Vietnam’s Communist Party Chief Hospitalized After Falling Ill

Vietnam Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has been hospitalized after becoming ill, with the party’s central committee canceling a meeting this week, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the matter.

Trong, 79, is in his third term as the party’s general secretary and is the nation’s most powerful figure. He was hospitalized earlier this week over an unspecified illness, according to two officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter is private. Bloomberg couldn’t immediately determine the seriousness of the illness.