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The Saigon Times is a Vietnamese media organization with two Vietnamese - and two English-language publications. Its flagship publication is Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon, the most widely-read weekly economics and business news magazine in Vietnamese. It also publishes Saigon Times Daily, one of the two major daily newspapers in English (the other ...
The fighting in Saigon produced one of the Vietnam War's most famous images, photographer Eddie Adams' image of the summary execution of a VC prisoner on February 1, 1968. Nguyễn Văn Lém was captured by South Vietnamese national police, who identified him as the captain of a VC assassination and revenge platoon, and accused him of murdering ...
Unclear. Casualties and losses. None. The September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt took place before dawn on September 13, 1964, when the ruling military junta of South Vietnam, led by General Nguyễn Khánh, was threatened by a coup attempt headed by Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức, who sent dissident units into the ...
The Battle of Saigon was a week-long battle between the Vietnamese National Army of the State of Vietnam and the private army of the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate. At the time, the Bình Xuyên was licensed with controlling the national police by Emperor Bảo Đại and Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm issued an ultimatum for them to surrender and come under state control.
The front page of the newspaper. Gia Định Báo (chữ Hán: 嘉 定 報), was the first Vietnamese newspaper. It was published in Saigon from 1865 to 1910. Pétrus Ky was the editor in chief. [1] ". Gia Định" is a historical name for Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. It was a gazette that published official and legal documents, although it ...
Saigon Times Daily is an English-language daily newspaper published in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This is one of two English-language dailies (the other is Vietnam News ). Saigon News is part of several other newspapers owned by Saigon Times Group . Saigon Times Daily focuses mainly on local economic and social situation with its main readers ...
Tran was born Trần Gia Thái in the village of Sung Van in the Nam Dinh region of Vietnam. His mother owned a bookstore, and his father was chief of the district and later became an administrator. In 1966, Tran married Nguyen Yen Mai, a student of the Marie Curie School in Saigon. They had a son, Tran Quoc Quan, and later divorced in 1971.
Bloodless coup successful Đôn, Kim, Đính and Xuân put under house arrest Nguyễn Văn Nhung, aide and bodyguard of Minh was summarily executed after the coup. Before dawn on January 30, 1964, General Nguyễn Khánh ousted the military junta led by General Dương Văn Minh from the leadership of South Vietnam without firing a shot.