Overall, more than 20 % of South Vietnam's forests were sprayed at least once over a nine-year period.

Overall, more than 20 % of South Vietnam's forests were sprayed at least once over a nine year period.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.

In 2007, the Laotian Ministry of Transportation entered into discussion with Vietnam to discuss the possibility of opening a new railway line from Thakhek in Laos through the Mu Gia Pass to Tan Ap Railway Station in Vietnam's Quang Binh Province, on the North – South Railway.

* 1963 – A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.

* 1966 – After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.

Despite being a superpower and having a superior arsenal of weapons at its disposal, the United States was unable to make substantial gains against North Vietnam's proxy guerilla army in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong.

* August 16 – Vietnam War: In a coup, General Nguyen Khanh replaces Duong Van Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and establishes a new constitution, drafted partly by the U. S. Embassy.

Overall, more than 20 % of South Vietnam's forests were sprayed at least once over a nine-year period.

Madame Nhu, the wife of Diệm's younger brother Nhu, was South Vietnam's de facto First Lady, and a Catholic convert herself.

Bùi Diễm, later South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States, reported in his memoirs that General Lê Văn Kim requested his aid in learning what the U. S. might do about Diệm's government.

While the U. S. continued to influence South Vietnam's government, the assassination bolstered North Vietnamese attempts to characterize the South Vietnamese as supporters of colonialism.

* Mạc Đĩnh Chi Cemetery-Located in the heart of former Saigon, Mac Dinh Chi was South Vietnam's most prestigious French colonial cemetery reserved for celebrities, politicians and the upper class.

Nguyễn Hữu Xuyên was assigned military command in the South, replacing Lê Duẩn, who was appointed North Vietnam's acting party boss.

South Vietnam's Law 10 / 59, approved in May 1959, authorized the death penalty for crimes " against the security of the state " and featured prominently in Viet Cong propaganda.

The U. S. and South Vietnamese expected that an announced seven-day truce would be observed during Vietnam's main holiday. A U. S. propaganda leaflet urges Viet Cong to defect using the Chiêu Hồi Program.

Nhu had trumpeted the program as the solution to South Vietnam's difficulties with Vietcong insurgents, believing that the mass relocation of peasants into fortified villages would isolate the Vietcong from their peasant support base.

Khánh and his colleagues spread rumours to American officials that Minh and his colleagues were about to declare South Vietnam's neutrality and sign a peace deal to end the war with the North.

Ngô Ðình Nhu (; 7 October 1910 – 2 November 1963 ) was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Ðình Diệm.

Kỳ ’ s overshadowing of his superior during South Vietnam's deepest crisis further strained relations between the two men.

In South Africa, the right to armorial bearings is also determined by Roman Dutch law, due to its origins as a 17th-century colony of the Netherlands.

Greater London has over 600, 000 Muslims, ( most of South Asian origins and concentrated in the East London boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest ), and among them are some Muslims with a strong Islamist outlook.

For this purpose, an American Indian or Alaska Native is defined as " A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America ( including Central America ), and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment.

Most of the modern scripts of South India have evolved from this script, with the exception of Vatteluttu, the exact origins of which are unknown, and Nandinagari, which is a variant of Devanagari that developed due to later Northern influence.

In AD 1215, Kalinga Magha, a South Indian with uncertain origins, identified as the founder of the Jaffna kingdom, invaded and captured the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa with a 24, 000 strong army sailed 690 nautical miles on 100 large ships from Kalinga.

Many of these are blends using staple ingredients of variously cured Burley and Virginia tobaccos which are enhanced by spice tobaccos, among them many Oriental or Balkan varietals, Latakia ( a fire-cured spice tobacco of Syrian origin ), Perique ( uniquely grown in St. James Parish, Louisiana ) which is also an old method of fermentation, or blends of Virginia and Burley tobaccos of African, Indian, or South American origins.

At least a dozen soups also have their origins in the American South.

The province of South Holland as it is today has its origins in the period of French rule from 1795 to 1813.

The main origins of Vietnam ’ s imports were China ( 13. 9 %), Taiwan ( 11. 6 %), Singapore ( 11. 3 %), Japan ( 11. 1 %), South Korea ( 10. 4 %), Thailand ( 5. 8 %), and Malaysia ( 3. 8 %).

The origins of the order can be traced back as far as the Paleogene ( about 60 – 65 Ma, shortly after the Mesozoic ) in South America.

The second looks for the origins of Yahweh to the southeast of Israel, in Edom and Midian or even further, in South Semitic languages like Arabic.

Very little formal attention was given to egg or meat production ... " Recent genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in Southeast, East, and South Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent.

Given the British origins of the majority of uitlanders and the ongoing influx of new uitlanders into Johannesburg, the Boers recognised that granting full voting rights to the uitlanders would eventually result in the loss of ethnic Boer control in the South African Republic.

* Kulfi: believed to have been introduced to South Asia by the Mughal conquest in the 16th century ; its origins trace back to the cold snacks and desserts of Arab and Mediterranean cultures.

Over the past two thousand years the island has received waves of settlers of diverse origins including Austronesian, Bantu, Arab, South Asian, Chinese and European populations.

Their targets have included African, South American and Asian immigrants ; Jews ; Afro-Brazilians and internal migrants with origins in the northern regions of Brazil ( who are mostly brown-skinned or Afro-Brazilian ); homeless people, prostitutes ; recreational drug users ; feminists and — more frequently reported in the media — homosexuals, bisexuals, the third-gendered and the transgendered.

The Fiji Times reported on 3 July 2005 that recent research by the Fiji Museum and the University of the South Pacific ( USP ) has found that skeletons excavated at Bourewa, near Natadola in Sigatoka, at least 3000 years old, belonged to the first settlers of Fiji, with their origins in South China or Taiwan.

Its origins lie in two local governments established at the 10 June 1949 elections: Town of the South Coast, which merged the Town of Coolangatta, Town of Southport and part of the Shire of Nerang ; and the Shire of Albert, which took in a large surrounding region.

The Serbs are a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, which has its origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

The Serbs are a Slavic people, specifically of the South Slavic subgroup, which has its origins in the 6th and 7th century communities developed in Southeastern Europe ( see Great Migration ).

Ever since it was set up there has been some tension over the place of NEPAD within the AU programs, given its origins outside the framework of the AU, and the continuing dominant role of South Africa — symbolised by the location of the secretariat in South Africa.

In real-world terms, Tolkien's inspiration for the word Arda may be certain cognates of the English word " Earth " in the other Germanic languages, specifically the Afrikaans " Aarde " which has equivalent pronunciation and meaning, and unsurprising in use given Tolkien's South African origins.