THE country’s Communist Party has named police minister To Lam (pic) as the state president, the government said, and also nominated a new head of the parliament in a major leadership reshuffle.
Unprecedentedly for a one-party nation once known for its stable politics, two state presidents and a parliament speaker have stepped down in less than 18 months, all for unspecified “wrongdoing” amid a major anti-graft campaign which is unnerving foreign investors because of its chilling effect on bureaucracy.
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