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Vietnamese National Heroes (Vietnamese: Anh hùng dân tộc Việt Nam) is a term used by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to designate fourteen prominent figures in the history of Vietnam. These figures would have statues of them built in their home regions, regions where they had significant marks, regions where there are ...
Hung was born in Da Nang, South Vietnam. [5] [6] Following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he immigrated to France at age 12. [7] [8] Hung majored in philosophy at a university in France. By chance, he saw Robert Bresson's film A Man Escaped and decided to study film instead.
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Cyclo (Vietnamese: Xích Lô [sɨt̚˦˥ lo˧˧]) is a 1995 film by Tran Anh Hung.It stars Lê Văn Lộc, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Trần Nữ Yên Khê.The film is about the hard lives of the labor force in early 1990s Ho Chi Minh City, and how people come under the influence of crime.
Trần Thái Tông (17 July 1218 – 5 May 1277), personal name Trần Cảnh or Trần Nhật Cảnh, temple name Thái Tông, was the first emperor of the Trần dynasty, reigned Đại Việt for 33 years (1226–58), being Retired Emperor for 19 years.
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.
Thai was fluent in Mandarin, as well as proficient in writing Nôm, and was known to have a good command of Tày, and Nùng. He knew a little French, Russian and English. Thai's height was 1.75 meters (approx. 5 ft 9), higher than the average height of Vietnamese people in the 20th century.
Phạm Hùng (Vietnamese pronunciation: [faːm˧˨ʔ hʊwŋ͡m˨˩]) was the King of Champa, then known as Lâm Ấp, in the 270 AD. [1]: 323 In 270, Tao Huang, the Chinese governor of Tongking, or Jiaozhi, reported that Phạm Hùng was repeatedly assaulting his land with the aid of Funan.