(VOVworld) - Here’s a look back at Saigon (now, Ho Chi Minh city) in 1967 through photos taken by Nguyen Thanh Tai, a Vietnamese reporter working for United Press International (UPI) during the Vietnam war.

View of Ben Thanh Market (Photo: kienthuc.net)

Notre Dame Cathedral (Photo: kienthuc.net)

Young girl shopping with carousel, wearing traditional Ao Dai (Photo: kienthuc.net)

View of lady selling souvenir paintings on city streets (Photo: kienthuc.net)

Sidewalk eatery (Photo: kienthuc.net)

Women pray for peace at Ong Ba Chieu temple (Photo: kienthuc.net)

A fortune teller (Photo: kienthuc.net)

Seven-storey Xa Loi pagoda tower (Photo: kienthuc.net)

Fruit and vegetable market (Photo: kienthuc.net)

Rural setting on outskirts of Saigon (Photo: kienthuc.net)