Vietnam to block messaging app Telegram over ‘anti-state’ contents

Vietnam’s government has instructed telecommunications companies to block the Telegram messaging app after the Ministry of Public Security concluded it…

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215 Vietnamese stuck in squalid border camp after leaving Myanmar scam center

Read reporting on this topic in Vietnamese here. Many weeks after they were rescued from scam centers inside Myanmar, more…

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Thailand, Vietnam raise relations to the highest level

BANGKOK – Thailand and Vietnam have agreed to raise political and economic relations to the highest level, a comprehensive strategic…

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Imprisoned Vietnam activist charged for writing ‘down with communism’

Prominent Vietnamese land rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong is facing a second charge of anti-state propaganda after prison guards found…

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Vietnam enters fray at disputed South China Sea sandbank

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Vietnam protested China and the Philippines over their competing activities at Sandy Cay in the disputed South…

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Global press freedom ebbs to a new low

BANGKOK and WASHINGTON – Press freedom is at its lowest ebb globally in more than two decades, Reporters Without Borders…

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Vietnam leader’s conciliatory tone on 50th war anniversary fuels hope but skepticism

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War this week, the chief of the ruling communist…

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PHOTOS: Vietnam celebrates 50th anniversary of war’s end with grand parade

Vietnam marked the 50th anniversary of the end the Vietnam War on Wednesday with jubilation and a grand military parade…

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Leaders of Japan, Vietnam discuss free trade in the face of tariff tensions

BANGKOK – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been talking up the benefits of free trade, in the face of…

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Hanoi denies Washington will snub Vietnam War commemoration

BANGKOK – The Vietnamese government says it is expecting a sizable U.S. presence when it marks the 50th anniversary of…

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Vietnamese monk forced to cut short his walk through Sri Lanka, heads to India

Authorities have barred a Vietnamese Buddhist monk from continuing a barefoot pilgrimage through Sri Lanka so he’s departing instead for…

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Tibetan Buddhist leader secretly cremated in Vietnam, sources say

The body of an influential Tibetan Buddhist leader, said to have died while in custody in Vietnam, was secretly cremated…

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Vietnam court cuts fraudster’s life sentence to 30 years

BANGKOK – An appeals court in Ho Chi Minh City has reduced the life sentence of Vietnam’s biggest corporate fraudster…

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Vietnam agrees to buy US F-16 fighters, defense website says

BANGKOK – Vietnam has reached an agreement with the United States to buy F-16 fighter jets, a defense website said,…

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Sri Lankan police pull plug on Vietnamese monk’s tour until he changes visa

Sri Lankan police on Thursday blocked Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Minh Tue from continuing his barefoot journey around the South…

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