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  2. Viet Thanh Nguyen - Wikipedia

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    Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist.He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

  3. Đổi Mới - Wikipedia

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    However, the Đổi Mới Policy (Chính sách Đổi Mới) refers specifically to these reforms that sought to transition Vietnam from a command economy to a socialist-oriented market economy. [1] [page needed] The Đổi Mới economic reforms were initiated by the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1986 during the party's 6th National Congress.

  4. Phạm Minh Chính - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, he successfully defended his Doctor of Law thesis, becoming a Doctor of Law. On March 9, 2010, he was conferred the academic title of Associate Professor in Law. [8] Phạm Minh Chính was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam on December 25, 1986, and became an official member on December 25, 1987.

  5. Television and mass media in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The tower is 128 metres tall and is where the 25 kW Channel 9 broadcast antenna of THVN (known as THVN9 since then), Channel 11 and FM 99.9 MHz of AFVN is located. In addition to the main station in Saigon, the Republic of Vietnam also has four local television stations in Huế , Quy Nhơn , Nha Trang and Cần Thơ .

  6. Pho - Wikipedia

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    [23] [46] Gustave Hue (1937) equates cháo phở to the French beef stew pot-au-feu (literally, "pot on the fire"). [9] Accordingly, Western sources generally maintain that phở is derived from pot-au-feu in both name and substance. [2] [9] [47] However, several scholars dispute this etymology, pointing to the significant differences between ...

  7. Kieu Chinh - Wikipedia

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    Dame Kieu Chinh was born on September 3, 1937, in Hanoi with the real name Nguyen Thị Kieu Chinh.. During World War II, her mother and her newly born brother were killed when their hospital was struck by an Allied bombing raid targeting Japanese troops in Hanoi during the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, when Chinh was at the age of six. [1]

  8. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Global distribution of speakers. As a result of emigration, Vietnamese speakers are also found in other parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Vietnamese has also been officially recognized as a minority language in the Czech Republic. [c] As the national language, Vietnamese is the lingua franca in Vietnam.

  9. Aviation - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded powered flight was carried out by Clément Ader on October 9, 1890, in his bat-winged, fully self-propelled fixed-wing aircraft, the Ader Éole. It was reportedly the first manned, powered, heavier-than-air flight of a significant distance (50 m (160 ft)) but insignificant altitude from level ground.