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Below is a table listing the postal codes and telephone area codes in Vietnam (according to Vietnam Post, under the VNPOST corporation). Note: The provinces and cities are listed in order from North to South, and the centrally-governed cities are highlighted in bold.
Inside the Saigon Central Post office of special note are two painted maps that were created just after the post office was built, the first one located on the left side of the building is a map of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia titled Lignes telegraphiques du Sud Vietnam et Cambodge 1892 ("Telegraphic lines of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia 1892").
Following is the family tree of Vietnamese monarchs from the autonomous period of the Khúc clan (905–923) to the reign of Bảo Đại (1926–1945), the last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. Emperors, kings and lords of each monarch are denoted by different colours with the period of their reigns.
Đại Cathay was born in 1940 as the son of Lê Văn Cự, who was a gangster in the market area of Cầu Muối. After 1945, Đại's father became a revolutionary and joined the Bình Xuyên army to fight against the French, where his father served under his leader Ba Dương.
This effectively consisted of the postal administration in Hanoi operating throughout Vietnam. Indeed, the stamps issued in July and August 1976 still had the name of the North Vietnamese state printed on them, [11] while later issues have simply "Việt Nam" and "bưu chính" (post). As in North Vietnam, post-reunification stamps were partly ...
1965 Embassy of the United States in Saigon bombing: March 30, 1965 Saigon, South Vietnam 22 killed Viet Cong: 1965 Saigon bombing: June 25, 1965 Saigon River, Saigon, South Vietnam: 42 killed Viet Cong: Bình An/Tây Vinh massacre (disputed) February 12, 1966 – March 17, 1966 Tây Sơn District of Bình Định Province, South Vietnam: 1,004 ...
He played a key role in the last desperate attempt to secure US$700 million in military aid to defend South Vietnam against the North in 1975. [7] Bui Diem was born in Phủ Lý, Hà Nam, French Indochina, on October 1, 1923. [8] He was the nephew of Trần Trọng Kim, who served as the Prime Minister of Emperor Bảo Đại. [9]
During the 1960s period to before 1975, Saigon's underworld at that time was characterized by the era known as the "Four Great Kings", which referred to the four most dominant mobsters in the city, and whose names was immortalized by the infamous phrase "1st) Đại Cathay, 2nd) Huỳnh Tỳ, 3rd) Ngô Văn Cái, 4th) Ba Thế", [a] with Đại ...