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The photos of Dinh La Thang being led to a Hanoi court in handcuffs on last week will make history. Never before in the country’s decades-long communist rule had a former politburo member endured such a disgrace. Mr Thang and 21 other defendants, most of them former officials at PetroVietnam (PVN), the state-owned oil and […]