You know, I am an old man, a very old man. An old man likes to have a little air of mystery about himself. I like to hold on to my little mysteries. —HoChiMinh, 1962 Ho CHI MINH held on to his ...

Although Japan got into the game first, ultimately putting 43.7 trillion Vietnamese dong ($1.72 billion) into the Ho Chi Minh City project, capital city Hanoi’s China-backed system beat it to ...