At the end of April 2022, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security prosecuted Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan of the scandalous firm Advanced International Co. (AIC) but she had reportedly run abroad with her subordinates one month before In mid-March 2022,…
The stories in the intelligence forces are often the ones that don’t have a happy ending. Because in the political circle, people like to use intelligence to defeat their opponents, but are afraid of being brought down by intelligence. Because…
Mastering the political chessboard is not holding a large army but elite ones. Usually, in Vietnam, when it comes to the top leadership, people refer to the “four pillars” but in fact, only the two pillars are the real power,…
Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense is considered a place of dispute between the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Prime Minister. In the previous newsletter, Thoibao.de analyzed that, between the party chief and the government…
Mr. Phan Dinh Trac is a powerful arm of Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong. Considered to be the replacement of Mr. Nguyen Ba Thanh, late head of the party’s Central Commission on Internal Affairs, to serve as a pioneer soldier. Currently,…
Deputy Minister of Vietnam’s Defense Ministry, Senior Lieutenant General Vo Minh Luong, has just led the Defense Ministry delegation to Cambodia to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Phnom Penh in December…
Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just summoned Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Vu Quang Minh in connection with the ongoing dispute in an undemarcated border area between the two countries, close to Vietnam’s border with An Giang province and the…
At the May 2020 briefing meeting of the Ministry of Defense held in Hanoi on June 1, Vietnamese Defense Minister Ngo Xuan Lich recently warned about “complicated developments in the Eat Sea (South China Sea)” and asked the army “to…
According to Vietnam’s estimated central budget in 2019, the total central budget revenue is VND 810,099 billion ($34.47 billion), including VND 82,348 billion for the Ministry of Public Security or more than 10% of the total revenue. It is known…
The case is shocking internationally, when the European airplane and equipment maker Airbus was investigated, then forced to agree to pay $4 billion in fines to France, the UK and the US to end a 4-year global corruption investigation from…
