Rappler's latest stories on Nguyen Phu Trong
Vietnam president emerges after month-long sick leave
Nguyen Phu Trong appears in public on May 14 alongside senior party leaders in Hanoi, according to the official Vietnam News Agency, which also ran pictures of the white-haired leader in a collared t-shirt

North Korea's Kim kicks off official Vietnam visit
The long-isolated North is increasingly seeking to portray itself as a country like any other, and Vietnam is Kim Jong-un's fourth foreign destination in less than 12 months

Vietnam's hardline president laid to rest
(UPDATED) Long lines of officials, police, relatives, and monks in golden robes stream through the National Funeral House in central Hanoi where Quang's flag-draped coffin lay beneath a large portrait of the leader

Indonesia-Vietnam sepakati lima bidang kerja sama
Kedua pemimpin sepakat untuk mengatasi isu penangkapan ikan secara ilegal

Police general becomes Vietnam's new president
Tran Dai Quang s election marks the first time a police general becomes president says one of Vietnam s anti corruption activists

Vietnam PM Dung withdraws from leadership race – source
Some 1 500 delegates at the five yearly Communist Party congress finalize a list of candidates from which the country s new leadership will be chosen

China's Xi heads to Vietnam as anger brews over visit
The communist neighbors have long celebrated their political and economic ties but in recent years tensions have flared in a decades old feud over island chains in the contested waters

POW-turned-Senator McCain hosts Vietnam party chief
McCain who was tortured at the hands of his captors sounded more pragmatic than reflective after Vietnam Communist Party boss Nguyen Phu Trong s unprecedented visit

Vietnam arrests rail officials in Japan aid graft scandal
Tamio Kakinuma of japan Transportation Consultants admits to prosecutors that bribes were paid to officials at Vietnam Railways for Hanoi s overground rail link worth 4 2 billion yen
