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After the Fall of Saigon, the state's Saigon Tourism Bureau took ownership of the hotel and renamed it Ben Thanh Hotel in 1976. [18] [4] [19] In 1986, the hotel was renamed Rex Hotel. [20] [21] In 2003, the hotel underwent extension and renovation works in its architecture, interior design and engineering services. It is owned by the state ...
One Central Saigon or One Central HCM, originally named The Spirit of Saigon is a mixed-use development currently under construction consisting of a 9-storey shopping mall podium, where is directly connected into the underground MRT Bến Thành station, and two high-rise towers in Ho Chi Minh City. [2]
District 1 and the other seven districts of Ho Chi Minh City were founded on May 27, 1959. Before 1975, the first district only had four small subsets (wards) which were Bến Nghé, Hòa Bình, Trần Quang Khải and Tự Đức (named after major historical characters), and the second district had seven different wards which were Bến Thành, Bùi Viện, Cầu Kho, Cầu Ông Lãnh ...
Hoàng Thị Minh Hồng (born 5 October 1972) [2] is a Vietnamese environmental human rights defender who founded and directed an environmental rights organization. [3] In 2023, she was imprisoned for tax evasion, [4] [5] after a trial which has been criticized by the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, and countries such as the United States [6] [7] as being politically motivated.
On April 27, 1931, Chợ Lớn and the neighboring city of Saigon were merged to form a single city called Saigon–Cholon. The official name, however, never entered everyday vernacular and the city continued to be referred to as Saigon. "Cholon" was dropped from the city's official name in 1956, after Vietnam gained independence from France in ...
Following the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 ownership of the hotel was taken over by the Ho Chi Minh City Government and Tự Do Street was renamed Đồng Khởi Street. The hotel was closed in 1976 [1] and reopened again in 1986. The hotel was completely restored from 1988-9 [1] and reopened in 1989 as the Hotel Continental.
District 1, Ho Chi Minh City: 218 48 2012 / 2019 2022 Construction up to the 14th floor 4 Dragon Riverside Tower District 5, Ho Chi Minh City: 202 53 Undeveloped Vacant land 5 Saigon Jewelry Center Tower: District 1, Ho Chi Minh City: 200 [80] 52 Undeveloped Vacant land 6 Alpha Hill A District 1, Ho Chi Minh City: 195 [81] 49 Undeveloped Vacant ...
District 3 (Vietnamese: Quận 3) is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. Together with District 1 , District 3 is considered the bustling heart of the city, with a multitude of businesses, religious sites, historical buildings and tourist attractions.