: the basic monetary unit of Vietnam see Money Table
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Despite the heavy central theme of chronic illness, there’s a delicious bawdiness to Will There Ever Be Another You, a vulgar juvenilia evoking graffiti-tag genitals or the ding dong ditch scene from Billy Madison.—Eric Olson
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025 Instead of a tiny dong, Toxie would have a monster dong.—EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025 That money will be allocated to the port’s infrastructure development, while another 12 trillion Vietnamese dong ($457 million) will fund public maritime infrastructure.—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 12 Aug. 2025 The k-drama is a hit with viewers due to its compelling storyline involving attorneys in Seoul’s Seocho-dong neighborhood.—Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 To help counter this, the ministry has proposed raising the fine from 30 million to 100 million Vietnamese dong — roughly $1,150 to around $4,000 — for gender-selective practices.—Nick Butler, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025 Sociologists echo concerns about costs, estimating that raising a child from birth to age 22 costs 10 to 20 million Vietnamese dong ($380 to $760) per month — more than the average monthly income.—Nga Pham, NPR, 4 June 2025 Unsold kumquat trees stood beside her, each selling for about 600,000 Vietnamese dong, or $24.—Mike Ives, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025 Amber Ruffin and Alex Edelman Who among us can’t recognize Jon Hamm by his dong?—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
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