{"id":183305,"date":"2014-12-30T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/30\/reviewing-stories-over-the-past-year-this-one-wins-the-award-for-best-a-good-start\/"},"modified":"2014-12-30T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T01:26:00","slug":"reviewing-stories-over-the-past-year-this-one-wins-the-award-for-best-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/30\/reviewing-stories-over-the-past-year-this-one-wins-the-award-for-best-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing Stories Over the Past Year, This One Wins the Award for Best “A Good Start”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not notice this story when the Global Post<\/i> published it in April, but when they republished the fact that Vietnam is executing corrupt bankers<\/a>, I felt kind of jealous:<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This story was first published on April 3, 2014. GlobalPost is featuring it again as one of our must-reads of 2014.<\/em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

BANGKOK \u2014 For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn\u2019t get indicted. They got bonuses.<\/span>
Odds are that scandal would have played out differently in Vietnam, another nation struggling with misbehaving bankers.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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The authoritarian Southeast Asian state doesn\u2019t just send unscrupulous financiers to jail. Sometimes, it sends them to death row.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amid a sweeping cleanup of its financial sector, Vietnam has sentenced three bankers to death in the past six months.<\/span><\/p>\n

One duo now on death row embezzled roughly $25 million<\/a> from the state-owned Vietnam Agribank. Their co-conspirators caught decade-plus prison sentences.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 I do not approve of capital punishment, but this whole “Decades-plus prison sentence” thing?  That I wholeheartedly approve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did not notice this story when the Global Post published it in April, but when they republished the fact that Vietnam is executing corrupt bankers, I felt kind of jealous: Editor’s note: This story was first published on April 3, 2014. GlobalPost is featuring it again as one of our must-reads of 2014. BANGKOK …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1004,972,1019,1219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice","category-schadenfreude","category-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}