Portal:Vietnam

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Vietnam or Viet Nam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam, [vîət nāːm] (

listen)), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of 311,699 square kilometres (120,348 sq mi) and population of 96 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country. Vietnam borders China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and largest city Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon)

Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam under Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism, and expanded southward to the Mekong Delta, conquering Champa. The Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—surrendered to France in 1883. Following the August Revolution, the nationalist Viet Minh under the leadership of communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh proclaimed independence from France in 1945.

Vietnam went through prolonged warfare in the 20th century. After World War II, France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War, from which Vietnam emerged victorious in 1954. As a result of treaties signed two years later, Vietnam was also separated into two parts. The Vietnam War began shortly after, it was the war between communist North supported by the Soviet Union and China, and anti-communist South supported by the United States. Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary socialist state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 1976. An ineffective planned economy, a trade embargo by the West, and wars with Cambodia and China crippled the country further. In 1986, the CPV initiated economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reform, transforming the country to a market-oriented economy. The reforms facilitated Vietnamese reintegration into global economy and politics.

A developing country with a lower-middle-income economy, Vietnam is nonetheless one of the fastest growing economies of the 21st century, with GDP predicted to rival developed nations by 2050. Vietnam has high levels of corruption, censorship and a poor human rights record; the country ranks among the lowest in international measurements of civil liberties, freedom of the press and freedom of religion and ethnic minorities. It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions including the ASEAN, the APEC, the CPTPP, the Non-Aligned Movement, the OIF, and the WTO. It has assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council twice. (Full article...)

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The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), also known as the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Founded in 1930 by Hồ Chí Minh, the CPV became the ruling party of North Vietnam in 1954 and then all of Vietnam after the collapse of the South Vietnamese government following the Fall of Saigon in 1975. Although it nominally exists alongside the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, it maintains a unitary government and has centralized control over the state, military, and media. The supremacy of the CPV is guaranteed by Article 4 of the national constitution. The Vietnamese public generally refer to the CPV as simply "the Party" (Đảng) or "our Party" (Đảng ta).

The CPV is organized on the basis of democratic centralism, a principle conceived by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. The highest institution of the CPV is the party's National Congress, which elects the Central Committee. The Central Committee is the supreme organ on party affairs in between party congresses. After a party congress, the Central Committee elects the Politburo and Secretariat, and appoints the First Secretary, the highest party office. In between sessions of the Central Committee, the Politburo is the supreme organ on party affairs. However, it can only implement decisions based on the policies which have been approved in advance by either the Central Committee or the party's National Congress. , the 12th Politburo has 19 members. The current party leader is Nguyễn Phú Trọng, who holds the titles of General Secretary of the Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Military Commission. (Full article...)

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Image 1View of Ho Chi Minh City from Bitexco Financial Tower, Vietnam
Image 2Hanging fishing nets in the Cu Đê River, just before it merges with Da Nang Bay
Image 3Dong Ho painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province.
Image 4The painting depicts the retired emperor Trần Nhân Tông who has now become a monk and returned to Hanoi from his hermitage in Vũ Lâm.
Image 5Wooden doors in the Imperial palace in Huế‎, Vietnam
Image 6Making salt by evaporation of sea water near Ninh Hòa town, Khánh Hòa Province Vietnam
Image 7The gate to Linh Ung Pagoda at Sơn Trà District, Da Nang, Vietnam
Image 8Hồ Chí Minh attended French Communist Congress in Marseilles in 1921 under the name Nguyễn Ái Quốc.
Image 9Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation during the Buddhist crisis in Vietnam.
Image 10Imperial City of Huế, recognized as a UNESCO Heritage site in 1993, was the former capital of Vietnam under the Nguyễn dynasty.
Image 11The sunset over Hanoi, after a rain
Image 12The train station at Da Lat
Image 13A view of Mường Thanh Valley from Dien Bien Phu city, Vietnam
Image 14Water puppetry, lit. "Making puppets dance on water") is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam.

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... that Radio Saigon Houston has been cited as a factor luring Vietnamese Americans to move from the West Coast to Texas?
... that anti–Vietnam War protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in 1968, causing the equivalent of US$18 million in financial losses?
... that a U.S. soldier who killed a Vietnamese woman after raping her was dubbed a "double veteran"?
... that the Vietnam mouse-deer, which had been feared to have gone extinct nearly 30 years ago, was sighted again in 2019?
... that "Arnold's Christmas", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series Hey Arnold!, was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the Vietnam War?
... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?

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The following are images from various Vietnam-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1In Chữ Quốc Ngữ, the word "tính" means "to ponder" or "figure out". (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 2Vietnamese phở, noodle soup with sliced rare beef and well done beef brisket (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 3Vietnamese calligraphy depicting people on a boat, the calligraphy says, "Thuyền nhân" (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 4Court attires of Nguyễn Dynasty (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 5Portrait of Nguyễn Quý Đức (1648-1720) wearing áo giao lĩnh (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 6Vietnam map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Vietnam)
Image 7Typical Đông Hồ folk woodblock print of a carp (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 8Handwritten Vietnamese (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 9A lantern procession during Mid-Autumn Festival (Tết Trung thu) in Vietnam, which is also celebrated as "Children's Festival". (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 10Silk painting of Trịnh Đình Kiên (1715-1786) in the 18th century, exhibited in Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 11Hán Nôm calligraphy in Vietnam (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 12A trio of Vietnamese musicians perform together. The man at centre plays a đàn nhị. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 13Vovinam demonstration in France in 2014 (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 14Water puppet theatre in Hanoi (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 15Decorations placed around a coffin at a home funeral in Da Nang (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 1619th-century manuscript of "Mysterious tales of the Southern Realm" (Vietnamese: Lĩnh Nam chích quái), a copy of 15th-century original tale. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 17Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda, a historic Buddhist temple (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 18Empress Nam Phương wearing áo nhật bình and khăn vành dây (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 19Bobbins of Vietnamese silk (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 20Tet Vietnamese New Year Festivities in Chau Doc, Vietnam. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 21A traditional musician wears a woven brocade silk shirt (from Culture of Vietnam)

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29 October 2022 – Essex lorry deaths: A suspect arrested in 2019 for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese illegal immigrants in a lorry in southern England has been formally charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to assist illegal immigration. (The Guardian)
6 September 2022 – 2022 Binh Duong karaoke bar fire: At least 32 people are killed and 11 others are injured when three gunmen open fire in a mass shooting at a karaoke bar in Binh Duong, Vietnam. (BBC News)
25 July 2022 –: A major incident is declared by Greater Manchester Police after the remains of four people, believed to be Vietnamese migrants, are found at a factory in Oldham, which was destroyed by a fire in May. (The Daily Express)

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