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The transport corridor on the north–south axis from Lạng Sơn to Cà Mau plays a very important role: connecting the political capital of Hanoi with the economic center of Ho Chi Minh City, passing through 32 provinces and cities accounting for 62.1% of the population, contributing 65.7% of the gross domestic product, affecting 74% of seaports (classes I, II), 75% of economic regions of ...
These methods involved closely integrated political and military strategy – what was called dau tranh – literally "to struggle". The NLF, also known as the Viet Cong (VC), was an umbrella of front groups, set up by North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) to conduct the insurgency in South Vietnam .
The French post at Tuyên Quang was defended for four months against 12,000 troops of the Yunnan Army and the Black Flag Army by two companies of the French Foreign Legion during the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885). [2]
To deal with the refugee situation, Diem's government arranged for their relocation into fertile and under-populated provinces in the western Mekong Delta. The Diệm regime also provided them with food and shelter, farm tools, and housing materials as well as digging irrigation canals, building dykes , and dredging swamp-lands to help ...
Map showing the location of District 2 within metropolitan Ho Chi Minh City. District 2 is a former urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.As of 2010, the district had a population of 140,621 and a total area of 50 km².
Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8. Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. New York City: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505286-2. Kahin, George McT. (1986).
[35] Diem later banned Bảo Đại from entering the State of Vietnam. [36] Diem's advertising included the parading of giant pageant-style floats of Bảo Đại through the streets of Saigon, depicted with bags of money on his shoulders, a deck of cards in his hands, and with naked blonde women and a bottle of cognac in his arms. This was a ...
Truong Tri Truc Diem (Vietnamese name: Trương Tri Trúc Diễm) (born May 24, 1987 in Ho Chi Minh City) is a Vietnamese model, actress, goodwill ambassador and beauty pageant titleholder who was first runner-up of Miss Vietnam Photogenic 2005 pageant.