In mid-April, during a trip to South East Asia, we visited Phu Quoc Island, which is in the Gulf of Siam (or Thailand), off the coast of South Vietnam and very close to Cambodia. The island's population has grown from about 10,000 to approximately 100,000 people since the mid-seventies, and the island may be on the verge of becoming an international tourist destination. In exactly how many years this will happen ... (more)