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A story based on the life of sleeper agent Albert Phạm Ngọc Thảo with character Robert Nguyễn Thành Luân (Nguyễn Chánh Tín) during 1956–63.. Its title Cards on the Table stems from the habit of playing cards in Chợ Lớn residents, where filmmaker Lê Hoàng Hoa and many colleagues have been attached since childhood.
[1] [8] [9] [10] 9 August 1987: Tap Van Pham (a.k.a. Hoai Diep Tu) Mai: Garden Grove, California: He was assassinated by arson while sleeping in his office by an anti-communist group that took responsibility. [1] [8] [9] 24 August 1982: Nguyen Dam Phong: Tu Do (Freedom) Houston, Texas: Was assassinated at his home by an anti-communist group. [1 ...
The Studies and Observations Group (also known as SOG, MACSOG, and MACV-SOG) was a top secret, joint unconventional warfare task force created on 24 January 1964 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a subsidiary command of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV).
The southern coast of the province is protected in the Mu Ko Phetra National Park. The estuary of the Trang River together with the Hat Chao Mai Marine National Park [6] and Ko Libong Non-hunting Area are also registered Ramsar wetlands. The total forest area is 1,093 km 2 (422 sq mi) or 23.1 percent of provincial area. [1]
At this time there were briefly four competing writing systems in Vietnam; chữ Hán, chữ Nôm, chữ Quốc ngữ, and French. [49] Although Gia Định Báo, the first Vietnamese newspaper in chữ Quốc ngữ, was founded in 1865, Vietnamese nationalists continued to use chữ Nôm until after the First World War.
Mueang Trang (Thai: เมืองตรัง, pronounced [mɯ̄a̯ŋ trāŋ]), also Mueang Thap Thiang (Thai: เมืองทับเที่ยง), is the capital district (amphoe mueang) of Trang province, Thailand. The city (thesaban nakhon) has a population of 59,637 (2005) and covers tambon Thap Thiang of Mueang Trang District.
An area of 12.87 km 2 (4.97 sq mi) of the western communes of Diên An and Diên Toàn is planned to be merged into Nha Trang which will make its new area 265.47 km 2 (102.50 sq mi) based on the approval of the Prime Minister of Vietnam in September 2012.
Ngô Văn Xuyết (1913 – 1 January 2005), [1] alias Ngô Văn was a Vietnamese revolutionary who chronicled labour and peasant insurrections caught "in the crossfire" [2] between the colonial French and the Indochinese Communist Party of Nguyễn Ái Quốc (Ho Chi Minh).