Grandma fights against Vietnam’s deepening addiction to coal
By AFP
24 May 2019 |
5:33 am
Toothless and nearly blind, a 99-year-old grandmother refuses to leave her plot of land even after officials demolished her home -- an extraordinary holdout against communist Vietnam's coal expansion projects.
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