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Hanoi: Past, Present and Future

NPR | By Michael Sullivan
Published April 26, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT
Motorbike riders buzz along the streets in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi.
Michael Sullivan, NPR
Motorbike riders buzz along the streets in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi.

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. NPR's Michael Sullivan is traveling the length of the country, to see how it is faring three decades after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

In the second installment of our weeklong series, he looks at Hanoi, once the capital of North Vietnam and now the capital of a nation reunified under communist rule.

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Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.
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