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"I understood most of what he said, but the words didn't come to me easily, so I just kept saying 'Oui, oui; non, non; c'est possible,'" recalls Khanh, founder and chairman of AA Corp.,

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Write to Vu Trong Khanh at trong-khanh. vu@dowjones.com

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ONGC Videsh also won a contact in 2006 to jointly explore with PetroVietnam in Blocks 127 and 128 in the Phu Khanh basin further north.

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Khanh, 50, doesn't have to go far for the business.

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"We didn't know much English at the time, but that was one of our best decisions," says Khanh, who started the company in 1990 in Ho Chi Minh City with two fellow architecture students who have since been bought out.

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"It was a great time," says Khanh, who now speaks fluent French and English and a smattering of Russian and Mandarin.

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Khanh plans to list the company on the Vietnam stock market early next year, "if the markets aren't too volatile," he says.

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Today AA dominates the domestic market for high-end interior design, consistently nabbing 80% of the contracts for four - and five-star hotels around the country, says Khanh.

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Still, says Khanh, the Vietnamese will always order their spending priorities around their homes.

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