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DO you find familiar brand names comforting when you are travelling? Beware. This is Asia.

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There are some highly recognisable names in Vietnam, as Vijay Verghese of Business Traveller (Asia-Pacific) found out recently.

You will find a Regent hotel there, but it has no connection to Hong Kong's home-grown chain of that name.

''Thailand also has several Regents now,'' said Vijay.

When driving through Ho Chi Minh City, he passed a small side street with a sign saying ''Holiday Inn''.

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This is curious, because Holiday Inn is supposed to have 1,750 branches around the world, but none in Ho Chi Minh City side-streets.

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