Saigon 2009 with Peter Arnett (Extended version)

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Peter Arnett takes a nostalgic trip around Saigon half a century after his coverage of the War from 1962 to 1975 with the Associated Press.

The documentary captures candid insights from Arnett and Saigon denizens as they survey old and new landmarks in Ho Chi Minh City. It is made in association with the whats on publication, The Word Ho Chi Minh City and Créa TV.

Saigon 2009 with Peter Arnett is a preview of "Vietnam 2020", a film by Othello Khanh set to document the Nation's road to modernity.

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[duanewilkins]

Go Kiwi

[Nicozka]

@troytblevins Arnett hasn't cost anyone's life in Vietnam or anywhere else. It was the idiots who drafted them who killed them. And as usual, Arnett told the truth about the baby milk factory. It was one, and the U.S. did bomb it. It is sad that the black propaganda against Arnett has even spread to a very constructive Youtube video about the new Vietnam.

[troytblevins]

i remember this jerk during the golf war , americans bombing baby milk factorys, yea thats a real military target,get over yourself mr arnett,you did some good work but you also cost alot of people there lives ,poor young americans who were drafted to fight in vietnam.

[tommybriggs]

Saigon _ Paris of the Orient Trailer watch?v=KBbnZ16xNQs

[GuardianDemonX]

vietnam is now doing great, so many skyscraper now these day

[deecee8888]

You got the point there borntowander.

I am glad that you have said something

posisitive and very couraging. my oberservation just something i have seen

around where I live ( Canada ) you would

be suprised to see how many taxi cab driver with all kinds of deegree i.e : phd, bc. bsc. but no J.O.B!!!

[borntowander]

Generally speaking, Vietnamese and other Asian immigrants to the USA have a significantly higher income than native-born Americans. Due to their lack of language skills, education and money when they arrived in America, Vietnamese refugees might not yet have risen to top management positions, but their children are. Vietnamese are also very active politically and many of them hold elected political office. I think they're doing just fine in the USA.

[borntowander]

Your observations are generalizations and are not based upon facts. In regards to international companies doing business in Vietnam, the management is international, as it is in any country where they do business. Also, it's their own money they've invested, giving them the right to choose who's responsible for it.

[604VIET]

i absolutely agree with tungchankiet

[deecee8888]

why is that very often we found foreigner to run our business on our homeland? seem like we do not have our own talent ! I am sure we do. as for Vietnamese who live over sea, rarely they would make it the top ie. general manager. just my observation. So, the foreigner always has the upper side or more advantage.

In north America. lots of people immigrants with degree or doctor which are working as taxi cab or temp jobs. we should change our

mentality for betterment.