Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff, also known as the 2014 China-Vietnam oil rig crisis, refers to the tensions between China and Vietnam arising from the Chinese state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation moving its Hai Yang Shi You 981 (known in Vietnam as "Hải Dương – 981") oil platform to waters near the disputed Paracel Islands in South China Sea, and the resulting ...
UTC+7 (Indochina Time) Vũng Tàu (Hanoi accent: [vuŋm˧ˀ˥ taːw˨˩] ⓘ, Saigon accent: [vuŋm˧˩˧ taːw˨˩] ⓘ) is the largest city of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province in southern Vietnam. It is the province's economic, financial and cultural centre, and a popular tourist hub in southern Vietnam.
Hải Dương city was built in 1804, and was first called "Thành Đông" (Sino-Vietnamese for eastern citadel), referring to the citadel east of Vietnam's capital, Hanoi. During the French colonial period, Hải Dương was a town. Before 1968, Hải Dương was a town in Hải Dương Province. Between 1968 and 1996 it was the capital of ...
Võ Nguyên Giáp. Võ Nguyên Giáp (Vietnamese pronunciation: [vɔ̌ˀ ŋʷīən jǎːp]; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Regarded as one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century, [1][2] Giáp led Vietnamese communist forces to victories in wars against Japan ...
e. The 1881 Haiphong typhoon was a devastating typhoon that struck Haiphong, in northern Dai Nam (now Vietnam), and the northern part of the Captaincy General of the Philippines (now the Philippines) [1] on October 8, 1881. [2] The typhoon was first detected east of Southern Luzon on September 27, 1881. The typhoon killed about 3,000 people in ...
Phan Thị Kim Phúc. OOnt. June 8, 1972: Kim Phúc, center, running down a road naked near Trảng Bàng after a South Vietnam Air Force napalm attack (Nick Ut / The Associated Press) Born. Phan Thị Kim Phúc. (1963-04-06) April 6, 1963 (age 61) Trảng Bàng, South Vietnam. Nationality.
Hải Dương province. Hải Dương is a province in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. Its name derives from Sino-Vietnamese 海 陽 "ocean sun", though the modern province is in fact landlocked. Located in the Northern Key Economic Region, Hai Duong Province has a dynamic economy with a focus on industrial manufacturing.
Hải Hưng province on the administrative map of Vietnam in 1976. Hải Hưng is a former province in the Red River Delta of Vietnam. [ 3] It was established in 1968. On November 6, 1996, Hai Hung was split into two provinces: Hải Dương and Hưng Yên . The capital of Hải Hưng is Hải Dương.