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Locals Playing and Singing

Bustling Saigon

March 5th 2010
Ho Chi Minh City, aka Saigon as it was once known before the north swept in, took over and renamed it, and as it is still insistently called by the locals here, a bustling metropolis of nine million people and the commercial capital of Vietnam, and indeed one of the most important cities in the region. The city is a mass of human life, motorbikes rule the streets and crossing an intersection can b ... read more
Asia » Vietnam » Southeast » Ho Chi Minh City

Vietnamese Flag The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more
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