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.
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.
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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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.
The population of Vietnam is 85 million souls, of which roughly 84.7 million are driving motorbikes through the center of Ho Chi Minh City right now.
Market commentary: New demand for offices in Ho Chi Minh City declined over the past year because of a contraction in the services industry.
But the dishes in many have been toned down to suit German tastes and lack the real aroma of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
With his experience of government, he knew where security was weak, particularly in Ho Chi Minh City, previously Saigon, the capital of defeated South Vietnam.
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He was arrested in Ho Chi Minh City in October 2010.
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It is hard to find an official in Ho Chi Minh city, it seems, who was not in cahoots with Nam Cam, a local crime boss.
This mammoth World Bank report assesses the imminent costs of climate change in three east megacity ports: Bangkok, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City.
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In a Ho Chi Minh City office near the Saigon River, I interviewed another Vietnamese entrepreneur with a story that has echoes of China start-ups in it.
He became vice-chairman of Ho Chi Minh City's bar association.
Even street food is being gentrified: at Quan An Ngon in Ho Chi Minh city, bejewelled ladies wash down their stuffed pancakes and hot-and-sour soup with sips of chardonnay.
And when France's Bourbon Group opened the country's largest supermarket, in a town just south of Ho Chi Minh City, it was flooded by shoppers unfamiliar with capitalistic mores.
At least seven others (Chennai, Bangalore, Bogota, Ho Chi Minh City, Dongguan, Chengdu and Hyderabad) are now above 8 million, making it likely they could reach megacity status by 2030.
Despite a construction boom in office buildings in the country's two business centers, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, the scarcity of office space has prices rivaling those in Singapore.
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