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...roll. It's GDP growth rate this year is projected to be 8.2%, the second-fastest pace in Asia behind China and in a dead heat with India. Exports were up an estimated 24% in the first 10 months of 2006. The nascent stock market in Ho Chi Minh City is one of Asia's best-performing this year, up 70%. To top it all off, Hanoi is hosting this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, on Nov. 18-19, which is expected to be attended by U.S. President George W. Bush and China President Hu Jintao. Salzman...
...DIED. Pham Xuan An, 79, Viet Cong colonel who worked during the Vietnam War as a highly respected journalist for TIME while spying for the communists-a double life kept secret until the mid-'80s; in Ho Chi Minh City. The first Vietnamese to become a staff correspondent for a U.S. news outlet, An said he was an "honest reporter" who did not spread misinformation. From his unique perch at TIME's Saigon bureau, the popular, plugged-in An was able to achieve feats for both sides, alerting the Viet Cong to the impending buildup of U.S. troops...
DIED. Pham Xuan An, 79, Viet Cong colonel who worked during the Vietnam War as a highly respected journalist for TIME while acting as a spy for the communists--a double life kept secret until the mid-'80s; in Ho Chi Minh City. The first Vietnamese to become a staff correspondent for a major U.S. news outlet, he said he served as an "honest reporter" who did not spread misinformation. From his unique perch at TIME's Saigon bureau, the popular, plugged-in An was able to achieve feats for both sides, including alerting the Viet Cong to the impending...
...life as a spy for Hanoi was not uncovered till long after the fall of Saigon. Until then, he was known simply as the brilliant contributor to TIME's coverage of the Vietnam war. An died Wednesday at the age of 78 in what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. Stanley Cloud, TIME's Washington Bureau Chief from 1989 to 1993, worked with An from 1970 through 1972, including a period as Saigon Bureau Chief from the summer of 1971 to December 1972. He has written this remembrance of a colleague who loved journalism and his country when...
...after Huy last spoke with TIME, a dozen police swooped into a Ho Chi Minh City Internet caf? and rearrested him. His brother, Tuan, thinks police followed him and Huy from their home to the caf?. "Huy was chatting on PalTalk when a big man in a white shirt came up and grabbed him around the neck," says Tuan, who was also arrested but released a day later. "They handcuffed Huy, and took us to two separate police stations." Huy hasn't been heard from since...