Hue City: A Battle in the Thick of Vietnam s Tet Offensive
As South Vietnamese relaxed during the Tet holiday in 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong launch the most audacious offensive of the Vietnam War.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Communist strategy of bringing local VC cadres into the streets resulted in an unmitigated disaster.
The city of Hue was the capital of a unified Vietnam from 1802 until 1945. With its stately, tree-lined boulevards, Buddhist temples, national university, and ornate imperial palace within a massive walled city known as the Citadel, Hue was the cradle of the country’s culture and heritage. As late as 1967, Hue remained an open city, unscathed by the various wars that since World War II had raged up and down the Indochinese peninsula. But when Communist leaders in North Vietnam felt compelled to alter their strategy and launch a massive offensive in South Vietnam in early 1968, the Battle of Hue City suddenly placed the city into of some of the
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Two major bus stations in HCM City have started attracting crowds with less than two weeks to go for Tet.
Mien Dong bus station in HCM City’s Binh Thanh District. VNA/VNS Photo Hoang Hai
Both Mien Dong (Eastern) Bus Station in Binh Thanh District and Mien Tay (Western) Bus Station in Binh Tan District require passengers to follow COVID-19 preventive measures like wearing masks and keep a safe distance from others and check temperatures and tell passengers to declare their health status before entering.
UNICEF Viet Nam Situation Report No.6 (Floods and Storms) - 12 to 29 January 2021
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7,700,000 people living in affected provinces
2,500,000 children living in affected provinces
862 school have been damaged or unroofed
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From 6 October to 17 November, Viet Nam s central region was hit by seven consecutive tropical storms and cyclones, which brought sustained heavy rain resulting in devastating landslides and cascading floods, affecting an estimated 7.7 million people living in ten provinces, including 2.5 million children.
UNICEF procured over 60 tons of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). The RUTF is providing treatment for children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in six affected provinces, namely Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, and Kon Tum. National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and commune health centers are distributing RUTF to children with SAM in these provinces. With UNICEF s technical assistance, NIN completed a series of rapi
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The ninth National Party Congress convened in Hanoi from April 19-22, 2001.
The event reviewed 15 years of renewal and drew lessons from the process, thus drawing up and perfecting guidelines and defining national development strategies for the first two decades of the 21st century.
The ninth National Party Congress convenes in Hanoi from April 19-22, 2001. (Photo: VNA)
Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Van An delivers a speech at the 22nd General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organisation (AIPO-22). The event took place in Bangkok, Thailand from September 2-7, 2001. (Photo: VNA)
The trial held in the Crown Court of Evry city (Photo: VNA)
Paris (VNA) - Significant attention has
been paid to a hearing on January 25 for a trial brought by Vietnamese-French woman
Tran To Nga against the US companies that provided the chemical toxins used by the
US Army in the war in Vietnam.
At the trial, held in the Crown Court of Evry city
in the suburbs of Paris, lawyers for the defendants spent more than four hours arguing
for their clients, which are 17 chemical producers from the US, including Monsanto
(acquired by the German group Bayer in 2018) and Dow Chemical, while Nga’s three