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The newspaper was established by husband and wife Yen Ngoc Do and Loan La Do three years after escaping the Vietnam War, in 1978, with their family.Yen had served as a journalist during the Vietnam War, and wrote for such prestigious outlets as the Rand Corporation, while Loan had become a well-known English school teacher after graduating from college.
Bảo Thăng. Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bảo Thăng (30 September 1944 – 15 March 2017) [1] was the son of Emperor Bảo Đại and Empress Nam Phương of Vietnam. [2] He succeeded as head of the House of Nguyễn Phúc following the death of his brother, Bảo Long, on 28 July 2007. [3]
When the Tenth Month Comes. When the Tenth Month Comes (Vietnamese: Bao giờ cho đến tháng Mười) is the first Vietnamese film to be shown in the West after the Vietnam war. [1] The film primarily centers around the misery of a young woman whose husband has died in the war. Despite the peaceful rural setting, the film is shot in black ...
v. t. e. The fall of Saigon[9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the collapse of the South Vietnamese state, leading to a transition period and the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ...
Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Vietnamese schoolgirl who fought as a guerrilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of French Indochina. She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed by the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison. Today she is considered a ...
Bảo Đại was born on 22 October 1913 and given the name of Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy in the Palace of Doan-Trang-Vien, part of the compound of the Purple Forbidden City in Huế, the capital of Vietnam. He was later given the name Nguyễn Vĩnh Thụy. His father was Emperor Khải Định of Annam.
Wat Xieng Thong. Wat Xieng Thong (Lao: ວັດຊຽງທອງ, pronounced [wāt síaŋ.tʰɔ́ːŋ]; "Temple of the Golden City") is a Buddhist temple (vat or wat) on the northern tip of the peninsula of Luang Prabang, Laos. [1]: 264 Built between 1559 and 1560 by King Setthathirath, Wat Xieng Thong is one of the most important of Lao ...
Little Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi (mainly in historically communist nations), depending on the enclave's political history. To avoid political undertones due to ...