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WITH
DETERMINATION TO BUILD UP THEIR COUNTRY.
THEY ARE
MAKING GREAT STRIDES AND NO DOUBT WILL CONTINUE ΤΟ
BREATHE DOWN THE NECKS OF THEIR NEAREST RIVALS, THE
JAPANESE.
SOUTHWARD
LIES
VIETNAM WITH ABOUT SEVENTY
MILLION
DAMAGE,
INHABITANTS.
THE WAR DID THEM GREAT HARM AND
MOREOVER THEIR POSTWAR DEPENDENCE ON THE USSR WAS
OF NO BENEFIT TO THEM.
THAT THE COUNTRY IS
CLARITY OF MIND AND
THE LEFT, HER
INDEED.
BUT AT LONG LAST THERE ARE SIGNS
ENTERING A PERIOD OF SANITY AND
IF SHE CONTINUES TO MOVE AWAY FROM
DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS MUST BE VERY BRIGHT
BY THE
ECONOMICALLY ONE OF
YEAR 2010 VIETNAM COULD BECOME
THE STRONGEST NATIONS OF SOUTH EAST
ASIA; MILITARILY SHE ALREADY IS.
OF
THE SIX SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS WHICH
TOGETHER FORM THE LOOSE REGIONAL GROUPING KNOWN AS ASEAN,
SINGAPORE AND BRUNEI ARE IN SPECIAL CATEGORIES WITH EACH
WITH
QUITE
DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER. BRUNEI WITH A SMALL LAND
AREA AND A TINY POPULATION IS ENJOYING ENORMOUS WEALTH
FROM HER
OIL AND
GAS EXPORTS.
SINGAPORE IS A
FAST-GROWING CITY STATE ENJOYING MUCH SUCCESS AS A MAJOR
SEA PORT, A FINANCIAL CENTRE, ·A STRATEGICALLY LOCATED
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