Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.

Mission to Viet Nam

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.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

The Pathet Lao, stiffened by Communist Veterans from neighboring North Viet Nam, were supplied by Soviet aircraft.

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

There was the further complication that the administration had very early concluded that Laos was ill suited to be an ally, unlike its more determined neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam.

The Laos government said four major Pathet Lao rebel attacks had been launched, heavily supported by troops from Communist North Viet Nam.

After a White House huddle between the President and top lieutenants, the Defense Department reacted sharply to a cry from the pro-Western government of Laos that several battalions of Communist troops had invaded Laos from North Viet Nam.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

`` The important thing from now on '', he said, `` is not to mourn the past but to seize the future opportunity to prevent the loss in northern Viet Nam from leading to the extension of Communism throughout Southeast Asia ''.

The Red Cross of Viet Nam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.

*" Agent Orange Dioxin Contamination in the Environment and Food Chain at Key Hotspots in Viet Nam " Boivin, TG, et al., 2011

The Kuomintang assisted the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang party, which translates literally into Chinese as Yuenan Kuomintang ( 越南國民黨 ), meaning " Vietnamese Kuomintang ".

The VNQDD was founded with KMT aid in 1925, they were against Ho Chi Minh's Viet Nam Revolutionary Youth League.

Lu Phu Hiep, a VNQDD member who achieve high ranks in the Chinese Yunnan government, organized the Trung Viet Cach Menh Lien Quan, meaning " Revolutionary Sino-Viet Nam Military League ".

General Zhang Fakui ( Chang Fa-kuei ), who based himself in Guangxi, established the Viet Nam Cach Menh Dong Minh Hoi meaning " Viet Nam Revolutionary League " in 1942, which was assisted by the VNQDD to serve the KMT's aims.

The Viet Nam Revolutionary League was a union of various Vietnamese nationalist groups, run by the pro Chinese VNQDD.

Although the provincial chief expressed sorrow for the killings and offered to compensate the victims ’ families, they resolutely denied that government forces were responsible for the killings and blamed the Viet Cong.

The Army of the Republic of Viet Nam-ARVN ( Vietnamese: Quân Lực Việt Nam Cộng Hòa-QLVNCH ), sometimes referred to as the South Vietnamese Army ( SVA ), was the Ground Forces branch of the Republic of Vietnam ’ s Military Forces, the official military of the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ) which existed from 1955 until the fall of Saigon in 1975.

:" Captain Roy Hoffmann was the commander of the Navy Coastal Surveillance Force, and it was Hoffmann ’ s decision to send Navy Swift boats up the narrow rivers in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam — almost always without support from helicopters or artillery — where they ran the risk of mines and were fired on almost at will by Viet Cong dug in along the river ’ s banks.

The song plays during a mind-movie flashback ( titled “ Viet Cong Lookout ”) of an experience at a bar during the Vietnam War that the character Johnny Marinville ( Tom Skerritt ) has in Stephen King ’ s film Desperation.

* Viet Nam hails Thailand ’ s decision to extradite Ly Tong

In September 2007, HSBC acquired 10 % share capital of Bao Viet Holdings, becoming the sole foreign strategic partner of Vietnam ’ s leading insurance company.

In 1254 AD, after the Mongols wiped out DaLy ( Yunnan-China today ), the Mongol ’ s emissaries came to Dai Viet ( Vietnam ) and demanded that the Tran dynasty allow their armies freely pass through Dai Viet and attack Song.

* Audience Choice Award for best short film: Fading Light ( Theo Hướng Đèn Mà Đi ), directed by Thien Do ; and Things You Don ’ t Joke About, directed by Viet Nguyen

Its creator, Vietnamese architect Dang Viet Nga ( also known as Hằng Nga ), who holds a PhD in architecture from Moscow State University, has acknowledged the inspiration of Catalan Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí in the building ’ s design.

In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush ’ s head ; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed Vietnamese general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range.

". The Ho Chi Minh and Sihanouk Trail s were used to supply the Viet Cong.

Victims of the Đắk Sơn Massacre in Đắk Lắk Province, killed by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces on December 5th, 1967 as a vengeance attack on the Degar s. NVA / VC troops also killed many women, children and babies.

The total length of the Viet Nam road system is about 222, 179 km with 19. 0 % paved, mainly national roads and provincial roads ( source: Vietnam Road Administration, 2004 ).

After having Cronauer as a thorn in his side for a number of months now, Dickerson devises a plot to get rid of Cronauer once and for all by sending him and Garlick to interview soldiers in the field near An Lộc – knowing in advance that the only road leading into this particular area has been captured by the Viet Cong ( VC ), a fact which he keeps from the pair.

" A road in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam was called the Mendel Rivers Parkway and the soldiers gave Rivers a captured Viet Cong carbine that he prominently displayed in his office.

The foreign legion began to establish outposts on every important road ( Route Coloniale 4, Route Coloniale 3 ) to hold up the surrounding of the Viet Minh in the eastern part of Tonkin.

* The U. S. Army begins testing the Remote Image Intensifier System, a low-light-level television system on UH-1C attack helicopters known as " Batships " in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam, hoping to improve night capabilities against Viet Cong forces.

They recognized the advantages that the Viet Cong held with the tunnels, and accordingly launched several major campaigns to search out and destroy the tunnel system.

Through the Phoenix Program, the United States helped South Vietnam co-ordinate a system of detention, torture and assassination of suspected members of the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong.

Altogether 150 Ryukian ships are recorded between the kingdom and Southeast Asia, 61 of them for Annam ( Viet Nam ), 10 for Malacca, 10 for Pattani, 8 for Java etc ... Their commerce disappeared around 1570 with the rise of Chinese merchants and the intervention of Portuguese and Spanish ships, and corresponds with the beginnings of the Red Seal system.

Despite their massive attack with B-52 bombers, tanks with bulldozer blades and efforts to destroy the tunnel system by explosives, flooding and " tunnel rats " ( specially trained soldiers who would infiltrate the tunnels armed only with a flashlight and a handgun ), the Americans failed to totally destroy the Viet Cong support system that had been built for over two decades.

The Tai Dam language has its own system of writing, called Tai Viet, which consists of 31 consonants and 14 vowels.