Company Hosted Cafeteria Karaoke Contests

"Instead of beer-bash Fridays, [VinaGame] hosts cafeteria karaoke contests...'We do that so people will stay in the office," joked chief executive officer and Santa Cruz, Calif., native Bryan Pelz.' " (http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=24747). 

Vietnam is a relative newcomer to the World Trade Organization, and its economy is growing.  And " ''[f]rom an American perspective, the last thing you think about is an Internet culture in Vietnam," said Henry Nguyen, managing general partner of IDG Ventures Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, which invests in tech companies, including VinaGame. "This illustrates what modern Vietnam is like."

And it's not just in gaming and internet culture that places like Vietnam are seeing growth and change.  Country after country is becoming high tech.  Another recent article discusses the prevalence of cell pones in Vietnam - about two-thirds of the phones in the country are mobile phones. (http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/29/news/nation/12807150356.txt)

In Vietnam and around the globe, the world continues to change.  But as we know by now, change is the one constant that we can always count on.