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‘Don’t want to move’: The race to save Hanoi’s crumbling villas
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HANOI - In a small corner of a once-grand villa in the heart of Hanoi, Mr Nguyen Manh Tri surveys the home he has loved since childhood but is now giving up as its foundation cracks, roof crumbles and staircase buckles.
Mr Tri, 47, lives in three rooms of the subdivided house, one of around 1,200 French-style villas in the city on a list of protected homes published this year.
