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Duong Van Minh

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Duong Van Minh see Minh, Duong Van .

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Obituary: General Duong Van Minh
The Independent - London; 8/9/2001; Judy Stowe; 968 words ; DUONG VAN MINH was the last president of the Republic ... against the Communists. In Bangkok, Duong Van Minh occupied himself with his favourite ... has taken his secrets to the grave. Duong Van Minh, army officer and politician: born ... Read more
South Vietnamese coup leader Duong Van `Big' Minh dies.(The Orange County Register)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/8/2001; Gittelsohn, John; 590 words ; SANTA ANA, Calif. _ Gen. Duong Van Big Minh, who led a 1963 coup that set the scene for American ... to the communists in 1975, has died at age 86. Minh died Monday, a day after falling in his Pasadena ... military man, but not a politician, said Nhut Van Tran of Tustin, a former brigadier ... Read more
Vietnam Expresses Condolence on Death of Duong Van Minh, XINHUA
Xinhua (China); 8/8/2001; 181 words ; ... condolence on the death of former Saigon regime's president Duong Van Minh. In reply to a question on the death of Duong who died in California, U.S. on Monday, Foreign Ministry ... war. After liberation, Vietnamese government allowed Duong Van Minh to live abroad according to ... Read more
Gen. Duong Van Minh, 86; Briefly Led South Vietnam
The Washington Post; 8/8/2001; 337 words ; Gen. Duong Van "Big" Minh, 86, who was president of South ... Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. Gen. Minh, who used a wheelchair, had fallen ... a day earlier, his daughter Mai Duong said. Gen. Minh was installed as the South Vietnamese ... 1983. He lived near Paris. Gen. Minh's military ... Read more
Mediating historical memory in Asian/American family memoirs: K. Connie Kang's Home was the Land of Morning Calm and Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred willow.
Biography; 9/22/2007; Davis, Rocio G.; 9462 words ; ... audience. The texts analyzed in this essay, K. Connie Kang's Home was the Land of Morning Calm (1995) and Doung Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow (1999), demonstrate the ways in which family memoirs mediate Asian/American history ... the Korean tenet of eternal woe, unrequited love, and unending hope and wishes (298), ... Read more
Becoming van minh: civilizational discourse and visions of the self in twentieth-century Vietnam *.
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State sanctions giant $142-million Binh Duong development, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
The Vietnam Investment Review; 8/11/2003; Nguyen Hong; 342 words ; Binh Duong province in southern Vietnam is to go ahead with a giant ... Becamex are making all the necessary preparations," Huynh Van Trai, head of Binh Duong's planning and investment department, said last week. The ... investment procedures for government approval." Trai said Binh Duong province had ... Read more
Minh briefly held presidency of S. Vietnam
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/8/2001; 309 words ; Minh briefly held presidency of S. Vietnam ... 8, 2001 Pasadena, Calif. -- Gen. Duong Van "Big" Minh, who was president of South Vietnam ... invaders in 1975, has died. He was 86. Minh, who used a wheelchair, fell at his home Sunday, his daughter Mai Duong said Tuesday. He died Monday ... Read more
Binh Duong nets bumper FDI haul, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
The Vietnam Investment Review; 4/28/2003; Nguyen Hong; 436 words ; The southern province of Binh Duong is showing no signs of the recent economic slowdown, announcing ... developing nations," said the province's vice-chairman Tran Van Loi. He said recent investment reforms were "bearing fruit," adding his view that Binh Duong had taken the place of Ho Chi Minh ... Read more
HIV and tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1997-2002.(GLOBAL POVERTY: RESEARCH)(Survey)
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