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Hà Kiều Anh
Hà Kiều Anh (born 1977 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese actress and former beauty queen. Hà Kiều Anh was born in Hanoi but her family had origin in Thua Thien Hue province in central Vietnam. When she was 5 years old, her family relocated to Ho Chi Minh City. She was crowned the Miss Vietnam in 1992 in Phan Dinh Phong Sports Complex in Ho Chi Minh City. After winning the Miss Vietnam pageant, she went to South Korea and joined in "Miss World University", she made the top 5 and won Miss Taejon award. Hà Kiều Anh starred in Lục Vân Tiên (film) a 2002 Vietnamese TV film directed by Phương Điền based on a Lục Vân Tiên, a 19th-century epic poem, as the heroine Kiều Nguyệt Nga. Though some of the scenes in a bathing spring created a small scandal in Vietnam. On June 7, 2022, it was announced that Hà Kiều Anh would assume the role of jury president of the Miss Grand Vietnam 2022 pageant. During the final night held on 1 October 2022 in Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Vietnam
Miss Vietnam (Vietnamese: Hoa hậu Việt Nam, formerly Hoa hậu Toàn quốc Báo Tiền phong until 2000) is a beauty contest in Vietnam that has been held biennially since 1988. Along with Miss Universe Vietnam and Miss World Vietnam, Miss Vietnam is one of the Big Three national beauty pageants. This contest was initiated and organized by Tiền Phong Newspaper and Sen Vàng Productions. The pageant crowned the Vietnam representatives to compete in two of the major international beauty pageants: Miss World and Miss International (alternate with Miss World Vietnam). The current Miss Vietnam titleholder is Huỳnh Thị Thanh Thủy from Da Nang, who was crowned on December 23, 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City. History Miss Vietnam is the biggest beauty pageant and the first nationwide beauty contest after the unification of Vietnam. Before that, there was also a South Vietnamese Saigon-based beauty contest named Miss Vietnam and Miss Vietnam 1955 Công Thị Nghĩa became the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam News Agency
Vietnam News Agency (VNA; vi, Thông tấn xã Việt Nam (TTXVN)) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaux worldwide and maintains 63 bureaux in Vietnam — one for each city and province, including 6 in ASEAN. The current General Director of TTXVN is Nguyễn Đức Lợi. It also operates the website VietnamPlus. History *The Vietnamese News Agency (TTXVN) was founded on 23 August 1945 shortly after the August Revolution. On 15 September 1945, Ho Chi Minh's Declaration of Independence of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Democratic Republic of Vietnam member list were broadcast through the TTXVN in Vietnamese, English and French. *Not long after the launch, in 1946, VNA opened its first foreign news bureau in Bangkok (Thailand) *At 20:00, 19 December 1946, Vietnam News Agency transmit the Appeal for National Resistance, compiled by President Ho Chi Minh. The Agency concom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Thu Thủy (Miss Vietnam)
Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ (June 20, 1976 – June 5, 2021) was a Vietnamese beauty pageant winner, who was crowned as the 4th Miss Vietnam in 1994 when she was a first year student at the Institute for International Relations ( Cung Văn hóa Hữu nghị Việt - Xô) in Hanoi. Biography Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ was born into an intelligentsia family. Her father, Nguyễn Văn Lợi, and mother were civil servants in the Linguistics Institute of Vietnam ( Viện Ngôn ngữ học). Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ was tall and was one of the favorites during that edition, where she also attained the best award in the competition. Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ studied business administration in the United States for 2 years and owned a beauty salon chain in Hanoi. She was married and had two children. On 5 June 2021, Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ died from a sudden cardiac arrest after feeling unwell for a few days. Miss Viet Nam 1994 The winner: Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ (Hà Nội) *1st runner-up: Tô Hương Lan (Tuy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyen Dieu Hoa
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 Fuzhou dialect, Hokchew. . Hanja reading ( Korean language, 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 contribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuyên Quang
Tuyên Quang () is a city in Vietnam, and is the capital of Tuyên Quang Province. History The French post at Tuyên Quang was defended for four months against 12,000 troops of the Yunnan Army and the Black Flag Army by two companies of the French Foreign Legion during the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885).Spencer Tucker ''Vietnam'' 1999 - Page 34 "Militarily Tuyên Quang was of dubious importance, but politically it could be immense and the Chinese regulars and Black Flags who invested that place in December 1884 probably saw it as an opportunity to inflict a great psychological defeat ..." The Siege of Tuyên Quang is still remembered as one of the Legion's most celebrated feats of arms, and is commemorated in the first verse of "Le Boudin", its principal marching song. During the French protectorate, Tuyên Quang served as a garrison. During the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Viet Minh made the Legionnaires surrender at the memorial to the Battle of Tuyên Qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hà Nội
Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is the cultural and political centre of Vietnam. Hanoi can trace its history back to the third century BCE, when a portion of the modern-day city served as the capital of the historic Vietnamese nation of Âu Lạc. Following the collapse of Âu Lạc, the city was part of Han China. In 1010, Vietnamese emperor Lý Thái Tổ established the capital of the imperial Vietnamese nation Đại Việt in modern-day central Hanoi, naming the city Thăng Long (literally 'Ascending Dragon'). Thăng Long remained Đại Việt's political centre until 1802, when the Nguyễn dynasty, the last imperial Vietnamese dynasty, moved the capital to Huế. The city was renamed Hanoi in 1831, and served as the capital of French Indochina from 1902 to 1945. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VietNamNet
VietNamNet (abbreviated as VNN) is an online newspaper in Vietnam affiliated to the Ministry of Information and Communications. Its content is published daily in both Vietnamese and English, and cover categories including international news, information technology, sports, music, fashion, online interviews, music, etc. History VietNamNet was granted the latest operating license on January 23, 2003 (license number: 27/GP-BVHTT). On May 15, 2008, it was proposed that VietNamNet's ownership be transferred from VNPT to Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications. In 2019, VietNamNet and Vietnam Post online newspapers were merged. Hacker attacks On January 4, 2011, VietNamNet's server was attacked by hackers - who then gained control of hundreds of thousands of computers. At that time, this was the largest denial-of-service attack to have ever happened in Vietnam - some compared it to the case of hackers attacking the US Department of Defense's website in 2009. Google an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District 11, Ho Chi Minh City
District 11 ( vi, Quận 11) is an urban district (''quận'') of Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city in Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 232,536 and an area of 5 km². It is divided into 16 small subsets which are called wards ''(phường)'', numbered from Ward 1 to Ward 16. Geographical location District 11 borders Tân Bình District to the north, District 5 to the south, District 6 and Tân Phú District to the west, and District 10 District 10 may refer to: Places * District 10 (Ho Chi Minh city), Vietnam * District 10 (Zürich), in Switzerland * District 10, an electoral district of Malta * District 10, a police district of Malta * District 10 School, a historic school in ... to the east. Cultural spots * Đầm Sen Park *Phú Thọ Stadium References Districts of Ho Chi Minh City {{HoChiMinhCity-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss World University
Miss (pronounced ) is an English language honorific typically used for a girl, for an unmarried woman (when not using another title such as "Doctor" or "Dame"), or for a married woman retaining her maiden name. Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of ''mistress''. Its counterparts are Mrs., used for a married women who has taken her husband's name, and Ms., which can be used for married or unmarried women. The plural ''Misses'' may be used, such as in ''The Misses Doe''. The traditional French "Mademoiselle" (abbreviation "Mlle") may also be used as the plural in English language conversation or correspondence. In Australian, British, and Irish schools the term 'miss' is often used by pupils in addressing any female teacher. Use alone as a form of address ''Miss'' is an honorific for addressing a woman who is not married, and is known by her maiden name. It is a shortened form of ''mistress'', and departed from ''misses/missus'' which became used to signify mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phú Thọ Indoor Stadium
Phu Tho Indoor Sport Stadium ( vi, Nhà thi đấu Phú Thọ) is a multi-purpose indoor arena, located in District 11, Ho Chi Minh City, District 11, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, within walking distance from the 1932-built Phú Thọ Horse Racing Ground. The stadium was constructed for 2003 Southeast Asian Games. Although not officially recognized, the stadium is usually home to Vietnam national futsal team. It has a capacity of 5,000 people for sporting events and a full-house capacity of around 8,000. History The stadium was built in 2000 along with a practice venue. It was opened on November 20, 2003 and has served major sporting as well as entertainment and exhibition events. Notable events Sports events Entertainment events References {{DEFAULTSORT:Phu Tho Indoor Sport Stadium Indoor arenas in Vietnam Sports venues completed in 2003 Sports venues in Ho Chi Minh City Taekwondo venues 2003 establishments in Vietnam 2003 Southeast Asian Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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