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Asia A health worker takes a swab sample from a resident amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Hai Duong province, Vietnam, on Jan 28, 2021. (Photo: Manh Minh/VNA/Handout via Reuters) 31 Jan 2021 08:08PM(Updated: 31 Jan 2021 08:24PM) HANOI: Vietnam reported on Sunday (Jan 31) 50 new COVID-19 infections, most linked to a new outbreak that began on…

Published January 31, 2021 6:54pm By KHANH VU and PHUONG NGUYEN, Reuters HANOI — Vietnam's ruling Communist Party re-elected its 76-year-old chief Nguyen Phu Trong for a rare third five-year term on Sunday, as the Southeast Asian country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began. Trong, who emerged…

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Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong was re-elected Sunday -- a victory that makes him the most powerful leader in decades -- but his win was overshadowed by a serious coronavirus outbreak in the country. Trong, a 76-year-old pro-China conservative who is rumoured to be in poor health,…

By AFP     Jan 31, 2021 in World Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong was re-elected Sunday -- a victory that makes him the most powerful leader in decades -- but his win was overshadowed by a serious coronavirus outbreak in the country. Trong, a 76-year-old pro-China…

© Reuters. The 13th national congress of the ruling communist party of Vietnam in Hanoi HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, 76, has been re-elected for a rare third five-year term, state media said on Sunday, cementing his position as the country’s most powerful political…

Activists have gathered in Paris to support a French-Vietnamese woman who is suing companies that made Agent Orange, a substance used by US troops during the Vietnam War. Tran To Nga, a 78-year-old former journalist, described in a book how she breathed in some Agent Orange in 1966, when she…

Vietnam has approved its first coronavirus vaccine and cut short a key ruling Communist Party meeting as it battles its biggest flare-up yet of COVID-19, state media reports. The new outbreak, in a country of some 98 million people that has been highly successful in curbing the spread of the…

With Hanoi eager for Washington’s help in countering Beijing in the South China Sea, the two sides are said to have much room for military cooperation But they must overcome challenges such as Vietnam’s technical limitations and its lingering distrust toward the US before becoming strategic partners Published: 12:06am, 30…

2021-01-29 12:00:00by Chris Moyse 'It gets up and kills... The people it kills get up and kill' Anybody currently popping the heads of the undead in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War might need to check they have a good restock of Jugger-Nog, as Treyarch is preparing to drop…