HANOI: Card games and karaoke help migrant workers pass the time on the cramped houseboats of Hanoi’s Red River, swapping their privacy to eke out a living selling fruit for a few dollars a day.

Temporary residents of these open-air boats have left the countryside in search of higher wages in the city.

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