Corruption on Vietnamese minds as communists meet focus 01/12/2011

Corruption on Vietnamese minds as communists meet

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01/12/2011
HANOI — Cars and buses racing toward Hanoi’s expanding airport pass giant billboards that promote the symbols of Vietnam’s growth: housing estates, motorcycles and banks.
But just off the highway, things are moving more slowly.

Since the last Communist Party Congress five years ago, the country has certainly developed, Nguyen Van Tran says from behind a buffalo dragging a wood-and-metal plough through the caked earth of a rice paddy.

“But for farmers like us, I think there has been no change. It’s just the same,” adds Tran, whose bare feet are caked in dust.

The Congress that begins Wednesday to choose the country’s top leaders will not change anything either, says Tran, but he and other Vietnamese wish that it would..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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