Cracks in Vietnam's cement: more competition would mean less collusion

Article Abstract:

The Vietnamese government's practice of controlling competition is behind the cement shortage scam and other corruption that threatens the country's economic development. Officials of the state-owned Vietnam Cement Corporation were implicated in illegal activities that led to the cement shortages in Mar and May 1995. An open market in Vietnam would decrease corruption, bribery, and black marketing that is encouraged by the structural incentives provided by the government.

Cement, hydraulic, Cement, Cement Manufacturing, Editorial, Economic aspects, Economic policy, Political corruption, Government ownership, Nationalization, Vietnam Cement Corporation

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Vietnam revisited

Article Abstract:

Historical circumstances conspired to create the events that made a war in Vietnam all but inevitable, and cultural ones made it all but unwinnable for the US. Since the tragic war's conclusion, the victorious North has lost its moral capital and become an example of the worst vices it attributed to capitalism. Now the country seems to be emerging toward the sort of society in which a negotiated settlement probably would have resulted anyway.

Column, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

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Prisoner of conscience

Article Abstract:

Nguyen Dan Que is a physician who elected to remain in Vietnam after the communist victory because he wanted to extend medical assistance to underprivileged Vietnamese. Que also advocates democracy which has led to numerous imprisonments. Last Nov 1991, he was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor for rebellion. US legislators and human rights proponents have been prevented from visiting Que in the Xuyen Moc labor camp.

Political activity, Dissenters, Political prisoners, Nguyen Dan Que

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