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Trương Mỹ Lan was born on 13 October 1956, in Saigon, South Vietnam. [citation needed] Her family is of Teochew heritage, from the village of Gezhou (Chinese: 葛洲) in Shantou, Guangdong; [3] [4] [5] settling in "Little Gezhou" (Chinese: 浸石), Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), an uncle founded the maritime business Hòa Thuận Phát (Chinese: 和順發) in Chợ Lớn.
The Hoa people, also known as Vietnamese Chinese ( Vietnamese: Người Hoa, Chinese: 華人; pinyin: Huárén or Chinese: 唐人; Jyutping: tong4 jan4) are the citizens and nationals of Vietnam of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry. Chinese migration into Vietnam dates back millennia but allusions to the contemporary Hoa today mostly refers ...
Nguyễn Trung Trực (1838 [b] – 27 October 1868), born Nguyễn Văn Lịch, was a Vietnamese fisherman who organized and led village militia forces which fought against French colonial forces in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam in the 1860s.
When a Vietnamese American video tape store owner displayed the current flag of Vietnam and a photo of Ho Chi Minh in front of his store in Westminster, California, in 1999, a month-long protest against it climaxed when 15,000 people held a candlelight vigil one night, sparking the Hi-Tek incident (Hi-Tek was the name of the store). [27]
Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank or Saigon Commercial Bank, abbreviated as SCB ( Vietnamese: Ngân hàng Thương mại cổ phần Sài Gòn ), [ 3] is the largest commercial bank in Vietnam by assets, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. [ 4][ 5][ 6] It was founded by the fusion of 3 small banks and was controlled by ...
District 1 ( Quận 1, Quận Một, Quận Nhất or Quận Nhứt) is the central urban district of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the largest city in Vietnam. With a total area of 7.7211 km 2 (2.9811 sq mi) the district has a population of 204,899 people as of 2010. [ 1] The district is divided into 10 small subsets which are called wards ...
The fall of Saigon[ 9] was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the collapse of the South Vietnamese state, leading to a transition period and the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam under ...
Hồng Ninh (洪寧) (1591–1592) Mạc Mậu Hợp (莫茂洽) 1562–1592. Mạc Toàn (莫全) Vũ An (武安) (1592–1592) Mạc Toàn (莫全) 1592. Mạc Chính Trung claimed himself as emperor of Mạc dynasty, however Mạc dynasty never considered him as official emperor. After internal fighting with his brothers, he fled to the Ming ...