International brewers prepare to swoop as beer-swilling Vietnam plans stake sales

International brewers prepare to swoop as beer-swilling Vietnam plans stake sales

Ho Chi Minh called alcohol a poison peddled by French imperialists. Half a century later in the Vietnamese city that bears the revolutionary founder’s name, young women in short skirts haul cases of Tiger Beer and buckets of ice to wooden tables crowded with young men.

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