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Vietnamese martyrs Paul Mi, Pierre Duong, Pierre Truat, martyred on 18 December 1838 Christians at the time were branded on the face with the words "tả đạo" ( 左 道 , lit. "unorthodox religion") [ 5 ] and families and villages which subscribed to Christianity were obliterated.
This situation was to remain until the late 18th century, when the Tây Sơn uprising, a popular revolt against heavy taxation and corruption, toppled the ruling Nguyễn family in 1776. A Nguyễn prince, Nguyễn Ánh managed to escape. In an attempt to regain power, Nguyễn Ánh sought the assistance of France through French missionaries in ...
In January 1980, the Vietnamese-language magazine office of Van Nghe Tien Phong located in Arlington County, Virginia, was set fire by an explosion but publisher Nguyen Thanh Hoang lived. [3] In 1990, when the last of five journalists was killed, the victim also worked for Van Nghe Tien Phong and the publication reported that victim Triet Le ...
Dương Văn Minh (Vietnamese: [jɨəŋ van miŋ̟] ⓘ; 16 February 1916 – 6 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm.
"Quốc tổ Hùng Vương" by Trọng Nội, 1966, displayed at Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City Statue of Hùng Vương at Hùng Temple, Tao Đàn, HCMC. Hùng king (2879 BC – 258 BC; Chữ Hán: 雄王; Vietnamese: Hùng Vương (雄王) or vua Hùng (𤤰雄); Vương means "king" and vua means "monarch; could mean emperor or king") is the title given to the ancient Vietnamese ...
Nguyễn Văn Cốc was born in December 1942 at Việt Yên of the province of Bắc Giang in French Indochina, north of Hanoi. When he was five-years-old, his father, Nguyen Van Bay (Chairman of the Viet Minh in the district) and his uncle (also a member of the Viet Minh), were killed by the French. Fearing further trouble with the French ...
Trần Bá Dương (born 1960 in Huế) is a Vietnamese entrepreneur. He is the founder of Vietnamese automobile producer THACO.In addition, he is also known as the General Director of Dai Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Joint Stock Company.