Vietnam parliament approves radical government cost-cutting drive 

Vietnam's President Luong Cuong, Vietnam's communist party general secretary To Lam, Vietnam's PM Pham Minh Chinh and others attend the National Assembly's extraordinary session opening in Hanoi, Feb. 12, 2025.

Vietnam will cut one in five public sector jobs and slash billions of dollars from government budgets, after the country's rubber-stamp parliament on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to a radical streamlining drive.