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Vovinam (short for Võ Việt Nam, meaning "Vietnamese Martial Arts"), officially known as Việt Võ Đạo (越武道, meaning "Vietnamese Way of Martial Arts") is a Vietnamese martial art [ 1 ] founded in 1938 by Nguyễn Lộc. It is based on traditional Vietnamese eclectic sources. Vovinam, based on the principle of " hard and soft ...
Vovinam – Founded by Nguyễn Lộc. Also called Vovinam Việt Võ Đạo (Việt = Vietnamese, Võ = martial, Đạo = way) Võ Việt Nam (Cuton) or Võ Đạo of Phạm Văn Tan. [2] Vietnamese Wing Chun - a style of Wing Chun founded by Yuen Chai-wan. [3] Overseas. Cuong Nhu of Ngô Đồng (d. Florida 2000), known also by the Japanese ...
There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam as officially recognized by the Vietnamese government. [1] Each ethnicity has their own unique language, traditions, and culture. The largest ethnic groups are: Kinh 85.32%, Tay 1.92%, Thái 1.89%, Mường 1.51%, Hmong 1.45%, Khmer 1.32%, Nùng 1.13%, Dao 0.93%, Hoa 0.78%, with all others accounting for the remaining 3.7% (2019 census). [2]
Vietnamese in Latin script, called Chữ Quốc ngữ, is the currently-used script. It was first developed by Portuguese missionaries in the 17th century, based on the pronunciation of Portuguese language and alphabet. For 200 years, Chữ Quốc Ngữ was mainly used within the Catholic community. [47]
The declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Tuyên ngôn độc lập Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) was written by Hồ Chí Minh, and announced in public at the Ba Đình flower garden (now the Ba Đình Square) in Hanoi on September 2, 1945. It led to the foundation of the Democratic Republic of ...
7 million (2020) Official website. Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam. The Catholic Church in Vietnam is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of bishops in Vietnam who are in communion with the Pope in Rome. Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines, India, China and ...
Phạm Minh Chính (born 10 December 1958) is a Vietnamese politician and former public security lieutenant general. He has served as Prime Minister of Vietnam since 2021, and currently ranks second in the Communist Party after General Secretary Tô Lâm. A member of the Politburo since 2016, Chính is also the Vice Chairman of the National ...
The third book of Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (Complete Annals of Dai Viet), [27] [28] published in editions between 1272 and 1697, has the following to say about the Trưng Sisters: In the year Kỉ Hợi [ Ji Hai , 39 AD] (It was the 15th year of the era of Emperor Guang Wu of Han, Liu Xiu), the administrator of Jiaozhi, Su Ding ...