Hanoi bans The Economist’s issue featuring Vietnam’s leader on its cover, reports say

Media quoted unnamed distributors who said they could not obtain copies of the magazine or that it had been banned

The latest print edition of the Economist, which features Vietnam's top leader on its cover, has been banned in the country, the latest instance of media censorship in the communist, one-party state.

The magazine carried an image of the Communist party General Secretary To Lam with stars on his eyes, alongside the headline The man with a plan for Vietnam", with an article carrying the subheading: A Communist party hard man has to rescue Asia's great success story".