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Vietnamese Women Are Kidnapped And Later Sold in China as Brides By SAMANTHA MARSHALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL August 3, 1999 5:54 p.m.

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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Cambodia’s ‘Beer Girls’ Learn The Dark Side of Selling Brew By SAMANTHA MARSHALL and STEVE STECKLOW Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL May 31, 2000 11:17 a.m.

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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Crain’s New York Business Published: 11/08/2004 Section: Workplace

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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Crain’s New York Business Published: 04/11/2005 Section: Workplace

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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Good to the Last Dropping, Caphe Cut Chon Is a Rare Find By SAMANTHA MARSHALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 17, 1999

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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Vietnam’s Youngest Export: Adoption, On and Off the Books By SAMANTHA MARSHALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL May 21, 1999

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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