In the Vietnamese zodiac, the cat replaces the rabbit in the Chinese zodiac.

The Vietnamese zodiac uses the same animals as the Chinese zodiac for the remaining 11 years, though the ox or cow of the Chinese zodiac is usually considered to be a water buffalo ( sửu / trâu ) in the Vietnamese zodiac.

In the related Vietnamese zodiac, the cat takes the place of the hare.

In the Vietnamese zodiac, the water buffalo occupies the position of the ox.

* Cat ( zodiac ), a Vietnamese sign

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 ).

* 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.

It is almost identical to the Bulgarian ъ and the Vietnamese ơ, and is used to transcribe the Russian ы.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

The ancestral home of the ethnic Vietnamese, the delta accounted for almost 70 % of the agriculture and 80 % of the industry of North Vietnam before 1975.

* April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

Unhappily, the situation was exacerbated by the almost total lack of leadership displayed by the Vietnamese Chief of State, Bảo Đại, who, while nominally the head of that nation, chose to spend the bulk of his time in the spas of Europe rather than in his own land leading his armies against those of Communism.

President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes on North Vietnamese naval bases and Congress approved almost unanimously the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the president " to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U. S. and to prevent further aggression.

It began to muster forces which would eventually number 60, 000 North Vietnamese troops as well as several thousand allied Pathet Lao troops and Lao irregulars, outnumbering its adversary by almost three to one.

The Viet Minh / North Vietnamese, in spite of the agreement, never really withdrew from the border areas of Laos and the Pathet Lao continued to operate almost as a branch organization of the Viet Minh.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the ten-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967-68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

Ho was ostensibly sent to China to work as a secretary and interpreter to Mikhail Borodin, but he actually set to work almost immediately attempting to transform the existing Vietnamese patriotic movement towards revolutionary ends.

During the operations, more than 25, 000 South Vietnamese civilians had been killed and almost a million became refugees, 600, 000 of whom were living in camps under government care.

While designed for native Vietnamese speakers, it required the user to have some understanding of chữ Hán, and thus chữ Nôm was used primarily for literary writings by cultural elites ( such as the poetry of Nguyễn Du and Hồ Xuân Hương ), while almost all other official writings and documents continued to be written in Hán Văn ( classical Chinese ) until the 20th century.

Hence, the American military lost the political war in Vietnam even though U. S. forces, especially special operations troops, won almost every major military battle against the Viet Cong guerrillas and the North Vietnamese Army.

There currently are almost 400 humanitarian organisations and international non-governmental organizations providing help for about 15, 000 Vietnamese children.

The fall of the city was preceded by the evacuation of almost all the American civilian and military personnel in Saigon, along with tens of thousands of South Vietnamese civilians associated with the southern regime.

As almost all of them left Vietnam after 1975 to escape the communist Vietnamese government, they are generally antagonistic towards the current government of Vietnam.

Edwards ′ s Pheasant is almost identical to the similarly sized Vietnamese Pheasant, which it overlaps with throughout its range.

The arrival of helicopters changed the nature of the battle considerably ; it enabled South Vietnamese soldiers to quickly fly to almost any point in the country, leaving little time for a retreat.

* More than 25, 000 South Vietnamese civilians were killed and almost a million become temporary refugees, with over 600, 000 interned in South Vietnamese Government camps as a result of North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive.