Wikipedia says that in Vietnam 1 tael of gold is 37.5 grams or 1.21 troy ounces, which matches with the article’s exchange rate of 20 million dong for 0.5 tael of gold.
2 posted on 01/20/2012 8:22:51 AM PST by KarlInOhio
(Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)