Fonte: International Business Times
Vietnamese gather on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, preparing to sleep out overnight ahead of the start of a parade marking the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon AFP Vietnam is set to hold its biggest celebration of the fall of Saigon on its 50th anniversary Wednesday, including Chinese troops for the first time after Xi Jinping visited to portray Beijing as a more reliable partner than Washington. Thousands of excited citizens -- many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the Vietnamese flag -- began gathering on the streets of the renamed Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday, preparing to sleep out overnight ahead of the display's 7:00 am (0000 GMT) start. The celebrations come half a century after tanks of communist North Vietnam crashed through the gates of the city's presidential palace, defeating the US-backed South and delivering a painful blow to American moral and military prestige.
