Other dog breeds also have a reverse line of fur along the spine, including the Phu Quoc ridgeback dog and Thai Ridgeback.

The Thai Ridgeback is a crossbreed of the Phu Quoc ; historians have speculated the relationship between the Rhodesian Ridgeback and the Phu Quoc with suggestions that historically one breed may have been imported to the other's location.

The provincial slogan is Fa Daet Song Yang Ancient City, Pong Lang Folk Music, Phu Thai Culture, Phrae Wa Silk, Pha Saweoi Phu Phan, Lam Pao River, and Million-year Dinosaurs.

The Tai Battalion 2 ( BT2, 2e Bataillon Thai ) is famous for its desertion during the siege of Dien Bien Phu.

The provincial slogan is The City of the Revered Phrathat Phanom, Cultural Diversity, Beautiful Phu Thai Ladies, Brilliant Illuminated Boat Procession and Picturesque Mekong River.

Important festivals in the province include the traditional dances of the Phu Thai ethnic group held during May and June every year.

* Lam Phu Thai ( ລຳຜ ູ້ ໄທ, ลำผ ู้ ไท, IPA: lam pʰuː tɑj ) uses the yao scale, with a descending vocal line and ensemble accompaniment in meter.

The most notable works of Thai literature are a version of the Ramayana, a Hindu religious epic, called the Ramakien, written in part by Kings Rama I and Rama II, and the poetry of Sunthorn Phu.

The most important poet in Thai literature was Sunthorn Phu, who is best known for his romantic adventure story Phra Aphai Mani and nine travel pieces called Nirats.

Phu left behind a legacy of poems that have become famous over time because of their description of Thai history.

Phu is the word for mountain in the Isan / Lao language ( as opposed to khao in Central and Southern Thai and doi in Northern Thai ).

He served in the French Foreign Legion, including the gruesome Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and later lived in Thailand, where he learned his skills as a Thai boxer.

Two other natives of Thai Binh are the ones who finalized the two famous wars in Vietnam: Tạ Quốc Luật, who captured Christian de Castries and raised the victory flag in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( the First Indochina War ) and Bùi Quang Thận, who led a group of Northern tanks and entered the headquarters of South Vietnam's government to make president Dương Văn Minh unconditionally surrender ( the second Indochina War ).

Other protected areas are Phu Chong-Na Yoi National Park, Khao Phra Wihan National Park, Yot Dom Wildlife Sanctuary, Huai Sala Wildlife Sanctuary, Hua Tabtan Hadsamran Wildlife Sanctuary and Ta Phraya National Park on the Thai side and Banteay Chhmar Protected Landscape, Preah Vihear Temple Protected Landscape and the Preah Vihear Protected Forest on the Cambodian side.

The classical Thai Poet, Sunthorn Phu ( 1786 – 1855 ), set part of his epic work, Phra Aphai Mani ( sometimes transliterated as Pra Apaimanee ), on the shores of the island.

** Phra Aphai Mani by Sunthorn Phu ( 1821 or 1823 – 1845 )

) The variety from Vietnam is generally called nước mắm ( well known by brand names including nước mắm Phú Quốc ( Phu Quoc ) and nước mắm Phan Thiết ( Phan Thiet ).

He arrived in Indochina after the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu, which had been lost by France and which prompted prime minister Pierre Mendès France to put an end to the war at the Geneva Conference.

* Phu Ánh, a cousin, whom he married c. 1935, and by whom he had one daughter, Princess Claire Phương Tao

A native governor ( Tong Doc or Tuan Phu ), assisted by a native staff, administered each of the provinces into which the country was divided, and native officials of lower rank governed the areas into which these provinces were subdivided.

Paya Kam Fu, son of Saen Phu, moved the capital to Chiang Saen in 1334, only to be returned to Chiang Mai by his son Pa Yu.

The saucer-shaped plateau is divided by a range of hills called the Phu Phan mountains into two basins: the northern Sakhon Nakhon Basin, and the southern Khorat Basin.

The other strike, moving from Dien Bien Phu and aimed downriver at Luang Prabang, was thwarted by oncoming monsoons and dogged resistance by the French.

By dawn, most of the attacks within the city center had been eliminated, but severe fighting between Viet Cong and allied forces erupted in the Chinese neighborhood of Cholon around the Phu Tho racetrack, southwest of the city center, which was being utilized as a staging area and command and control center by the North Vietnamese.

In an interview taped in May 2004, General Marcel Bigeard ( 6th BPC ) argues that " one of the deepest mistakes done by the French during the war was the propaganda telling you are fighting for Freedom, you are fighting against Communism ", hence the sacrifice of volunteers during the climactic battle of Dien Bien Phu.

The Da Nang, Bien Hoa and Phu Cat Air bases are still heavily contaminated with dioxin from the herbicides and have been placed on a priority list for containment and clean-up by the Vietnamese government.

When French forces were defeated by the Vietnamese Communists at Dien Bien Phu in June 1954, the government of < span lang =" fr "> Joseph Laniel </ span > resigned, and < span lang =" fr "> Mendès France </ span > formed a government.

A similar strategy would be used by the French in Indochina years later at Dien Bien Phu.

A former monk and Phu Mi Bun in the Ubon Ratchathani area headed a millenarian sect inspired by his predictions of ' apocalyptic ' vision.

After the French withdrawal following the defeat of Dien Bien Phu, Trinquier's maquis was left behind and hunted down by Ho Chi Minh's forces.

In 1986, the 200th anniversary of his birth, Phu was honored by UNESCO as a great world poet.

Geneviève de Galard ( born 13 April 1925 ) is a French nurse who was dubbed l ' ange de Dien Bien Phu (" the Angel of Dien Bien Phu ") during the French war in Indochina by the press in Hanoi, although in the camp she was known simply as Geneviève.

It was presented to her by the commander of Dien Bien Phu, General de Castries.

The soundtrack for war docudrama by Pierre Schoendoerffer, Diên Biên Phu ( 1992 ), was one of the late notable works.

At the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, CAT supplied the French garrison by parachuting troops and supplies with covert USAF C-119 inscribed with French Air Force insignia.

On 30 March 1977, the Council of the Government ( now the cabinet ) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by Decision 391-CP / QĐ upgraded Nha Trang to city status, a county-level city under the administration of Phu Khanh Province ( a province created by merger of now Phú Yên Province and Khánh Hòa Province ).

Near Kanchanaburi, about 3 km from Wat Tham Phu Wa is the Chong Kai allies cemetery.

Declassified information about the GCMA include the name of its commander, famous Colonel Roger Trinquier, and a mission on April 30, 1954, when Jedburgh veteran Captain Sassi led the Mèo partisans of the GCMA Malo-Servan in Operation Condor during the siege of Dien Bien Phu.

Phu later returned to Rayong to visit his father, and wrote a poem about the journey called “ Nirat Muang Grang " which became one of his most famous poems.

The wreckage site is about three nautical miles north northeast of Phu Toey, Huay Kamin, Dan Chang District, Suphan Buri Province.

* Embassy of France in Washington, D. C .— Article about the honor ceremony for the seven CAT pilots who participated in the Dien Bien Phu battle

* 1955: Вьетнам ( Vietnam ), about the Siege of Dien Bien Phu