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Chí Hòa Prison
Chí Hòa Prison ( or ') is a functioning Vietnamese prison located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The prison is an octagonal building on a 7-hectare siteVài nét về khám Chí Hòa - Giới thiệu , Government of Ho Chi Minh city, Accessed 10/12/2010 consisting of detention rooms, jail cells, prison walls, watchtowers, facilities and prisoner's farmlands. The prison is one of 12 national prisons in Vietnam.Mitchel P. Roth, ''Prisons and prison systems: a global encyclopedia'', page 288 Publisher: Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Press, 2006. Originally built by the French Indochina colonial government in 1943 (or 1939) to replace the |
Overview Of Chi Hoa Prison
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Nguyễn Văn Trỗi
Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (1 February 1940Staff report (16 October 1964)''Time'' (only available online for subscribers). The article describes Trỗi as aged 17 at the time of his execution, although other sources cite 1940 as his year of birth, making him 24 years old at death, which may be more likely given he was married at the time of his death, although the exact year or date of his birth may never be known. – 15 October 1964) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and member of the Việt Cộng (National Liberation Front). He gained notoriety after being captured by South Vietnamese forces while trying to assassinate United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. who were visiting South Vietnam in May 1964.Greene, Felix Greene (1966). ''Vietnam! Vietnam! In photographs and text''. Palo Alto, California: Fulton Publishing Company, LCCN 66-28359 Sentence and execution In May 1964 Viet Cong forces planned to assassinate McNamara and Lodge by b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phuoc Tam Ngon
Phước ( vi, Phước) is a common gender-neutral name originating from Vietnam. It means "blessing" or "lucky". Notable people with this name include: Given name *Lưu Hữu Phước (1921-89), Vietnamese composer *Lê Văn Phước (b. 1929), Vietnamese Olympic cyclist *Ho Henh Phươc (b. 1940), Vietnamese Olympic athlete *Hoàng Quý Phước (b. 1993), Vietnamese swimmer Middle name *Nguyễn Phước Vĩnh Lộc (1923-2009), Vietnamese general *Châu Phước Vĩnh (b. 1927), Vietnamese Olympic cyclist *Crown Prince Nguyễn Phước Bảo Long (1934–2007) *Lê Phước Tứ (b. 1984), Vietnamese footballer *Châu Lê Phước Vĩnh (b. 1985), Vietnamese footballer *Phạm Phước Hưng (b. 1988), Vietnamese Olympic gymnast *Trần Phước Thọ Trần Phước Thọ (5 March 1993 – 17 April 2016) was a Vietnamese footballer who last played as a defender for the V-League club Đồng Tâm Long An He was a former member of the Vietnam national under-23 football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vũ Vũ Gia
Vũ or Võ (武 or rarely 禹) is a common Vietnamese surname. Vũ is primarily used by Vietnamese who live in the north, while Võ mostly is used by Vietnamese who live in the south (from Quảng Bình Province to the south). The latinized vũ has a noun meaning of "feather", and as a verb refers to the act of dancing, while the latinized võ has a very different meaning, referring to military service, the art of fighting, wrestling or judo. ''Vũ'' might also be derived from 雨, meaning rain. Academia *Tuan Vo-Dinh (Võ Đình Tuấn) - Vietnamese biochemist, b. 1948 *Võ Tòng Xuân - Vietnamese former university administrator, also known as Dr. Rice, b. 1940 Arts and Entertainment *Võ Hoàng Yến – Vietnamese supermodel, b. 1988 *Tom Vu – Vietnamese-American poker player and former infomercial star, b. 1957 Military *Võ Tánh – Vietnamese 18th century military commander, d. 1801 *Võ Nguyên Giáp – Vietnamese 20th century military commander, d. 2013 Polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vũ Hồng Khanh
Vũ Hồng Khanh (1898 – 14 November 1993) born Vũ Văn Giảng, was a Vietnamese revolutionary of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng faction. Vũ Hồng Khanh left Vietnam for Yunnan during the French colonial crackdown of 1930 and enrolled in a Kuomintang military school in Kunming. He graduated and was granted a commission in the Nationalist Chinese Twentieth Army Corps, where he rose quickly to the rank of brigadier general. In 1941 he took on the role of head of a school training Vietnamese, Burmese and Thai recruits. He became the vice-president of the "Government of National Unity," March to October 1946. After Mao declared a communist state in Beijing in 1949 the exiled Vietnamese nationalists in China formed the Liên Minh, supporting Cường Để and opposing both the French and the communists. Following the fall of Guangzhou to the communists the headquarters of the exiles moved to Hainan island, and Vũ Hồng Khanh became the leader of the part of the organisation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võ Thị Sáu
Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Vietnamese schoolgirl who fought as a guerilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of French Indochina. She was captured, tried, convicted and executed by the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison. Today she is considered a Vietnamese national martyr and heroine. Biography She was born in Phước Thọ Commune, Đất Đỏ District, in 1933. At the time, this was part of Bà Rịa Province, but today is a part of Long Đất District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province. In 1948, she became a contact for a local guerilla group after many of her friends and family joined the Việt Minh. When she was 14 she threw a grenade at a group of French soldiers in the crowded market area, killing 1 of them and injuring 12. She escaped undetected. Late in 1949, she threw another grenade at a Vietnamese canton chief — a local man responsible for executing many suspected Vi� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trương Đình Dzũ
Trương, or Truong without diacritics, is a Vietnamese surname formerly written as in the Han script. It is derived from the Chinese surname Zhang (), one of the most common surnames in China and Taiwan. According to the 2010 United States Census, ''Trương'' is the 903rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 38267 individuals. ''Trương'' is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.87%) individuals. Origin and history The Vietnamese surname Trương derives from the Chinese surname Zhang, both written in the Han script as 張. Zhang is the third most common Chinese surname in China and fourth in Taiwan. List of people with the given name and surname * Paul Truong (born 1965), American chess player, trainer, and organizer * Peter Truong, convicted child sexual abuser * Trương Bửu Diệp (1897–1946), Vietnamese Catholic priest * Trương Định (1820–64), Nguyễn Dynasty mandarin * Trương Đình Dzu, lawyer and politician * Trương Hòa B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trần Ngọc Châu
Tran Ngoc Châu (1 January 1924 – 17 June 2020) was a Vietnamese soldier (Lieutenant Colonel), civil administrator (city mayor, province chief), politician (leader of the Lower House of the National Assembly), and later political prisoner, in the Republic of Vietnam until its demise with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Much earlier in 1944, he had joined the Việt Minh to fight for independence from the French. Yet as a Vietnamese Buddhist by 1949 he had decisively turned against Communism in Vietnam. He then joined new nationalist forces led by the French. When Vietnam was divided in 1954, he became an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). For many years he worked on assignments directly under President Ngô Đình Diệm (1954–1963). He became the mayor of Da Nang, and was later a province chief in the Mekong Delta. In particular, Châu became known for his innovative approaches to the theory and practice of counter-insurgency: the provision of security (" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phan Khắc Sửu
Phan Khắc Sửu ( 9 January 1893 – 24 May 1970) was a South Vietnamese engineer and politician who served as a minister in Bảo Đại's government of the State of Vietnam and as a civilian Chief of State of South Vietnam from 1964–65 during the rule of the various military juntas. Early life and career Phan Khắc Sửu was born on January 9, 1893, to a family of landowners in Mỹ Thuận village, An Trường canton, Cái Vồn district, Cần Thơ province, French Indochina. He was a founding member of the Cao Đài religion. His Cao Đài name was Huỳnh Đức. In 1914, he went to study abroad in Tunis and then to Paris, France where he obtained a degree in agricultural engineering. After returning home, he worked as the political affairs officer of the Department of Economic and Technical Research in Cochinchina since 1930. However, in the same year, he joined in support of the Student Movement against the colonial policy of the government. He help initiated th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viet Cong
, , war = the Vietnam War , image = FNL Flag.svg , caption = The flag of the Viet Cong, adopted in 1960, is a variation on the flag of North Vietnam. Sometimes the lower stripe was green. , active = 1954–1959 ''(as southern Viet Minh cadres)'' , ideology = , position = Far-left , leaders = Liberation Army: Central Office: Liberation Front:Burchett, Wilfred (1963):Liberation Front: Formation of the NLF, ''The Furtive War'', International Publishers, New York. Governance: , merged_into = Vietnamese Fatherland Front , clans = , headquarters = , area = Indochina, with a focus on South Vietnam , predecessor = Viet Minh , successor = Vietnam Fatherland Front , allies = , opponents = , battles = See full list The Viet Cong, ; contraction of (Vietnamese communist) was an armed communist organization in South Viet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Tường Tam
Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname. By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname.Lê Trung Hoa, ''Họ và tên người Việt Nam'', NXB Khoa học - Xã hội, 2005 Origin and usage "Nguyễn" is the spelling of the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the Han character 阮 (, ). The same Han character is often romanized as ''Ruǎn'' in Mandarin, ''Yuen'' in Cantonese, ''Gnieuh'' or ''Nyoe¹'' in Wu Chinese, or ''Nguang'' in Hokchew. . Hanja reading (Korean) is 완 (''Wan'') or 원 (''Won'') and in Hiragana, it is げん (''Gen''), old reading as け゚ん (Ngen). The first recorded mention of a person surnamed Nguyen is a 317 CE description of a journey to Giao Châu undertaken by Eastern Jin dynasty (, ) officer and his family. Many events in Vietnamese history have contributed to the name's prominence. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lam Sơn (general)
is an ancient Vietnamese geographical name in what is now northern Thanh Hóa Province. It was the first location of the Lam Sơn uprising led by Lê Lợi against Ming rule. Several other Vietnamese geographical locations are named after this name, including: * Lam Sơn, Haiphong, a ward of Lê Chân District * Lam Sơn, Hưng Yên, a ward of Hưng Yên * Lam Sơn, Thanh Hóa City, ward of Thanh Hóa city in Thanh Hóa Province * Lam Sơn, Bỉm Sơn, a ward of Bỉm Sơn Bỉm Sơn is a district-level town (''thị xã'') of Thanh Hóa province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in ... in Thanh Hóa Province * Lam Sơn, Thọ Xuân, a township of Thọ Xuân District in Thanh Hóa Province * Lam Sơn, Nghệ An, a commune of Đô Lương District * Lam Sơn, Bắc Kạn, a commune of Na Rì District * Lam Sơn, Ngọc Lặc, a commune of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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