BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : NOVEMBER 27, 2000 ISSUE
INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY Vietnam's IT Plan GOAL -- Tenfold increase in software exports, to $300 million by 2005 -- 10,000 experienced programmers by 2005 OBSTACLES -- Extensive fire walls -- Sky-high telecom rates; narrow bandwidth (64k/sec) -- Just 70,000 Internet accounts in a population of 78 million _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS Asia's Future (int'l edition) COVER IMAGE: Asia's Tech Future TABLE: The Tech Future Beyond the Lab (int'l edition) CHART: Startup Explosion The Chips Are Up (int'l edition) TABLE: Betting Big Chasing the Dream to Shanghai (int'l edition) Minds over Matter (int'l edition) CHART: Going, Going... A Biotech Hub (int'l edition) CHART: Genetic Express Rewriting the Rules (int'l edition) TABLE: Vietnam's IT Plan INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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