Highlights

Introduction

Ho Chi Minh City still known as Saigon to its seven million or so inhabitants, is Vietnam’s centre of commerce and the country’s biggest city by far, though not its administrative capital – an honour that rests with Hanoi. As a result of the sweeping economic changes wrought by doi moi in 1986, this effervescent city, perched on the west bank of the Saigon River, has changed its image from that of... more