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The Red River, also known as the Hong River (traditional Chinese: 紅河; simplified Chinese: 红河; pinyin: Hóng Hé; Vietnamese: Sông Hồng; Chữ Nôm: 瀧紅) and Sông Cái (lit. "Main River"; Chữ Nôm: 瀧丐) in Vietnamese, [3] [4] and the Yuan River (元江, Yuán Jiāng) in Chinese, is a 1,149-kilometer (714 mi)-long river that ...
The Hong River Delta is the cradle of the Vietnamese nation. Water puppetry originated in the rice paddies here. The region was bombed by United States warplanes during the Vietnam War. The region was designated as the Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve as part of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 2004. [6]
Tiền River; Mỹ Tho River; Gò Công River; Bến Tre River; Ba Lai River; Cổ Chiên River; Hàm Luông River; Bình Di River; Châu Đốc River; Bassac River, or Hậu River; Vàm Nao River; Bảo Định Canal; Tàu Hủ Canal; Thoại Hà Canal; Trẹm River; Cửa Lớn River; Bồ Đề River; Ông Đốc River
In 1991, VNA begins the publication of Việt Nam News, a national English-language daily. From 1994 the VNA began to operate and own Le Courrier du Vietnam, the French-language daily newspaper from the Ministry of Culture and Information; In 2008, the VietnamPlus website was launched, which published news in Vietnamese, English, French and ...
The Red River freshwater swamp forests ecoregion (WWF ID:IM0147) covers the freshwater portion of the Hong River ("Red River") delta in northern Vietnam. The ecoregion is separated from the sea by a thin coastal strip of the saltwater mangroves of the Indochina mangroves ecoregion.
From the modern perspective, its name Hồng-lĩnh (national voice) or Hông-lịnh (local voice) is often understood as "the red river". For example : "O my Ha-tịnh, the blue river is reflecting the red mountain". However, this is the wrong way of interpreting, which is derived from the signing in Hanese characters.
A practice born out of a desire to participate in the democratic process at a time when ballots weren't printed in Vietnamese became a powerful organizing tool.
Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (VIWA, Vietnamese: Cục Đường thuỷ nội địa Việt Nam) is the government agency of the Ministry of Transport that governs and maintains the ports, rivers, canals and navigable lakes of Vietnam. The current General Director is Assistant Professor D.,