Vietnam government sees new faces but policy shift unlikely


Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (C) is greeted by deputies of the National Assembly before the opening ceremony of the National Assembly's spring session in Hanoi, March 21, 2016. REUTERS/Kham

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam completed a protracted leadership transition on Saturday, with 21 new faces in a cabinet tasked with reforming an economy seeing galloping growth but dogged by privatisation and public debt problems.

Parliament approved a 27-member lineup that retains some important figures from a government credited with driving a pro-business agenda, including finance minister Dinh Tien Dung and deputy premiers Vu Duc Dam and Pham Binh Minh, who is also foreign minister.

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