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The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV; Vietnamese: Ngân hàng Nhà nước Việt Nam) is the central bank of Vietnam. Organized as a ministry-level body under the Government of Vietnam, it is the sole issuer of the national currency, the Vietnamese đồng. [3] As of 2024 it holds over USD 100 million in foreign exchange reserves. [2]
The dong was also the currency of the predecessor states of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, having replaced the previously used French Indochinese piastre. [6] [7] Formerly, it was subdivided into 10 hao (hào), which were further subdivided into 10 xu, neither of which are now used due to inflation. The Vietnamese dong has increasingly moved ...
The Vietnam International Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Vietnamese: Ngân hàng TMCP Quốc tế Việt Nam), abbreviated as "VIB", [1] [2] is a commercial bank in Vietnam. [3] [4] It was established in 1996 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Vietnam People's Armed Forces consists of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA), the Vietnam People's Public Security and the Vietnam Self-Defence Militia. The VPA is the official name for the active military services of Vietnam, and is subdivided into the Vietnam People's Ground Forces , the Vietnam People's Navy , the Vietnam People's Air Force ...
Ngô Đình Diệm (/ d j ɛ m / dyem, [2] / ˈ j iː ə m / YEE-əm or / z iː m / zeem; Vietnamese: [ŋō ɗìn jîəmˀ] ⓘ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) from ...
Le Quy Don Technical University (Vietnamese: Đại học Kỹ thuật Lê Quý Đôn), also known as Military Technical Academy (Học viện Kỹ thuật Quân sự), [1] was founded in 1966 and is one of the national key universities in Vietnam. Le Quy Don Technical University has developed into an open, multidisciplinary, research-oriented ...
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Vietnamese: [vìət naːm kwə́wk zən ɗa᷉ːŋ]; chữ Hán: 越南國民黨; lit. ' Vietnamese Nationalist Party ' or ' Vietnamese National Party '), abbreviated VNQDĐ or Việt Quốc, was a nationalist and democratic socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam during the early 20th century. [4]
These new holidays were to include the International Labour Day on 1 May, the anniversary of the August Revolution on 19 August, Viet Nam's National Day on 2 September, and Ho Chi Minh's birthday on 19 May. [4] The lunar new year, Tết Nguyên Đán and the mid-autumn moon, Tết Trung Thu, continued to be observed as traditionally.