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Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club

Reuters · last updated

HUNG YEN, August 11 (Reuters) — Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just $3,200 and rice provisions in return.

The golf resort, for which construction is scheduled to begin next month, is offering thousands of villagers such compensation packages to leave the land that has provided their livelihood for years or decades, according to six people with direct knowledge and documents seen by Reuters.

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