By: Hương Thiện
In 2014, at 60, the official retirement age for Vietnamese male civil servants, Nguyễn Mạnh Hoàng would have been expected to retire from his position as Chairman of Hoàng Mai District in Hanoi. But to everyone’s surprise, in 2013 the official suddenly admitted to the authorities that he was born in 1955 instead of 1954 as he had claimed…
