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The Ba Chúc massacre ( Vietnamese: Thảm sát Ba Chúc) was the mass killing of 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, An Giang Province, Vietnam, by the Revolutionary Army of Kampuchea ( Khmer Rouge) from April 18 to 30, 1978. The Khmer Rouge took the local villagers to temples and schools to torture and kill them. The residents who fled to the ...
Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm. On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA -backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh. After nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below ...
t. e. Ngô Đình Diệm ( / djɛm / dyem, [ 2] / ˈjiːəm / YEE-əm or / ziːm / zeem; Vietnamese: [ŋō ɗìn jîəmˀ] ⓘ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic of Vietnam) from ...
v. t. e. Đổi Mới ( IPA: [ɗo᷉i mə̌ːi]; transl. "renovation" or "innovation") is the name given to the economic reforms initiated in Vietnam in 1986 with the goal of creating a "socialist-oriented market economy". The term đổi mới itself is a general term with wide use in the Vietnamese language meaning "innovate" or "renovate".
The country scrapped the 20% flat tax rate charged to those in “high value-added” jobs like doctors, tech workers, and journalists in October. Instead, skilled foreign workers would fall under ...
The United States and Vietnam are discussing the sale of Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules military transport planes to Hanoi, two people familiar with the discussions said, in a sign of closer ...
The French government was investigating after multiple telecommunications lines were hit by acts of vandalism Monday, affecting fiber lines and fixed and mobile phone lines as cities around France ...
hochiminhcity .gov .vn. Ho Chi Minh City ( HCMC; Vietnamese: Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh ), commonly known as Saigon (Vietnamese: Sài Gòn ), is the most populous city in Vietnam, with a population of around 10 million in 2023. [7] The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the eponymously-named Saigon River is the largest.