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

* The Vietnamese New Year is the Tết Nguyên Đán which is for most times the same day as the Chinese New Year.

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.

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. 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 racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.

At the same time, the Communist Party of Kampuchea forces became stronger and more independent of their Vietnamese patrons.

By contrast, the U. S. admitted more than 100, 000 Vietnamese refugees for resettlement during the Vietnam War.

In the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese languages, the term was translated by Kumārajīva and others as " small vehicle " ( 小 meaning " small ", 乘 meaning " vehicle "), although earlier and more accurate translations of the term also exist.

He was reportedly impressed with how the mountain tribes of Cambodia lived, which the party interpreted as a form of primitive communism ; as a result, those minorities received more lenient and sometimes even favorable treatment than the urbanized " bourgeois " Chinese and Vietnamese.

While the country shifted toward a more market-oriented economy, the Vietnamese government still continues to hold a tight rein over major state sectors such as the banking system, state-owned enterprises and foreign trade.

In 1988, more than 70 Vietnamese troops were killed during a confrontation with Chinese forces, when China occupied several islands under Vietnamese control in the Spratly Islands.

The racial makeup of Oakland was 134, 925 ( 34. 5 %) White, 109, 471 ( 28. 0 %) African American, 3, 040 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 65, 811 ( 16. 8 %) Asian ( 8. 7 % Chinese, 2. 2 % Vietnamese, 1. 6 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Cambodian, 0. 7 % Laotian, 0. 6 % Korean, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 5 % Indian ), 2, 222 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander ( 0. 3 % Tongan ), 53, 378 ( 13. 7 %) from other races, and 21, 877 ( 5. 6 %) from two or more races.

The French were impressed by his work ethic but were irritated by his frequent calls to grant more autonomy to Vietnamese.

Upon learning of Diệm's ouster and assassination, Hồ Chí Minh reportedly stated: “ I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid .” The North Vietnamese Politburo was more explicit :“ The consequences of the 1 November coup d ' état will be contrary to the calculations of the U. S. imperialists ... Diệm was one of the strongest individuals resisting the people and Communism.

As inhabitants of the more mountainous regions of Laos, the Hmong people earned a special place in the hearts of American combat soldiers because of their strong support for the United States in its fight against the North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces.

The racial makeup of Vacaville was 61, 301 ( 66. 3 %) White, 9, 510 ( 10. 3 %) African American, 846 ( 0. 9 %) Native American, 5, 606 ( 6. 1 %) Asian ( 3. 3 % Filipino, 0. 7 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Indian, 0. 5 % Japanese, 0. 3 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Korean ), 532 ( 0. 6 %) Pacific Islander, 8, 136 ( 8. 8 %) from other races, and 6, 497 ( 7. 0 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Fairfield was 48, 407 ( 46. 0 %) White, 16, 586 ( 15. 7 %) African American, 869 ( 0. 8 %) Native American, 15, 700 ( 14. 9 %) Asian ( 9. 1 % Filipino, 1. 8 % Indian, 1. 0 % Chinese, 0. 6 % Vietnamese, 0. 6 % Japanese, 0. 4 % Korean, 0. 3 % Laotian, 0. 2 % Thai, 0. 1 % Pakistani ), 1, 149 ( 1. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 13, 301 ( 12. 6 %) from other races, and 9, 309 ( 8. 8 %) from two or more races.

In 1960 it was replaced by the National Liberation Front ( NLF ), more commonly known as the Viet Cong, established by South Vietnamese communists to lead the guerrilla war against Diem.

" The Viet Cong's best-known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the US embassy in Saigon.

" It is accountable to the National Assembly of Vietnam, and, more directly, to the Vietnamese Council of State when the National Assembly is not in session.

Lê made a brief, secret visit to South Vietnam in 1958, writing a report, The Path to Revolution in the South, in which he stated that the North Vietnamese had to do more to assist the southern communists against the South Vietnamese government.

From 1956-63, Lê played a moderating role between the two factions, but with the death of the South Vietnamese leader Ngô Đình Diệm and the Gulf of Tonkin incident, he became considerably more radical.

Nhu became more politically active, especially in helping his brothers to establish a political base among Vietnamese Catholics.

The opposition claims that the election was rigged, though 16, 9411 36, 00. html &# 91 ; an article in Time magazine &# 93 ; from 1967 quotes South Vietnamese citizens saying that they thought the election was more fair than any under Diem.

Calley was charged on September 5, 1969, with six specifications of premeditated murder for the deaths of 104 Vietnamese civilians near the village of My Lai, at a hamlet called Son My, more commonly called My Lai in the U. S. press.