17 feb VIETNAM-US-FOODS-COMPANY-MCDONALDS

A McDonald’s doorman gestures during the opening ceremony of the country’s first McDonald’s restaurant in Ho Chi Minh city on February 8, 2014. Four decades after the Vietnam war ended, US fast-food giant McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the communist country on February 8, aiming to lure a rising middle class away from rice and noodles. AFP PHOTO / LE QUANG NHAT