Vietnam adopts constitutional changes to abolish district-level government
Vietnam’s National Assembly on Monday unanimously passed sweeping constitutional amendments, with all 470 delegates present voting in favor.
What is Vietnam’s administrative ‘revolution’ ?
These administrative reforms are set to slash government spending, including rooting out some prestigious and comfortable government jobs. But is it just another way to consolidate power ?
‘Hello, spring victory !’ Vietnamese propaganda art flourishes 50 years after end of war
Much has changed in Vietnamese life in the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. The streets of the once-impoverished country now bustle with commerce and young people carry the latest iPhones and sing along to Taylor Swift…
Vietnam goes big in its sprint to 2030
Vietnam’s General Secretary To Lam has staked his leadership on the promise of a transformative ‘era of national rise’ — a bold new phase of development driven by digital transformation, institutional reform, infrastructure expansion, green growth and deeper global integration.
Vietnam to cut provinces by half in radical administrative restructure
The reforms are part of a drive to make the country’s political system “lean, compact, strong, efficient, effective, and impactful.”
Vietnam to reduce provincial-level administrative units by 50%
The number of provincial-level administrative units in Vietnam will reduce by nearly 50% and the number of local-level units will drop by over 70%, according to a draft proposal on government streamlining.
The declining influence of the national assembly in Vietnam’s ‘new era’
Communist Party chief To Lam is reversing a decades-long trend of growing legislative involvement in Vietnamese policy-making.
To Lam’s pragmatic pitch to Vietnam’s youth : economic prosperity, political control
Compared to their Southeast Asian peers, Vietnamese youth are more economically optimistic but politically disengaged. These attitudes concur with pragmatism of the country’s top leader To Lam, which focuses on material prosperity while calibrating civic freedoms to regime imperatives.
Vietnam’s bureaucratic ‘Revolution’ falls short of true reform
Communist Party chief To Lam’s project of institutional renovations stops short of the highest echelons of power.
Vietnam’s bureaucratic ‘Revolution’: rationales and challenges
Communist Party chief To Lam’s unprecedented institutional streamlining is designed to bolster Vietnam’s competitiveness – but it could come at a cost.
A turning point in Vietnam’s politics
Will Communist Party chief To Lam succeed in leading his nation into a “new era” of economic ascendance?
Vietnam’s new regime finds its footing
When Vietnam’s long-time leader Nguyen Phu Trong passed away on 19 July 2024, only the Minister of Public Security, Police General To Lam, was ready to act.
Former legislators sentenced in major corruption case
Former National Assembly deputies Luu Binh Nhuong and Le Thanh Van as well as their associates were sentenced to prison on Monday for extorting property and abusing positions and power to influence others for personal gain.
Vietnam’s communists join Musk, Milei in slashing government
As Elon Musk and Argentina’s Javier Milei champion ambitious plans to dramatically slash the size of government, a similar effort is getting underway across the globe from political leaders with a completely different ideology: Vietnam’s Communist Party.
Vietnam’s Milei-style cuts of ministries stir investors’ anticipation, worries
Communist-run Vietnam is planning its boldest bureaucratic reform in decades, slashing ministries, agencies and broadcasters in a bid to reduce bottlenecks and red tape, but risking short-term « paralysis », officials and investors said.
Vietnam government plans to reduce 5 ministries in streamlining effort
The Vietnamese government plans to reduce five ministries and the National Assembly will cut four committees as part of a major administrative overhaul, according to a Communist Party’s top official.
Vietnam sets off down the path of institutional ‘Revolution’
To Lam, the new chief of the Communist Party of Vietnam, has pledged to lead the country into a “new era.”
Vietnam parliament elects military general Luong Cuong as president after months of political turmoil
The 67-year-old has become the country’s fourth president in the past three years.
Vietnam revives power-sharing arrangement with new president
The move restores a “four pillar” government structure that divides top-level duties to avoid the rise of a single strongman.
One of Vietnam’s high-profile political prisoners refused amnesty. Prison guards forced him on a plane anyway
For almost 16 years Tran Huynh Duy Thuc sat in prison waiting for freedom. On September 20, he was told he could go home to his family after Vietnam’s President To Lam pardoned him just eight months before his sentence…
In Vietnam, environmental defense is increasingly a crime
In the past two years, six prominent environmental defenders have been imprisoned in Vietnam, sending a chill across civil society in the one-party state.In the past, activists in Vietnam were often charged with spreading anti-state propaganda. More recently, ambiguous tax…
Vietnam to elect new president in October
Vietnam’s National Assembly will elect the country’s new president in October, state media said on Aug 27, the latest top-level change during an unusually turbulent period for the communist state.
To Lam’s rise to the top in Vietnam has been ‘spectacular’. Are we witnessing the emergence of a new strongman leader?
A new leader has rapidly ascended to power in Vietnam and some are already comparing him to Xi Jinping.
Will Vietnam go down China’s path ?
Vietnam’s new general secretary To Lam is likely to consolidate power, as per Xi Jinping in China. But his economic and foreign policy approach may be different.
Vietnam president To Lam gets top job as communist party chief
Lam pledges to maintain predecessor’s anti-corruption campaign as he takes nation’s top job – but it is unclear whether he will also remain president.
Vietnam’s communist party names To Lam top leader
Vietnamese President To Lam was formally named the country’s top leader Saturday, pledging to « speed up » a sweeping anti-graft campaign that has snared thousands.