Ho Chi Minh
(1890–1969), North Vietnamese president. Born on 19 May 1890 in the village of Kim Lien, in the province of Nghe An in Vietnam, Ho was originally named Nguyen Sinh Cung. At ten, his...
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Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) was the most famous Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman of his time. He was one of the shrewdest, most callous, dedicated, and self-abnegating leaders, a man apart in the in...
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Ho Chi Minh, Politics, and North Vietnam
North Vietnam, September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared independence from France. Ho Chi Minh's "Independence Day" was marked with a new constitution and a ne...
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Ho Chi Minh (bringer of light) was a powerful and respected leader among his followers. He learned at a young age what he wanted, and did what it took to get it. As a young man, he studied how powerfu...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Pioneer Bookstore in Hanoi had advertised the final
Harry Potter book for days and when the bookstore opened its doors at
7:30 am Saturday (0030 GMT), there wa...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Thousands of workers at four factories in Ho Chi
Minh City have gone on strike, Vietnamese press reported Thursday,
joining 8,000 shoe factory workers who laid...
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Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.Tigers prowl impe...
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Angelina Jolie was expected to arrive in Vietnam late Wednesday night to adopt a 3-year-old boy, adoption officials said.Jolie was expected to attend an adoption ceremony with Vietnamese officials ...
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Angelina Jolie plans to adopt a young Vietnamese boy and he probably will be moving to the United States in no more than three months, Vietnam's top adoption official said Wednesday.Jolie chose the...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnamese police have charged two people with
conducting illegal plastic surgeries after the death of a woman who
was having her nose and eyes reshaped, a po...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnam's main stocks index dropped 3 per cent on
Monday, continuing a slide that brought it below the 1,000 threshold
and raising jitters among local investor...
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