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Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh (chữ Hán: 阮有鏡, 1650–1700), also known as Nguyễn Hữu Kính and his noble rank Lễ Thành Hầu, was a high-ranking general of Lord Nguyễn Phúc Chu. [1] His military expeditions into the Mekong Delta placed the region firmly under Vietnamese administrative control.
Bùi Thanh Hiếu (born February 6, 1972) is a Vietnamese human rights activist and blogger under the username Người Buôn Gió.(lit. ' Wind Merchant ').In 2009, Bùi was detained for ten days by the Vietnamese government for "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State."
While the emperor Tự Đức was alive, Prince Quang Thái was placed under house arrest with his family for having connections with those who opposed him. When the emperor Đồng Khánh died, however, the French colonial authorities and the high-ranking mandarins decided that Quang Thái was the ideal successor and enthroned him as the new Vietnamese emperor, Emperor Thành Thái.