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...sorry to see that the passing of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary was overlooked in your Farewells section. In addition to touching millions as a folksinger, Travers championed the causes about which she sang--including civil rights, the Vietnam War and the gay-rights movement. Her activism and art will live on forever...
...Marsilli signals a reversal of the Vietnamese government's widely lauded market reforms. With spiraling inflation and the global financial crisis taking a bite out of the country's crucial export sector, some say government hardliners have responded by rolling back economic and personal freedoms. Late last year, Vietnam blocked Facebook and Twitter and arrested a number of pro-democracy activists. Jetstar Pacific, as the only joint venture domestic airline in Vietnam, could have become a target for conservatives who resent giving up control to the private sector - especially as Jetstar has increased its market share at the expense...
...This isn't the first time that Vietnam has detained staff from a foreign company after losing money. In 2006, the Vietnamese government arrested four employees of ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank, for fraud after the government lost money on a foreign currency contract. To end the dispute, ABN AMRO paid $4.5 million to a Vietnamese state-owned bank, apparently to secure the release of the four Vietnamese employees who faced the death penalty. Many investors hoped this was a small bump on the path to further economic reforms, and it didn't slow Vietnam's entry into the World...
...This week, however, the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has drummed up new charges against Jetstar Pacific, in addition to its investigation of Darsilli and Freeman. On Wednesday, state-media reported that Jetstar Pacific had violated maintenance regulations and concealed broken aircraft parts. A Qantas spokesperson said that at all times the planes had met regulatory requirements and that the CAAV brought up only "quality, not safety concerns." Thayer, however, predicts that Vietnam will try and continue to try to find small oversights to "extort" Qantas like they did ABN AMRO more than three years ago. "They just find...
...Still, Vietnam remains a potentially lucrative growth market that had a stronger than expected showing at the end of 2009, and it remains to be seen if the Jetstar Pacific imbroglio will significantly deter new foreign investors. Even though Communist hardliners have clamped down on some freedoms, the government nonetheless promised in November it would soon allow foreigners to own 49% of local businesses, up from 30%. As Vietnam's Communist Party encourages economic growth without wanting to let go of power, it's only setting itself up for more clashes with foreign partners...