IF ONE were to go back in time to the 1960s and 1970s in almost any country in the world, one would probably be able to find a picture of Ho Chi Minh, either in the sea of a protest against the US war ...

Although Japan got into the game first, ultimately putting 43.7 trillion Vietnamese dong ($1.72 billion) into the Ho Chi Minh City project, capital city Hanoi’s China-backed system beat it to ...

Doubles start from about 3 million dong. The Hammock Hotel, overlooking the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum in District 1, has quiet, clean rooms, each adorned with a hanging hammock chair.

Ho Chi Minh City, also still known as Saigon, is now a vibrant metropolis of 9 million people, where skyscrapers shadow the handful of buildings with wartime history and the streets are filled ...

According to a 2022 C40 Cities Report, Ho Chi Minh City is home to some 7.3 million motorcycles. When you consider the population stands at 8.9 million, that tells you what to expect whenever you ...

Ho Chi Minh was a founding member of the Viet Minh in 1941 and seized control of Hanoi, a northern Vietnam city, in 1946, establishing his dictatorial communist rule.