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Ho Chi Minh city skyline.

Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh pronunciation (help·info) ) is the largest city in Vietnam and is located near the Mekong Delta.

Today, the city's core is still adorned with wide elegant boulevards and historic French colonial buildings. The most prominent structures in the city center are Reunification Palace (Dinh Thống Nhất), City Hall (Uy ban Nhan dan Thanh pho), City Theater (Nha hat Thanh pho), City Post Office (Buu dien Thanh pho), State Bank Office (Ngan hang Nha nuoc), City People's Court (Toa an Nhan dan Thanh pho) and Notre-Dame Cathedral (Nhà thờ Đức Bà). One of the oldest hotels dating from the French colonial era is the Hotel Majestic.

Currently, the city has 15 industrial parks and export-processing zones, in addition to the Quang Trung Software Park and the Saigon Hi-Tech Park. Intel invested about 1 billion dollars in a factory in the city.

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• September 12, 2008: VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam drops five places in the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation’s latest report that ranks 181 economies on the overall ease of doing business.[1]
• September 4, 2008: Cinet – Zither performers from China, Japan , the Republic of Korea , and Taiwan (China ) have gathered in Ho Chi Minh City for the second Asian Zither Festival that opened on September 1 and close on September 4.[2].
• September 3, 2008: VietNamNet Bridge – President Nguyen Minh Triet joined the teaching staff and students of the Hanoi-Amsterdam high school in Dong Da Precinct, Hanoi to open the new school-year on Sept. 3 [3]
• September 2, 2008: VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese party, state and government leaders have joined representatives of local and central agencies, people of all strata and overseas Vietnamese in a solemn meeting in Hanoi to mark the 63rd anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2).[4]
• August 29, 2008: VietNamNet Bridge - As previously predicted, commercial banks, encouraged by the goods news about the slow CPI increase of 1.56% in August and the petrol price decrease by VND1,000/litre, have been slashing interest rates further.[5]
• August 28, 2008: VietNamNet Bridge - Speaking to media on August 27 on the sidelines of the Asia Microfinance Forum 2008, being held in Hanoi, Flaherty, also President and CEO of CITI Foundation, praises Vietnam’s efforts in developing its economy and people. [6]
• August 27, 2008: (VietNamNet Bridge) - 95% of Vietnamese consumers recently interviewed by Taylor Nelson Sofres Vietnam, a market research company, reported that inflation had significantly affected their lives. [7]
• August 26, 2008: (VietNamNet Bridge) - Vietnam shipped abroad 3.38 million tonnes of rice in the first eight months of this year, earning over 2.2 billion USD, the General Statistics Office reported. [8].

Did you know

• .........that the Southeast Asian largest 5000-ha forest of Chinese incense- cedar Calocedrus macrolepis on limestone mounts (Calocedrus rupestris) is still exist in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park?
• .........that there is the đàn bầu musiccal instrument has only one string?
• .........that puppets can float on the water level in water puppet performance?

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