Sai Gon Always the capital city of southern Vietnam, has been and still is the most crowded city. After April 1975, the government of the unified Vietnam changed the official name to Ho Chi Minh City, but most southerners still call it Sai Gon. The Vietnam war ended on 30th April 1975. A short while later, the North Vietnamese government officially re-united the country. The new government was too busy to care for overseas Vietnamese, and many Vietnamese like me had not been re-issued a new passport.
Vietnamese language uses a few symbols in combination with the vowels to express the actual sounds.
Some combinations are not included in the ISO extended character set. Click here for a breeze on the Vietnamese language. This is an intentional misnomer. Its main business was industrial research projects commissioned by commercial companies which didn't have time and expertise to do it themselves. It can also be used as an excellent material to learn the Ainu language.