A market bound up with the uprising that seized power in Saigon
Set beside the Cho Dem River in Tan Nhut Commune, Ho Chi Minh City. According to the online newspaper VietnamPlus, this is one of the places bound up with the August Revolution in southern Vietnam. From 17 to 23 August 1945, the Nam Ky Regional Party Committee convened three conferences at the house of Mr Nguyen Van Tho in Cho Dem to decide when to launch the uprising to seize power in Saigon and the southern provinces. Today Cho Dem is still a neighbourhood market serving the daily life of the people along the rivers of Binh Chanh, carrying a sediment of revolutionary history alongside the everyday rhythm of market trade.
English text: machine translation from the Localis platform — proper names kept in Vietnamese.Good to know
Best time to visitQuanh nam
Services
- Buy vegetables, fish, shrimp and essentials
- Stroll the local market beside the Cho Dem River
- Learn about the site of the 1945 Cho Dem Conference
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