McDonald's Opens First Restaurant In Vietnam

"US fast-food giant McDonald's has opened its first restaurant in communist Vietnam nearly 40 years after the end of the war which ended in defeat for America.

The arrival of one of the most enduring symbols of US capitalism in Ho Chi Minh City - formerly known as Saigon from where American troops dramatically withdrew in 1975 - is the result of a business partnership with the son-in-law of Vietnam's powerful Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung."