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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…

US forces used the herbicide Agent Orange to defoliate Vietnamese jungles and to destroy Viet Cong crops during the Vietnam war Vietnam says as many as 4 million of its citizens were exposed to the herbicide and as many as 3 million have suffered illnesses from it Topic |   Vietnam E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635…

Vietnam reported 34 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday as it approved the AstraZeneca vaccine and announced the early end of its five-yearly congress Japan is ready to announce that a state of emergency in some prefects will continue from February 7, and Taiwan reported its first Covid-19 death since May…

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…

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