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East & Eden

For a truly inspiring Asian experience step off the well-trodden path. The top 10 must-visit holiday hotspots

Vietnam Success Stories Have Also Done The Long March

Ho Chi Minh City

The smartest business decision Mr Tuan Tran Tai made was to give his fortune and assets away. That was in 1975, when the conquering peasant army of North Vietnam overran Saigon and imposed textbook communist austerity on the free-wheeling South.

Hanoi's Mr TV is Ready to Battle Media Moguls

Hanoi

Pham Khac Lam gives the impression that he quite enjoys the sport of keeping the moguls of the global media industry dangling.

Cold War to Cold Store: The Cooling Fields

Hanoi, Moscow and Goa

HOW best to escape the heat in sweltering Hanoi?

Buses Roll After Tricky Guerilla War

Ho Chi Minh City

The frustration of doing business in Vietnam is getting worse, dashing some early big hopes. But rewards are still there, as ERIC ELLIS reports from Ho Chi Minh City in the first of a series examining the strains of rapid change in Vietnam

Hanoi Host To Motley Crew and Aussie Who's Who

Hanoi

The unmistakable voice of Ray Charles drifts across the velvet Hanoi night - "your cheatin' heart will tell on you ... will ... tell ... onnnnnn ... yoouuuu."

Doing Deals at the Billabong Bar

Hanoi

The Vietnamese know big spenders when they see them

Future Of Saigon's Floater Appears Fragile

We're A Favoured Suitor

Vietnam Frustrates Its Foreign Investors

Casualties Are Heavy In The New War Raging In Vietnam