10-09-2017 11:58 via yahoo.com

Vietnam floating market struggles to stay above water

Fixing weighing scales used to be good business on Vietnam's floating Cai Rang market, but the last repairman on the river now makes just a few dollars a month as modernity pushes traders to land.Surrounded by dusty old scales on his cluttered houseboat, Nguyen Van Ut says vendors are giving up their boats for better lives on terra firma where supermarkets draw the traders who once thronged the waterway.In the past, it was alright, but now many boats have left the floating market... people on ve
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