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Lai Châu province is one of the most sparsely populated regions in Vietnam, and it shares a border with China. It was once a semi-independent White Tai confederation known as Sip Song Chau Tai , but was absorbed by France into French Indochina in the 1880s and subsequently became part of Vietnam following Vietnamese independence in 1954.
Kỳ Hà 03/21. 660 feet (201 m) AM2 Marston Mat. Chu Lai Base Area (also known as Chu Lai Combat Base or simply Chu Lai or Kỳ Hà) is a former U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) base in Chu Lai in central Vietnam . Kỳ Hà Air Facility was part of the installation and was located in the northern half ...
The attacks on Biên Hòa, Bien Hoa Air Base and Long Binh Post, occurred during the early hours of 31 January 1968 and continued until 2 February 1968. The attacks by Vietcong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces were one of several major attacks around Saigon in the first days of the Tet offensive. The attacks were repulsed with ...
Gia Lai is a mountainous province located in the northern Central Highlands at an average altitude of 700 - 800 m above sea level with an area of 15,510.13 km 2 (5,988.49 sq mi), [1] and an average population of 1,426,000 people (2017). Gia Lai borders Kon Tum Province to the north, Dak Lak Province to the south, Cambodia to the west, and Quang ...
The My Lai massacre ( / ˌmiːˈlaɪ /; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Tịnh district, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1]
The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA, Vietnamese: Bộ Lao động – Thương binh và Xã hội) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for state administration on labour, employment, occupational safety, social insurances and vocational training; policies for war invalids, martyrs and people with special contribution to the country; social protection and ...
Vietnam, [d] [e] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( SRV ), [f] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
The Ministry of Public Security ( MPS, Vietnamese: Bộ Công an (BCA)) [1] is a public agency directly under the Government of Vietnam, performing the function of state management of security, order and social safety; counterintelligence; crime prevention investigation; fire prevention and rescue; execution of criminal judgments, judgment ...