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Sell Kittens - Born 20/10/2013 in Viet Nam
by trumvananh on Saturday, November 23, 2013 - 3:03pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
KidnerWorld Education Group
by Apple Tan on Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 5:09pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Tennis, please I need players in Saigon
by dwaynehoover on Monday, December 16, 2013 - 12:23am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Tennis, please I need players in Saigon
by dwaynehoover on Monday, December 16, 2013 - 12:23am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
A TRULY TET FOR EXPATS!
by ColorYourTet on Monday, December 23, 2013 - 11:04pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
A TRULY TET FOR EXPATS!
by ColorYourTet on Monday, December 23, 2013 - 11:05pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Teach Vietnamese FREE 100%
by Kien Pham on Monday, January 20, 2014 - 11:42am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Long Term (4-6 week) Stay in HCMC
by ozsamurai on Monday, January 20, 2014 - 2:59pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
CLONES 25i integrated amplifier + Silverline Minuet Supreme Plus Monitors Music Lover's Audio System For Sale - Negotiable.
by nightmusic on Saturday, March 1, 2014 - 2:56pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Beautiful 2 bedroom apartment in the heart of D1, $ 500
by vertu_09 on Monday, March 3, 2014 - 1:42pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
room for rent in district 2
by hthanhtai91 on Friday, March 7, 2014 - 9:48am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Inexpensive Desktop/Small Room Audio System - $75
by nightmusic on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 10:58am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Musical Theatre Group for Children
by Socio Muso on Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 9:55am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Investing stock market in Vietnam
by minh1292 on Monday, March 31, 2014 - 3:21pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Free Program at Vietnamese Language Studies " Free Vietnamese Trial Classes"
by AndrewNguyenLong on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 3:05pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
a PERFECT HOME AWAY FROM HOME
by Meowy on Friday, April 18, 2014 - 2:40pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Tips of Studying Vietnamese Language
by AndrewNguyenLong on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 2:33pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Dynamic Participant Program to Learn Vietnamese
by AndrewNguyenLong on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 2:16pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
teaching vietnamese
by Mi on Thursday, May 8, 2014 - 6:00pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Looking for a clean and quiet location
by yttcs on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 12:23pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
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About the author

Asian-American expat living in Vietnam over 3 years. I am involved in tech startups and do Drupal consulting. I choose to live in Saigon and Vietnam and I want to see the city and its people reach their true potential.

Where is Saigon?

It's not wrong to wonder where in the world Saigon is.

Saigon is the name of the city now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City. But most people who call Saigon home call their home Saigon and it's mostly tourists who I hear refer to it as Ho Chi Minh City (or Ho Chi Minh Ville for the French).

After the Vietnam/American War ended in 1975, many place names ceased to exist such as Saigon, South Vietnam, and plenty of street names.

Tu Do is now Dong Khoi, Thong Nhat is Le Duan. And Tan Son Nhut Airport is now Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Rue Paul Blanchy has been Hai Ba Trung since the 1950s.

Those who haven't seen Vietnam for decades will be confused not just by the geographical changes but the incredible amount of development and modernization that has since taken place.

Latest Technical Posts

I also post a lot of technical material unrelated to Vietnam that doesn't hit the home page. Starting from November 2015 I am only posting technical articles on my new sub-blog: TECH.saigonist.com

  • Definition of Startup: What isn't a startup? : What is a startup? We're in the middle of a tech boom and it's become fashionable to either work for a startup or to be a startup. But what is a startup? How do you know that company offering you a...
  • My Startup Experiences : I've been involved in start ups for over a decade now. During that time I've worked for companies in varying stage of development. Not all of them were startups. But how can you tell if it is or not...
  • Code Retreat 2012 - Ho Chi Minh City : $(document).ready(function(){ $('.geshifilter').hover(function(){console.log(this);console.log($(this));$(this).css('position', 'relative').css('width', '800px').css('z-index', 1000);}, function...
  • Internet Censorship in Southeast Asian Countries (Myanmar, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam) : Vietnam has been labeled an "enemy of the Internet" by Reporters Without Borders. There have been a lot of cases of bloggers being targeted, harrassed, and arrested. But RSF (Reporters Sans...
  • Using 3G Internet in Cambodia : On my most recent trip to Cambodia I bought a Cambodian SIM card so that I could both make calls and use the Internet on my smartphone. At the Moc Bai/Bavet border are a number of Khmer people (who...
  • MailChimp vs poMMo, Mailman, Phplist - Self-Host or Outsource Your Mailing List? : Use your own mail server or outsource it? Let's say you have a rather large mailing list of a few thousand email addresses and, well, sending it out with GMail is no longer cutting it. What are your...
  • Internet in Vietnam - Good, Bad, Ugly : If you ask Vietnamese officials, you'll hear such hyperbole as "the Internet service development in Vietnam is in no way inferior to developed countries in the world" (Mai Liem Truc, former Deputy...
  • poMMo proBLEMs : poMMo is free open source mailing list management software. It's written in PHP and pretty basic but does give a decent management interface. However, it's no longer maintained. There is a GitHub...
  • Preventing Repetitive Stress Injuries for Programmers and Writers : My situation I'm a career programmer who has suffered from pain in my hands and arms for several years. Like carpal tunnel syndrome, this pain is from damage to tissue (including tendons) caused by...
  • Calling the US for free from foreign countries : Calling US numbers from the US is pretty trivial and nearly free. But calling from another country means either: - paying for long distance from your telephone company - using a phone card to call...

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