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On 4 July 1968 the base was subjected to a heavy People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) rocket and mortar attack followed by probes on the base perimeter resulting in 5 U.S. and 16 PAVN killed. On 23 February 1969 the base was attacked by PAVN sappers. SSGT Robert W. Hartsock would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the ...
Watsons personal care stores were subsequently opened in Malaysia (1994), Thailand (1996), and a revival in the Philippines (2002) after 92 years. [5] [13] The first Watsons store in Indonesia opened on 13 January 2006 in Jakarta. [14] In 2019, Watsons reached 7,800 stores and expanded to Vietnam, the 13th operating market of Watsons. [15]
Vietnam has vented a number of frustrations over the slow pace of economic cooperation with China, even as the two nations agreed to speed up the establishment of a hotline to deal with marine ...
The publishing house was established in 1957 "to introduce readers around the world to Vietnam" through publications in English, French and other foreign languages. [1] From 1957 to 1992 it was known as the Foreign Languages Publishing House and also as the Editions en Langues Etrangères ( Nhà xuất bản ngoại văn ).
Vietnam News Agency (VNA; Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam (TTXVN), French: L’Agence vietnamienne d’information, lit. 'Vietnamese Information Agency' (AVI)) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Dầu Tiếng Lake is an artificial lake in the three provinces of Tây Ninh, Bình Dương, and Bình Phước in the Southeast region, Vietnam. The lake was formed by damming the upper reaches of the Saigon River, making it the largest irrigation reservoir in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Construction of the lake began in 1981 after surveys ...
Map of Vietnam showing the conquest of the south (nam tiến, 1069–1834)Nam tiến (Vietnamese: [nam tǐən]; chữ Hán: 南進; lit. "southward advance" or "march to the south") is a historiographical concept [a] [2] that describes the historic southward expansion of the territory of Vietnamese dynasties' dominions and ethnic Kinh people from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam.The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam.