Vietnam Lays Off Workers
<i> Reuters</i>
HANOI —
Vietnam, struggling to breathe life into an economy stifled by years of central planning, has laid off nearly half a million workers from state-run firms, official newspapers said Thursday. Government firms, forced under new open-market laws to pay their own way, have found it impossible to sustain a work force inherited from decades of subsidized socialist rule.
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