Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, aged 79, has been hospitalized with an unspecified illness, The Straits Times reported on Jan. 12. Trong has not been seen in public since Dec. 23, 2023, and he missed engagements with Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone on Jan. 5 and Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Jan. 12.
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