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On to the news.
Even with the repatriation flight scandal and ensuing trials out of the way, there is no shortage of news related to the anti-corruption campaign - and just corruption in general. (Do all corruption cases fall under the anti-corruption campaign? I genuinely don’t know.)
The sheer variety of graft and greed is quite something: from sand mining in the Mekong Delta and illegal land use on Phú Quốc to COVID-19 test kits across the country and planting trees in Hanoi, there’s a case for everyone.
We’ll go through each of those today, starting with the Mekong Delta which, as I’ve discussed before, faces existential risks exacerbated by rampant sand mining.
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