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After UK Truck Deaths, Vietnam Asks Why Workers Go Abroad

Ha Nguyen

   HO CHI MINH CITY - Today Vietnam has one of the fastest growing
   economies in the world, high levels of optimism in public opinion
   surveys, and good relations with its old wartime enemies, the United
   States and France. So locals were caught off guard by the high-profile
   deaths in Essex, which suggest that some thought they could find more
   opportunity abroad than at home.

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