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The partition was supposed to be temporary, and the two zones were meant to be reunited through national elections in 1956, [112] which were never held. The last French forces withdrew from Vietnam in 1956. [113] General Georges Catroux presided over a commission of inquiry into the defeat. The commission's final report ("Rapport concernant la ...
Vietnamese women and girls are usually the main targets to be kidnapped and smuggled across the border. They are forced or sold to prostitution or marriage. [2] Trafficked Vietnamese wives are often sold to poorer local Chinese men in small border villages, where some are subject to physical torture and mental abuse.
Viet Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Việt, 25 February 1981 – 6 October 2007) and Duc Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Đức, born 25 February 1981) were a pair of Vietnamese conjoined twins surgically separated in 1988. Viet died in 2007 of natural causes. Viet and Duc were born on 25 February 1981, in Sa Thầy, Kon Tum Province. Viet was the ...
The International Control Commission (abbreviated ICC; French: Commission Internationale de Contrôle, or CIC), was an international force established in 1954. [3] More formally called the International Commission for Supervision and Control, the organisation was actually organised as three separate but interconnected bodies, one for each territory within the former French Indochina, being ...
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
However, North Vietnam became a UN observer in 1975 while South Vietnam had already been since 1952. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Kuwait was the last country to recognize and establish diplomatic relations with the Republic of South Vietnam on 22 and 24 January 1976, before North and South Vietnam were eventually reunited on 2 July 1976.
A USAF Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, 68-0218, c/n 500-0021, taking part in Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, experiences an explosive decompression about 40 mi (64 km) outside Saigon when the rear ramp and pressure door blow out, damaging the plane's flight controls.
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...