Mekong’s star

After an absence of ten years, investors are flocking back to Vietnam, says the Asia Private Equity Review. Once they were political foes. This is history when, in June, President Nguyen Minh Triet of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shook hands with President George W. Bush of the USA. The first state visit by a political leader from Vietnam to the White House, President Triet’s friendly call to the world’s most powerful economy symbolises not only his country’s rising political stature, but also its escalating attraction as the next tiger economy in Asia.