Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ben Thanh Market is situated in the center of Ho Chi Minh in Ben Thanh Ward, District 1.The market is located on an intersection of four busy streets. The main entrance or Southside is on Le Loi Boulevard/Quach Thi Trang Square, the Northside on Le Thanh Ton, the Eastside on Phan Boi Chau and the Westside on Phan Chau Trinh.
IFC One Saigon, formerly Saigon M&C Tower and Saigon One Tower, is a 41-storey high-rise building currently under construction at 34A Tôn Đức Thắng Boulevard, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The project is funded by Saigon M&C and Dong A Bank, with a budget of approximately $228 million USD .
[nb 3] Even today, however, the informal name of Sài Gòn remains in daily speech. However, there is a technical difference between the two terms: Sài Gòn is commonly used to refer to the city centre in District 1 and the adjacent areas, while Ho Chi Minh City refers to all of its urban and rural districts. [13]
Chợ Lớn (listen ⓘ, Chinese: 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market.
Saigon Centre Tower 1 in 2009. Phase 1 of the complex was completed in 1996. [1] The phase consisted of a 25-storey building, which set a new record for the highest building in Vietnam then at 106 metres (348 ft).
French officer Francis Garnier proposes that Sài Gòn's etymology is in the Cantonese name of Chợ Lớn (chữ Nôm: 𢄂𡘯), the Chinese district of Saigon. The Cantonese (and original) name of Cholon is "Tai-Ngon" (堤 岸), which means "embankment" (French: quais). The theory posits that "Sài Gòn" derives from "Tai-Ngon".
The Saigon Trade Center is a high-rise building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was constructed from April 1994 and completed in July 1997 and with a height of 145 metres (476 ft), it was the tallest building in Vietnam from 1997 until 2010, when it was surpassed by the Bitexco Financial Tower .
Saigon Times Square or simply Times Square is a high-rise building in Bến Nghé Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This building is a 40-storey joint tower and features a modern architectural style. Construction costs, invested by Times Square (Vietnam) Investment Joint Stock Company, totals approximately US$125 million.