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The Saigon Times is a Vietnamese media organization with two Vietnamese- and two English-language publications. Its flagship publication is Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon, the most widely-read weekly economics and business news magazine in Vietnamese.
Saigon Times Daily is an English-language daily newspaper published in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is one of two English-language dailies in the country (the other is Vietnam News). Saigon News is part of several other newspapers owned by Saigon Times Group. Saigon Times Daily focuses mainly on the local economic and social situation with its ...
Việt Nam News is an English-language daily print newspaper with offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, published by the Vietnam News Agency, [1] [2] the news service of the government of Vietnam. The newspaper was first published in 1991. It is published seven days a week and is the main English newspaper in Vietnam. [3]
During the French colonial era, Saigon became known as "Pearl of the Orient" (Hòn ngọc Viễn Đông), [36] or "Paris of the Extreme Orient". [37] On 27 April 1931, a new région called Saigon–Cholon consisting of Saigon and Cholon was formed; the name Cholon was dropped after South Vietnam gained independence from France in 1955. [38]
Phạm Xuân Ẩn (born Phạm Văn Thành; September 12, 1927 – September 20, 2006) was a notable Vietnamese spy, journalist, and correspondent for Time, Reuters and the New York Herald Tribune, stationed in Saigon during the war in Vietnam.
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The majority are opposed to the existing government of Vietnam, [23] [24] and, in many cases, view Hồ Chí Minh as a dictator who ruined Vietnam by starting the war with South Vietnam. [25] As a result, they generally do not recognize the name Hồ Chí Minh City, and will only refer to the city as Sài Gòn, the previous official name of the ...
Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (English: Liberated Saigon) also known as SGGP and Saigon Giai Phong, is a Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper published from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. It is published in Vietnamese , English and Chinese .