They convert in the same way people in the 1970s went to Bolivia or Vietnam.
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The minimum wage is now three times that of Indonesia or Vietnam (no wonder manufacturers are struggling).
But because they are all veterans of World War II, Korea or Vietnam, their ranks are shrinking every year.
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Indeed, inflation adjusted outlays today are higher than at any point in the Cold War, Korean War, or Vietnam War.
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Doing excursions on your own in places like China or Vietnam can be very cheap, especially compared to the ship prices.
Washington devotes more money in real terms to the Pentagon today than during the Cold War, Korean War, or Vietnam War.
Mr Lee says he considered manufacturing in Indonesia or Vietnam, but China came out on top in terms of cost and quality.
You can arrange one in China or Vietnam or Mexico extraordinarily quickly.
Tap in Indonesia.com, Malaysia.com or Vietnam.com and you'll end up in the server of Vancouver company Communicate.com touting the domains for sale.
Instead many prospective parents go to countries such as Guatemala or Vietnam, where the adoption process has, in the past at least, been easier.
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In real terms Washington has been spending more on the military than during the Cold War, Korean War, or Vietnam War, all out of proportion to the current threat environment.
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However, wages in places like China or Vietnam are so much lower than those in the U.S., that most anything that can be outsourced to low-wage foreign countries already has been.
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Mohsen Sazegara helped found the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and says the group was originally intended to be a popular force like the Swiss army, the National Guard in the United States or Vietnam's Viet Cong.
Victims who are rescued from the horrors of the flood-ravaged city of New Orleans may have frequent and intense psychological problems similar to those that plague troops returning from Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam--problems that could spread to the rescuers as well.
Its ability to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, say, or even to back up the Philippines or Vietnam in a clash with China over a contentious rock in the South China Sea relies on its willingness to see these conflicts become wars involving the superpowers or even nuclear confrontations.
Thailand's headline consumer-price inflation (4.1% in the year to July) was too high for the central bank's comfort, but lower than in many of its neighbours, such as China (6.5%), India, where wholesale prices rose by 9.2%, or Vietnam, where consumer prices rose by an alarming 23% in the year to August.
Just as in the Philippines in 1900, Mexico in 1913, or South Vietnam in 1961, things didn't turn out as American policy-makers had hoped.
When people marched against the bomb or the Vietnam war, they could at least claim to have a lot of other people applauding them.
Many of the entrepreneurs who capitalized on the boom after World War II or the Vietnam era have only in recent years been deciding what to do with their wealth.
To me, doing this and knowing that people back home can sleep safely at night and they don't have to come do it--or, you know, even, you know, guys that were in Vietnam or World War II, they know what it's like.
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Next will be Vietnam or Malaysia or other countries, just because their wages are much lower.
These include Kampong Cham (the most populous region of Cambodia) and other areas long coveted or controlled by Vietnam.
Try beach pedicures in Bali, leg-hair threading in Vietnam or having your dead skin nibbled off by doctor fish in Hong Kong.
The WHO travel advice does not apply yet to other areas, such as Singapore, Vietnam or Canada, where outbreaks appear to have been effectively contained.
Mr. Carter said countries that had been considering building new nuclear plants, such as Indonesia, Vietnam or Turkey, may decide not to after the Japanese incident.
The reformist economists think that Cuba should move towards market socialism as practised in Vietnam or China, but others dismiss the parallel, citing cultural and geographical differences.
And the conversation rarely was about Vietnam or Lyndon Johnson.
You know the way the TPP is kind of an aspirational thing for other countries to join -- is there any thought that the U.S. would start rotating assets into maybe Vietnam or some other friendly Asia Pacific partnering nations?
There are many who think that strengthening the value of China's currency won't mean American jobs lost to China in the past decade return to US shores - the jobs will simply go to the next low-cost country like Vietnam or India.
' This meme is getting around in China and is what accounts for statements starting two years ago as regards the South China Sea to Vietnam or the Philippines saying openly 'We are a big power and you're not a big power and therefore you should follow what we say.
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