Communist Party leaders acknowledged that rampant abuse of power is holding Vietnam back, telling delegates during the opening of a key meeting Wednesday that cleaning up corruption would help solve the country's economic woes.
Propaganda was prominent in the capital as the eight-day National Party Congress started, and armed riot police stood outside the meeting hall. On the streets, Communist hammer-and-sickle monuments stood in traffic circles and thousands of red banners proclaimed "Long Live the Glorious Communist Party of Vietnam!"
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