Sunday, December 13, 2020, 13:21 GMT+7
Nguyen Bach Truong, director of Truong Thinh Ltd. Company, poses with boxes of toothpicks made by his firm. Photo: Ha Thanh / Tuoi Tre
Though many businesses have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, 33-year-old entrepreneur Nguyen Bach Truong’s firm is still chugging, turning out thousands of toothpicks each week.
The workers at Truong Thinh, a bamboo toothpick firm in Cat Que Commune, Hoai Duc District, Hanoi, are still busy at work even though unemployment numbers in Vietnam have risen over the past several months due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Each day, the team at Truong’s company selects bamboo threads, cuts them into toothpicks, dries them, scents them, and prepares each bundle for shipping.