THE singer from Indonesia wailed, “Where do we go now,” his ocean-blue sarong swinging towards a crowd from a few continents under a sign with golden lights declaring, “In God we trust”.
It was just another night in Ho Chi Minh City: Guns N’ Roses covers in an American-style bar, after dinner at an Italian-Japanese fusion restaurant, in a week that included conversations with a Vietnamese Belgian investor and an Australian with his Vietnamese wife, who told me her favourite experience had been studying Spanish in Salamanca.
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