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Ngoc Lan was born Le Thanh Lan (also known as St. Maria Maria Le Thanh Lan) on 28 December 1956 in Nha Trang. Ngoc Lan is the fifth of eight people in a well-off family. [clarification needed] Her father, Le Duc Mau served in the South Vietnamese Armed Forces. While in Vietnam, she listened to Le Hoang Long's music, studied music and performed ...
Phạm Ngọc Lan (December 12, 1934 – June 14, 2019) was a general of the People's Army of Vietnam. He was noted for being North Vietnam 's first pilot to shoot down an American plane in aerial combat on April 3, 1965, though the American F-8 managed to land safely.
Ngoc Lan Tran is a fictional character that appears in the 2017 American film Downsizing and is played by actress Hong Chau.In the satire film, Tran is a supporting character and a Vietnamese political dissident who is jailed and "downsized" (shrunken to five inches, or 12.7 cm, tall) by her country.
He asks Ngoc Lan to join him, but she refuses, saying the people in need of help will be those left above ground. As the door of the vault is closing, Paul changes his mind and steps outside. Back in Leisureland, Paul continues to work with Ngoc Lan to serve the people of the slums, deriving contentment from things like bringing dinner to an ...
Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan faces the death penalty in a trial that began Tuesday over alleged fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP and Vietnam's largest ...
Trần Ngọc Lan Khuê (born 4 January 1992) is a Vietnamese model and beauty pageant titleholder. Lan Khuê rose to prominence in 2013 as she won the gold award in the Vietnam supermodel 2013 , and became one of the most sought-after models in Vietnam.
She has received several award nominations for her film roles as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing (2017) and as Liz, a nurse, in The Whale (2022), including one for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...