Fed up with poor pay, Vietnam workers turn to TikTok

A mobile phone being used to shoot a TikTok video of TikToker Vi Thi Anh sorting out noodles at her workshop in Bac Giang province. Anh spent half a decade doing monotonous low-paid work in an industrial hub near Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, assembling mobile phones for global electronics companies including Samsung. Then she discovered she could earn vastly more hawking food products to thousands of followers as one of Vietnam's growing cadre of TikTok livestreamers. — AFP

BAC GIANG, Vietnam: Vi Thi Anh spent half a decade doing monotonous low-paid work in industrial hubs near Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, assembling mobile phones for global electronics companies including Samsung.

Then she discovered she could earn vastly more hawking food products to thousands of followers as one of the country’s growing cadre of TikTok livestreamers.