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Cozy, new renovated, full furnished apartment in district 3
by chloele on Friday, May 15, 2015 - 2:02pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Courtyard, swimming pool villa for rent in Tay Ho dist, Hanoi, Vietnam
by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 8:49am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Courtyard, garden, swimming pool Villa for rent in Tay Ho dist, Ha Noi
by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 1:01am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Court-yard nice house to let in Tay Ho dist, Ha Noi
by Anonymous on Friday, May 31, 2013 - 4:59pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
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by hangcharma on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 8:24pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Cosy serviced apartment for rent in district 3
by vertu_09 on Friday, April 11, 2014 - 6:59pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
CONVENIENT TO THE CENTER – VIEW VILLA AND SAIGON RIVER – HIGH FLOOR – YOUNG STYLE APARTMENT FOR RENT.
by sophiangomc009 on Monday, November 28, 2016 - 11:41am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
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by Anonymous on Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 9:15am 		Vietnam Job Board
Condominium for lease in District 4 with $78
by anhngo12 on Monday, August 11, 2014 - 1:34pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Con Dao Island, the best Vietnamese Island ?
by Anonymous on Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 10:03am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
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by computershopFAITH on Monday, July 6, 2015 - 10:41pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Comfortable serviced apartment to rent in Badinh dist, hanoi
by Anonymous on Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 11:28pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Comfortable apartment at Lancaster Nui Truc Hanoi for lease
by hanoifullhouse on Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 2:59pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
CLASSIC FRENCH STYLE APARTMENT FOR RENT $900 – 1 BR AT BINH THANH DIST
by sophiangomc009 on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 3:14pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
CITY GARDEN APARTMENT 3 BEDROOMS, LUXURIOUS FURNITURE FOR RENT
by sophiangomc009 on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:24am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Ciputra villa for rent. Villa with courtyard & garden. 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, nice balcony
by Anonymous on Friday, July 5, 2013 - 7:21am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Ciputra hanoi has apartment for rent 220m2
by joneyquest1 on Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 9:38am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
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by chinesetutor.hcm on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 10:37am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Check this out, The Sky Garden 3 apartments for lease, sexy price 550$ normally with 1-3BR, Phu My Hung Area, D7
by jeremydang on Monday, February 2, 2015 - 5:02pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Check this out, The Sky Garden 3 apartments for lease, sexy price 550$ normally with 1-3BR, Phu My Hung Area, D7
by jeremydang on Monday, February 2, 2015 - 5:03pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
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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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