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Since 1994, the KSG, in cooperation with the University of Economics of Ho Chi Minh City, has run the Vietnamese Fulbright Teaching Center, aiming to educate Vietnamese mid-career professionals in economic and public policy. According to Amy Conly, an administrative assistant at the Kennedy School’s Vietnam Program, the center currently enrolls approximately 80 Vietnamese students in offerings that range from basic courses in micro- and macro-economics to more advanced classes on subjects like “China’s New Economic Strategy” and “Post-Crisis East Asia...
...were confident that the self-evident worth of the school in Ho Chi Minh City would be rewarded with the renewal of this grant,” said Julian Chang, the executive director of Asia Programs at the KSG’s Center for Business and Government. “We in Asia Programs and the Kennedy School look forward to working with our partners in Vietnam and across the United States in support of this program and of continued friendly cooperation between Vietnam and the United States...
...astounding feat of wartime engineering and defiance, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was actually a 16,000-kilometer network of roads, hacked by hand out of the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It helped the communist North win the Vietnam War. U.S. forces never managed to destroy it, despite carpet bombing and the use of Agent Orange. Since the war ended, however, the trail has been largely reclaimed by jungle and myth; only a few, isolated fragments are accessible. Christopher Hunt's 1996 book Sparring with Charlie documented his trying, and mostly failing, to trace it. Indeed...
...Like so much else in Vietnam, the trail is changing. A few kilometers from Van and Luc's home, a construction crew is pouring fresh tar. They are building the new Ho Chi Minh Highway, a $353 million, 1,241-km project scheduled to open any day now. It traces one of the main north-south trunks of the original trail and will also open up dozens of arteries previously off-limits to tourists. We set out on rugged Minsk motorcycles, eager to explore...
...Truong's starts about five centimeters above his ear-even though, at 33, he's still got a full head of hair. Mr. Truong tells us adamantly that no one will be willing to give us directions. But after a morning of asking around we find Trinh Thi Minh Thu. Now 63, she lives just a few clicks past Kilometer 0. Thu was 24 when she came to Tan Ky, one of thousands of "vanguard women" who built the original trail by hand. She shows me a photo of herself from that time: a young girl with a sideways smile...