‘My life has been turned upside down’: The Vietnam’s provincial reform

Uprooted by provincial merger in Vietnam, civil servants and families struggle to adjust. By Ni Lin Civil servant John Nguyen has been relocated to a new workplace under a national reform that reduces the number of provinces from 63 to 34 for better governance in Vietnam. “I chose to work in the public sector because […] The post ‘My life has been turned upside down’: The Vietnam’s provincial…