HANOI: Grinning widely, Tran Quang Thieu brandishes the day’s haul: 10 kilos of rats caught in rice paddies near Hanoi. A menace to Vietnam’s rice crop, the vermin are regularly trapped -- and ...
He found it in a generation-younger group of local Vietnam War veterans. The 30-member-strong group calls itself the Rat Pack. George Garcia, a retired manager with the Bureau of Land Management ...