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Medics rushed Pham Dang Hieu, blood seeping from his crushed skull and his panicked family trailing, into the emergency room of Hanoi's Viet Duc University Hospital at 9:30 on a Sunday evening. The 27-year-old engineer had swerved his 100cc Honda Wave motorcycle to avoid a bicycle and crashed into a concrete lane divider near his home. His bleary-eyed brother stared blankly at the widening pool of blood on the sheet beneath Hieu's head as the doctor explained the family's options: hook him up to life support, or take him home to die. Either...
...Caught in the government policy switchback are three of the biggest names in the business: Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki. The quotas, announced in September, will cost the Japanese manufacturers an estimated $267 million in lost revenue this year. Honda and Yamaha each has had to shut down its Vietnam factory until the end of the year, and Suzuki says it will also run out of parts any day. Japanese executives are fuming, hinting the abrupt policy shift could hurt Vietnam's bid to join the World Trade Organization. After a delegation from the big three bikemakers were snubbed earlier this...
...while a young daughter perches on the handlebars. A recent survey found only 3% of riders wear helmets. "I've never worn a 'rice cooker'?it's too much hassle," says Nguyen The Hung, 40, doing his weekend shopping with his wife and 12-year-old son on his Honda Future. "Anyway I'm a good enough driver to keep us safe." The only piece of safety equipment that sees regular use is the horn...
...autumn day as American retailers stock shelves for the upcoming holiday shopping season. For export-driven economies, the West Coast crisis was immediately con-tagious. First to feel the effects was the shipping industry, whose intricate schedules quickly plunged into chaos. Manufacturers' supply chains were the next to buckle. Honda, for example, halted production at its U.S. auto plants due to a shortage of parts, while suppliers to Sony and Dell were forced to ship critical components by air, an expensive stop-gap solution. Thousands of cars en route to the U.S. were among many Asian exports stuck idling offshore...
...retaining its charm. The 3,000 local inhabitants still display the unconditional warmth and friendliness toward strangers that were once the hallmark of Thai hospitality everywhere. Motorbikes have replaced elephants as the primary mode of transport, but the panniers hanging from the backs of those Honda Dreams are still made of woven bamboo. And as you stroll through the outskirts of town in the late afternoon, the only sounds you hear besides the 5:15 p.m. call to prayer at the mosque are birdsong...