Christopher (Chris) Engholm

Vietnam is fast emerging as the hottest new business frontier on the Pacific Rim. With a remarkable combination of booming growth, negligible inflation, and a standardized currency - plus low labor rates and a hard-working population of 70 million (twelfth in the world) - it offers a huge market to exporters, and a potential goldmine for savvy investors, entrepreneurs, and business executives. Even though Vietnam is officially still a "communist" country, recent government and market reforms have dramatically changed the economic environment. Today, Vietnam is essentially a free market economy and, moreover, one just beginning to take off - the best possible time for entrepreneurs and investors to get involved. Here is the first complete guide to doing business in this new economic powerhouse. Packed with practical help on everything from trademark protection to coping with a sometimes Byzantine bureaucracy. With its explosion of private business activity - record rates of economic growth - and strategic position as a window into the still untapped natural resources and huge consumer markets of Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar - Vietnam is clearly the strongest of the new economic mini-dragons now emerging on the Pacific Rim. This guide provides an easy-to-follow roadmap to its unparalleled new opportunities.

Westerners have been trying to build profitable business relationships with China for over 150 years. Yet few of them have successfully penetrated this "market of one billion." Today, an increasing number of companies are reaping huge profits due to sweeping economic reform in the People's Republic, and the merging of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China into a financial and manufacturing powerhouse. Here's a complete guide to selling to and investing successfully in the booming region of "Greater China." Packed with case histories of companies who are reaping high profits in this region, this comprehensive resource provides dozens of business-tested strategies and proven techniques for successfully investing and manufacturing in the China Triangle.

"As political walls tumble and economic barriers disappear, the number of new opportunities for doing business with Eastern Europe's emerging capitalists is soaring. Indeed, at this very moment, many of America's most forward - looking individuals and corporations are building profitable relationships with their counterparts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics - relationships that can virtually guarantee a company's success throughout the '90s and well into the twenty-first century." "Now, thanks to this revealing guide, you can learn the success stories and closely guarded secrets of hundreds of corporate executives, independent entrepreneurs, small business owners, and innovative managers who have already discovered the opportunities in the markets of East-Central Europe and the former USSR." "Based on normally hard-to-come-by information from companies and individual entrepreneurs who have launched successful ventures in Eastern Europe and the newly independent states, here's an invaluable guide to one of the most exciting investment opportunities of the twenty-first century!"--BOOK JACKET.

Describes the Armenian earthquake of 1988 and its historical, political, and cultural aspects.