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![[Photos] Proposed Design for Bac Ninh’s City Hall is a Stunner](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/f6zskgSb.jpg)
Development
Vietnam’s Modern architecture scene continues to mature as local outfits - like 23o5studio , Nishizawa Architects and Nha Dan Architecture , to name a few – show a consistent pattern of innovation in their designs. However, of the handful of such firms that bid for work on large-scale projects, Vo Trong Nghia is probably the strongest name in the game .
Vietnam
Once one of Saigon-Chợ Lớn’s most recognizable local brand names, Cô Ba soap was the crowning achievement of Trương Văn Bền’s long and successful business career.
![[Video] Barack Obama Has Arrived in Vietnam](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/Wfz9k5Kb.jpg)
Vietnam
It's time to see if the meme-based premonitions will carry their weight now that US President Barack Obama has touched down in Hanoi.
Vietnam
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . U.S. President Obama to visit century-old pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City [Tuoi Tre] The U.S. Role in Vietnam's Governance [USNews]
![[Photos] Japan’s Last Samurai](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/GbKyVS3b.jpg)
Culture
The adoption of the Meiji Restoration in 1868 signaled the beginning of the end for Japan’s samurai’s who enjoyed centuries of prominence in the country's feudal ranks.
Tech
Two Saigon high school students made a big impression at an international science-engineering fair in the US for their all-terrain wheelchair design.
Development
Saigon is poised to deploy smart parking lots in downtown areas to meet the growing demand for space.
Tech
Google just made some major improvements on its translation tools.
![[Video] Hẻm Gems: D5’s Glorious Goat Curry](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/3GwXiCyb.jpg)
Saigon Hẻm Gems
One of the benefits or writing this column is that it allows us to sample some of Saigon’s best local eateries. We may be well versed in the ways of street noshing, but once in a blue moon, we come across a dish that has us high fiving and silently pigging out without a word exchanged. Behold District 5’s Musa Cà Ri Dê Ấn Độ .
Vietnam
The prestigious, US government-funded Fulbright University will open its first campus in Vietnam later this year.
Vietnam
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Obama's visit to Vietnam: significant progress in Vietnam-US relations [VOV] Coastal Flooding To Hit Three Nations Considered Heaviest Polluters By 2060: Christian Aid [TechTimes]
![[Photos] One Year After Earthquake, Nepal’s Monuments Still in Ruins](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/Yzo3aIQb.jpg)
Asia
Nearly one year and one month has passed since Nepal's devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
![[Photos] 22.House: An Homage to Vietnamese Modernist Architecture](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/zgmwJSJb.jpg)
Architecture
Situated near Nha Trang's central market, this creation from architecture firm Chon.a serves as a homage to the aesthetics of Vietnamese modernist architecture.
Saigon
When the opulent Parkson Paragon shopping center opened to much fanfare in 2011, general director of Parkson Vietnam Tham Tuck Choy welcomed the new venture with an optimistic attitude.
Eat & Drink
For decades, much of the western world has been skeptical of monosodium glutamate (MSG), better known as Ajinomoto to Vietnamese. However, as research has suggested time and again, there is actually nothing to fear when it comes to this magical, umami-filled flavor enhancer.
Vietnam
An American expat has found himself in a spot of trouble after he spent a day wading through a brackish canal in Hanoi's Cau Giay District cleaning up rubbish.
Vietnam
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Vietnam could become upper middle income nation [DTI] Arms embargo, human rights confront Obama in Vietnam [USA Today]
Development
Now entering its fourth year , construction of the Saigon Metro system is chugging along. With several lines in development and plenty of work still to go, Saigoneer takes a closer look at the progress of the city’s first new rail system in nearly a century.
Vietnam
A 20-year-old Vietnamese man is banned from flying for the next six months after telling Hanoi airport officials he intended to bomb Bangkok.
![[Video] Travel Back to 1902 Hanoi With This Rare Footage](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/NPVA0LJb.jpg)
Vietnam
Today, Hanoi's traffic is a force with which to be reckoned. But while the motorbikes, SUVs and public buses of the present create pandemonium in the capital's Old Quarter, the area around Dong Xuan Market was home to its own version of chaos long ago.
Travel
Depending upon where a person – and their passport – are from, certain citizens of the world have greater access to foreign countries than others.
![[Photos] Dead Fish Flood Saigon's Nhieu Loc Canal After Heavy Rain](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/tUGthAkb.jpg)
Saigon
Yesterday morning, in the wake of a heavy rain the day before, thousands of fish died en masse in Saigon's Nhieu Loc Canal.
Vietnam
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . PM okays ship pollution plan [Vietnam News] Electronics and automobile imports from ASEAN skyrocket [VOV]
Music & Arts
As one of Vietnam’s most prolific art organizations reduces its cultural and residency programs, we look at the state of national contemporary art in the global market and its economic impact on Vietnam.
