helping to boost da nang's booming population.amatic transformation was triggered by the construction of the east-west coast economic corridor, a road that cuts through southeast asia from vietnam, laos, and thailand on myanmar. it's impacted distribution in the region. what used to be shipped can now be delivered by truck, reducing delivery time by 14 days. development is progressing rapidly ahead of the founding of the economic community. [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ >> in this episode of "asia insight," we take a look at dwept in da nang, meeting with business people hoping to benefit from the opening of the east-west coast economic corridor. >> the redevelopment of da nang has been under way since 1998. when the east-west economic corridor was launched. and particular focus has been placed on the modernization of the port system. tien sa, the main terminal, has a 12 meter deep area which enables these cargo ships to dock. it was originally built during the vietnam war for american military vessels. although it was severely

area through the central islands into the three core and then into ichor which is where i was from da nang all the way north to the dmz the main highway. it was just called highway one. i believe that so-called highway one. >> host: what was your job? >> guest: my job as a convoy commander who is responsible for everything the convoy does and if there's an ambush they get through the ambush with this minimum trouble as possible. >> host: what made up of convoy? >> guest: a the convoy was made up of anywhere from 67 tracks the biggest one i was on was 140 trucks, vehicles from all branches of the service south vietnamese. we tried to get them to break it up into cereals going over it three or four day period. we went through operations and they turned us down and my surgeon told them we are going to get hit. the sergeant took a pencil this is in the book. he took a pencil and he marked three places on the map on the northside of the past. he said they are either going to get as here, they will hit us here or they will get us here. they hit us on the third and we went back and we rode our af

i want up north in da trang trying to get to da nang, which had by then fallen.k photos of a sugar have been commandeered by escaping south vietnamese troops. thousands of them on this vessel. then i went over to cambodia and took pictures there right before it fell. i was given a top-secret briefing where i walked into the tech center. and visual nevus map. phnom penh was there and had red arrows point to every part of it. i thought, this is not going to last very long. one week and a half later, it fell to the khmer rouge. if you saw the killing fields, you know what happened after that. but i went back and showed the pictures to the president, and made a case to him about -- i told him i thought vietnam had three or three and a half weeks left. he wrote this in his book. i never would have said anything about it if he had not written this. i said -- i am quoting what he said, i said. i said that it is -- i told him i thought vietnam had three or four weeks left and anybody who told you differently was full of bull. -- bullshitting you. three and a half weeks l