A Vietnamese farmer tends to a cow in a rice field in Ha Tay province, 14 miles south of Hanoi, Vietnam in 2006. (Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters)
Crying over spilled milk in Vietnam
China's melamine scandal moves in mysterious ways.
PHU DONG, Vietnam — Hoan Trong Thuyen, 69, stood over the 2-ton stainless steel milk storage vat with a grim expression.
“It’s been here two days already,” Thuyen said. “If the dairy company doesn’t come to buy it tomorrow, we’ll have to pour it out.”
Thuyen is the chairman of the Phu Dong Dairy Collective. Farmers in this small...
