tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17083897030083631462009-12-29T23:13:05.283-08:00Lang thang Sai GonNguyen Duc Tienngductien@gmail.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1708389703008363146.post-19351690590116788292007-10-03T00:40:00.000-07:002007-10-03T00:41:04.598-07:00Ho Chi Minh City, VN<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <TABLE width="98%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000 size=2>Here is your 5-day forecast for:</FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="98%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=3 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="70%"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><FONT color=#08008e size=2>Ho Chi Minh City, VN</FONT></B></FONT></TD> <TD align=right width="30%"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#08008e><FONT size=1><I><A href="http://www.qwikcast.com/"><B><FONT size=2><FONT color=#000000>Qwikcast</FONT></FONT></B><FONT size=2><FONT color=#666666>.com</FONT></FONT></A></I> </FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR align=middle bgColor=#3399fe> <TD align=middle><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#ffffff size=2><B>Today</B></FONT></TD> <TD align=middle><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#ffffff size=2><B>Tomorrow</B></FONT></TD> <TD align=middle><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#ffffff size=2><B>Thursday</B></FONT></TD> <TD align=middle><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#ffffff size=2><B>Friday</B></FONT></TD> <TD align=middle><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#ffffff size=2><B>Saturday</B></FONT></TD></TR> <TR align=middle bgColor=#e8f4ff> <TD vAlign=top width="20%"><IMG height=35 src="http://www.qwikcast.com/ico/0/2.gif" width=48 border=1><BR><FONT face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>Partly Cloudy<BR><FONT size=2>Hi 26°<BR>Lo 24°</FONT></FONT></TD> <TD vAlign=top width="20%"><IMG height=35 src="http://www.qwikcast.com/ico/0/34.gif" width=48 border=1><BR><FONT face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>T-storms<BR><FONT size=2>Hi 27°<BR>Lo 24°</FONT></FONT></TD> <TD vAlign=top width="20%"><IMG height=35 src="http://www.qwikcast.com/ico/0/34.gif" width=48 border=1><BR><FONT face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>T-storms<BR><FONT size=2>Hi 28°<BR>Lo 23°</FONT></FONT></TD> <TD vAlign=top width="20%"><IMG height=35 src="http://www.qwikcast.com/ico/0/34.gif" width=48 border=1><BR><FONT face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>T-storms<BR><FONT size=2>Hi 28°<BR>Lo 24°</FONT></FONT></TD> <TD vAlign=top width="20%"><IMG height=35 src="http://www.qwikcast.com/ico/0/34.gif" width=48 border=1><BR><FONT face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=1>T-storms<BR><FONT size=2>Hi 28°<BR>Lo 24°</FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <TD vAlign=bottom width=4 background=http://www.qwikcast.com/images/rg_shadow.gif> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top height=2><IMG height=5 src="http://www.qwikcast.com/images/dw_shadow.gif" width="100%"></TD> <TD height=2><IMG height=5 src="http://www.qwikcast.com/images/shadow_corner.gif" width=4></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE width="98%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000 size=-1><A href="http://www.qwikcast.com/cgi-bin/forecast.cgi?zip=Ho Chi Minh City,VN&unit=C">View current conditions, records & averages, weather maps and additional information for this location...</A></FONT></TD></TR> <TR bgColor=#ffffff> <TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></DIV><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1708389703008363146-1935169059011678829?l=ltsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nguyen Duc Tienngductien@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1708389703008363146.post-13705100133261747832007-10-01T22:50:00.000-07:002007-10-01T22:51:15.625-07:00HO CHI MINH City <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <TABLE height=798 width=569 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=561 colSpan=2 height=21><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000080 size=2><B>HO CHI MINH City</B></FONT></FONT></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=561 colSpan=2 height=21><FONT size=2></FONT></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=106 height=258><FONT size=2></FONT></TD> <TD width=449 height=258> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 11.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Land area: 2,090 km2</FONT></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 11.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Population: 5, 037, 155</FONT></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 11.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-line-height-alt: .75pt"><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ethnic groups: Viet (Kinh)</FONT></B><FONT face=Arial size=2> <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O:P></O:P></FONT></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=561 colSpan=2 height=21></TD></TR> <TR> <TD width=561 colSpan=2 height=322> <DIV align=center> <TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%; mso-cellspacing: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR style="HEIGHT: 137.65pt"> <TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; HEIGHT: 137.65pt" width="100%" colSpan=2> <DIV align=center> <TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%; mso-cellspacing: 0cm; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR style="HEIGHT: 0.75pt"> <TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; WIDTH: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; HEIGHT: 0.75pt" width="100%" colSpan=2> <P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Located in the south of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh city is a new settlement, the word Saigon having been registered for the first time in documents dating back to 1698. There are two distinct seasons: the rainy season from May to November and the dry season from December to April. The climate is particularly favorable for tourism. </FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ho Chi Minh City is divided into 17 urban districts and five rural districts. There are also 305 sub-districts and communes. Hundreds of rivers and canals cross the Ho Chi Minh City area, but most are mainly small. Saigon river, crossing the city on 106km, is the biggest. Means of communication by road, railway, or sea from Ho Chi Minh to all other provinces are also efficient. </FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT face=Arial size=2>One of the main characteristics that influenced the 300 years of Saigon is the combination of three cultural sources: Vietnamese, Chinese, and European. </FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="mso-line-height-alt: .75pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT face=Arial size=2>The city's resources and accommodations are attractive elements for several tourists. Typical tourist sites would be counted here as Nha Rong Port (where late President Ho Chi Minh first left for France seeking the way to rescue the country from the colonists), Ho Chi Minh Museum, Thong Nhat Hall, Notre Dame Cathedral, Vinh Nghiem Pagoda and Giac Lam Pagoda. Besides historical relics, the city charms its visitors with and many parks and flower gardens and entertainment resorts (Suoi Tien, <U>Dam Sen</U>, Water Park).<O:P> </O:P></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ho Chi Minh City is located in a special geographical position, converging many favorable conditions for economic development. Since olden time, the City has been a most strategic area on the South, a dense and prosperous trade center, a gate and a relation clue with foreign countries.</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>In building the country, Ho Chi Minh City really has been an economic, industrial, financial center, an international relation and tourism center of the whole country, with amphibious communication clue and convenient air-line, a cultural and scientific technological center, etc…<U><A href="http://www.hcminvest.gov.vn/">http://www.hcminvest.gov.vn</A></U></FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></DIV><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1708389703008363146-1370510013326174783?l=ltsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nguyen Duc Tienngductien@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1708389703008363146.post-87436853759090255062007-10-01T22:36:00.000-07:002007-10-01T22:36:30.546-07:00Lang thang trên đất Sài GònNhững Mẩu chuyện nhỏ nhưng khó phai ...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1708389703008363146-8743685375909025506?l=ltsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nguyen Duc Tienngductien@gmail.com0