A spinner working in a factory produces cotton for garments to be exported to Europe and North America in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Thursday, 4 December, 2008 - taken fourteen days before the 36th anniversary of U.S. Christmas carpet bombings. Vietnam's cheap labour workforce is attractive to some foreign manufacturing investors. A typical manufacturing worker earns between $50 and $100 (U.S.) per month.  For more pictures, please click on Ballad of Hoa: 12/12.