Article: [0] Chicago Tribune David Greising Column.

By David Greising, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 3--HANOI, Vietnam--Traffic is the first thing people notice about this city. Scooter traffic, not cars.

Scooters swarm the streets like mosquitoes at sunset. They operate according to a perverse Rules of the Road that seems designed to cause accidents, not prevent them.

Green light, red light: It doesn't matter. People start or stop as they please. A left turn through traffic is best accomplished by nosing the scooter between the oncoming, honking hordes like a salmon swimming upstream.

The traffic distracted me at first. But before long, the beeping and ...

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