"Duong, his son Andy, and scores of family members, friends, and powerful supporters crowded Oakland's Regal Jack London theater on Saturday to see " The King of Trash," a new documentary that chronicles how the Duongs lost everything and then rose from impoverished refugees to become the owners of an international trash and recycling empire headquartered in Oakland. The movie opens with archival footage of American soldiers and bombers spraying the Vietnamese countryside with munitions."
"In the night, their parents secreted Duong and his siblings to a rickety boat and fled the new government - an act that David claims nearly cost them their lives. From there, they endured hardships in a Philippine refugee camp and then a cramped San Francisco apartment, where they sometimes ate food from the trash they collected because they were so poor. But through hard work and determination, Duong explains how they were able to rebuild."
Most news about David Duong has focused on a federal anti-corruption investigation that threatens to send him and his son to prison. Duong, his son Andy, family members, friends, and supporters attended a screening of The King of Trash in Oakland portraying their rise from impoverished refugees to owners of an international trash and recycling empire. The family fled Vietnam after communists expropriated their assets, survived a Philippine refugee camp and poverty in San Francisco, and rebuilt starting with a $700 truck hauling recyclables. They expanded into finance, lent to immigrant recyclers, founded California Waste Solutions, and won major municipal contracts.
Read at The Oaklandside
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]