The Foreign Investment Law is described and a summary describing the taxes is dealt with. Useful addresses are appended. The text is supplemented with illustrations, maps and advertisements of local and foreign companies. This publication is published by Chamber Publications, Bangkok and Vietcochamber officially The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Hanoi a non- government organization. The publication is obtainable from Chamber Communications in Hong Kong, 3C Hatton Place, 1A, Po Shan Road, Hong Kong. Price: HK$ 700.-. The editorial material was written by Christopher F. Bruton and the directory sections were compiled by the staff of Vietcochamber.

Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees—as opposed to willing immigrants—profoundly influenced their cultural identity. Phuong Tran Nguyen examines the phenomenon of refugee nationalism among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. Here, the residents of Little Saigon keep alive nostalgia for the old regime and, by extension, their claim to a lost statehood. Their refugee nationalism is less a refusal to assimilate than a mode of becoming, in essence, a distinct group of refugee Americans. Nguyen examines the factors that encouraged them to adopt this identity. His analysis also moves beyond the familiar rescue narrative to chart the intimate yet contentious relationship these Vietnamese Americans have with their adopted homeland. Nguyen sets their plight within the context of the Cold War, an era when Americans sought to atone for broken promises but also saw themselves as providing a sanctuary for people everywhere fleeing communism.

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