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The Xá Lợi Pagoda (Vietnamese: Chùa Xá Lợi [saː˦˥ ləːj˨˩˨] SAW-LIE; chữ Hán: 舍 利 寺) is the largest pagoda in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam. It was built in 1956 and was the headquarters of Buddhism in South Vietnam. The pagoda is located in District 3, Hồ Chí Minh City and lies on a plot of
The main environmental concern that persists in Vietnam today is the legacy of the use of the chemical herbicide Agent Orange, which continues to cause birth defects and many health problems in the Vietnamese population. In the southern and central areas affected most by the chemical's use during the Vietnam War, nearly 4.8 million Vietnamese ...
Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin , Gulf of Thailand , and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos , and Cambodia .
Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from the material. They used a computer program to reverse the aging process.
In the early 17th century, Jesuit missionaries including Francisco de Pina, Gaspar do Amaral, Antonio Barbosa, and de Rhodes developed an alphabet for the Vietnamese language, using the Latin script with added diacritic marks. [6] This writing system continues to be used today, and is called chữ Quốc ngữ (literally, "national language ...
Dong Son village in Đắk Lắk Province, surrounded by mountains.. The Central Highlands are a series of plateaus bordering the lower part of Laos and northeastern Cambodia, namely Kon Tum Plateau at 500m, Kon Plông Plateau, Kon Hà Nừng Plateau, Pleiku Plateau at 800m, Mdrak Plateau at approximately 500m, Đắk Lắk Plateau at around 800m, Mơ Nông Plateau with the height of about 800 ...
TODAY/AOL 'Ideal to Real' body image survey results. Brynn Mannino. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:10 PM. ... USA TODAY. California roads buried in mud after powerful storm triggers landslides.
Although Vietnamese is set as the official language of Vietnam, there are currently more than 100 speaking languages in the country. They belong to five different major linguistic families: Austronesian, Austroasiatic, Hmong–Mien, Sino–Tibetan, and Kra–Dai. [8] The Vietnamese language contains a large body of Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary.