Foreign investors are reluctant to put funds towards developing in Vietnam. "There's no easy money there," one explains. Journalists must be accompanied by a "guide", who is responsible for promoting the party line and telling us what we can and cannot film. Yet with all this control the Communist party has difficulty garnering the support of the youth, who freely express disillusionment at politics. Attraction to the western world and consumerism has caused an increase in public demonstrations and protest. They are eager to embrace the high-tech Internet based world of the future. Furthermore, more than half of the entire Vietnamese population is under 25. How much longer will Communism dictate the lives of these progressive youth?

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