Politics

22 August 2024
Ticket machines at Ben Thanh Station on Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line No. 1 are waiting to be used. (Photo by Yuji Nitta)
Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, hosts Vietnam's President To Lam at a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Aug. 19.
International relations

Xi Jinping meets Vietnam's new leader To Lam to renew 'priority' ties

South China Sea rivals sign 14 deals, from railways to crocodile and durian trade

19 August 2024
Vietnamese President To Lam attends a press briefing at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on June. 20, when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Southeast Asian country.
International relations

Vietnam's To Lam arrives in China, set to meet Xi Jinping

State visit marks Lam's first after taking country's top post earlier this month

18 August 2024
Vietnam's new leader To Lam, a former police officer, was appointed Communist Party general secretary in August. 
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18 August 2024
Vietnamese President To Lam attends a press briefing at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on June 20. (Pool photo via Reuters)
International relations

Vietnam's top leader to visit China from Sunday

To Lam meeting with Xi Jinping to strengthen Communist nations' ties

15 August 2024
Amid surging labor demand in an AI boom, Vietnam aims to train at least 50,000 chip engineers and designers by 2030 as industry giants look to offset severe staff shortages in their home markets. (Illustration by Yoshiko Kawano)
The Big Story

Vietnam turns chip sector magnet with affordable, quality talent pool

US, Taiwan, South Korean players beat path to Vietnam though boom strains resources

14 August 2024
Philippine Coast Guard personnel, right, salute a Vietnam Coast Guard vessel during their joint drills conducted in Manila Bay on Aug. 9. (Photo by Ramon Royandoyan)
South China Sea

Philippines-Vietnam drills show ASEAN a solution to China

Big step as partners cooperate in South China Sea without presence of U.S. or Japan

13 August 2024
John Lee, center, in Ho Chi Minh City. He is the first Hong Kong chief executive to visit Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. (Photo by Lien Hoang)
Trade

Hong Kong has ASEAN backing to join RCEP trade pact: John Lee

City goes on charm offensive after COVID-19, security law dent reputation

6 August 2024
Philippine Coast Guard personnel wave Vietnamese and Filipino flags to welcome the Vietnam Coast Guard ship CSB 8002 in Manila on Aug. 5. Despite Hanoi and Manila holding competing claims in the South China Sea, the joint exercises are seen as a way to strengthen maritime cooperation amid China's aggression.
South China Sea

Philippines-Vietnam drills to set blueprint for South China Sea disputes

Two nations seek cooperation despite competing claims to waters

5 August 2024
To Lam's rise to lead the Communist Party of Vietnam follows a 20-month period of political turmoil.
Politics

Vietnam confirms To Lam as Communist Party chief

Next question is if ex-security minister concentrates power by also remaining president

3 August 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, meets Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Aug. 1. (Photo from the X account of the official spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs)
International relations

India and Vietnam to enhance defense cooperation

Pham Minh Chinh becomes first Vietnamese prime minister to visit India in a decade

1 August 2024
With To Lam, center, assuming interim leadership of the Vietnamese Communist Party after the death of Nguyen Phu Trong, right, observers wonder whether the former security chief may be more influenced by China than the U.S. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by AFP/Jiji, EPA/Jiji and AP) 
Asia Insight

Vietnam veers into unknown as career cop makes Communist Party power play

Death of party chief Trong brings fears of tilt toward China-style leadership

30 July 2024
An aerial view of Southwest Cay, also known as Pugad Island, which is controlled by Vietnam and part of the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea.
Opinion

Vietnam's land reclamation helps balance power in South China Sea

Hanoi's strategic moves offer hope against China's aggressive island building

28 July 2024
A woman holds up a newspaper with the late Vietnamese Communist Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong on its cover during his state funeral on July 25 in Hanoi. (Photo by Shinya Sawai)
International relations

Vietnam's funeral for party chief Trong draws former Japanese PM, China's No. 4

Dignitaries pay respects in a testament to Trong's focus on balanced diplomacy

26 July 2024
To Lam's rise to lead the Communist Party of Vietnam follows a 20-month period of political turmoil.
Opinion

Why To Lam's pragmatic authoritarianism will be good for Vietnam

Nguyen Phu Trong had been the last of a dying breed of Marxist ideologues

22 July 2024
Vietnam's Bamboo Airways Chairman Trinh Van Quyet applauds near an Airbus A321 aircraft at a ceremony at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi on Jan. 16, 2019. 
Crime

Vietnam $28m stock pump-and-dump trial opens

FLC property and airline founder accused of 'sky-high' price manipulation

22 July 2024
Vietnam's President Nguyen Phu Trong greets media at a news conferance in Hanoi, Feb. 1, 2021.
Politics

Vietnam to hold state funeral for party chief Trong on July 26

Two-day national mourning for late Nguyen Phu Trong set on Thursday and Friday

20 July 2024
China's President Xi Jinping, left, and Vietnam's Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong shake hands at the Central Communist Party office in Hanoi in November 2015.
International relations

Xi mourns Vietnam Communist Party chief at embassy: Xinhua

Chinese president among foreign dignitaries Nguyen Phu Trong was close to

20 July 2024
Vietnamese Communist Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at a news conference in Hanoi in 2021.
Obituaries

Vietnam Communist party boss dies at 80; succession in balance

Trong kept lid on graft, navigated U.S.-China rivalry as country grew

19 July 2024
Vietnamese President To Lam, right, has taken over the duties of Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. (Vietnam News Agency)
Politics

Vietnam succession in focus as president stands in for party chief

Former public security chief To Lam gains more clout

19 July 2024
Vietnamese Communist Party General-Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, left, and Vietnamese President To Lam. (Source photos by AP)
Politics

Vietnam President To Lam takes over party leader Trong's duties

80-year-old top government official to focus on treatment, official statement says

18 July 2024
Vietnam has this year detected 660 African swine fever outbreaks nationwide, compared to 208 outbreaks during the same period last year.
Agriculture

African swine fever outbreaks spreading in Vietnam, government says

Culling so far this year fives time that of a year ago, official document shows

15 July 2024
Vietnam's President To Lam, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a reception at the Hanoi Opera House on June 20. In recent months Vietnam have also hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden.
Opinion

Vietnam is the master of neutrality in a polarized world

Hanoi's 'bamboo diplomacy' seen in hosting of Chinese, U.S. and Russian leaders

15 July 2024
Members of the China Coast Guard approach Philippine troops on a resupply mission in the Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on June 17.
Opinion

Philippines and Vietnam's South China Sea strategies have failed

Manila's 'transparency' and Hanoi's 'opacity' are outdated approaches to deter China

15 July 2024
The U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) is docked at the South Harbor in Manila March 5, 2016. 
Defense

U.S. Navy visits former base in Vietnam's strategic Cam Ranh Bay

Ex-defense official has said U.S. presence in area would send firm message to China

9 July 2024