Nguyen Ba Thanh

A widely admired senior figure in Vietnam's ruling communist party, Nguyen Ba Thanh, who enjoyed rare personal popularity in a nation better known for bureaucratic apparatchiks, died today from cancer, an official said.

A widely admired senior figure in Vietnam's ruling communist party, Nguyen Ba Thanh, who enjoyed rare personal popularity in a nation better known for bureaucratic apparatchiks, died today from cancer, an official said.