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Nam Cao was born on October 29, 1915, to a poor farming family in Lý Nhân District, Hà Nam Province with saint's name Giuse (Joseph). [1] He was the only child in the Christian family who received a full education. After finishing high school, he headed to [Saigon] working as a clerk in a tailor’s; his first works were written during this ...
Thanh Lan (born 1 March 1948) is a popular Vietnamese American singer and actress. She was unable to leave Vietnam at the Fall of Saigon in 1975. In 1994 during a sponsored series of concerts in the United States, Vietnamese protesters accused her of colluding with the Hanoi government and being a communist sympathizer. [ 1 ]
Viet Anh was born in 1981 in Hanoi.He is the youngest of two siblings, his older brother Nguyen Le Viet Thang is 2 years older than him. Although both his parents were state civil servants, due to the economic difficulties of that time, his whole family lived with his grandparents and 2 uncles in an apartment on the 4th floor of Kim Lien Collective Area, Đống Đa district.
The Vietnamese government often groups the various provinces and municipalities into three regions: Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam, and Southern Vietnam.These regions can be further subdivided into eight subregions: Northeast Vietnam, Northwest Vietnam, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast, the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, Southeast Vietnam, and the Mekong River Delta.
Vietnam has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1993. The award, previously named the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, [a] is presented annually by the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. [2]
By texts from Thiều Chửu, Dr. Lê Chí Quế and Trần Chí Dõi, its name Cửa-lùa (before) or Cửa-lò (in present) was a classical Annamese pronunciation of Malayo-Polynesian word keluar, or kuala, or simply k'la (kẻ-la, what is similar cổ-loa [1]) which means the point where two rivers join or an estuary. [2]
Cửa Việt Base (also known as Cửa Việt Combat Base, Cửa Việt Naval Support Activity, Camp Kistler or simply Cửa Việt) is a former U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base north of Quảng Trị in central Vietnam.
Traditionally, people in Vietnam, particularly North Vietnam, addressed parents using the first child's name. When being addressed within the family, children are sometimes referred to by their birth number, starting with one in the north but two in the south. That practice is less common recently, especially in the north. Double names are also ...