Ho Chi Minh City

1. Introduction Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC), like most Asian cities such as Bangkok, Jakarta, Taipei, is called motorcycle dependent city. In these cities, transport system is dominated by motorcycle. According to General Statistics Office of Vietnam (2013), the approximate population approximate of HCMC is 7.750.900. HCMC has a total administrative area of 2.095 km2. The average population density is about 3.699 in habitants per square km. HCMC population projected to reach ten million by 2020 (HOUTRANS, 2004). Besides, Statistics of the HCMC Road Traffic Police Department shown that, by the end of March 2013, the total number of motored vehicles in HCMC surpassed six million units, including nearly 5.519 million motorcycles. The number of motored vehicles in HCMC increased from 1.7 million units in early 2000 to 4.8 million unit in early 2010 (Nguyen, 2012, p.11). The increase in population and economic growth caused the increase of motored…

Solution to overpopulation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Resettling migrants in suburban areas Imagine yourself together with three other people suffocating in one meter of land . That will be the first step for you to imagine how stifling it would be for the people who are living in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. From a promising land that has high potential for full development, this metropolis has become overpopulated due to the “high level of unregistered rural migration” as well as “ the spread…

1. Research statement This research will investigate the similarities and differences between Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HSX) and The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in terms of their operations and trading systems, in order to assess what HSX could learn from the NYSE’s standards, so that recommendations can be made to HSX. 2. Research questions 2.1 Research question 1: What is the historical development of Vietnamese and American Stock Markets? There are three types of information…

1.1 Research statement This research will investigate the comparison between Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange (HSX) and The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in terms of their operations and trading systems. Some recommendations are also made about what HSX could learn from the NYSE. 1.2 Background and introduction to the research The financial market plays an integral role in the world economy. This market includes foreign exchange markets, stock markets and capital markets. Of these, the…

During the 1800s, France began to imperialize the region of Indochina, which consists of the countries known as Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The wealth produced in this land was considered very valuable to the French during this time. Many nationalists throughout the Indochina region were not happy with the idea of the French being in their homeland. Ho Chi Minh, who was a strong Nationalist in Vietnam, educated in westernized ideas, and a follower of Marxist thought, formed a movement to get…

into Ho Chi Minh was devoted to regaining Vietnam’s independence, which influenced him to establish communism as a new form of government. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist and activist in Vietnam’s freedom. Creation of the Viet Minh helped Ho with his stance against the French takeover. Ho Chi Minh had a veritable unstable life that leveraged him into being an activist for Vietnam. His father was a nationalist that operated with the French (“Ho Chi Minh”, Encyclopedia). Ho’s father left his family…

step to obtain a construction permit is to obtain the certification of the designs from the Police Department for Fire Fighting and Fire Prevention of Ho Chi Minh City; this takes approximately 30 days to complete, and there is no charge. The second step would be to request and obtain construction permit from the (District) Department of Construction of Ho Chi Minh City; this takes about 30 days and costs VND 100,000. Afterwards, you would have to notify the Department of Construction about the…

Orange, still impacts the country and its citizens. Agent Orange is a herbicide whose side effects has the potential to damage the chromosomes of a fetus.1 Thousands of people were and are still born with physical deformities caused by Agent Orange. Furthermore, Agent Orange devastated the land during the war. 1,034,300 hectares of forest was destroyed by just this chemical. The war left remnants of itself in Vietnam, and those of which still cause problems for the citizens to this day.…

war had the most American war casualties in our history. But this was only because we didn’t want a country to become a communist. We were never allies with Vietnam, we were enemies with them in World War II and we want to become friends with them? Was this a really smart choice for the United States, where were the ethics when coming into this and having American troops killed just to protect a country we should have never protected in the first place? The roots of the Vietnam war go as back…

Ho was born on May 19, 1890. As a young boy, he attended local Vietnamese and French schools. He later became a sailor aboard a French freighter. Ho traveled to the United States in 1913, and after working as a day restaurant in New York City for a year, Ho sailed to London and learned how to make pastries. Ho put together a statement for Allied leaders shortly after World War ended. The statement explained that he wanted the French in Indochina to turn over the government of Vietnam, Cambodia,…