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[8] [9] The actual construction of Station Con Son began during April with the delivery of construction materials by USCGC Nettle (WAK-169) and award of construction contracts to Morrison-Knudsen Corp. and Brown and Root Company. [10] Station Con Son was one of five stations in the Southeast Asia chain and was designated SH-3 Yankee.
On June 16, 1702, the East India Company from England founded a settlement on Côn Sơn Island, which they named Pulo Condore as an entrepôt for ships plying between India and China. [4] Three years later, on 2 March 1705, the Bugis mercenaries hired by the English mutinied, murdered the agents, destroyed the factory, and expelled the ...
Notable prisoners held at Côn Sơn included Huỳnh Thúc Kháng from 1908–1921, [1] Phan Châu Trinh from 1908–1911, Tôn Đức Thắng, Phạm Văn Đồng and Lê Đức Thọ in the 1930s, [2] and Nguyễn An Ninh who died in the prison on 14 August 1943, possibly killed by his jailers for fear that he might be used politically by the ...
Tố Hữu, whose real name is Nguyễn Kim Thành, was born 4 October 1920 in Hoi An, Quang Nam province, as the youngest son of the family. At the age of 9, Thành and his father returned home and lived in Phu Lai village, now in Quang Tho commune, Quang Dien district, Huế. Thành's father was a poor scholar, could not earn a living and ...
The Vietnamese term bụi đời ("life of dust" or "dusty life") refers to vagrants in the city or, trẻ bụi đời to street children or juvenile gangs. From 1989, following a song in the musical Miss Saigon, "Bui-Doi" [1] [2] came to popularity in Western lingo, referring to Amerasian children left behind in Vietnam after the Vietnam War.
Sun and her husband, Chris Hu, share the $3.5 million home in a gated community on Long Island called Stone Hill. The search was first reported by The New York Times.
Huỳnh Minh Hưng, commonly known by his stage name Đàm Vĩnh Hưng (born 2 October 1971 [citation needed]), often referred to by his nickname Mr. Dam, [citation needed] is a Vietnamese singer.
Chợ Lớn (listen ⓘ, Chinese: 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market.