Measures seek to fulfill some of president's core campaign promises around education, though it's unclear how much power he has to enact them

Launched in December 1986, Vietnam’s “reform” era (đổi mới) came to an end in August 2024. Domestic political events in the ensuing months ushered the country into a new era, although the coming period may turn out to be a Gramscian interregnum, when “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”

An LCD display of US President Donald J. Trump promoting German media headlines is seen at a public station in Berlin, Germany, 27 January 2025. The headline reads, 'USA: Tariff dispute with Colombia over deportations settled'. (Filip Singer/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

President Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally who can't be sent back to their home countries.

President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money

Critics say the directive won't actually stop antisemitism, but will target immigrants while cracking down on free speech.

Kremlin propagandists have said Moscow could benefit from the new Donald Trump administration and added that the U.S. president's talk of tariffs and what he could do to end the war in Ukraine was bluster.

Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to declassify files related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

President Trump's tariff threats on Colombia have caused a stir in the global coffee market, leading to rising prices.

Communist Party chief To Lam’s unprecedented institutional streamlining is designed to bolster Vietnam’s competitiveness – but it could come at a cost.

Trump has repeatedly and explicitly said he wants to use the perception he is unpredictable, and even unhinged, to boost American power.

New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call on Friday with Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in which he urged Vietnam to address trade imbalances and also discussed shared concerns about China.