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The Hanoi People’s Court will open a 10-day trial on March 8 to hear a case of violations of regulations on investment in construction works, causing serious consequences, at an ethanol plant in the northern province of Phu Tho.
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The disciplining of a series of high-ranking officials, including incumbent and retired ones, shows that the fight against corruption and wrongdoings in the last five years has been accelerated
under the motto “there are no restricted zones, no exceptions in the corruption fight” as instructed by Party Secretary General and State President Nguyen Phu Trong.
Party Secretary General, State President Nguyen Phu Trong: Once the furnace is already hot, even fresh firewood will burn .
At the national conference to summarize the Party s inspection and supervision work in February 2017, Mr. Trong said: “It is absolutely not a pleasure to discipline our comrades. On the contrary, I feel very broken-hearted and painful about this. But we still have to do this and
The Fallout From Vietnam’s Communist Party Congress
The outcome reflects a considerable degree of caution, and a desire to balance the party’s internal factions.
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February 02, 2021
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The Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) completed its 13th Party Congress, shortened at the last minute to deal with a recent COVID-19 outbreak. The nearly 1,600-strong Congress elected a 200-member Central Committee, which then elected the 18-member Politburo that will lead the country for the next five years.
Vietnamese politics is notoriously opaque. But there are a few known things: factions within the party exist, and engage in no-holds barred competition. But the Vietnamese political system prides itself on stability, and the leadership goes to great lengths to balance the factions out.
Party chief to continue fighting corruption, a ‘disease’ of power
By Hoang Thuy  February 1, 2021 | 02:06 pm GMT+7
Party chief and President Nguyen Phu Trong (C) waves as he walks alongside other Central Party Committee members after the 13th Party Congress has closed in Hanoi, February 1, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.
Re-elected for a new term, Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong asserted that he would continue speaking out and fighting against corruption.
Corruption is a problem that every country has to face all the time and what should be discussed is the scale of this problem, Communist Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong told the press soon after the closing ceremony of the 13th Party Congress Monday.