Dinh La Thang is one of the most senior officials to go on trial in decades A former Communist Party official has been sentenced to 13 years in jail in Vietnam ... high-profile energy and banking ...

but his anti-corruption crackdown exposed the communist regime’s political decay. The late party chief adroitly balanced Vietnam's relationships with the major powers, while expanding its role ...

What has not changed is the iron grip the Communist Party keeps on power, and over all forms of political expression. Vietnam is one of only five Communist, one-party states left in the world.

Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has been one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies. It has been a unified country since 1975, when the armed forces of the Communist north seized the ...

HANOI (Reuters): As Vietnam's ruling Communist Party started a week-long meeting on Monday, discussion has intensified over the top leadership that will emerge and set the tone for the next five ...

Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful contemporary ... During Trong's 13 years as general secretary of the Communist Party, thousands of people were arrested on corruption charges and a ...

HANOI, Vietnam--Vietnam’s Communist Party on Sunday reelected Nguyen Phu ... and during his second term there were several high-profile corruption cases that made it to trial, including those ...