This letter protests the burning of Vietnamese people occurring overseas.

The Vietnam Red Cross reported as many as 3 million Vietnamese people have been affected by Agent Orange, including at least 150, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

* 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2, 000 people breaks out.

Some people with partial Chinese or Vietnamese ancestry were present in the Khmer Rouge leadership ; as in the Soviet Union, they either were purged or participated themselves in the ethnic cleansing campaigns.

After the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election, Fraser claimed Howard approached him in a corridor, following a cabinet meeting in May 1977 regarding Vietnamese refugees, and said: " We don't want too many of these people.

In 1999, masculist writer Warren Farrell compared the dehumanizing stereotyping of men to the dehumanization of the Vietnamese people as " gooks.

The hill tribe people in Indochina were " hunted incessantly and carried off as slaves by the Siamese ( Thai ), the Anamites ( Vietnamese ), and the Cambodians.

It declared: " It is time for North and South Vietnam to find a way to stop the war and help all Vietnamese people live peacefully and with mutual respect.

From 1976-1977 he led efforts to help rescue Vietnamese boat people in the Gulf of Siam, eventually stopping under pressure from the governments of Thailand and Singapore.

Some groups of Japanese, Ukrainian and Vietnamese people live in Toruń now.

Originating in what is now southern China and northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese people pushed southward over two millennium to occupy the entire eastern seacoast of the Indochinese Peninsula.

According to the official version, the Communist Party of Vietnam () is leading the Vietnamese people " in carrying out the country's renovation, modernisation and industrialisation.

" According to the Party's statute, amended at the 9th National Congress on 22 April 2001, the CPV was " established and trained by President Hồ Chí Minh, has led the Vietnamese people to carry out successfully the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam, to defeat foreign invaders, to abolish the colonial and feudalist regime, to liberate and reunify the country, and then carry out the cause of renovation and socialist construction and firmly defend national independence.

Although exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, it is safe to say that several million people served in the South Vietnamese armed forces, the vast majority of them in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN )— between 1956 and 1975.

A significant proportion of the surviving South Vietnamese veterans left Vietnam for Western countries, either as boat people or through the Humanitarian Operation ( HO ).

* Vietnamese people, persons from Vietnam or of Vietnamese descent

** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietnam in a diaspora

U. S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois | Huey helicopter spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese agricultural land

File: US-Army-APC-spraying-Agent-Orange-in-Vietnam. jpg | U. S. Army armored personnel carrier ( APC ) spraying Agent Orange over Vietnamese rice fields during the Vietnam War

This is a combination of Japanese cuisine | Japanese and Vietnamese cuisine: smoked salmon wrapped in rice paper, with avocado, cucumber, and crab stick

Vietnamese troops on Spratly Island ( proper ) | Spratly Island

Vietnamese people | Vietnamese Cistercian monks standing in a cloister and wearing their religious habit s

| Vietnamese

The Vietnamese National Army | TDND 5 airborne unit fought several battles including battle of Dien Bien Phu | Dien Bien Phu.

USCGC Sherman ( WHEC-720 ) | USCGC Sherman's doctor and a South Vietnamese corpsman at a medical Civil Action Patrol in a small Vietnamese village.

North Vietnamese Army | North Vietnamese Defense Minister Võ Nguyên Giáp

Anti-communism | Anti-communist Vietnamese refugees moving from a French Landing Ship Medium | LSM landing ship to the USS Montague ( AKA-98 ) | USS Montague during Operation Passage to Freedom in 1954.

Vietnamese iced coffee | Cà phê sữa đá ready to be stirred, poured over ice, and enjoyed.

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.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

| 59-year-old Frenchwoman of Vietnamese origin gave birth by Caesarian section to two boys and a girl on September 6, 2008.

| Jennifer Hong, Canadian of Vietnamese origin aged 65, gave birth to her second child, a son named Marvin, on March 1, 2010 in St. Paul's Hospital ( Vancouver ) in Canada.

The impurity, 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin ( TCDD ) was a suspected carcinogen that may have affected the health of over 17, 000 United States servicemen, 4, 000 Australians, 1, 700 New Zealanders, Koreans, countless Vietnamese soldiers and civilians, and with over 40, 000 children of veterans possibly suffering birth defects from herbicidal warfare.

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.

This plan was altered at a critical time when a South Vietnamese pilot decided to defect, and jettisoned his ordnance along the only runways still in use ( which had not yet been destroyed by shelling ).

It is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language ( after Vietnamese ), with speakers in the tens of millions.

On January 10, 1979, after the Vietnamese army and the KUFNS invaded Cambodia, the new People's Republic of Kampuchea ( PRK ) was established with Heng Samrin as head of state.

* 1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.

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.

Some Vietnamese and Chinese minorities remain, particularly in the towns, but many left in two waves-after independence in the late 1940s and again after 1975.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam.

In 1979, after the Cambodian – Vietnamese War, Pol Pot fled to the jungles of southwest Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge government collapsed.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam has adopted a similar model after the Doi Moi economic renovation, but slightly differs from the Chinese model in that the Vietnamese government retains firm control over the state sector and strategic industries, but allows for private-sector activity in commodity production.

Outside of Europe, subject – verb – object languages have a strong tendency to place adjectives, demonstratives, and numerals after the noun they modify, though Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Malay place numerals before nouns as English does.

* 1075 – 1077: the Song Dynasty of China and the Lý Dynasty of Vietnam fight a border war, with Vietnamese forces striking first on land and with their navy, and afterwards Song armies advancing as far as modern-day Hanoi, the capital, but withdraw after Lý makes peace overtures ; in 1082, both sides exchange the territories that they had captured during the war, and later a border agreement is reached.

* March 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) of South Vietnam.

** Riots break out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.

Indonesia declared independence in 17 August 1945 and subsequently fought a bitter war against the returning Dutch ; the Philippines was granted independence by the United States in 1946 ; Burma secured their independence from Britain in 1948, and the French were driven from Indochina in 1954 after a bitterly fought war ( the Indochina War ) against the Vietnamese nationalists.

The Quẻ Ly of Vietnamese myth, similarly sometimes mistranslated " unicorn " is a symbol of wealth and prosperity that made its first appearance during the Duong Dynasty, about 600 CE, to Emperor Duong Cao To, after a military victory which resulted in his conquest of Tây Nguyên.

After calling for the French to introduce a Vietnamese legislature, he resigned after three months in office when this was rejected.

It was an opportune time for Diệm, with the outbreak of the Korean War and McCarthyism helping to make Vietnamese anti-communists a sought after commodity in America.

The NLF was made up of two distinct groups: South Vietnamese intellectuals who opposed the government and were nationalists ; and communists who had remained in the south after the partition and regrouping of 1954 as well as those who had since come from the north, together with local peasants.

Two years after the U. S. withdrawal from South Vietnam, the Kingdom of Laos was overthrown by communist troops supported by the North Vietnamese Army.

A third zouave battalion ( chef de bataillon Metzinger ) joined the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps shortly after the end of the war, and took part in operations against Vietnamese insurgents.

France did not intervene, however, in the Christian-supported Vietnamese rebellion in Bac Bo, despite the urging of missionaries, or in the subsequent slaughter of thousands of Christians after the rebellion.

On August 4, another DESOTO patrol off the North Vietnamese coast was launched by Maddox and the Turner Joy, in order to " show the flag " after the first incident.