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Music Lessons: Drums, Guitar, Ukulele
by janelgroove on Sunday, July 3, 2016 - 9:59pm 		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
Musical Theatre Group for Young People
by Socio Muso on Sunday, March 26, 2017 - 1:34pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Natural Bee Wax for sale_Charma Vietnam LLC
by hangcharma on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 11:29am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Need Translator-Interpreter French-Vietnamese
by RazaToky on Monday, August 24, 2015 - 6:27am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
New & spacious apartment for lease in Ciputra Hanoi
by hanoifullhouse on Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 10:04pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
New and nice apartments for lease in central HCMC, 600-800$ at Dong Du, Nguyen Hue
by Anonymous on Friday, July 26, 2013 - 2:27pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
New apartment for rent at Masteri Thao Dien, 2BRs, luxurious, cheap price.
by sophiangomc009 on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 2:40pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
new apartment for rent in Vinhomes Nguyen Chi Thanh Hanoi
by joneyquest1 on Monday, May 9, 2016 - 3:04pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
NEW ASIA STAR MODEL CONTEST THE GRAND HO TRAM ( 3 DAY – 2 NIGHT TOUR PACKAGE)
by Ngọc Nguyễn on Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 4:39pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
NEW CHOICE - LUXURY APARTMENT IN LEXINGTON RESIDENCE, DISTRICT 02, HCMC
by khaihoan on Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 3:35pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
New house with 3 bedrooms for rent in Truc Bach lake, Ba Dinh district
by Anonymous on Monday, June 3, 2013 - 12:14pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
new serviced apartment for rent
by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 4:52pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
new serviced apartment for rent
by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 4:54pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
New serviced apartment with 1 bedroom for rent in Tay Ho dist, Ha Noi
by hanoifullhouse on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 8:54am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
New Serviced Office with carpets, greensward, lake and garden view,… only from 3,9 millions VNĐ
by ceksopengroup on Friday, August 12, 2016 - 4:50pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
New SSA Term with BIG PROMOTION from Sep 8th
by SSA on Monday, September 1, 2014 - 10:43am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
newly furnished serviced apartment for rent. Location near Truc Bach lake
by hanoifullhouse on Friday, December 13, 2013 - 9:42am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Newly furnished serviced apartment with 2 bedrooms in Ba Dinh dist to rent
by hanoifullhouse on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 - 5:39pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Newly renovated house for rent in Hai Ba Trung dist, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
by hanoifullhouse on Friday, October 25, 2013 - 7:32pm 		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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