- Nguyen van Troi
Nguyen Van Troi became the first publicly executed Viet Cong member. His execution was filmed, and he remained defiant to the end. He was instantly glorified by the Viet Cong and North Vietnam and became a Vietnamese martyr and folk hero to left-wing groups all over the world. His last words were: "Long live Ho Chi Minh!". Troi's wife Phan Thi Quyen published the 1965 book "Nguyen Van Troi As He Was." His legacy is celebrated by various honors. - Nguyen Hong Quang
"Nguyen Hong Quang"—Vietnamese pastor and lawyer, general secretary and vice-president of the Mennonite Church in Vietnam, chairman of the Legal Committee of the Vietnam Evangelical Fellowship. Nguyen Hong Quang is well known all over the world for his human rights activities in defence of Vietnamese montagnards, peasants, Christian religious groups and politically persecuted. - Nam Cam
Truong Van Cam, better known as Nam Cam was a famous Vietnamese gangster and former soldier in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, South Vietnam. He was born in Saigon, Vietnam. - Nguyễn Minh Triết
Nguyễn Minh Triết is the President of Vietnam. He was elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam with 464 votes (94.12%) on June 27, 2006. He was formerly the head of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hồ Chí Minh City. The presidency of Vietnam is a ceremonial position and the Prime Minister oversees the daily workings of the government. After teaching Mathematics in Saigon, Triết joined the Party in 1965. - Võ Văn Kiệt
Võ Văn Kiệt was a Vietnamese politician. He was Prime Minister of Vietnam from 8 August 1991 to 25 September 1997. He was one of the political leaders that led the renovation ("doi moi") policy in Vietnam. He was born into a peasant family in Trung Hiep village, Vung Liem district, Vinh Long province. He was admitted to the Indochinese Communist Party in 1939. - Nguyen Thanh Binh
Nguyen Thanh Binh (1954, Hanoi) is a Vietnamese painter. Nguyen Thanh Binh was born in 1954 in Hanoi, and is now based in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). He graduated from the Hanoi College of Fine Art in 1972, and went on to specialize in oil painting at the Gia Dinh National College of Fine Art in Ho Chi Minh City. Thanh Binh well known for his works depicting female figures wearing the white Ao Dai dress. He also draws his inspiration from classical music and his daughter, … - Dustin Nguyen
Dustin Nguyen (born Nguyễn Xuân Trí on September 17, 1962, in Saigon, South Vietnam - now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American actor. His mother My Le was an actress and dancer and his father Xuan Phat an actor, writer and producer in South Vietnam. The family left Vietnam in April 1975 as it fell to Communist Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces. They arrived in Guam, then the family was moved to a refugee camp in Arkansas, … - Cong Thanh Do
Cong Thanh Do (born ca. 1959) is a Vietnamese American human rights activist. Do emigrated from Vietnam to the US in 1982. He advocates a multi-party democratic system for Vietnam, and has been accused of plotting to overthrow the Vietnamese government. On 14 August 2006 he was arrested while on holiday in Phan Thiet and held in jail in Ho Chi Minh City without trial. On 14 August 2006 he began a hunger strike. - Philipp Kohlschreiber
Philipp Kohlschreiber (born October 16, 1983 in Augsburg) is a tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 2001. The righthander won one doubles title (2005, Vietnam Open in Ho Chi Minh City) so far. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on June 18, 2007, when he became the number 28 of the world. He achieved his greatest result at a Masters event during the 2007 Monte Carlo Masters event, when he reached the quarterfinals after going through qualifying, … - Hoang Trang
Hoang Trang, VietNamese. He is Lecturer in Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Viet Nam. His research interests are: MEMS, SAW devices, IC design, FPGA design. Some his awards:. CERTIFICATE OF COMMENDATION for the achievement: FIRST PRIZE in Physics Olympic Ho Chi Minh City of 1996 • CERTIFICATE OF COMMENDATION for the achievement: RANK FIRST in the Entrance Examination of 1997, … - Sang Nguyen
Sang Minh Nguyen (born January 1, 1960) is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council since 1996, representing Melbourne West Province. Nguyen was born in the Vietnamese town of Long Xuyen. He began high school in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), but fled Vietnam as a refugee with the fall of the city to the Communists and the end of the Vietnam War. - Lim Khim Katy
Lim Khim Katy was born in 1978 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She is a contemporary Vietnamese artist. She graduated from Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts University in 2001. Her paintings often focus on middle class or poor Vietnamese people going through troubling times in their lives. - Alexander Popp
Alexander Popp (born november 4 1976) is a German former professional tennis player Born in Heidelberg, Germany. He currently lives in Mannheim, Germany and turned pro in 1997. He is 200cm tall and has a weight of 187 pounds. His career high ranking is 74 and holds a career high doubles ranking of 266 and has a career win/loss record of 45-65. - Robert Irvine
Robert Irvine C.E.C. MCFA (C.G.) (born 1965) is a celebrity chef who stars in a show on Food Network called "Dinner: Impossible," which premiered January 24th, 2007. With no prior warning and no preparation, the show pits Irvine against seemingly impossible culinary challenges, including preparing a wedding for 200, including 1,000 hors doeuvres in only 10 hours, cooking in an authentic 18th century kitchen, on a cattle drive, in an Ice Hotel, … - Riccardo Cocciante
Riccardo Cocciante, also known in french speaking countries as Richard Cocciante (February 20, 1946 in Saigon, French Indochina, now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), is a French-Italian singer-songwriter and actor. In 1976, Cocciante covered the Beatles song "Michelle" for the ephemeral musical documentary "All This and World War II". - Nguyen Quoc Chanh
Nguyen Quoc Chanh is a Vietnamese poet. He was born in Bac Lieu, and now lives in Ho Chi Minh City. He is the author of four collections of poems, "Night of the Rising Sun" ("Đêm mặt trời mọc" 1990), "Inanimate Weather" ("Khí hậu đồ vật" 1997), the e-book "Coded Personal Info" (Của căn cước ẩn dụ 2001) and the samizdat "Hey, I'm Here" ("Ê, tao đây" 2005). - Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn
Jean-Baptiste Cardinal Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnamese Gioan Baotixia Phạm Minh Mẫn is a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Ca Mau, Vietnam, Mẫn studied in Can Tho and Saigon, and was ordained a priest on 25 May 1965, serving the diocese of Can Tho. After studying in the United States, he taught in Vietnam for a number of years. - Dang Thi Minh Hanh
Dang Thi Minh Hanh is a fashion designer from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Director of the Vietnam Fashion Design Institute (FADIN) in Ho Chi Minh City, she is a leading figure in Vietnam's new fashion industry. She specialises in hybridising traditional designs with modern clothing. Her work has been shown abroad, and at a Tokyo fashion fair in 1997, she became the first Vietnamese designer to be awarded an international prize. - Nguyen Thien Nga
Nguyễn Thiên Nga was crowned the 5th Miss Vietnam in 1996. At the time of the contest she was a second year student at the Foreign Trade University in Ho Chi Minh City. She also won the best answer award in the competition. Nguyễn Thiên Nga is the first contestant in the history of the competition to win two "Miss Vietnam" titles, the first in 1996 as the official contestant and the second title in 1999. - Nguyen Tan Hoang
Nguyen Tan Hoang (born c. 1971) is a gay Vietnamese American video artist and academic. Nguyen's own research interests include Asian American masculinity in gay male video porn and Hollywood and international cinemas. Hoang left Saigon, Vietnam, with his family in 1979, when he was nine years old. After spending a year and half in refugee camps in Malaysia, the family arrived in the United States. - Angela Melini
Angela Melini (born July 25, 1969 in Saigon, Vietnam) is an American model, actress and entrepreneur. Melini was chosen Playmate of the Month for the June, 1992 issue of "Playboy" magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag. Melini has appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, working steadily for "Playboy" for more than ten years after she graced the magazine's fold-out page, first as a nude glamour and pin-up model, … - Daniel Boey
Daniel Boey who originates from Singapore has been producing fashion shows and events for over 16 years. Daniel's international portfolio includes work in London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Manchester, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur. with such companies as Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Loewe, Valentino, Celine, Armani, Lanvin, Tiffany, Donna Karan, and MAC Cosmetics. In recognition of his contribution and impact to the fashion industry, … - Emile Gsell
Emile Gsell (1838 - 1879) was a French photographer who worked in Southeast Asia, becoming the first commercial photographer based in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). He participated in at least three scientific expeditions, and the images he produced from the first, to Angkor, are amongst the earliest photographs of that site. - Calvin Cheng
Calvin Ern-Lee Cheng (born in Singapore) is a leading figure in the fashion modelling industry in Asia. At the age of 25, Cheng became the Asian regional head of Elite Model Management, the largest and most famous modelling agency in the world which spawned supermodels Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, and Gisele Bundchen amongst others. In a short span of 3 years, he burst into the close-knit modelling industry of Asia, starting Elite agencies in Bombay, … - Sabine Kratze
Sabine Kratze was a German student who committed self-immolation in order to protest against what she believed to be the unjust trial of six Buddhist monks which had taken place on August 15, 1995. Kratze, who was 25 at the time, set herself on fire with gasoline on September 3, 1995, at Hô Chi Minh City, in a room at a small hotel on Ly You Trong Street. A few days before setting herself on fire, she told Buddhist leaders of her intention to pursue self-immolation, … - George MacKenzie
Colonel George Mackenzie is a former Australian Army officer. Mackenzie was born in Melbourne and was educated at Scotch College. He joined the Australian Army shortly after graduating — his father had served in the Army in World War II — and during the Vietnam War he was stationed in Saigon, where he served as the Australian Defence Force's chief legal officer. He has served as a Shrine of Remembrance trustee, and is one of its eight life governors. - Vernon Grant
Vernon Ethelbert Grant (February 14, 1935, Cambridge, Massachusetts - July 23, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a cartoonist who did graphic novels and is also known for his digest-size comic book series, "The Love Rangers". Usually referred to as Vern Grant, he is often credited as the person who first introduced the visual approach and concepts of Japanese manga into English-language cartooning. - Jerome Cochran
Jerome Cochran, born in Saigon on November 17, 1971, is a Tennessee politician. He was elected as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives to the 103rd and 104th General Assembly for the 4th District, which encompasses the entirety of Carter County. He was formerly a member of the Children and Family Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Domestic Relations Committee, the Constitutional Protections Subcommittee, and the Civil Practice & Procedure Subcommittee. - Ralf Lofstad
Ralf Gundersen Lofstad (Born July 21, 1974 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is a Norwegian musician, composer, and journalist, most noted for his work with rock groups "Violet Scene" and "Still Doing Sky", on all of whose releases he played and gained co-production credits. - Van Phong Ao
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Bout me????AHAHAHAHAHHA!!!I broke up with my bf last monht...I m very sad......my frined 2..Katie... dat's y we r best friends!!!!!!Cauz we r da same!!! - Milky
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I'm singaporean chinese. got hearing problem but that's a plus because i can ignore people who irritate me. I like to try everything and I can't keep my attention on one thing for too l. So far, I tried breakdancing, got tired of it, tried the guitar, got tired of it, tried playing organ, got tired, and now i'm trying this extreme sport: PAKOUR! (yes I have short attention span, in a way). - Pierre
what about trying to know more :) - Kate
..umumum .....quite ... haha !! sometime funny & joking with friend !! and ....... always listen to my friends.... when they sad ^^. - Brian
add me to find out......useyourbrain@hotmail.com. - Marie
eya, i'm marie, filipino (proud of it... i hate being mistaken for somethin else...)i think i'm alright, not too much of a bitch, hehe... really, i'm nice...just shy.. if i'm quiet, doesn't mean i don't like you.. (not necessarily).. i love going back home to the phils.. nothing quite like it.. but i think vietnam's awesome.. - Lien
I like to listen to music, read books, watch tv, go to cinema.....and go shopping. - Kiyoko
Hey i'm Kiyoko, and i'm half Japanese and Vietnamese, i like swimming, shopping, dancing and listening to music. I like Hot pink and black. i live in Ho Chi Minh City and go to International Skool. Vietnam is okay, pretty cheap place to go shopping to. i have a big bro named Eiko/Vinh (i prefer to call him Vinh though) and have a cute lil bro named Okuji. well n e ways.... so if n e one wanna chat with me, add : diva_link@hotmail.com. - Oanh Tran
EvEn WhEn YoU gAvE mE hOpE, MY tEaRs sTiLL FeLL AnD my HEaRt sTiLL BLeD ReD.
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