{"id":858282,"date":"2025-06-26T19:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/vietnam-bride-gets-lavish-dowry-of-100-civet-cats-worth-us70000-to-create-income\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:12:29","slug":"vietnam-bride-gets-lavish-dowry-of-100-civet-cats-worth-us70000-to-create-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/vietnam-bride-gets-lavish-dowry-of-100-civet-cats-worth-us70000-to-create-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam bride gets lavish dowry of 100 civet cats worth US$70,000 to create income"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">A Vietnamese woman who received a lavish dowry from her parents of 100 civet cats, gold bars, cash, company shares and several high-value properties has shocked social media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The unidentified 22-year-old comes from southwestern Vietnam and was married last May.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">As part of her dowry, her parents gave her 100 female civet cats, all capable of breeding, with an estimated total value of 1.8 billion Vietnamese dong (US$70,000).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">It also included 25 taels of gold, 500 million dong (US$20,000) in cash, company shares worth 300 million dong, seven properties and other valuable assets.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<figure data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Civet cats are a valuable asset in Vietnam because of their use in the production of coffee. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/06\/03\/87ef0ab5-8efd-4000-a1c5-4bf888f6c73f_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"Civet cats are a valuable asset in Vietnam because of their use in the production of coffee. Photo: Shutterstock\"><\/p><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\">Civet cats are a valuable asset in Vietnam because of their use in the production of coffee. Photo: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">In return, the groom\u2019s family offered a bride price of 10 taels of gold, 200 million dong in cash and diamond jewellery.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p> Gaylene Michaud<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/article\/3312851\/vietnam-bride-gifted-lavish-dowry-100-civet-cats-worth-us70000-generate-future-income?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vietnamese woman who received a lavish dowry from her parents of 100 civet cats, gold bars, cash, company shares and several high-value properties has shocked social media. The unidentified 22-year-old comes from southwestern Vietnam and was married last May. As part of her dowry, her parents gave her 100 female civet cats, all capable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1982,3936],"tags":[14596,13057],"class_list":{"0":"post-858282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bride","8":"category-vietnam","9":"tag-bride","10":"tag-vietnam"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}