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10 unusual facts about Vietnam


17th parallel north

The parallel is particularly significant in the history of Vietnam (see below).

Hanoi Vocational Education and Training Company

The company, licensed under the Vietnamese Ministry of Education, has its main office in Hanoi, Vietnam and is a member of Vietnamese Vocational Training Association (VVTA).

Nguyễn Chích

Nguyễn Chích (阮隻) also Nguyễn Chính (1382–1448) was an ethnic-Mường general and advisor of Annamese national leader Lê Lợi.

Polymer substrate

Countries whose whole banknote production is in polymer are: Australia, Romania, Vietnam and New Zealand.

Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre

This centre was established in 1988 by an agreement between the Ministry of National Defense (Vietnam) and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vietnam, Long Time Coming

The event drew an array of veterans from the U.S. and Vietnam, as well as celebrity riders like Greg LeMond and Senator John Kerry.

Vietnam, Long Time Coming is a documentary released in 1998 by Kartemquin Films.

Vietnam: The Last Battle

Veteran Robert Muller, interviewed on China Beach, calls the war a lie and talks about his own belief of this soon after his landing there in 1965.

Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War

The series was released on videocassette format by Embassy and won a National Education Association award for best world documentary.

Vietnam's Next Top Model

It occurred around New York Fashion Week (NYFW F/W 2012) in which Huyền Trang (cycle 1 winner), Tuyết Lan (cycle 1 runner-up) and Hoàng Thùy (currently cycle 2 winner) seemingly participated.


17th parallel

Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, between North and South Vietnam (1954–76) at approximately the 17th parallel north

1970 Pulitzer Prize

Seymour M. Hersh of the Dispatch News Service, Washington, D.C. For his exclusive disclosure of the Vietnam War tragedy at the hamlet of My Lai.

Alfred M. Gray, Jr.

After his Vietnam War tour, Gray served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Battalion Landing Team 1/2; the 2nd Marine Regiment; the 4th Marine Regiment; and Camp Commander of Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan.

Bach Xuan Nguyen

After the death of Lê Văn Duyệt, the viceroy of southern Vietnam in 1832, the emperor Minh Mạng, who was involved in a power struggle with Duyệt, appointed Nguyễn to investigate the viceroy's administration.

Bark paper

Dó paper, a paper traditionally produced in many villages in Vietnam.

Borders of Malaysia

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Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder

Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (also known in Australia as Vietnam: Hell or Glory) is a 1982 film directed by Peter Werner and written by Paul G. Hensler, set in the Vietnam War.

Gary Rader

In December 1967, he took part in an interview which was broadcast on WAMU, the second part of a series on the Vietnam War; the first part's interview subject had been General William Westmoreland.

Hanoi Contemporary Arts Centre

The Contemporary Arts Centre is located in Hanoi, Vietnam that showcases modern Vietnamese art.

Huỳnh Quang Thanh

Huỳnh Quang Thanh (born on October 10, 1984 in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese footballer who is a defender for Becamex Bình Dương.

John Everingham

During the Vietnam War he received acclaim from the mainstream media, and disdain from the American military, for his reporting on the effects of B-52 dumping runs on their way back to bases in Udon Thani, Thailand — when bombers didn't drop all their payload over Hanoi, they dumped their bombs in Laos to cut the risk of accidents on landing, which led to innocent rural Lao and Hmong being killed.

John J. Hennessey

As a brigadier general he served as assistant division commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, then became assistant division commander of the 101st Airborne Division, deploying with that unit to Vietnam as its commander in 1970.

John Wheeldon

He strongly opposed the Vietnam War and (though no supporter of Communism) visited North Vietnam at the invitation of the North Vietnam peace committee, while Australia was involved in fighting in South Vietnam.

Kateb Yacine

He left for Vietnam in 1967, completely abandoning the novel and wrote 'L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc', a controversial play celebrating Ho Chi Minh that was published, performed and translated into Arabic in 1970.

Khmer Special Forces

Under the auspices of Operation “Freedom Runner” – a FANK training program set up in November 1971 by the United States Special Forces (USSF) –, Khmer Special Forces teams began to be sent to South Vietnam to attend Parachute courses at the ARVN Airborne Training Center in Long Thành, and the Special Forces’ (SF) course at the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces (LLDB) Dong Ba Thin Training Center near Cam Ranh Bay.

Kucong language

Kucong, or Black Lahu, is spoken in the following villages of Ca Lăng Commune, Mường Tè District, Lai Châu Province, Vietnam (Edmondson 2002).

Lê Hoàn

Responding to popular demand, in 1010 the commander of the palace guard Lý Công Uẩn seized the throne and founded the Lý Dynasty, the first long-lived imperial dynasty of Vietnam.

Lindzay Chan

As a long working partner of Hong Kong film director Evans Chan, she was named Best Actress at the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in To Liv(e) (1992) for the role of Rubie, who writes a letter to Swedish actress Liv Ullmann against her criticism of Hong Kong's policy in expelling Vietnamese boat people.

Lý Nam Đế

Upon resignation of his post he gathered the local nobility and tribes within the Red River Valley (North Vietnam) mobilized the imperial troops and naval fleet of Jiaozhou and successfully expelled the Liang administration and led the insurrection that ended in 543.

Martyn Finlay

In 1964, he argued during a parliamentary speech that the Viet Cong were the only effective opposition in South Vietnam, but still accepted the general consensus within New Zealand government circles that the Viet Cong were being supported by North Vietnam and the People's Republic of China.

Midcap

CBV MidCap, stock market index indicating 30 out of 60 stock prices of medium-size companies in Vietnam

Naval Forces Vietnam

During the first week of April the first of ten graduates of the Army's special basic intelligence course for Vietnam, conducted at Fort Holabird, arrived in country.

Neil Sheehan

Sheehan eventually completed the book, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988, published by Random House and edited by Robert Loomis).

Nguyen Huu Chanh

In 1995, was selected by a members of the Government of Free Vietnam as Prime Minister, General Linh Quang Vien as Vice Prime Minister, Admiral Lam Nguon Tanh as Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nguyen Khac Chinh as the Minister of Information, Mr. Nguyen Huy Dau as Minister of Justice, Nguyen Son Ha as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Edgar Foshee as Chairman of the International Committee, and Mr. Ngo Trong Anh as President of the advisory council.

Nha Trang Airport

Nha Trang Airport may refer to the 2 airports serving Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.

Nuclear energy in Vietnam

when Vietnam - one of the first nations under the Atoms for Peace program, orders a small research reactor, the General Atomics-built TRIGA-Mark II.

Ocean View

Ocean View, Viet Nam, the northernmost U.S. Marine Corps observation post in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Professor Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan, Vietnam's current Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education & Training, is also an alumnus of the Technical University.

Paris By Night 90

An introductory speech was presented by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, discussing the resilience, strength, care and contributions of the Vietnamese woman in Vietnam and abroad; as well, she wore the traditional Vietnamese dress, an Ao Dai.

Paul Seitz

Men of Dignity: The Montagnards of South Vietnam, Bar-le-Duc, France: Imprimerie Saint-Paul

Pondok Pesantren Minhaajurrosyidiin Jakarta

Santriwan-santriwati from all over Indonesia and from abroad, from Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Suriname and Vietnam.

Qu Yuan

The countries around China, such as Vietnam and Korea, also celebrate variations of this Dragon Boat Festival as part of their shared cultural heritage.

Raymond Schlemmer

In late 1937, French Scouting sent Scoutmaster Schlemmer to the Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese areas of Indochina to oversee the setting up of the Fédération Indochinoise des Associations du Scoutisme (FIAS, Indochinese Federation of Scouting Associations) in all three regions.

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

The Sabres began to play a role in the Vietnam War in 1965, when their air defence responsibilities expanded to include protection of USAF aircraft using Ubon as a base for strikes against North Vietnam.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The 'Nam

Vietnam veteran Don Lomax, creator of the independent title Vietnam Journal, took over writing duties for The 'Nam in the early 1990s.

Marine Corps veteran and former Newsweek editor William Broyles, Jr., praised the comic for having "a certain gritty reality," but Jan Scruggs, President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, questioned if the Vietnam War should be the subject of a comic book and if it might trivialize it.

The Last Hunter

Director Antonio Margheriti decided to make a Vietnam War film due to the success of the American film The Deer Hunter.

The War Within

The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam, a 1994 book by Tom Wells on America's internal battle over the war in Vietnam

Tomas Vu

In his 2000 installation, Hamburger Hill, at Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg, Austria, Vu constructed a recreation of the Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam.

USS Maddox

This warship was involved in the Vietnam War's only US naval surface engagement against North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron (Gulf of Tonkin Incident), which led to direct open warfare between the nation of North Vietnam and the United States on 7 August 1964 (Tonkin Gulf Resolution).

Vicente Liem de la Paz

Vicente Liem de la Paz (Vietnamese: Vinh Sơn Phạm Hiếu Liêm) (1732 – November 7, 1773) was a Tonkinese (present day northern Vietnam) Dominican friar venerated as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic Church.

Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội

Some members went back to Vietnam while others stayed in the border provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi along the Chinese border with Vietnam.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

(VVMF), was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War.

Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League

The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League believes in politically pressuring the Communist government of Vietnam to reach it goals so the Vietnamese people would have the opportunity to choose a Constitutional Monarchy government in an election, which does not violate the U.S. Neutrality Act.

Vsevolod Bazhenov

In 1962 Bazhenov embarked on a working voyage on the ship "Eugene Nikishin", from Leningrad to Vladivostok around Europe and Asia with stops in ports of Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore and Vietnam.

When I Came Home

When I Came Home is a 2006 documentary directed by Dan Lohaus about homeless veterans in the United States - from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the Iraq War.

Winter Soldier

Winter Soldier Investigation, an inquiry into American war crimes during the Vietnam War, held in 1971

Wong shadow

Its origins lie in American R&B, surf rock artists like The Ventures, Dick Dale, Exotica, rockabilly and country and western brought over by American and Australian Soldiers serving in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 60's when on R&R.

Yan Can Cook

Martin's style of presentation is infused with a little bit of humour, with the series shown widely on public television in the United States, on Food Network in Canada and on HTV in Vietnam.