Nationality Law - Amended?

Discussing possible changes of Vietnam’s Nationality Laws (I hope!).

Development - Latest Round Up

As the city continues to demolish and build, changing it’s face literally every month, I’ll attempt to round up the latest developments. Nguyen Thi Minh Khai has suffered recently from the totally absurd story behind the Pacific building. WHAT a joke.
Over in Phu My Hung, things have really gotten crazy. I am talking about the [...]

Visions of 2020 to come true…?

Back in March this year I wrote a piece called ‘Will 2020 ever come to Saigon‘. In it I said :
What I envisage for the city is a pedestrian area encompassing Nguyen Hue, Dong Khoi and Lam Son Square. I am no urban planner and maybe it’s too late to build the parking that would [...]

Developing Vietnam : HCMC Update

Today’s development post talks about Nguyen Thi Minh Khai mainly, and also some sites in District 5. For those who’ve spent some time in HCMC, you’ll surely recognize these sites — the question is, can you remember what was there before - because I can’t!
Here, a newly finished office block on Vo Thi Sau (before [...]

The News

Stuff I’ve talked about here recently has been appearing the news in the last few days so I wanted to point it out for you.
As this article says:
When Phu My Hung company rolled out 40 new deluxe apartments, each worth around VND3 billion (US$187,000), in district 7’s Saigon South urban area last month, some 1,000 [...]

Developing Saigon : PMH Expansion & Ben Nghe

Whichever way you get there, Phu My Hung is currently a little isolated from the rest of the city. The drive out of District 4 along Khanh Hoi takes you over marshy palm fringed river banks before arriving at the cream concrete of Saigon’s new urban project. This however will soon change. The expansion of [...]

Saigon Developing City XI

If you are fed up with boring pictures of the ever expanding suburbia that is Phu My Hung, then look away now. If you’re not, WELCOME!
This pic must have been taken around 6 months ago.

Now it’s basically finished. These have to be the poshest apartments in all of Vietnam so far. They face the river [...]

Will 2020 ever come to Saigon?

HCMC by 2020 could be a very different place. So many projects are underway or being planned, and so many dollars are being poured into the economy by foreign investors, the only way is up, surely? Promisingly, a lot of the focus is based on infrastructure, a hugely important part of facilitating yet more rapid [...]

Saigon DC : Part V

Firstly, I would have been posting a lot earlier but for this, now at least I have a lot of back up material for blogging!
So, let’s get started.
This post may be the most riveting on TFW yet, it’s entirely about rubble…..
The astonishing rate of growth in Vietnam is astonishing. I just said astonishing twice because [...]

Saigon South : Developing City IV

Let me take you on a guided tour along the very edge of Phu My Hung. We start opposite the sites earmarked for development in my previous post ‘Developing City III’. Enjoy a nice cup of coffee or a noodle soup outside at one of the coffee shops.

Doesn’t really look like HCM does it….of course, [...]