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Most Vietnamese men now wear Western clothing but most Vietnamese women wear the ao dai, a front opening, knee-length, coat-like garment with a stand collar and splits from hem to waist level at each side. The ao dai is tailor-made from plain or...

The term "Sino-Vietnamese culture" designates the part of Vietnamese culture that has been very heavily influenced by China and that uses classical Chinese as its medium of expression. Because Vietnam was part of the Chinese empire from...

Called hat tuong in northern Vietnam and hat boi in southern Vietnam, Vietnamese opera is considered the classical operatic theater of Vietnam. Hat boi translates as "song and gesture," emphasizing the prominence of singing and acting in...

(b. 1942), Vietnamese dissident. Since 1971, when he returned to Vietnam following the completion of his doctorate in education from Florida State University, Hoat has been a leading dissident intellectual in Vietnam. Hoat was assistant chancellor of...

Vietnam /viˌɛtˈnɑm/, /vjɛtˈnɑm/ (Vietnamese: Việt Nam), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Xã hội Chủ nghĩa Việt Nam), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is...

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer witnessed the signing of an agreement Monday requiring all of Vietnam's government offices to use licensed computer software in a step to curb rampant piracy."The agreement demonstrates very strong commitments of the government of Vietnam," in protecting intellectual property rights,...

Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.Nguyen Vu Binh, 39, was released from Nam Ha prison on Saturday under a presidential amnesty, said...

A Vietnamese court sentenced three pro-democracy activists to prison Thursday after convicting them of spreading subversive propaganda, as the communist country continued its latest crackdown against dissent.Prosecutors said the three had collaborated with Cong Thanh Do, a Vietnamese emigre from San Jose, Calif., who was...

Vietnam released a political dissident on Saturday, the second the communist nation has freed ahead of President Nguyen Minh Triet's historic trip to the United States, state media reported.Le Quoc Quan, a 36-year-old lawyer, was released to his family in the capital, Hanoi, the Vietnam...

Although Vietnam's economic boom during the 1990s resulted in progress throughout the country, the unevenness of this progress has worsened the inequality between the richest and poorest regions of the country. The following essay compares the richest region of Vietnam, the Southeast, and the poorest region, the Northwest, focusing mainly on the education and the poverty of the two regions. The essay explores socioeconomic factors, such as HDI and HPI as well.