North Korea and Vietnam signed cooperation agreements in fields including their defence, foreign and health ministries, North ...

FILE - Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong addresses the media in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Sept. 10, 2023. The powerful head of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, has died, ...

HANOI (Reuters) -Dozens of young Vietnamese women lined up for hours last month to catch a glimpse of "cool" troops marching ...

FILE -Vietnamese and communist flags hang from balconies across streets in the old quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File) BANGKOK (AP) — A well-known Vietnamese ...

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese President To Lam on Thursday became the caretaker of the Communist Party because of party chief Nguyen Phu Trong's poor health, the party said in a statement. Nguyen Phu ...

North Korea is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the ruling party and foreign dignitaries and leaders will be part of the ...

HANOI — Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health, official media said Friday. He was ...

BANGKOK--A well-known Vietnamese dissident has been convicted of speaking out inside prison against the ruling Communist Party and sentenced to another 11 years, in a move rights activists said ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nguyen Phu Trong, ...

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