Ho Chi Minh City is booming129

Saigon is dead, long live Ho Chi Minh City. Saigon is known by this name throughout the world for its key role in the colonial past of France and the Indochina war.
In 1975, it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the founder of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. After several decades of communism, the city is now showing great insolence. The economy of the country is in full swing and Ho Chi Minh City is the leader. Representing the ultra modern facet of the new Vietnam, it breaks with the mythical Saigon. Huge glass towers overlook the popular neighborhoods; modern constructions pile up anarchically on temples and colonial architecture.

The city is eager to match its Thai or Singaporean neighbors. Dynamic, frantic, intrepid, that's how we call it. The energy that emerges from it mixes with the deep culture of the country.

Ho Chi Minh City has more than 10 million inhabitants and 75% of its population is under 35 years old. In the coming decades, its exponential development will raise big questions about infrastructure and the environment. What was a mere fishing village boasts of becoming one of the largest business centers in Southeast Asia.

This series is the first episode of a big project entitled THE FACES OF THE MEKONG.
With the mythical Mekong river and its many resources as its main theme, this is a great perspective on the geo-environmental issues related to modernity and development in the Indochinese peninsula (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand).