Viet Nam business integrity support / China tech company payments abroad / Privatization not for anti-corruption

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Aiding business integrity via private sector education (Opinion).  “The [Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s] commitment to promote and strengthen business integrity in Vietnam is specifically mentioned as a positive example of private sector engagement in the latest UNCAC review report…More recently, the VCCI and the UNDP launched the Vietnam Business Integrity Network (VBIN). This is the first private sector collective action initiative committed to fostering a culture of business integrity and anti-corruption compliance in Vietnam.”

Vietnam Investment Review: https://vir.com.vn/aiding-business-integrity-via-private-sector-education-88813.html  

 

Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Had Secret Offshore Contracts With Men Linked to Serbian State Telecom Company.  “A former executive at state telecom company Telekom Srbija likely received over $1 million through an offshore firm in the British Virgin Islands that had contracts with Chinese technology giant Huawei…Although OCCRP has not uncovered evidence that the payments were improper, they were made over a period of time when Huawei was doing business in Serbia.”

Stevan Dojčinović and Vesna Radojević/Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project: https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/chinese-tech-giant-huawei-had-secret-offshore-contracts-with-men-linked-to-serbian-state-telecom-company  

 

Keep the Dogmatic Privatization Argument Out of Style (Blog).  “It is with good reason, then, that the dogmatic application of privatization as an anticorruption solution fell out of fashion. But in some countries, this theory appears to be making a comeback…Privatization may have important benefits, at least sometimes. But selling privatization as an anticorruption solution is one trend from the 1990s that shouldn’t follow wide jeans back into vogue.”

Zachary Meskell/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/10/25/keep-the-dogmatic-privatization-argument-out-of-style/  

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