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In May 1941 the Eighth Congress of the Indochinese Communist Party decided to form the Viet Minh; Giáp was made responsible for establishing an intelligence network and organising political bases in the far north of the country. To begin propaganda work among the population, a news-sheet called Việt Nam Độc Lập was produced. Giáp wrote ...
The National flag is flown at half-staff in front the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum during Võ Nguyên Giáp's state funeral.. General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who led the Viet Minh forces during the First Indochina War and the North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War, died on October 4, 2013, after a long stay at the 108 Hospital in Hanoi.
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam.The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam.
One of their first resolutions was to alter the national name to Việt Nam. This was seen as a significant and urgent task. It implied territorial unity; "Việt Nam" had been Emperor Gia Long's choice for the name of the country since he unified the modern territory of Việt Nam in 1802. Furthermore, this was the first time that Vietnamese ...
The People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces Arms (Vietnamese: Binh chủng Đặc công, Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam), officially the Special Operation Force Arms or Special Operation Arms, [1] is the elite combat armed service of the People's Army of Vietnam, led by the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army.
Whitehead Refugee Camp, HK disused in 2008 The old RAF headquarters on Kwun Tong Road, Kai Tak, which housed boat people until 1997. Bat lau dung laai (Chinese: 不漏洞拉 or 北漏洞拉 [1]; Jyutping: bat1 lau6 dung6 laai1) is a Hong Kong Cantonese corruption of the Vietnamese phrase bắt đầu từ nay, meaning "from now on" (bắt đầu = begin, start; từ = "from", nay = "now ...
The Vietnamese zodiac (Vietnamese: Mười hai con giáp) is the traditional Vietnamese classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The Viet lunar calendar is divided into 60-year cycles known as hồi. Each of these consists of five 12-year ...
Like many other Vietnamese high schools, Võ Nguyên Giáp High School for the Gifted includes students in grades 10, 11, and 12. The school aims to develop students' talents in one or two subjects as well as to ensure their comprehensive development. There are ten distinct classes per grade.