Friday, February 26, 2021, 13:01 GMT+7
Nguyen Van Long and his wife, Doan Thi Tam Em, pose for a photo with certificates of merit for returning a dropped handbag with a billion Vietnamese dong inside. Photo: Ngoc Tai / Tuoi Tre
A heart-warming story of a poor couple who returned a lost handbag with billions of Vietnamese dong inside has been inspiring Vietnam’s netizens throughout the first week of the Lunar New Year festival, whhich ended last week.
Nguyen Van Long and his family live in a small house located within a close-knit community in Ward 1, Cao Lanh City, which is the capital of the Mekong Delta’s Dong Thap Province.