Highs and lows on the trail of Uncle Ho
February 24th 2007 Happy New Year! According to the Vietnamese we have finally entered 2007 - appropriately for us, it's the Chinese Year of the Pig - and we're in Saigon to watch the last remnants of its new-year Tet festivities being cleared. The celebrations in Vietnam had all of the glassy-eyed derangement of NYE back home, but with a couple of key differences. The party goes on for five days here, as opposed to
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