But that discounts Scott McNealy, the most foxy guerrilla leader since Ho Chi Minh.
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.
Sukarno and Ho Chi Minh found in Indonesia and Vietnam wellsprings of grassroots anger against imperial abuse.
Ho Chi Minh City's new airport terminal has only just opened but is already close to capacity.
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Then, in Ho Chi Minh City, a police raid on a shooting gallery netted 100 young Vietnamese.
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.
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Notably, the Vietcong operated the notorious Ho Chi Minh Trail through these provinces during their war with the United States.
No personality cults are allowed, other than the one idolising Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary leader, who died in 1969.
But, awkwardly for the authorities, Mr Do was a much decorated war hero who had fought alongside Ho Chi Minh.
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Communist forces based in the north and led by the nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh defeated the French in 1954.
Abandoned hotel towers in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are monuments to the failure of follow-through that plagues Vietnam.
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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The company also revealed plans to develop its State Express 555 brand, the favourite of Vietnamese resistance leader Ho Chi Minh.
It is a good question: The North Vietnamese were fighting to reunite their country under a popular leader, Ho Chi Minh.
When I arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, the vibrancy of the country and the entrepreneurial spirit of the people amazed me.
In Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, the market is even hotter.
Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh reviled the game as a bourgeois import.
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In the West, and among Vietnamese exiles, Ho Chi Minh is often viewed as an obdurate Stalinist as well as an anti-imperialist.
The banners and placards are critical of official decisions although they avoid direct criticism of the government, and each studiously praises Ho Chi Minh.
Al-Zarqawi, Saddam's Baathist revanchists, the criminal elements, even the Sunnis fighting for relevance in a new political dynamic, have no Ho Chi Minh.
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