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In Ho Chi Minh City, many of the prostitutes are under 18 years of age. Some forced into the trade because of economic needs. [60] [61] The prostitutes are both girls and boys (called Trai bao ("covered boy") and trai gọi ("call boy")). In addition, children are trafficked due to the demand for prostitution in other countries.
In 2007, Ho Chi Minh City's contribution to the annual revenues in the national budget increased by 30 percent, accounting for about 20.5 percent of total revenues. The consumption demand of Ho Chi Minh City is higher than other Vietnamese provinces and municipalities and 1.5 times higher than that of Hanoi. [88] [failed verification] 2008
North Vietnamese women played an important role in the creation and maintenance of the Ho Chi Minh trail, which the United States National Security Agency called "one of the great achievements of military engineering of the 20th century" for its effectiveness in supplying troops in the south despite being the target of one of the most intense air interdiction campaigns in history. [23]
SGO48 (read S.G.O. Forty-Eight) was a Vietnamese idol girl group based in Saigon, officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.They were the seventh international sister group of AKB48, after Indonesia's JKT48, China's SNH48 (former), Thailand's BNK48, Philippines's MNL48, China's AKB48 Team SH, and Taiwan's AKB48 Team TP, debuted on December 22, 2018, at Crescent Mall, District 7, Ho Chi ...
H'Hen Niê (pronounced [həːhɛnnieɪ] hə-HEN-nee-EH; [citation needed] born 15 May 1992) [1] is a Vietnamese model and beauty pageant titleholder. After winning Miss Universe Vietnam 2017, she represented Vietnam at Miss Universe 2018 and reached the top five, the current best placement for Vietnam.
[23]: 3 The Mỹ Lai massacre is another infamous incident where [25] almost 20 Vietnamese women and girls, some as young as 13, were raped by the U.S. troops. [15]: 202 In August 1967, a 13-year-old Vietnamese girl was raped by an American MI interrogator of the 196th Infantry Brigade [26] while interrogating her as a suspected VC member. A ...
The Vietnamese Women's Museum has compiled, printed and published books and leaflets such as the President Ho Chi Minh with the Cause of Women’s Emancipation (1990 and 2001), Female Soldier of Coconut Corest (1992), female Images in Han & Nom Languages (1996) and We Learn about Cleaners’ Work (May 2007).
Les is a derogatory local Vietnamese term of identification for more globally common labels like lesbian, queer woman, or female homosexual.It is derived mainly from scholarship by Vietnamese-American ethnographer Natalie Newton, who is, at present, the only Western scholar to have centred Vietnam's les as her subject of investigation.