HANOI, Vietnam — Jobless and destitute, Nguyen Thi Hoan felt her luck was about to change. She had just arrived here one sultry June morning two years ago, and almost at once a kindly woman offered her a job in a candy factory.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — At the bustling Shady Bamboo bar and restaurant, a flock of uniformed young women descends on arriving customers, each woman pitching a different beer. “Uncle, uncle, please try my brand,” they playfully plead.
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In April, after 13 months in Iraq subduing riots and uncovering mass graves, U.S. Army Reservist Martin Bischoff was getting ready for his first day back at work as a district sales manager for Pfizer, when it occurred to him that something was missing.
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Richard Holloway doesn’t feel angry. The part-time security guard says he’s mellow most of the time. But when he catches his facial expression in his car’s rear-view mirror, he begins to understand why his three interviews for clerical jobs over the past three months haven’t gone so well.
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DAKLAK, Vietnam — Coffee farmer Ho Hoang Yen fondly remembers one of his boyhood chores of half a century ago. With mist rolling off the hills, he would rise at dawn, trek through the lush highland wilderness, and forage beneath dewy bushes for the finest coffee beans.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Ba Tam sells sticky buns outside a maternity hospital in this Southern Vietnamese city. But today, the elderly woman is trying to interest a foreign visitor in another business she dabbles in: the baby trade.
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