Some examples include Diwali, Chinese New Year / Tết ( Vietnamese New Year ), Mid-Autumn Festival / Chuseok and Nepal Sambat.

Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston in their study of a Vietnamese community in New Orleans find that preserving traditional ethnic values enable immigrants to integrate socially and to maintain solidarity in an ethnic community.

* Zhou, Min and Carl L. Bankston III Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998.

" Later, on the subject of torture used during the Vietnam War, Fonda told The New York Times in 1973, " I'm quite sure that there were incidents of torture ... but the pilots who were saying it was the policy of the Vietnamese and that it was systematic, I believe that's a lie.

Vietnamese New Year, more commonly known by its shortened name Tết or " Tết Nguyên Đán ", is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam.

It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar.

Tết in the three Vietnamese regions can be divided into three periods, known as Tất Niên ( Before New Year's Eve ), Giao Thừa ( New Year's Eve ), and Tân Niên ( the New Year ), representing the preparation before Tết, the eve of Tết, and the days of and following Tết, respectively.

According to Vietnamese tradition, if good things come to the family on the first day of the lunar New Year, the entire following year will also be full of blessings.

After the parade, families and friends will come together to have a feast of traditional Vietnamese dishes, and share the happiness and joy of the New Year with one another.

The effect of this is that the Vietnamese New Year would fall on January 21, 1985, whereas the Chinese New Year would fall on February 20, 1985, a one-month difference.

* Tet Nguyen Dan: The Vietnamese New Year.

* Vietnamese New Year and its customs.

Vietnamese Lunar New Year Festival and Traditions.

The first three exist in the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, and "" exists in the Vietnamese alphabet, and both of these systems are supported by the most recent versions of common fonts like Arial, Courier New, Tahoma and Times New Roman.

In Okinawa, the cultural New Year is still celebrated as the contemporary Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese New Years.

Prior to the Meiji Period, the date of the Japanese New Year was based on the Chinese lunar calendar, as are the contemporary Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese New Years.

* Vietnam New Year ( Tết Nguyên Đán or Tết ), more commonly known by its shortened name Tết or " Vietnamese Lunar New Year ", is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam, the holiday normally falls between 20 January and 20 February.

It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar.

** Bánh chưng: a square-shaped, boiled glutinous rice dumpling filled with pork and mung bean paste, wrapped in a dong leaf, usually eaten in Vietnamese New Year.

** Bánh giầy: white, flat, round glutinous rice cake with tough, chewy texture filled with mung bean or served with Vietnamese sausage ( chả ), usually eaten in Vietnamese New Year with bánh chưng.

* Vietnamese New Year ( Tết )

They celebrate Vietnamese New Year in late January or early February is also known as the beginning of Spring.

In Vietnam, Welsh onion is important to prepare dưa hành ( fermented onions ) which is served for Tết, the Vietnamese New Year.

Gen. Maxwell Taylor's statement in Saigon that he is `` very much encouraged '' about the chances of the pro-Western government of Viet Nam turning back Communist guerrilla attacks comes close to an announcement that he will not recommend dispatching United States troops to bolster the Vietnamese Army.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

This is the case for Vietnamese ( a true alphabet ) and Thai ( an abugida ).

The Vietnamese zodiac is almost identical to Chinese zodiac except that the second animal is the Water Buffalo instead of the Ox, and the fourth animal is the Cat instead of the Rabbit.

* 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

It is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language ( after Vietnamese ), with speakers in the tens of millions.

It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon – Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese.

Khmer differs from neighboring languages such as Thai, Lao and Vietnamese in that it is not a tonal language.

Another unique result is that the syllable is spoken with a low-rising or " dipping " tone much like the " hỏi " tone in Vietnamese.

The language of this transition period, from about the 14th to 18th centuries, is referred to as Middle Khmer and saw borrowing from Thai, Lao and, to a lesser extent, Vietnamese.

Cambodia is also recovering from the land mines which were used heavily by the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese ; it will take approximately a decade to remove most of the land mines from Cambodia.

The most common Vietnamese version is called Bo kho, but which uses rice noodles instead.

There is no widespread use of fresh herbs in Cantonese cooking, in contrast with their liberal use in other cuisines such as Sichuan, European, Thai or Vietnamese.

In East Asia, metal is sometimes seen as the equivalent of earth and is represented by the White Tiger ( Chinese constellation ), known as 白虎 ( Bái Hǔ ) in Chinese, Byakko in Japanese, Bạch Hổ in Vietnamese and Baekho ( 백호, Hanja: 白虎 ) in Korean.

The Siege of the Alcázar in the Spanish Civil War, in which the Nationalists held out against a much larger Republican force for two months until relieved, shows that in some cases a citadel can be effective even in modern warfare ; a similar case is the Battle of Huế, where an NVA division held the citadel of Huế for 26 days against roughly their own numbers of much better-equipped US and South Vietnamese troops.

In Vietnam, the use of dill in cooking is regional, specifically northern Vietnamese cuisine.

In East Asia, the translation for dharma is 法, pronounced fǎ in Mandarin, beop in Korean, hō in Japanese, and pháp in Vietnamese.

王 is pronounced vương in Vietnamese, ō in Japanese, and wang in Korean.