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Lương Cường (Vietnamese pronunciation: [lɨəŋ˧ kɨəŋ˨˩]; born 15 August 1957) is a Vietnamese politician and former army general who is currently serving as the 14th president of Vietnam since October 2024.
Thị (氏) is an archaic Sino-Vietnamese suffix meaning "clan; family; lineage; hereditary house" and attached to a woman's original family name, but now is used to simply indicate the female sex. For example, the name "Trần Thị Mai Loan" means "Mai Loan, a female person of the Trần family"; meanwhile, the name "Nguyễn Lê Thị An ...
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese.
John Hoan Trinh Doan, Vietnamese priest; John Louis Bonnard Huong MEP, French priest; John Baptist Con Ngoc Tran, layman; John Baptist Thanh Van Dinh, catechist; Joseph Mary Díaz Sanjurjo OP, Spanish bishop; Joseph Canh Luong Hoang, layman and doctor; Joseph Fernández de Ventosa OP, Spanish priest; Joseph Hien Quang Do OP, Vietnamese priest
This allowed writers, the U.S. military, and the general public, to distinguish northern communists from the southern communists, called Viet Cong (VC), or more formally the National Liberation Front. However, both groups ultimately worked under the same command structure.
The song was written in 1961 by Lưu Hữu Phước (1921–1989) and adopted at that time as the anthem of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Viet Cong). In 1966, Lưu Hữu Phước wrote a military song March on Saigon [ vi ] ( Tiến về Sài Gòn ) as an encouragement the soldiers going to attack Saigon in the Tet Offensive .
Trinh T. Minh-ha – author, post-colonial scholar, and filmmaker; Ut Huynh Cong – photographer; first Vietnamese American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (1973) and the World Press Award; Viet Thanh Nguyen – author of The Sympathizer, the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Viet Cong [nb 1] (VC) was an epithet and umbrella term to refer to the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam. It was formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam , [ nb 2 ] and conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV).