Tough job ahead for former top cop now set to be Vietnam's new president; main job to calm down investors


HANOI (AFP): Vietnam's Communist Party has nominated public security minister To Lam to be the country's new president, state media said Saturday, after his predecessor resigned as part of a sweeping anti-graft purge.

Thousands of people -- including top officials and senior business leaders -- have been caught up in the South-East Asian country's "blazing furnace" crackdown on graft, led by Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

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