Present Day
The area Long Bình, Quận 9, originally occupied by the Long Binh post is as of 2008 largely given over to industrial use and a shopping complex that includes a large Western-style Cora supermarket. When it opens in 2014, Line 1 of the HCMC Metro will have its terminus at Long Binh; work commenced in February 2008 on the Long Binh depot.
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