Vietnam

Magazine articles on politics and society in Vietnam.

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TIME Asia February 22, 2007 Kay Johnson	Vietnam: The Spoils of Capitalism Vietnam, a Communist nation where wealth was once taboo, now has an annual list of 100 richest people.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2007 Peter G. Teichman	Of Movies and Drugs The stage is set for Vietnam's accession to the WTO. This momentous achievement signals a developing country's readiness to open its markets and engage in fair trade across the economic spectrum, including the closely protected pharmaceutical industry.
TIME Asia November 20, 2006 Kay Johnson	Vietnam Trades Up By joining the WTO, Asia's second-fastest-growing economy is poised to kick its exports into a higher gear.
TIME Asia October 9, 2006 Kay Johnson	Vu Thi Quyen, Vietnam It took Vu Thi Quyen more than two years of lobbying and paperwork to convince Vietnam's government to legalize Education for Nature-Vietnam, the country's first homegrown environmental group.
TIME Asia September 25, 2006 Kay Johnson	Voices of Dissent Vietnam's dissidents are using Internet telephony to push their cause, but the police are listening.
TIME Asia April 24, 2006 Kay Johnson	Hanoi's Most Wanted Many countries would crow about the arrest of their most wanted terrorist, but that hasn't been the case with Vietnam's Nguyen Huu Chanh. The anti-Communist agitator is currently detained in Seoul. Chanh's adopted country, the U.S., has so far declined to comment.
Reason March 2006 Matt Welch	Ghost of Tonkin New information on a Johnson-era cover up prompting the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is itself covered up for its remarkable similarity to flawed intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq.
Reason December 2005 Kerry Howley	Catfish Terror Thinly disguised protectionism: bureaucrats in Alabama and Louisiana have decided to ban Vietnamese catfish due to health risks. Entirely by coincidence, the two states are the largest producers of U.S. catfish -- and they've been losing ground to imports for a decade.
TIME Asia May 2, 2005 Barry Hillenbrand	Good Morning, Vietnam Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam is experiencing a new dawn.
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Frederik Balfour	Vietnam Is Hot. Don't Get Burned Growth is solid, and foreign cash is flooding in, but this isn't the first time. Investors say that this time things are different -- though skeptics still abound.
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