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Operation Starlite (also known in Vietnam as Battle of Van Tuong) was the first major offensive action conducted by a purely U.S. military unit during the Vietnam War from 18 to 24 August 1965. The operation was launched based on intelligence provided by Major general Nguyen Chanh Thi , the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) I Corps commander.
Van Tuong Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Tường Vân, listen ⓘ; 17 August 1980 – 2 December 2005), baptised Caleb, [1] was an Australian from Melbourne, Victoria convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore.
Better Man is based on the true story of Van Tuong Nguyen, a 25-year-old Vietnamese-Australian man who was arrested in Singapore, convicted of drug trafficking, sentenced to death in 2004, and subsequently hanged in 2005. The series follows the story of a young man who had a tough but loving upbringing with his twin brother and devoted mother.
Colonel Tomb, also Nguyen Toon (Nguyễn Tuân) or Colonel Toon was a mythical North Vietnam Air Force fighter ace loosely based on a North Vietnamese pilot from the 921st Fighter Regiment named Nguyen Van Coc. [1] Tomb allegedly shot down 13 American aircraft during the Vietnam War.
After a weary evening in the airport and disheartening news of a canceled flight, 13 strangers piled into a Hertz rental van in Florida. Among them was a student trying to make her finals, three ...
The nation's busiest runway.An airspace cluttered with passenger planes and military aircraft. A history of near-crashes. And a growing shortage of air traffic controllers available to manage it all.
Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug trafficker (2 December 2005) Khor Kok Soon, one of Singapore's top ten fugitives, caught and convicted of the 1984 Shenton Way shooting and murder of a lorry driver (c. 2006) Lim Thian Lai, a Singaporean gunman who shot and murdered a businessman in 1997 (c. 2006)
Australian Van Tuong Nguyen is executed by hanging in Singapore for drug trafficking. (AP via Yahoo) An independent commission to investigate the Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal is established by Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. (The Sun Malaysia)