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Pacific Place apartment with 1 bedroom for rent
by Anonymous on Monday, July 22, 2013 - 3:35pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Parkview Apartment for Rent In Phu My Hung Area
by Huyen on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 2:07pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Parkview Apartment for Rent In Phu My Hung Area
by Huyen on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 2:07pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Partly furnished apartment in Times City Ha Noi for rent.
by Anonymous on Saturday, September 14, 2013 - 8:26am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
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by Anonymous on Sunday, July 21, 2013 - 2:28pm 		Vietnam Job Board
Penthouse Estella_a beautiful apartment with 3 bedrooms for rent. Full furnished
by vthnhung38 on Monday, March 9, 2015 - 5:40pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Perfect serviced apartment for rent in Dang Thai Mai street, Tay Ho dist, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 6:23pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Perfect serviced apartment in Tay Ho dist for rent. Fully furnished, one bedroom
by hanoifullhouse on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 4:16pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Perfect serviced apartment with size 200m2, 2 bedrooms, with lake view for rent in Tay Ho dist, Hanoi
by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - 6:08pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Photo Backpack Lowepro Fastpack 250
by Vitalii on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 1:48pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Phu My Hung
by Anonymous on Friday, February 15, 2013 - 9:19am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Phu My Hung
by Anonymous on Friday, February 15, 2013 - 9:19am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Phu My Hung house rentals
by Anonymous on Friday, February 15, 2013 - 9:22am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
PIANO LESSON FOR BEGINNER
by Vanessa Phan on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 - 9:09am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
PIANO TEACHER IN HO CHI MINH CITY
by phuongdzungpiano on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 10:12am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
pls suggest a good school for my daughter
by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 2:19pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Prada Purse Cost Prada Bags Outlet 089
by Anonymous on Saturday, September 14, 2013 - 8:11am 		Vietnam Job Board
Premium Villa in District 2, Saigon; 440m2, 1700 usd/month
by thp1990 on Saturday, July 18, 2015 - 11:30pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
PRICE DROPPED $$$750 USD PER MONTH Unique Luxurious One Bedroom River View Apartment Masteri Thao Dien T5 District 2 Fully Equip
by azzurroman on Monday, December 18, 2017 - 1:18pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Private English Tutor
by Ashley Nguyen on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 4:56pm 		Vietnam Job Board
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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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