A phase of HISTORY 15 Years of TRUST It takes a human pioneer to lead a corporate pioneer. In 1993 Anthony D Salzman, his wife and four year old daughter re-settled from their luxury home on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to Hanoi’s Government Guest House. America’s economic embargo against Vietnam was still in force. Hanoi was an isolated quiet city with very little infrastructure. The main road from the airport to the city was too narrow for...
MANY AMERICAN PEOPLE CALL RENOWNED BUSINESS-MAN ANTHONY D. SALZMAN “THE FIRST AMERICAN” BECAUSE HE WAS THE FIRST BUSINESSMAN WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF US LEGAL LOOPHOLES TO GO TO VIETNAM TO DO BUSINESS AND HELP FACILITATE THE VIETNAM-US TRADE RELATIONS. OVER 15 YEARS OF LIVING AND WORKING IN VIETNAM, SALZMAN HAS MADE CONTRIBUTION TO THE NORMALIZATION OF THE VIETNAM-US RELATIONSHIP AS WELL AS THE SIGNING OF THE VIETNAM-US BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT. The first American doing business in...
APEC SPECIAL VIETNAM TRADES UP By joining the WTO, Asia’s second-fastest-growing economy is poised to kick its exports into a higher gear. By Kay Johnson/Hanoi Anthony Salzman remembers the last time Vietnam was tipped to be Asia’s next tiger economy. The former antiwar protester turned business consultant was representing Caterpillar in Vietnam when the country opened up to foreign investment in the early 1990s. Back then, Hanoi’s streets were filled mostly with bicycles and all fax...
Vietnam and America What war? BANGKOK Both sides strive to put the past behind them-and contain the rise of China GEORGE BUSH visits Hanoi this weekend in the latest stage in a steady improvement in relations since America and Vietnam ended their war just over 30 years ago. Mr Bush’s welcome will be sincerely warm, especially after the pact the two countries signed in May, in which America backed Vietnam’s entry to the World Trade Organisation...
