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Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (Vietnamese: [ŋʷǐənˀ ŋâwkp lʷāːn]; 11 December 1930 – 14 July 1998) was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the South Vietnamese National Police. [ 1 ] Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed a handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968, in Saigon , Vietnam ...
Saigon Execution. Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [b] [c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon.
Gaudencio V. Tobias was a Brigadier General and the commander of the Philippine Civic Action Group (PHILCAG) which was deployed to South Vietnam. [1] Fidel V. Ramos was a General and was a non-combat civil military engineer and Chief of Staff of the Philippine Civil Action Group (PHILCAG).
Nguyễn Thị Loan is a Vietnamese model and beauty pageant titleholder, she was the 2nd Runner-Up of the Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2013, she was appointed to Miss Grand Vietnam 2016, Miss World Vietnam 2014, Miss Universe Vietnam 2017 and she finished as a Top 25 semifinalist Miss World 2014 and Top 20 Miss Grand International 2016, she also represented Vietnam at Miss Universe 2017.
A Special Commissariat for Civic Action was established to extend the reach of the Saigon government into rural areas and to help create 'model villages' to show rural peasants that the South Vietnamese government was viable as well as allowing citizen volunteers, and experts, to help these communities develop and tie them to the nation.
On April 3, 2009, a mass shooting occurred at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York.At approximately 10:30 a.m. EDT, Jiverly Antares Wong (also known as Jiverly Voong), a 41-year-old naturalized American citizen who was ethnically Chinese from Vietnam, entered the facility and killed thirteen people and wounded four others before committing suicide.
Reviewed by Dietitian Annie Nguyen, M.A., RD. Your heart is arguably the hardest-working muscle in your body. Every day it pumps nearly 2,000 gallons of blood through your arteries to supply the ...
The East River-Turtle Bay Fund, a civic group, proposed that the United Nations purchase a 3-acre (1.2 ha) tract located to the south of the headquarters, on the site of the Robert Moses Playground and the Queens–Midtown Tunnel ventilation building between 41st and 42nd Streets. [92]