Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong died on Friday, July 19, 2024, after holding the nation's most powerful position for 13 years. He was 80 years old. The country's president, To ...

The head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, has stepped back from official duties because of poor health, marking a possible end to his 14-year tenure as the most powerful leader of the ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — 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 ...

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong died on Friday after holding the country's most powerful position for 13 years during which he oversaw fast economic growth, a yearslong ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The Communist Party announced the death of Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong—the top ...

Vietnam's President Nguyen Phu Trong attends a news conference Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Kham/Pool By ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Nguyen Phu Trong, re-elected as Vietnam's most powerful man on Sunday, is one of the Southeast Asian country's strongest and longest-serving leaders since founding revolutionary Ho ...

About eleven months ago, it was announced that, astonishingly, Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong would become the new state president, following the death of the incumbent. Not since ...

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 80.

HANOI, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Nguyen Phu Trong, re-elected as Vietnam's most powerful man on Sunday, is one of the Southeast Asian country's strongest and longest-serving leaders since founding ...