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Chinese president urges Vietnam to resist ‘unilateral bullying’

China's President Xi Jinping paid tribute to Vietnam's late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on Tuesday, his last day of a trip to Hanoi that President Donald Trump said was aiming to "screw" the United States.

Vietnam has asked for a last-minute delay to colossal tariffs imposed by Washington as government figures showed on Sunday that its economy grew at a slightly slower pace in the first quarter.

Companies that embraced supply-chain diversification by moving some operations to economies geographically close to China now face an array of bad options.

Indonesia’s new president, Prabowo Subianto, is cooking up a storm to fulfil his political promises – which include his flagship Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) program, food security, energy security, housing, and defence. The cost is high, and massive budget cuts to prioritise these government programmes are already underway.

Huy Duc worked for influential state-run newspapers before authoring a popular blog critical of country’s leaders.

Vietnam is aiming to cut one in five public sector jobs and slash billions of dollars from government budgets, mirroring US President Donald Trump's push to take a hatchet to spending.

Since Vietnam adopted its programme of reform (“Doi Moi” or renovation) in 1986, its foreign policy has transitioned from one driven by ideology to a more pragmatic regime driven by independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralism. This is underpinned by four principles: not engaging in military alliances, not supporting any country…

Vietnam's Communist Party chief told the country's rubber-stamp parliament Monday to press ahead with a drive against corruption, which analysts say has been used for internal faction-fighting.