HANOI — Social media users in Vietnam changed their profile pictures to black on Saturday in a show of mourning for the Southeast Asian country's late leader Nguyen Phu Trong, whose death was announced the day before.
HANOI — Social media users in Vietnam changed their profile pictures to black on Saturday in a show of mourning for the Southeast Asian country's late leader Nguyen Phu Trong, whose death was announced the day before.Users on Facebook, X and Threads also posted photos and eulogies of the former Communist Party general secretary after Vietnam's state media announced on Friday that the 80-year-old had died at a military hospital in the capital Hanoi 'due to old age and serious illness.
'The profile pictures of social media accounts for Vietnamese state media agencies were also changed to black, with companies and nongovernmental organizations in the country following suit.Trong's death was announced a day after the party said he would hand the reins of power to the country's president and former public security minister To Lam.
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