Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 5
It was 8:15am on a Thursday, the second week in October, more than a week after I had flown into Ho Chi Minh City. I rolled out of bed, looked out my window on...
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Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 4
It was 7:10am on Tuesday. The morning light in southern Vietnam was strong; the exercise room on the fourth floor of Hotel Vissai was empty. I lay down on a mat to start my...
Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 3
It was 6:30am on Sunday. Two elderly Chinese couples sat at a table eating breakfast in the second-floor restaurant of Hotel Vissai. I heard one of the women speaking in English to a waiter....
Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 2
It was 8:30am on Wednesday, the next morning. I entered the dining room on the 2nd floor of the Hotel Vissai Saigon. I didn’t feel rested, but I felt eager to go downtown again....
Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 1
I arrived at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam, at 10:00am on a Tuesday. The AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur to the Vietnamese metropolis had...
Foreign Investment in Vietnam
In Vietnam, the most direct route to modernization is tried and true: using other people’s money to build new factories and roads. Communist leaders are soliciting foreign direct investment (FDI) to transform the Southeast...