Clothing, Traditional—Vietnam
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 sp...
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Ho Tung Mau
(1896–1951), Vietnamese anticolonial leader. Ho Tung Mau was born in Quynh Doi village in Nghe An Province (in north-central Vietnam) in 1896. The son of a Vietnamese scholar, he ob...
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Hoang Ngoc Phach
(d. 1973), Vietnamese writer. Although known as the author who introduced the romantic novel into Vietnamese literature with his work To Tam, Hoang Ngoc Phach's biography reads...
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Hoat, Doan Viet
(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 d...
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Opera—Vietnam
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 ...
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Sino-Vietnamese Culture
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...
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Vietnam—Profile
(2001 est. pop. 79.9 million). Vietnam occupies the eastern portion of the Indochinese peninsula, bordered on the north by China, on the west by Laos and Cambodia, and on the ea...
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Vietnam
Socialist Republic of Vietnam Cong Hoa Chu Nghia Viet Nam
CAPITAL: Hanoi
FLAG: The flag is red with a five-pointed gold star in the center.
ANTHEM: Tien Quan Ça (Forward, Soldiers!).
MO...
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Vietnam
American involvement in Vietnam began in the mid-1950s, as the French, defeated on the battlefield by the communist Viet Minh, began to withdraw all military forces out of their former colony....
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Vietnam
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is located in central Southeast Asia. It is bordered on the west by Cambodia and Laos and on the north by China. On the east, it is bordered by the South Chin...
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Vietnam
POPULATION 81,098,416BUDDHIST 84 percentCHRISTIAN 10 percentCAO DAI 3 percentHOA HAO 2 percentOTHER 1 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
Extending south from China in a long, narrow S-...
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INTRODUCTION
Vietnam's developmental path has not been one without doubts. Strangely, it has been ravaged by war and rarely peaceful. Since the Declaration of Independence in 1945, the government ha...
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The folktale recounted in this unit is titled Why the Monsoon Comes Each Year. It is illustrated with bold line art that will help hold your students' attention, as they begin their education in Vi...
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Area: 329,315 sq km (127,149 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 83,458,000Capital:
Hanoi
Chief of state:
Presidents
Tran Duc
Luong and, from June 27, Nguyen Minh
Triet
Head of government:
Prime Min...
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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 ...
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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 r...
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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 again...
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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...
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For a short time last year, things were looking up for the tiny band of Vietnamese dissidents who dared challenge the Communist Party's monopoly on power. They circulated petitions for democracy, o...
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Vietnam has abolished a measure used to hold dissidents without trial, a government official said Wednesday. However, analysts said the move could prove to be largely symbolic.President Nguyen Minh...
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A dissident Vietnamese writer who received an international human rights award for courage was sentenced Thursday to nine months in prison for disturbing the public order, a court official said.Tra...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnamese health officials are monitoring an
outbreak of cholera in northern provinces that has seen more than 100
people hospitalized, officia...
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Werner Herzog isn’t a name you usually associate with Hollywood. His niche has always been in the realm of the weird and wonderful, depicting protagonists — both in his narrative films ...
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