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Vietnamese Journalism: Party-Led Enterprise

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Jan 27
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By: Hướng Thiện 

In 2014, at 60, the official retirement age for Vietnamese male civil servants, Nguyễn Mạnh Hoàng would have been expected to retire from his position as chairman of Hoàng Mai district in Hanoi. But to everyone's surprise, in 2013, the official suddenly confessed to authorities that he had been born in 1955 instead of 1954 as he had clai…

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