The trouble is that growth is now threatened as NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Hanoi.
On the other hand, the ship was only in Bangkok and Hanoi for one night.
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And who wants to spend seven hours on a bus to get two hours in Hanoi?
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The alleged purpose: to effect a prompt lifting of the trade embargo against Hanoi.
Vessey in a briefing to a Hanoi-bound delegation sponsored by the Center for National Policy.
Whether in Walpole or Beirut or Hanoi, all human beings experience isolation as torture.
I'd be riding elephants in Chiang Mai, gourmandizing in Hanoi, and exploring Angkor Wat.
Hanoi looks as if it ought to speak French, and Vietnam does boast 500, 000 francophones.
Last month Hanoi also dispatched 1, 200 members of an elite police unit to the area.
With bureaucrats themselves in-volved, Hanoi knows it has to do more than just react.
He sniffed the jasmine and hot noodle soup on a night street in Hanoi.
Delegations come and go between their capitals, and Laos clears all major policy with Hanoi.
"Bowling is for the very rich, " says a worker at one of Hanoi's new pizzerias.
But like the Chinese capital, which underwent rapid modernization in the mid-1990s, Hanoi is loosening up.
My last glimpses of Vietnam, on the way to the Hanoi airport, illustrated the challenges.
In Hanoi, I got to meet the young Vietnamese founder of Peacesoft, Nguyen Hoa Binh, 29 (pictured).
Hanoi's insularity remains a stumbling block in a campaign where close cooperation with international authorities is crucial.
Begun in 1899, the old Trans-Indochinois runs 1, 700 km up the spindly nation from Saigon to Hanoi.
Mr. NGUYEN QUANG NGOC (President of the Institute of Development Studies, Hanoi): They say they were over confident.
Mr. JONATHAN PINCUS (Senior Country Economist, United Nations Development Program, Hanoi): Vietnam is having a very difficult year.
In 1998, during the ASEAN summit in Hanoi, I noticed Vietnam had become the third largest rice exporter.
Trips start in Hanoi, where guests explore the city's famed markets, colonial architecture, historical sites and French-influenced restaurants.
Landing at Hanoi on a commercial flight, his small delegation canters through the airport unnoticed by milling passengers.
The Dole resolution would not preclude normalization: by all accounts Hanoi is cooperating.
He gave no explanation for Hanoi's change of heart from a year ago, when it rejected a similar deal.
The last 10 days of the trip, I went on a tour of five cities from Hanoi to the centre of Vietnam.
Mrs Clinton repeated this during the East Asia Summit in Hanoi where Mr Kan and Mr Wen briefly met.
Hence Hanoi's influence will likely wane, says Bangkok-based Laos expert David Fullbrook, while the Thais will gain more leverage.
This time, Hanoi is likely to keep a firmer rein on its charges.
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