Vietnamese legislators today elected Hanoi Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong as the new parliament chief, after accepting three top leaders' resignations in a long-awaited shuffle within the one-party government.

Vietnam’s three top leaders have quit to make way for younger politicians in a long-awaited shuffle of the communist nation’s government, an official said today.

Vietnam is expected to release more than 10,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty to mark the country’s Independence Day, an official said today.

Preparations for the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War wound up in a flurry of activity today in the former capital of South Vietnam, with red flags lining the broad boulevard where Communist tanks rolled into the city 30 years ago.

Vietnam’s most notorious gangster expressed regret for his life of crime and urged his grandsons not to follow in his footsteps hours before being executed by a firing squad.