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Many of the rooms incorporate an added level of symbolism, with the animal theme connected to a particular nationality. For instance, Nga describes the tiger room as representing “the strengths of the Chinese”; the eagle room as being “big and strong” like Americans; and the ant room as representing the “hard working Vietnamese”. [1]
Thich Nhat Hanh (1967), Vietnam. Lotus in a sea of fire, Hill and Wang, New York. Thomas Powers (1979), The Man who kept the Secrets. Richard Helms and the CIA, Knopf, New York. John Prados (2003, 2009), William Colby and the CIA. The secret wars of a controversial spymaster, University of Kansas. Tran Ngoc Chau (2012), Vietnam Labyrinth.
The Hôtel Continental, or also known as Khách sạn Hoàn Cầu in Vietnamese, is a hotel in District 1, the central district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.The hotel is located at the corner of Đồng Khởi Street and Lam Sơn Square, by the Saigon Municipal Theatre.
From 1959 to 1975, Mr. and Mrs. Ung Thi renovated the building into the 100-room "Rex Complex" hotel, which featured three cinemas, a cafeteria, a dance hall and a library. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The cinema was adorned with the most developed technology at the time, such as high-speed air conditioning, a 150-square-meter Todd-AO screen, and a stereo ...
Sóc Trăng (362,029 people, constituting 30.18% of the province's population and 27.43% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Trà Vinh (318,231 people, constituting 31.53% of the province's population and 24.11% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Kiên Giang (211,282 people, constituting 12.26% of the province's population and 16.01% of all Khmer in Vietnam), An ...
Vietnam War memorial in Little Saigon, Houston, Texas, United States. Vietnamese Walk of Honor Sign. Little Saigon, also popularly known as Vietnamtown or simply Viet-Town, is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas centered on Bellaire Boulevard west of Chinatown. It is one of the largest Vietnamese enclaves in the United States.
The 95th Evacuation Hospital (Smbl) was a 320-bed air conditioned facility offering area medical support to U.S. Military units without organic medical support in the area around Da Nang, Vietnam. The hospital also provided medical care to the Free World Military Assistance Forces and civilian war casualties.
Vietnam Television (Vietnamese: Đài Truyền-hình Việtnam, [1] [2] abbreviated THVN [3]), sometimes also unofficially known as the National Television (Đài Truyền-hình Quốc-gia [1]), Saigon Television (Đài Truyền-hình Sàigòn [1]) or Channel 9 (Đài số 9, THVN9), was one of two national television broadcasters in South Vietnam from February 7, 1966, until just before the ...