{"id":65737,"date":"2024-07-19T23:05:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/vietnams-communist-leader-nguyen-phu-trong-dies-aged-80-creating-vast-power-vacuum"},"modified":"2024-07-19T23:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:05:44","slug":"vietnams-communist-leader-dies-aged-80-creating-power-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65737","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam\u2019s Communist leader dies aged 80 creating power vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nguyen Phu Trong was one of the country\u2019s longest-serving politicians and known for anti-corruption drive<\/p>\n<p>Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of Vietnam\u2019s ruling Communist party and the country\u2019s most powerful politician, has died aged 80, creating a power vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>Trong died early on Friday afternoon \u201cafter a period of illness\u201d, according to his medical team, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/vietnams-communist-leader-nguyen-phu-trong-dies-aged-80-creating-vast-power-vacuum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nguyen Phu Trong was one of the country\u2019s longest-serving politicians and known for anti-corruption driveNguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of Vietnam\u2019s ruling Communist party and the country\u2019s most powerful politician, has died aged 80, creating &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65738,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65737\/revisions\/65738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}