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Viet Regime Backs Away From Fight it Didn’t Need

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Jun 12, 2018
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Late last month, as Vietnam's legislature prepared to enact a law establishing special enterprise zones at three locations on the nation's long coast, a firestorm of protest erupted on Facebook.

The Facebookers weren't much upset by the very generous incentives, including 99-year land leases, that Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Ministry of Plann…

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