Vietnam's Trong consolidates power with dismissals of deputy PMs

Xi Jinping meeting may have accelerated general secretary's anti-graft drive

TOMOYA ONISHI, Nikkei staff writer

HANOI -- Vietnam party chief Nguyen Phu Trong appears to have further cemented his grip on power after parliament on Thursday approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers in an extraordinary session that opened the same day.

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