Nga Pham

It's actually quite interesting, isn't it?

Because Asian countries actually have been dealing with aging society problem for so many years.

But what I see here is that we actually in Vietnam, for example, we are going to lower the pension rate.

I mean, the age that you can actually receive the government's subsidise on your... Oh, really?

Yeah, from 75 to 70.

So I wonder why it happens that way.

I mean, we do actually send lots of young labourers to, say, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and other countries.

So maybe that helps because Vietnam's population is relatively young.

70 is the new 50.

Yeah, so we're talking about the war of fruit, namely the war of durians and custard apples and other delicious fruit that Vietnam exports to China.

So basically 90% of Vietnamese durians being sold to China.

So talking about putting all the eggs in one basket.

And if China suddenly decides to stop importing Vietnamese durians, I don't know what will happen.

We will all have to eat durian and dream durian.

Really?

Is that right?

Yeah, it's spiky and very pungent.

And it has a very strange smell, doesn't it?

But now, actually, it also happens with Taiwan because Taiwan, the government there has warned farmers about selling custard apples to China as well.

So in 2021, when I was there, China also stopped importing Taiwanese pineapples.