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- proper noun historical
Ho Chi Minh City , the biggest city inVietnam .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina
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Examples
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Leimbach masterfully conjures the hothouse atmosphere of foreign correspondents in Saigon in the late 1960s.
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It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter.
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He wonders if the Japanese inferiority complex towards the United States and Silicon Valley influenced our response, and doubts it would have been so excessive if Umeda lived in Saigon instead of Silicon Valley.
Global Voices in English » Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Two) 2009
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The Man from Saigon is stunningso visual, so sensual and sharply realized.
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I mean really, what are the odds that our random bus, stopped at a place in Saigon – a city of 8 million people only a half a block away from our hotel?
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The Chiu Chau Triads had operated in Saigon as good as Vietnam during a Vietnam war bringing in drug for a American soldiers.
Batin Itam: The Li Blood Line admin 2009
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The latest art studio belongs to the Vietnamese painter Do Hoang Tuong based in Saigon, Vietnam.
July 2009 2009
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In Cambodia-land: in Saigon skip to main | skip to sidebar
in Saigon Will 2009
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The Chiu Chau Triads had operated in Saigon as good as Vietnam during a Vietnam war bringing in drug for a American soldiers.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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I admit, Saigon is my absolute favorite restaurant in Englewood.
Englewood, New Jersey: A Personalized Dining Guide for my Friend Muammar 2009
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