Vehicles travel along a road in the city centre of Pleiku, Vietnam. (Photo: Bloomberg)
Vietnam’s Communist Party is growing alarmed about a new mantra taking hold among bureaucrats: Do a lot, get in trouble for a lot. Do less, get in trouble for less. Do nothing, get in trouble for nothing.
Increasingly, they’re choosing the last option — and it is weighing on one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies.
Civil servants are wary of signing off on investment projects for fear they could be implicated next in a wide-ranging anti-graft campaign that has taken down three of the country’s top-ranking officials already this year, according to multiple bureaucrats who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution….
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