Gregory B. Poling, senior fellow for
Southeast Asia and director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, and senior associate
Murray Hiebert entitled Vietnam Party Congress Meets to Choose Leaders, Set Policy Direction :
The Vietnam Communist Party launched its 13th congress on
January 25, a crucial meeting held every five years to choose the country s top leaders and set its major policy course. Nearly 1,600 delegates will seek to set a direction to boost economic growth and navigate the nation s greatest foreign policy challenge: increasing competition between the world s two superpowers,
China and
Q1: What issues will the party congress address?
A1: The biggest issue is leadership succession, which has preoccupied the upper echelons of the party for much of the past year. First the Central Committee, a body of about 200 members responsible for implementing decisions taken by the party congress, must be selected. That committee will then elect the Politbur
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Transport to work with localities to take old motor vehicles that do not meet circulation standards off the roads.
Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
Exhaust emissions from old and raggedy motorbikes have been blamed as one of the causes of air pollution and safety risks in big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Data from the Hanoi People s Committee shows there are more than 5.7 million motorcycles in use in the city, nearly half of which are old motorcycles manufactured before the year 2000.
In Vietnam, one of the last five remaining Communist-ruled countries in the world, Monday brings the launch of a key Party meeting that will anoint the country's next leadership quartet and set policy direction for the next five years.
In Vietnam, one of the last five remaining Communist-ruled countries in the world, Monday brings the launch of a key Party meeting that will anoint the country's next leadership quartet and set policy direction for the next five years. The 13th National Congress in Hanoi will last until Feb. 2, with nearly 1,600 Party delegates from across Vietnam descending on the capital for the gathering and votes to seal the new leadership's elevation. The country's incoming leadership team will be looking to leverage that economic advantage, as well as deal with challenges from the United States and China, Vietnam's two largest trading partners, and increasing international attention to human rights concerns.
Asia Sentinel
False hope of help from Trump
Jan 21
By: David Brown
By almost any measure, 2020 was a calamitous year for Vietnam s democracy movement. Already reduced by the Hanoi regime s increasingly efficient repression, now it was transfixed by Donald Trump s battle for a second term. Trump, it was said, would defend Vietnam against China. Oddly but somehow understandably, a majority of those who doubt the nation s single-party dictatorship came to view the American president as their hope for a brighter future.
Disillusionment with Vietnam s current regime, even despair, is understandable. Controls on what may be said don t sit all that well on a nation that s been opening to the global economy and sending its brightest abroad to study for a quarter century. Vietnam s democracy movement is, or at least it was, a loosely-organized network of citizens who have not hesitated to call out the regime. The movement was empowered by the Internet, which for roughly a decade enable