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Boom in ‘grey trade’ drives Vietnam’s seafood imports from $25m to over $5bn

The world's fifth largest seafood importer has a penchant for shrimp, rock lobster, Greenland halibut and toothfish; but very little is consumed in the country

By Louis Harkell | Feb. 1, 2018 10:56 GMT
Hai Phong port in northern Vietnam.
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Like many port cities, Haiphong, in northern Vietnam, has a seedier side. In the 1990s, the city was the stomping ground of one of Vietnam’s most notorious gang bosses, Vu Thi Hoang Dung, also known as Dung Ha, or Dung the Lesbian. [...]

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