New papercraft from currency / banknotes category, this time is Vietnamese Banknotes, 50000 Dong piles of money. Since 2003, Vietnam has replaced its cotton banknotes with plastic polymer banknotes, which it claims will save money. Many newspapers in the country criticized these changes, citing mistakes in printing and alleging that the son of the governor of the State Bank of Vietnam benefited from printing contracts. The government clamped down on these criticisms by banning two newspapers from publishing for a month and considering other sanctions on other newspapers.











