He even offered to travel to Saigon to get them back to the negotiating table.
Little Saigon, a few square miles in the Westminster area of Orange County, Calif.
Saigon National has a Tier 1 capital ratio of 21.1%, twice that of Bank of America.
That brings me back to Saigon National, one of the smallest TARP recipients of all.
The South Vietnamese government collapsed, and days later, in April 1975, the capital, Saigon, fell.
Father sent me to college at Long Xuen and the youngest brother to University at Saigon.
Bo kho was practically everywhere in Saigon, from open-air markets and casual cafes to private homes.
Born in Vietnam, he was sent to America as a boy when Saigon fell.
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One of those start-ups, Saigon National Bank, was the first national bank chartered and owned by Vietnamese-Americans.
In Saigon he trained and mentored young Vietnamese photographers who captured many of the war's defining images.
Most at risk is Ho Chi Minh City on the Saigon river, just north of the Mekong.
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Begun in 1899, the old Trans-Indochinois runs 1, 700 km up the spindly nation from Saigon to Hanoi.
It was 1975, and we had just been airlifted from Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) to safety.
There are loads of things to do: visit the flower market, eat delicious foods and wander around Saigon.
Little Saigon may have the flavor of a faraway place, but its banking is right here at home.
Angelo Paragoso was born in Manila and originally came to Europe to play in the musical Miss Saigon.
The building boasts views of the Saigon River, full back-up electricity, centralized air-conditioning, direct phone lines and high-speed lifts.
Then I identified that she was from Cholon, the Chinese district in Saigon.
Than is Intel's country manager in Vietnam, overseeing a staff of 15 in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
After he sold two medical technology companies he'd founded, Lordi took up horse breeding (including a thoroughbred named Saigon Eve).
Unfortunately one of their number was a retired diplomat, Andrew Fulton, who had spent time in Saigon and East Berlin.
Two of the children on the Daily Mail flight were survivors of the American airlift crash near Saigon last week.
An Associated Press reporter for most of his career, Esper refused to join the US evacuation of Saigon in 1975.
Thi Thanh Nga is the daughter of a South Vietnamese official who moved his family from Saigon to Washington, D.
Ten years ago a young girl left Vietnam with her family, part of the exodus that followed the fall of Saigon.
It has its own economy and got two homegrown banks in the mid-2000s, when the population of Little Saigon grew by 30%.
Roy Painter, Saigon National's chief financial officer, didn't return calls seeking comment.
In Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, the market is even hotter.
Saigon National Bank (OTC:SAGN) has missed all six of its dividend payments.
When I asked my colleague, who has lived in Saigon for some time, about this sudden weakening of the spine, he laughed.
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