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2006-04-19 Southeast Asia
Vietnam's Communists Grapple With Corruption, Calls for Democracy
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Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11123 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The country's transport minister resigned earlier this month to accept responsibility for a scandal involving funds earmarked for road construction and infrastructure development but embezzled and reportedly used for gambling.

So will Vietnam be changing it's name to, I dunno,...Illinois?
Posted by tu3031 2006-04-18 16:48||   2006-04-18 16:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Workers will be shot until morale improves.
Posted by ed 2006-04-18 16:51||   2006-04-18 16:51|| Front Page Top

#3 
Does Danny Glover know about this yet. He'll be purty pissed off. Maybe Hollywood can do hands around Vietnam as a symbolic gesture in support of Communism.
Posted by macofromoc 2006-04-19 00:22||   2006-04-19 00:22|| Front Page Top

#4 China is working hard to exert its influence over all of SE Asia - will say again that America needs to make peace, rapport, and to get together wid still anti-Everybody unified Vietnam, and before the Chicoms succeed in making anti-China Vietnam/Hanot Govt. into another un-annexed Chinese province-peon state like starving North Korea, and Tibet. Pro-Chicom armed Maoists are striking all along the East and South Asia periphery, from Bangladesh to Thailand to India to Malaysia [Red Star White Turban]. China is using as much capitalist $$$ as it can to succeed in replacing Commie Vietnam's anti-China old guard and pol-establishment wid pro-China elements. *Iranian Empire in ME-EURABIA? = Chicom Empire in Asia-Pacific + 1/2 of CONUS.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-19 03:02||   2006-04-19 03:02|| Front Page Top

#5 So will Vietnam be changing it's name to, I dunno,...Illinois?
To those of us in Illinois, that's not funny:(
Accurate, maybe, but not funny.
Posted by Spot">Spot  2006-04-19 09:14||   2006-04-19 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Spot: Especially unfunny for folks living anywhere south of Effingham.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-19 09:17||   2006-04-19 09:17|| Front Page Top

#7 I can chuckle about it now, but I've moved to Maryland...
Posted by eLarson 2006-04-19 10:25|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-04-19 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 I could've said Massachusetts, but Vietnam isn't communist enough...
Posted by tu3031 2006-04-19 10:29||   2006-04-19 10:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Maryland, Illinois, Vietnam, what's the difference?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-19 10:29||   2006-04-19 10:29|| Front Page Top

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