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11–22 December – Malaysia bags 43 gold medals in the 2013 Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar. 22 December – Liow Tiong Lai is elected as Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) party president 22 December – A series of bomb blasts in three Southern Thailand 's town of Padang Besar , Sadao and Danok near Malaysia–Thailand border . 24 people ...
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After the Fall of Saigon, in 1975 (at the end of the Vietnam War) Malaysia experienced the immigration of Vietnamese refugees. The first refugee boat that arrived in Malaysia was in May 1975, carrying 47 people. [2] A Vietnamese refugee camp was established later in Pulau Bidong in August 1978 with the assistance of the United Nations.
Van Tuong Nguyen and his twin brother, Dang Khoa Nguyen, were born in a refugee camp at Songkhla in Thailand to Vietnamese parents. [2] He did not know his father until 2001 when he travelled from the United States to Australia. [2] His mother, Kim, is Vietnamese and migrated to Australia shortly after the boys' birth. [2]
FPT, officially the FPT Corporation (Vietnamese: Công ty Cổ phần FPT, lit. 'FPT Joint Stock Company'; "FPT" stands for Financing and Promoting Technology), is the largest information technology service company in Vietnam with operations spanning three fundamental sectors: Technology, Telecommunications and Education.
The 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix (officially the 2013 Formula 1 Petronas Malaysia Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Selangor on 24 March 2013 before 90,000 people. It was the second round of the 2013 Formula One World Championship, and the 15th Formula One race held in Malaysia.
Malaysia at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games; IOC code: MAS: NOC: Olympic Council of Malaysia: Website: www.olympic.org.my (in English) in Naypyidaw; Competitors: 556 in 29 sports: Flag bearer: Sazali Samad (bodybuilding) Officials: 199: Medals Ranked 5th: Gold 43 Silver 38 Bronze 79 Total 160: Southeast Asian Games appearances
During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...