HO CHI MINH CITY (AFP): Phan Thi Nhieu has spent a decade assembling shoes for worldwide brands such as Timberland and K-Swiss, but she is now among tens of thousands of Vietnamese factory workers laid off as Western consumers cut spending.
Almost half a million others have been forced to work fewer hours as orders fall in the South-East Asian country, one of the world's largest exporters of clothing, footwear and furniture.
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