* Norman Brown IV is an Executive Editor for the Boston College International & Comparative Law Review.
1 Goodnight, Vietnam, Economist, Jan. 8, 2000, at 65.
2 Id.
3 Pulling Teeth, Economist, July 29, 2000, at 71.
4 See Goodnight, Vietnam, supra note 1, at 65.
5 Id.
6 Tuyen Quang, All Go Below, All Caution Above, Economist, June 10, 2000, at 48.
7 Id. at 48.
8 See id.
9 Goodnight, Vietnam, supra note 1, at 65.
10 See id.
11 Id.
12 See generally Pulling Teeth, supra note 3, at 71–72.
13 See id.
14 A.J. Easson, Taxation of Foreign Direct Investment 2 (1999).
15 Ibrahim F.I. Shihata, Legal Treatment of Foreign Investment: The World Bank Guidelines 11 (1993).
16 Id. at 20.
17 Country Forecast Vietnam September 2000 Main Report: Policy/Bus. Outlook: Financing, in The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., Sept. 6, 2000, available at 2000 WL 23804920. [hereinafter Policy/Bus. Outlook].
18 See Shihata, supra note 15, at 22; see also Goodnight, Vietnam, supra note 1, at 65.
19 See Goodnight, Vietnam, supra note 1, at 65.
20 Id.
21 Id.
22 Id.
23 Quang, supra note 6, at 48.
24 See generally Pulling Teeth, supra note 3.
25 See id.
26 Quang, supra note 6, at 48.
27 See Small Mercies, Bus. Asia, Sept. 4, 2000, available at 2000 WL 764729.
28 See Pulling Teeth, supra note 3.
29 See id.
30 See id.
31 Small Mercies, supra note 27.
32 Id.
33 Id.
34 Id.
35 Id.
36 Small Mercies, supra note 27.
37 See Nguyen Thang, Grant us a Clear Role, Vietnam Investment Rev., June 26, 2000, available at http://www.vir-vietnam.com/454vir/454hom00.htm.
38 Small Mercies, supra note 27.
39 Id.
40 Margot Cohen, A Glimmer of Hope, Far E. Econ. Rev., June 8, 2000, at 76.
41 Small Mercies, supra note 27.
42 Id.
43 Cohen, supra note 40, at 76.
44 Small Mercies, supra note 27.
45 Id.
46 Donors, Vietnamese Officials Review Economic Development, Asian Econ. News, June 26, 2000, available at 2000 WL 23765615.
47 Cohen, supra note 40, at 76.
48 Id.
49 Id.
50 Thang, supra note 37.
51 Id.
52 Cohen, supra note 40, at 76.
53 See Small Mercies, supra note 27.
54 See Cohen, supra note 40, at 76.
55 Id.
56 Thang, supra note 37.
57 Louis Henkin et al., International Law 759 (1993).
58 Id.
59 Id. at 765.
60 Policy/Bus. Outlook, supra note 17.
61 Pulling Teeth, supra note 3.
62 Country Forecast Vietnam September 2000 Main Report: Economic Forecast: Economic Growth, The Econ. Intelligence Unit Ltd., Sept. 6, 2000, available at 2000 WL 23804920 [hereinafter Economic Forecast].
63 Id.
64 Pulling Teeth, supra note 3.
65 Id.
66 Id.
67 Henkin, supra note 57, at 765.
68 See, e.g., Pulling Teeth, supra note 3.
69 Ha Thang, Vietnam Opens 1st Stock Exchange, Vietnam Investment Rev., July 24, 2000, available at http://www.vir-vietnam.com/458vir/458hom00.htm.
70 Id.
71 See generally Nick Freeman, Viet Stock Exchange, Bus. Times, Aug. 2, 2000, at 14.
72 Id.
73 Id.
74 Id.; see also Strict Regulations to Limit Early Foreign Participation, Vietnam Investment Rev., July 10, 2000, available at 2000 WL 9576048 [hereinafter Strict Regulations].
75 Strict Regulations, supra note 74.
76 Freeman, supra note 71.
77 Id.
78 Id.
79 See Pulling Teeth, supra note 3.
80 See Vietnam to Reduce International Phone Charges by 10–15%, Vietnam Investment Rev., Sept. 18, 2000, available at 2000 WL 23766004 [hereinafter International Phone Charges].
81 Id.
82 Id.
83 Id.
84 Id.
85 See Small Mercies, supra note 27.
86 See Policy/Bus. Outlook, supra note 17.
87 Id.
88 Id.
89 See id.
90 Id.
91 Policy/Bus. Outlook, supra note 17.
92 Id.
93 Id.
94 Id.
95 Id.
96 See Freeman, supra note 71, at 14.
97 Id.
98 See id.
99 See id.
100 See Strict Regulations, supra note 74.
101 Id.
102 See id.