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by kha on Saturday, March 25, 2017 - 12:08am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
iPhone 5s in Vietnam
by [email protected] on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 2:44am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Investing stock market in Vietnam
by minh1292 on Monday, March 31, 2014 - 3:21pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Insane students
by Charles on Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 12:32pm 		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
Icon 56, 2 bedrooms, newly furnished, $1300, dist.4, CALL:0934106146!!
by jimmy.cornerapa... on Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 2:55pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Icon 56 luxurious apartment – young style - close to D.1- nice pool
by sophiangomc009 on Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 2:28pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
I'm looking for parttime cleaner/maid job in ho chi minh city.
by ilthd1810 on Friday, March 3, 2017 - 6:01pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
I'm looking for part time JOB as cleaner/maid.
by ilthd1810 on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 6:28am 		Vietnam Job Board
I'm looking for a JOB as cleaner/maid
by ilthd1810 on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 2:31pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
I'm looking for a JOB as cleaner/maid
by ilthd1810 on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 2:32pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
I'm Linh. I'm happy to introduce the apartments for rent in District 2
by Ng_LinhEstella on Monday, July 24, 2017 - 6:57pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
I HAVE SEVERAL FURNISHED APARTMENTS AT D7 FOR RENT WITH SOFT PRICES.
by JeremyTheRealtor on Saturday, June 6, 2015 - 11:08am 		Living and Working in Vietnam
I Have Apartment For Rent in Dist2, Binh Thanh District
by lemai2212 on Friday, January 17, 2014 - 3:05pm 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
Hydrogen balloons meant for children - beware!!!!
by andrewfive on Monday, May 15, 2017 - 12:46pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
Huge villa in TayHo dist, Hanoi for rent. 5 bedroom, swimming pool, courtyard villa
by Anonymous on Saturday, September 14, 2013 - 8:33am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
How to travel and find a hotel in Vietnam
by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 9:17pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
HOW TO GET DIRECTION IN VIETNAM!
by vietnameseisfree on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 4:02pm 		Living and Working in Vietnam
House/villa for renting in Dist. 7, Ho Chi Minh city
by buiquangtruong on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 12:21am 		Real Estate, Houses and Rooms for Rent
House, villa, condominium for lease in District 2
by annmon279 on Monday, September 19, 2016 - 2:24pm 		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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