Stories about Vietnam's Elderly Poor and Vietnam's Active Elders produced by CNA Insider in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

"The greatest enemy of a person's life is stupidity". At the age of 97, Le Thi is connecting with the world, one Facebook status at a time. READ MORE: http://cna.asia/2rqNHms "The greatest enemy of a person's life is stupidity," says the Vietnamese grandma with the hunger for learning.

At 82, she walks the streets of Ho Chi Minh City selling lottery tickets, to support her handicapped son. Meet the group of elderly poor who soldier on to survive the only way they know how, in Vietnam. Read: Vietnam's ticking time-bomb of elderly poverty ➡️ http://bit.ly/2meH6Fr Watch more: CNA Insider's series on Elderly Poverty in South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar and Singapore https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTbyGFOw_OWwvElk6OH61lsx For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub Follow CNA INSIDER on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnainsider/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnainsider/ Website: https://cna.asia/cnainsider

Vietnam's street food is loved worldwide - but many of its vendors struggle to set aside anything for old age. At age 70 and 61, these sisters still toil 16 hours a day. And will likely continue till the day they die. Read: Vietnam's ticking time-bomb of elderly poverty http://bit.ly/2meH6Fr Watch more: CNA Insider's series on Elderly Poverty in South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar and Singapore https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTbyGFOw_OWwvElk6OH61lsx For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub

Making less than US$1 a day as junk collectors, these are the homeless old folks of Hanoi. And these are the angels who hit the streets at night to help them. Watch more: CNA Insider's series on Elderly Poverty in South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar and Singapore https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMf14VQEvTbyGFOw_OWwvElk6OH61lsx For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub