HCMC flood-control project turns roadside homes into ‘basements’

Doan Van Thuan, 38, climbs over a 1.2-meter-high stack of sandbags outside his home, which he spent the past two months building to reach the street. His doorway once stood nearly half a meter above the road, but his living room now resembles a sunken basement. The steep drop from the road into Thuan’s house … Read more