Vietnam politics

Coming amid rumors of further political shake-ups, the arrest casts a shadow over the political future of Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue.

Vo Van Thuong resignation comes barely a year after his appointment to the largely ceremonial post.

The news has added fuel to rumors about the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, following the cancellation of a visit by the Dutch royal family.

Directive 24 calls on the Party to counter the influence of "hostile and reactionary forces" taking advantage of the country's increased openness to the outside world.

The recent prolonged absence of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong raised the question of how the Communist Party might deal with a leader's incapacitation or death.

The political vision of the Communist Party chief is built on a bedrock of Victorian moralism.

The boxes, which were allegedly used in recent grand-scale corruption cases, have become a symbol of the country's rampant graft problem.

Nguyen Phu Trong believes he can purge and purify the Communist Party. But what if corruption is not a quirk of the system, but its essence?

In recent years, campaigns to save prisoners on death row have become more audacious in criticizing the country's authoritarian party-state.

Among the most prominent officials were high-ranking members of the ministries of foreign affairs, public health, and public security.

The overreaction to the film's alleged depiction of China's "nine-dash line" claim is a feature, not a bug, of the country's culture of censorship.

The current stagnation could shock the ruling Communist Party into putting economic policy back into sensible hands.