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Laos–Vietnam relations ( Vietnamese: Quan hệ Lào – Việt Nam) ( Laotian: ການພົວພັນ ລາວ-ຫວຽດນາມ) refers to the current and historical relationship between the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The relationship, although seen as better than Vietnam-Cambodia ties, are ...
Website. buonmathuot .gov .vn (in Vietnamese) 12°40′N108°3′E / 12.667°N 108.050°EBuôn Ma Thuột (formerly Lạc Giao) [1] or sometimes Buôn Mê Thuột or Ban Mê Thuột ( listen ⓘ ), is the capital city of Đắk Lắk Province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Its population was 375,590 in 2019. [2]
Founded. 1957. Country of origin. Vietnam. Headquarters location. Hanoi. Official website. thegioipublishers.vn. Thế Giới Publishers ( Vietnamese: Nhà xuất bản Thế Giới, literally "World Publishers") is Vietnam 's official foreign language publishing house.
t. e. North Vietnam supported the Pathet Lao to fight against the Kingdom of Laos between 1958 and 1959. Control over Laos allowed for the eventual construction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail that would serve as the main supply route for enhanced NLF (the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong) and NVA ( North Vietnamese Army) activities in the ...
However, North Vietnam never withdrew from Laos and the Pathet Lao remained little more than a proxy army for Vietnamese interests. After the fall of South Vietnam to communist forces in April 1975, the Pathet Lao with the backing of North Vietnam were able to take total power with little resistance. On 2 December 1975, the king was forced to ...
Laos, [e] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( LPDR ), [f] is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia [g]. At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and ...
Battle of Nam Bac. The Battle of Nam Bac was one of the major engagements of the Laotian Civil War. Despite misgivings about their potential performance the Royal Lao Army moved in to occupy the Nam Bac Valley in August 1966; the position would block a traditional Vietnamese invasion route that led to the Lao royal capitol, Luang Prabang .
Good-luck charms of Prince Phetxarāt, who many Lao believe possessed magical powers, are widely sold in Laos today. On 27 August 1945 Prince Phetxarāt took charge of Viang Chan from the Japanese, although as Prime Minister of Luang Phrabāng he had no authority outside the Kingdom's borders. The French were already in control of Luang ...