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Image: Hanoi’s slums and the high risk of fire
In the past two months, many fires have occurred in slums in Hanoi. The risk of fire is huge in many slums in Hanoi because these houses are built with inflammable materials such as canvas, cardboard, fireboards and planks.
Public schools not open to children of immigrant workers
VietNamNet Bridge – State owned nursery schools in big cities, which have been overloaded with local children, are not capable to receive immigrant workers’ children.
Finding no jobs in cities, laborers return to home villages
Big cities, which once fed whole families of immigrant workers, have turned out to be the severe land for them in the current economic crisis. Returning to home villages and working on rice fields proves to be the only choice for them now.
