One Central HCM, formerly named Spirit of Saigon is a mixed-use development currently under construction consisting of a podium and two high-rise towers...
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The Saigon Central Post Office (Vietnamese: Bưu điện Trung tâm Sài Gòn), is a post office in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, near Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica...
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Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on...
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Little Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries...
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Saigon cinnamon (Cinnamomum loureiroi, also known as Vietnamese cinnamon or Vietnamese cassia and quế trà my, quế thanh, or " quế trà bồng" in Vietnam)...
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The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and North Vietnam-controlled Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The...
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Ho Chi Minh City (redirect from Sàigòn)
which the largest is Saigon River. As a municipality, Ho Chi Minh City consists of 16 urban districts, five rural districts, and one municipal city (sub-city)...
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Center. "IFC Saigon One". CTBUH Skyscraper Center. "Saigon Centre 2". CTBUH Skyscraper Center. "The second tallest tower at the Vinhomes Central Park project...
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The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952, and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975. The embassy...
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"BIDV Tower". CTBUH Skyscraper Center. Skyscraper.com Vietnam diagram Saigon's buildings Hanoi's buildings Saigon Emporis[usurped] Hanoi Emporis[usurped]...
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Greater Little Saigon community has grown to nearby cities. The chart below shows the Vietnamese American (VA) population of central Orange County cities...
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2008 and the Saigon River Tunnel opened in 2011. The bridge was one of the most vital gateways for vehicles traveling from northern and central Vietnam to...
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Square and One Central Saigon to end at Phó Đức Chính street in the east. This street was formed when the French built the original Saigon railway station...
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handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member...
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Names of Ho Chi Minh City (redirect from Names of Saigon)
adopted the name Saïgon for the city, a westernized form of the traditional Vietnamese name. The current name was given after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, and...
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The Saigon Governor's Palace (French: Palais du Gouverneur, Saigon; Vietnamese: Dinh Thống đốc, Sài Gòn), also known as the Norodom Palace (Vietnamese:...
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1, the central district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The hotel is located at the corner of Đồng Khởi Street and Lam Sơn Square, by the Saigon Municipal...
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regime in Saigon without the protection of the special forces. This led to the easy overthrow of the regime. Tung was born on 13 June 1919, in central Vietnam...
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South Vietnam (section Fall of Saigon: 30 April 1975)
Vietnam, an associated state within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon, before gaining independence from France with the Matignon Accords on 4...
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Viet Cong (section Fall of Saigon)
Embassy & Saigon fighting. CBS News footage of the Tet Offensive. Vietnam War – Hue Massacre 1968. A tribute to the dead of Huế by Trịnh Công Sơn, one of wartime...
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Tet Offensive (section Saigon)
was under the control of Saigon while only seventeen percent was under the control of the VC.: 56 General Bruce Palmer Jr., one of Westmoreland's three...
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1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état (category Saigon in the Vietnam War)
chastised Đính in front of his colleagues, and ordered him out of Saigon to the Central Highlands resort town of Đà Lạt to rest. Đính was humiliated and...
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Account of Saigon's Indecent End. Random House. ISBN 9780394407432. Snepp, Frank (1999). Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took On...
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on the Saigon River 2 miles (3.2 km) north of central Saigon in southern Vietnam. With the increased movement of U.S. troops into the Saigon area to...
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Vietnam War (section Fall of Saigon)
conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict...
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1945 to 1946, that grew out of the British occupation force landing at Saigon to receive the surrender of Japanese forces. The Viet Minh were defeated...
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The 1782 Saigon Massacre was a massacre of ethnic Chinese carried out by the Vietnamese Tây Sơn rebels under the leadership of Nguyễn Nhạc in 1782 in the...
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The Citadel of Saigon (Vietnamese: Thành Sài Gòn [tʰâːn ʂâj ɣɔ̂n]) also known as the Citadel of Gia Định (Vietnamese: Thành Gia Định; Chữ Hán: 嘉定城 [tʰâːn...
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government, which established the first radio station in Vietnam, Radio Saigon, in the late 1920s.[citation needed] Vietnam's national radio station, now...
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refugee population that immigrated after the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. One of many Little Saigons in the U.S., this neighborhood near Washington, D...
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