This article was first posted in my blog in 2007. The revised version below covers Vietnam’s subsequent social and economic transformation up to December 2019. More and more economic gurus in both East and West are increasingly optimistic that the 21st century would be an Asian century. Historically, the West began to overtake the East …

Ho Chi Minh City by day (Credit: Wikimedia)

Sunset over Hanoi (Credit: Wikimedia)