Hello, today don't mention the war.

Why the Vietnamese think it's time to move on and forget the bitter conflicts of the last century.

Its drinks all round in Lagos as more and more of Nigeria's largest city sees the light.

What makes a prisoner a political prisoner?

It's a sensitive and increasingly divisive debate in Burma. And its happy 50th birthday for our bureau in Moscow,

the typewriters may have gone, so has the Soviet Union, but has that much really changed?

The state funeral on Sunday of the Vietnamese war hero

General Zayup really did mark the end of an era. Hundreds of thousands of people

turned out to pay their last respects to a commander credited with

overseeing the defeat of both French and American armies in his country. It was an

extraordinary outpouring of emotion in a population whose freedom of expression is tightly restricted.

And yet the General's departure severs one more link with Vietnam's three decades of bitter warfare.

Today, as Rajandatta's been finding out this is a country

with one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies and its people have other things on their

minds. On the western outskirts of sprawling humid Hanoi,

away from the bustle of the scooters and street vendors,

a network of narrow-back streets leads to a row of three-story buildings. At the entrance to one of these,

I'm greeted by a slightly built young man in tinted glasses, wearing a singlet and army-style

shorts. Tattoos adorn both arms and his

braided hair is tied back.

His name is Bush Lamb and he introduces me to a couple of his housemates.

One a tattooist called Kwan. Another, a woman in her early 20s,

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