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Newly-elected President Vo Van Thuong took the oath of office after he was elected by the legislative National Assembly to the post on Mar. 2 Thuong, 53, won in a vote from all parliamentary members, making him the youngest president in Vietnam’s political history. Born in the southern province of …

Ho Chi Minh City, which has started offering golf tours to foster tourism recovery, on Wednesday welcomed its first group of golfers from Singapore. Besides playing golf, the 20 tourists will also take an open-deck bus tour to iconic landmarks, see the city from the Saigon Sky Deck Bitexco observatory …

The Standing Committee of the legislative National Assembly (NA) introduced Vo Van Thuong, the standing member of the Communist Party’s Secretariat, as Vietnam’s presidential candidate. The assembly is holding an extraordinary meeting Thursday morning to elect the president, after the Communist Party’s Central Committee introduced a candidate the previous day. …