Vung Tau, Soviet-style: how oil workers built a Russian town inside Vietnam
The story of Soviet oil workers, Vung Tau’s Russian neighborhood and the White Tiger field that transformed Vietnam’s economy.
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Vietnam is increasingly cashless, but cash is still useful, international cards are not accepted everywhere, and QR payments are now common even at very small…
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