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In 1989, 16,000 Vietnamese attended a Miss Ao Dai Beauty Contest held in Ho Chi Minh City. [26] When the Miss International Pageant in Tokyo gave its "Best National Costume" award to an áo dài-clad Trường Quỳnh Mai in 1995, Thời Trang Trẻ (New Fashion Magazine) claimed that Vietnam's "national soul" was "once again honored". [27]
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 ...
From Boeing's turbulence and a catastrophic hurricane, to Donald Trump's election victory, "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back at key events of a year that was monumental.
Dame Kieu Chinh was born on September 3, 1937, in Hanoi with the real name Nguyen Thị Kieu Chinh.. During World War II, her mother and her newly born brother were killed when their hospital was struck by an Allied bombing raid targeting Japanese troops in Hanoi during the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, when Chinh was at the age of six. [1]
Credit - Top row: Marco Di Marco—AP; Sofiia Gatilova—Reuters; Leo Correa–AP; Amr Alfiky—Reuters; John Moore—Getty Images; Bottom row: Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images; Jerome Brouillet ...
Most of ancient northern Vietnam was referred as the Lạc Việt which was considered to be part of the Baiyue region in ancient Chinese texts. [1]: 26 Prior to the Chinese conquest, the Tai nobles first came in Northern Vietnam during the Đông Sơn era, and they started to assimilate the local Mon-Khmer and Kra-dai people in a processed referred as Tai-ization or Tai-ification as the Tai ...
It's mostly business as usual, or close to it, on Wall Street as well as at the nation's banks, restaurants and fast-food chains today on New Year's Eve 2024.
The miniseries The Sympathizer (2024), based on the novel of the same name, features the fall of Saigon. Battlefield Vietnam features the Fall of Saigon as a level. [105] Hey Arnold references the fall of Saigon in the episode Arnold’s Christmas. Arnold’s housemate Mr. Hyunh is forcibly separated from his daughter during the evacuation, and ...