Overview
- Eviction notices have been served to thousands of state-assigned farmers at the 990-hectare site in Hung Yen province
- Compensation packages finalized at $12–30 per square metre of farmland include two to 12 months of rice provisions
- Developers have trimmed overall compensation forecasts from more than $500 million
- Construction on the $1.5 billion resort, funded by Kinhbac City after a $5 million licensing fee to the Trump Organization, is slated to begin next month
- Displaced villagers warn the low payouts leave them without clear alternative livelihoods in Vietnam’s competitive job market