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...lattes by a lake or meet government bureaucrats, laid-back Hanoi was the place to be. Those serious about making money went to Ho Chi Minh City, with its bustling boulevards and entrepreneurial business culture. As recently as three years ago, Ho Chi Minh City (still informally called Saigon) took in 30% of the country's foreign direct investment (FDI) and generated 40% of exports-despite the fact that the former capital of South Vietnam is home to less than a tenth of the country's population of 84 million. Indeed, Vietnam's economic growth was so uneven that...
...past year, Saigon has seen some new competition for foreign dollars. As international corporations seek alternatives to China's rising labor costs, Vietnam's north-where wages are cheaper than both southern Vietnam and coastal China-is starting to reap the benefits of slow but steady free-market reforms. Last year, Hanoi for the first time overtook Ho Chi Minh City in FDI, capturing $1.6 billion of the total $6.2 billion. Saigon's share was $738 million. In the past five years, numerous foreign manufacturers have set up shop in the capital, among them Fujitsu, LG Electronics and Daewoo. "People...
Around the time when these men were first settling in Louisiana, single-language homes were á la mode. Don’t ever speak Vietnamese, the doctor told my mother, who had left Saigon after it became Ho Chi Minh City. Your daughter won’t learn English right...
...question mark. It was the same song I had heard in my aunt’s house and at my grandparents’ dinner table. It sounded like deep bowls of noodle soup and bright fish sauce, incense burning in a dark temple and the yellow dust of Saigon, cool tiles on the floor and quick rain falling in impenetrable sheets. The words were nothing. I knew the language...
After gaining valuable experience covering combat in the Congo, Halberstam requested a transfer to Saigon...