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Inside the Saigon Central Post office of special note are two painted maps that were created just after the post office was built, the first one located on the left side of the building is a map of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia titled Lignes telegraphiques du Sud Vietnam et Cambodge 1892 ("Telegraphic lines of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia 1892").
Dương Văn Ngộ (Vietnamese: [jɨ̄əŋ vāŋ ŋôwˀ]; 3 March 1930 – 1 August 2023) was a Vietnamese postal worker and polyglot public letter writer known for being the longest-serving and last public letter writer and translator in Vietnam. During his three decades of work as a letter-writer, Ngộ wrote thousands of letters.
In 2018, VNPost was officially listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HOSE). [19] [20] In 2020, VNPost launched the Digital Transformation Center (VNPost Digital). [21] [22] Currently, the Vietnam Post Corporation is a member of the Universal Postal Union. [23] [24]
As in North Vietnam, post-reunification stamps were partly printed in Vietnam and partly abroad. Domestically printed stamps were printed in Hanoi 1976–1987 and subsequently in Saigon. [ 12 ] During 1983–1990 most stamp issues were printed in Havana , Cuba , [ 13 ] these were of a superior printing quality.
Vietnam ranks 16th in the world in terms of number of internet users. [11] There are five ISPs operating: Netnam Company, Vietnam Data Communication Company (VDC), Corporation for Finance and Promoting Technology (FPT), Saigon Post and Telecommunications Services Corporation (Saigon Postel Corporation, SPT) and Viettel Company.
The Lê dynasty commissioned the drawing of national maps and had Ngô Sĩ Liên continue the task of writing Đại Việt's history up to the time of Lê Lợi. Overpopulation and land shortages stimulated a Vietnamese expansion south. In 1471, Dai Viet troops led by king Lê Thánh Tông invaded Champa and captured its capital Vijaya. This ...
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 ...
In May 1959, Group 559 was established to maintain and upgrade the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at this time a six-month mountain trek through Laos. About 500 of the "regroupees" of 1954 were sent south on the trail during its first year of operation. [19] Diệm attempted to stabilise South Vietnam by defending against Việt Cộng activities.