By Francesco Guarascio HANOI, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Hundreds of delegates from Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party gathered on Monday under tight security for a congress that will choose the single-party country’s top leader and set economic goals for the rest of the decade. The week-long event, which operates under opaque rules and meets every five … Read more
By Francesco Guarascio HANOI, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s Communist Party chief To Lam is seeking to combine his party role with the state presidency, officials said, in a move that would align Vietnam’s political structure more closely with that of China where President Xi Jinping leads the party and the state. About 1,600 delegates … Read more
YOU NEED TO KNOW Nine-year-old boy in Vietnam hospitalized with complete bowel blockage caused by huge hairball Doctors trace the obstruction to years of undetected hair food linked to trichophagia The boy recovered after minimally invasive surgery and was discharged five days later A nine-year-old girl in Vietnam is recovering after doctors at the Franco-Vietnamese … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice fields of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91 years old. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his … Read more
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War for The … Read more
By Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) – China’s top telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE have won a series of contracts this year to supply 5G equipment in Vietnam, in another sign of Hanoi’s strengthening ties with Beijing, which has raised concerns among Western officials, seven people with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters. For years, … Read more