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The drive to recentralize Vietnam

In a rare display of civil disobedience, drivers recently protested the opening of a new tollbooth on a southern Vietnamese highway by paying with the nation’s smallest banknote, the dreaded 100 dong bill, worth just US$0.004. Considering the toll costs range from between 35,000 and 140,000 dong, it had the intended result of arduous delays […]

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