Border town thriving 20 years after war

Vietnamese traders, with their bicycles full-loaded with bags of rice and other commodities they purchased in China, walk home across a bridge in the border town of Lao Cai on Monday Feb. 15 two days before the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1979 land war between the two countries. Diplomatic relations were normalized in 1991, and since then bilateral trade has grown steadily, amounting to 1 billion dollars last year. ==Kyodo

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