21.   Vietnam hopes the reestablishment of the rail links will help it better control the influx of Chinese products which have been overwhelming the Vietnamese market.

22.   It would allow Vietnam to go back to the international financial community to raise money for infrastructure and would allow Japanese banks to return to the Vietnamese market.

23.   Meanwhile, the Vietnamese market is yet to take concrete shape.

24.   The annoucement of the joint venture comes despite reports that the government would not allow any other foreign firms to enter the Vietnamese market.

25.   The Italian garment giant Benetton Group SpA has made its first inroad into the Vietnamese market by signing a contract with a Vietnamese distributor, the distributor said Wednesday.

26.   The Hue Brewery is the latest local firm to enter into a partnership with one of the foreign brewers crowding into the Vietnamese market.