After the lifting of the US economic embargo against Vietnam, American entrepreneurs are flocking there, laying to rest the ghosts of the war a generation ago. A new battle is being fought for domination of Vietnam's markets which have been thrown open by the loosening of the Communist party's grip on the country. Growth rates are up to ten percent a year and many businessmen view Vietnam as the newest and most promising of the Asian tigers. Real estate rents are already higher in Hanoi than they are in London. Since the embargo was lifted in February, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan have flooded into the country and now American and British businessmen are waking up to discover they are some way behind their competitors. Julian Pettifer, who was an award-winning reporter during the Vietnam war, returns to the area to discover how rampant capitalism is co-existing with Marxist ideology now that the country is on the brink of economic growth.
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