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Cửa Bắc Church ("Northern Gate Church", Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Cửa Bắc, French: Église Cửa Bắc) is a Roman Catholic church in Hanoi, Vietnam.Originally named as Church of Our Lady of the Martyrs (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Nữ Vương Các Thánh Tử Đạo), the church was built in 1931 by the French administration of Indochina as a part of the Hanoi's urban plan supervised by ...
Hàng Mã Street (phố Hàng Mã) is a street in Hanoi famous for selling toys, paper goods, and in particular paper votive offerings. The street has been selling paper goods for more than 500 years. [1] The street carries some of the wares of religious goods stores.
He adopted the name Jean-Baptiste Pétrus Trương Chánh Ký, but later changed his name to Pétrus Trương Vĩnh Ký. In Cái Nhum, there was a Christian missionary teaching the Latin language. At the age of 11, Vĩnh Ký studied the Christian Bible with Father Hoa (Father Belleveaux) and followed him to the Pinhalu School in Phnom Penh ...
Trương Mỹ Lan (born 13 October 1956) is a Vietnamese businesswoman who founded the real estate development group Vạn Thịnh Phát Group , of which she is on the board of directors. A key figure in Vietnam's largest, multi-billion-dollar financial fraud , Lan was sentenced to death for embezzlement , bribery, and violations of banking ...
The left hall "contains a collection of Khai Dinh's personal memorabilia, including photographs, gifts from the French government, such as silver and porcelain dinner sets, bejeweled belts, swords and ornaments as well as a realistic bronze statue (life-size at 160 cm in height) of a martial-looking Khai Dinh in full regalia carrying a sword."
' gourd crab fish tiger '; also Bầu cua tôm cá or Lắc bầu cua) is a Vietnamese gambling game using three dice. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The game is often played at Vietnamese New Year . Instead of showing one to six pips, the sides of the dice have pictures of a fish ; a prawn ; a crab ; a cock ; a calabash ; and a stag (or a tiger ).