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In January 1980, the Vietnamese-language magazine office of Van Nghe Tien Phong located in Arlington County, Virginia, was set fire by an explosion but publisher Nguyen Thanh Hoang lived. [3] In 1990, when the last of five journalists was killed, the victim also worked for Van Nghe Tien Phong and the publication reported that victim Triet Le ...
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.
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 ...
Bronze statue of Nguyễn Công Trứ bronze statue. Nguyễn Công Trứ (阮公著) also Hi Văn (Uy Viễn, Hà Tĩnh 1778–1858) was a Vietnamese poet and scholar. [1]He came up against a lot of obstacles in academic field in which he was really successful only when he reached the age of 42.
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ swən˧˧ fʊwk͡p̚˧˦]; born 20 July 1954) is a Vietnamese former politician who served as the 11th president of Vietnam from 2021 until his resignation in 2023 amidst a series of corruption scandals.
Nguyễn Văn Linh was born in Hưng Yên on 1 July 1915. His original name was Nguyễn Văn Cúc, he would later adopt Nguyễn Văn Linh as his nom de guerre. At age 14, Linh became involved in the underground communist movement against French colonial rule, joining the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. In 1930 at the age of sixteen, Linh ...
[5] [6] Used as the government flag. [7] Influences: c. 1941 – 12 June 1945: Flag of Đại Nam and the Empire of Vietnam. Or, a fess Gules. A yellow field with a single large red stripe (2:3). [8] Designed according to the pattern of the medal riband of the Order of the Dragon of Annam. [7] [5] Emerging in the 1920s as a regal flag of the ...
Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh (1780–1801), also known as Prince Cảnh, was the eldest son of the Vietnamese Prince Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, the future Emperor Gia Long. At the age of seven, he famously visited France with the French Catholic Father Pigneau de Béhaine to sign an alliance between France and Vietnam .