Thanks to Greg N. for sharing this information via the Vietnam Studies Group listserv. Like Greg, I’m very familiar with this area.

Greg wrote:

I spent much time volunteering teaching English in Khoai Chau district where this project is planned. This project is projected to be 980 hectares, or 2421 acres. A rough calculation shows that 14,210 people would be displaced from an area of good alluvial soils, which is intensively farmed for a variety of crops for the Hanoi market. As of 2020, Khoái Châu rural district had a population of 189,070, about 14.5 people/hectare or 1442 people per square kilometer. Khoái Châu rural district covers an area of 13,100 hectares. 

Here is a map link. The Red River runs along the west side of the district. The project is supposedly planned next to the river. You can see the population density close to the river, which I see full of rice paddies, other crops, and villages.

Greg also shared these articles from Reuters and AlterNet.

Exclusive: Fistful of dollars and rice for Vietnam farmers displaced for $1.5 billion Trump golf club (11.8.25)

HUNG YEN, August 11 (Reuters) – Vietnamese farmer Nguyen Thi Huong has slept poorly since authorities told her to vacate her farm for a Trump family-backed golf resort, offering just $3,200 and rice provisions in return.

The golf resort, for which construction is scheduled to begin next month, is offering thousands of villagers such compensation packages to leave the land that has provided their livelihood for years or decades, according to six people with direct knowledge and documents seen by Reuters.

Trump’s $1.5 billion golf club sparks outrage as farmers warn ‘it will take our land’ (11.8.25)

50-year-old Huong, who was reportedly told to leave her 200-square-metre (2152.78 square-feet) plot for less than the average pay for one year in Vietnam, told Reuters: “The whole village is worried about this project because it will take our land and leave us jobless.”