Mary Nguyen Thi Hoa lives with her four relatives in a 24-square-meter house with rusting iron walls and a tin roof on the ramparts of the Imperial Citadel of Hue in Vietnam's Thua Thien Hue province.

A man vandalized the Nguyen Dynasty throne inside Thai Hoa Palace, part of the Hue Imperial City, shattering parts of the historic national treasure. According to witnesses, the man bypassed the ...