VIETNAM
June 1st, 2001
BY STEVE BAILEY, in Hanoi, VietnamWESTERN restaurateurs are opening businesses in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, and formerly the centre of a communist dictatorship that refused to allow foreign ownership of local companies and partnerships.A string of western-owned restaurants, many under French control, have opened in the historic old quarter near St. Joseph's cathedral in the wake of increasingly liberal economic policies by the still nominally Marxist regime.One café for travelling tourists, the Kangeroo Café, has been open in the area since 1998. ...
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