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Hong Bang University ( HBU ) is a private university in Ho Chi Minh City . HBU has faculties of law , economics , fine arts , foreign languages . Many professors of HBU come from famous universities and colleges in the USA as a result of cooperation agreement between this university and other American universities . The university has been accredited by three US educational organizations as meeting American education standard . H Chí Minh ( Central Vietnamese pronunciation : , Southern Vietnamese pronunciation : ; 19 May 1890  2 September 1969 ; Ch nôm :  ), born Nguyn Sinh Cung , also known as Nguyn Tt Thành and Nguyn Ái Quc , was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister ( 1945  55 ) and president ( 1945  69 ) of the Democratic Republic of ___MASK5___ ( North ___MASK5___ ). He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of ___MASK5___ in 1945 , as well as the People ' s Army of ___MASK5___ ( PAVN ) and the Vit Cng ( NLF or VC ) during the ___MASK5___ War . ___MASK5___ , officially the Socialist Republic of ___MASK5___ ( SRV ), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia . With an estimated 90 . 5 million inhabitants , it is the world ' s 14th - most - populous country , and the eighth - most - populous Asian country . ___MASK5___ is bordered by China to the north , Laos to the northwest , Cambodia to the southwest , Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest , and the Philippines , Malaysia and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast . Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South ___MASK5___ in 1976 . Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named and still also referred to as Saigon , is the largest city in ___MASK5___ . It was once known as Prey Nokor , an important Khmer seaport prior to annexation by the Vietnamese in the 17th century . Under the name Saigon , it was the capital of the French colony of Cochinchina and later of the independent republic of South ___MASK5___ 1955  75 . On 2 July 1976 , Saigon merged with the surrounding Gia nh Province and was officially renamed Ho Chi Minh City after revolutionary leader H Chí Minh ( although the name "" is still unofficially widely used ). South ___MASK5___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK5___ was a state governing the southern half of ___MASK5___ from 1955 to 1975 . It received international recognition in 1949 as the " State of ___MASK5___ " ( 1949  55 ), and later as the " Republic of ___MASK5___ " ( 1955  75 ). Its capital was Saigon . The term " South ___MASK5___ " became common usage in 1954 , when the Geneva Conference provisionally partitioned ___MASK5___ into communist and non - communist parts .