Vietnam Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong dies aged 80

Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong who has dies (Luong Thai Linh/Pool Photo via AP)

Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health, official media said on Friday. He was 80.

“General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party Nguyen Phu Trong passed away at 13.38 on July 19, 2024, at the 108 Central Military Hospital due to old age and serious illness,” the Nhan Dan newspaper said.