Legislation passed last year allows Viet Kieu to purchase property in Ho Chi Minh City.
And it is evident the minute I touch down in Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City's new airport terminal has only just opened but is already close to capacity.
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Most at risk is Ho Chi Minh City on the Saigon river, just north of the Mekong.
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It was 1975, and we had just been airlifted from Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) to safety.
Before I went to Ho Chi Minh City, I was given lessons on how to cross the road.
Talked about for years, a bourse is scheduled to open in Ho Chi Minh City by month's end.
Electricity supplies in Ho Chi Minh City and in Phnom Penh were affected before power was restored on Thursday.
The country has a fledgling stock exchange, in Ho Chi Minh City, but all the listed companies are state-owned.
Than is Intel's country manager in Vietnam, overseeing a staff of 15 in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
The first of the new breed, the Vietnamese German University (VGU), opened in 2008 in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Symphony spent three nights in Ho Chi Minh City, more than enough time to see it, despite the bus trip.
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When I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, the vibrancy of the country and the entrepreneurial spirit of the people amazed me.
President NGUYEN MINH TRIET (Vietnam): (Through translator) And we are also determined not to let those differences afflict our overall larger interest.
The last to join their number is Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man of Vietnam, who Vatican officials said was due to arrive Thursday.
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In Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, the market is even hotter.
It is the showdown between the French and the Viet Minh that took place in 1954 that is the subject of this account.
The population of Vietnam is 85 million souls, of which roughly 84.7 million are driving motorbikes through the center of Ho Chi Minh City right now.
Market commentary: New demand for offices in Ho Chi Minh City declined over the past year because of a contraction in the services industry.
But the dishes in many have been toned down to suit German tastes and lack the real aroma of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
He was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City in October 2010.
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As a result, the Security Council postponed a meeting planned for next week on the tensions, the council's president, Vietnamese ambassador Le Luong Minh, said Thursday.
This mammoth World Bank report assesses the imminent costs of climate change in three east megacity ports: Bangkok, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City.
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In a Ho Chi Minh City office near the Saigon River, I interviewed another Vietnamese entrepreneur with a story that has echoes of China start-ups in it.
Underscoring the industry's potential, Singapore's government-owned investment company Temasek said in June it was buying a 10% stake of publicly traded Minh Phu Seafood Corp. of Vietnam.
"There was physical appeal to him you didn't generally get in traditional representations of Asian men, " says Minh-Ha Pham, an assistant professor of Asian-American studies at Cornell University.
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He became vice-chairman of Ho Chi Minh City's bar association.
Others, like Minh, are citizens trafficked within the country's borders.
Even street food is being gentrified: at Quan An Ngon in Ho Chi Minh city, bejewelled ladies wash down their stuffed pancakes and hot-and-sour soup with sips of chardonnay.
And when France's Bourbon Group opened the country's largest supermarket, in a town just south of Ho Chi Minh City, it was flooded by shoppers unfamiliar with capitalistic mores.
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