{"id":254648,"date":"2025-11-01T03:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254648\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T03:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:57:09","slug":"angry-vietnam-farmers-take-swing-at-trump-branded-us1-5-billion-golf-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254648\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Vietnam farmers take swing at Trump-branded US$1.5 billion golf resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Five months after a glitzy groundbreaking ceremony just outside Hanoi, the area where The Trump Organisation-branded US$1.5 billion luxury golf resort was unveiled remains just fields of banana and orange trees as angry farmers challenge the site\u2019s clearance plans.<\/p>\n<p>The project in <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/vietnam?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vietnam<\/a>\u2019s Hung Yen province is facing land recovery delays as residents contest the amount of compensation being offered by local authorities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It has been set at about 320,000 dong (US$12) per square metre (10 square feet) \u2013 equivalent to around one year\u2019s income from the agricultural land for many of the farmers, plus rates that differ for varying plants and trees already there.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s unreasonable that freshly planted crops can get a higher payment than trees that have been growing for 20 years,\u201d said Do Thi Vung, who has spent more than 30 years cultivating land in the area. She is among hundreds of farmers who have petitioned authorities to at least double the compensation rate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An illustration of the Trump International Hung Yen project. Photo: Kinh Bac City Development Holding\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/86b29202-645f-4300-a0c9-ac03258214e4_2468ba00.jpg\" title=\"An illustration of the Trump International Hung Yen project. Photo: Kinh Bac City Development Holding\"\/>An illustration of the Trump International Hung Yen project. Photo: Kinh Bac City Development Holding<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The resort, when finished, is set to feature five-star hotels, golf courses and residential estates spanning around 900 hectares (2,220 acres) along the Red River. The first phase is slated to be complete by late 2027, with the whole complex ready by 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five months after a glitzy groundbreaking ceremony just outside Hanoi, the area where The Trump Organisation-branded US$1.5 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[132073,64,63,150543,150551,150544,150545,22338,20666,755,150548,150546,150550,150547,150539,150540,150549,85,150542,150541,5611],"class_list":{"0":"post-254648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-apec","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-chau-ninh","12":"tag-dang-thanh-tam","13":"tag-do-thi-vung","14":"tag-dong-tam","15":"tag-eric-trump","16":"tag-farmers","17":"tag-golf","18":"tag-hoang-thi-oanh","19":"tag-hung-yen","20":"tag-kinh-bac-city-development","21":"tag-land-disputes","22":"tag-le-trung-kien","23":"tag-le-van-luong","24":"tag-pham-minh-chinh","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-the-trump-organization","27":"tag-van-thi-thuan","28":"tag-vietnam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}