Cearley points to IBM's project to modernize the State Bank of Vietnam's infrastructure as an example of the kind of business whose growth isn't like to slow.

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Former colonial outposts across Asia harbor Art Deco gems -- from the former Banque d'Indochine building in Hanoi, which now belongs to the State Bank of Vietnam, to the Hotel Savoy Homann in Bandung, Indonesia.

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