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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