In 1968, 16-year-old Nguyen Thi Mai Thanh fled American forces in her native Saigon to work as a volunteer medic treating North Vietnamese troops led by her father, an army general, in the jungle outside the city. Later she contracted malaria and escaped north by walking several hours every day along the Ho Chi Minh trail. She dodged U.S. air attacks and saw other Vietnamese killed or ripped apart by bombs.
Today, life has improved markedly for the 54-year-old Ms. Mai Thanh. As chairwoman and chief executive of Ree Corp., a home-appliance, construction and ...
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