The most affected zones are the mountainous area along Truong Son ( Long Mountains ) and the border between Vietnam and Cambodia.

* 1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Truong Dinh decides to defy Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

Before 1975, North Vietnam had maintained that the Central Highlands and the Giai Truong Son were strategic areas of paramount importance, essential to the domination not only of South Vietnam but also of the southern part of Indochina.

* February 9 – Truong Chinh, President of Vietnam ( d. 1988 )

* July 26 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to 5 years hard labor, for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

* September 30 – Truong Chinh, former President of Vietnam ( b. 1907 )

* Truong Son Cemetery-cemetery established in 1977, after the unification of Vietnam in 1975 as a place of worship for heroes of people.

Truong was born Hoainhan Truong in Saigon, South Vietnam.

Other Communist countries with leaders in their 70s or 80s have included Albania ( First Secretary Enver Hoxha was 76 at death ), Czechoslovakia ( President Gustáv Husák was 76 at his resignation ), East Germany ( General Secretary and head of state Erich Honecker was 77 when forced out ), Hungary ( General Secretary János Kádár was 75 when forced out ), Laos ( President Nouhak Phoumsavanh was 83 at retirement ), North Korea ( President Kim Il-sung was 82 at death ), Romania ( General Secretary and President Nicolae Ceauşescu was 70 when he was killed ), Vietnam ( President Truong Chinh was 80 at retirement ), Yugoslavia ( President Josip Broz Tito was 87 at death ).

The objective of the campaign was to prevent the transit of People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) personnel and supplies on the logistical corridor known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ( the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese ) that ran from the southwestern Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) through the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos and into the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ).

It was discovered in the Truong Son mountain range in Vietnam in 1997.

The objective of those attacks was the logistical system of the People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) that snaked through southeastern Laos and was known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ( the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese ).

He was also renowned for his integrity and his uninvolvement in corruption, favoritism or political cronyism, as well as his empathy and solidarity with his soldiers. William Westmoreland, the US commander in Vietnam from 1964-68, said that Trưởng " would rate high on any list of capable South Vietnamese leaders … U. S. commanders so admired Truong that they would trust him to command an American division.

On June 14, 1949, Bảo Đại was appointed Chief of State ( Quoc Truong ) of the State of Vietnam ; he was concurrently Prime Minister for a short while ( Kiêm nhiệm Thủ tướng ).

Truong was the principal owner of the Vishipco Line, the largest shipping company in South Vietnam in the 1970s.

Truong states that he used his company ’ s resources, including 24 commercial ships and hundreds of trucks, to aid in the evacuation of thousands of South Vietnamese civilians and military personnel to escape from Vietnam.

These together with the Truong Son Range in the north-east catch a lot of the rainfall, so the South-West monsoon has much lower intensity then in other regions — the mean annual rainfall in Nakhon Ratchasima is about 1150 mm, compared with 1500 mm in Central Thailand.

Such performances include international stages like the Asia Music Festival in South Korea where popular Vietnamese singers such as Hồ Quỳnh Hương, My Tam, Ho Ngoc Ha, Lam Truong, and others have performed along with other singers from different Asian countries.

Truong learned the moves of chess along with his father at the age of five and played at the National Sports Center ( CSS ) in Saigon, a center for the chess life of the country.

Following the elimination of the old leadership by the authorities, a new party leadership emerged, which included Truong Chinh, Pham Van Dong, and Vo Nguyen Giap — individuals who together with Ho Chi Minh would provide a unified leadership over the ensuing four decades.

He let his ships, inclusive Truong Xuan ship ( with Captain Pham Ngoc Luy ) carried free more than 3, 000 Vietnamese fleeing Saigon after the Communists invasion.

Truong boarded one of his eleven ships and traveled to the United States with two suitcases of gold.

On 11 July Brigadier General Lowell English, Assistant Division Commander of the 3rd Marine Division met with General Truong, commanding General of the ARVN 1st Division and Colonel Sherman, commander of the 4th Marines at the 1st Division HQ in Huế to plan the operation.

The Christian mandarin Nguyen Truong To, tried to convince Tự Đức that this was a suicidal policy, but he did not listen, confident that France was too involved with the chaos in Europe in 1848 to respond, but he was mistaken.

In France, the company R2E ( Réalisations et Etudes Electroniques ) formed by two former engineers of the Intertechnique company, André Truong Trong Thi began the era of mass-market home computers ; much less effort was required to obtain an operating computer, and applications such as games, word processing, and spreadsheets began to proliferate.

Since a party congress in January 2011, Dung has been ranked third in the hierarchy of the Communist Party of Vietnam, after State President Truong Tan Sang and Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh.

The undermanned ARVN defenders, led by General Ngo Quang Truong, managed to hold their position, but the majority of the Citadel fell to the PAVN.

General Truong, commander of the 1st ARVN Division, believed that the captives had been executed by the communists in order to protect the identities of members of the local Viet Cong infrastructure, whose covers had been blown.

The original Chicago performance featured Annelise Lawson, Chad Sheveland, Judith Lesser, Bil Gaines, Rachel Martindale, Mishelle Apalategui, Anna Menekseoglu and Jeremy Menekseoglu ; was designed by Anna Weiler, Giau Truong and Jeremy Menekseoglu ; and staged managed by Kristi Bogart.

" Schwarzkopf said that Trưởng was " the most brilliant tactical commander I'd ever known " and that " by visualizing the terrain and drawing on his experience fighting the enemy for fifteen years, Truong showed an uncanny ability to predict what they were going to do ".

Along the way Mr Truong owned and operated other New York hotels as well, including the infamous Hotel Kenmore Hall on 23rd Street which was seized from Truong by the US Marshals Service in 1994 because of deplorable conditions and rampant crime within the building.

In May 2004, Truong was awarded a Golden Torch Award, by the Vietnamese American National Gala in Washington D. C. Mr. Tran was also on the Board of Directors of The United Way of New York City.

There have been several recent claims to have rediscovered the species, from evidence including skulls owned by villagers in the Truong Son ( Annamite ) mountains between Laos and Vietnam.

He was defeated by the Susan Polgar-Paul Truong slate when he ran for re-election in July, 2007.

Truong launched Operation Lam Son 72 on 28 June.

Truong had planned to bypass the city and push on quickly to the Cua Viet River, thereby isolating any PAVN defenders.

Truong left Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the day that Saigon fell to the communists.

EFREI's most notable alumnus is André Truong who created the Micral, the earliest commercial personal computer based on a microprocessor.

MACV had sought authority for the launching of such missions ( Operation Shining Brass ) since 1964 in an attempt to put boots on the ground in a reconnaissance role to observe, first hand, the enemy logistical system known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ( the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese ).

Truong Chinh ( pseudonym meaning “ Long March ”, born Dang Xuan Khu ( 9 February 1907, Xuan Truong District, Nam Dinh Province – 30 September 1988, Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese communist political leader and theoretician.