The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam is expected to mark a turning point and serve as a launch pad for Vietnam’s path towards becoming a middle-ranking power.

Director-General of the International Bureau of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Yamaguchi Tsuyoshi has praised Vietnam’s impressive progress in recent years, stressing that the CPV has been at the core of this development.

Vietnam's top leader promised to fight corruption in an address Tuesday to a twice-a-decade congress of the Communist Party, where he is seeking expanded powers similar to China's political structure.

In an address to the Communist Party congress that will decide his political future, Vietnam's top ​leader To Lam on Tuesday pledged annual economic growth of more than 10% for the remainder of the decade,

(VOVWORLD) -On the eve of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Piper Campbell, inaugural Chair of the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security at American University’s School of International Service,

Social-media sites (which the country only partly stifles) carry rumours of a tussle between factions of the party that are loyal to Vietnam’s army and those that represent its police. At issue is which cadres should be promoted to the country’s top jobs.