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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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HO CHI MINH CITY, November 13 (Compass) -- Information has been pouring out of Vietnam about a recent wave of government repression against Montagnard evangelicals in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Embassy in Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) as well as the street corner that was the background to the Buddhist Monk setting himself alight in protest at the government of the day.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — “We can rejoice greatly with the Roman Catholic community in Vietnam for the completion of a new translation of the Vietnamese Bible,” said a UBS representative at a short dedication service for the new Bible held on Sunday, January 31, 1999.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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Flowing through life Visiting both Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hanoi, we watched in amazement as an endless flow of traffic seemed to weave its way through the streets with no mishaps.
Here in Ho Chi Minh they socialise in Karaoke bars till deep in the night, while their Hanoi counterparts are the early-to-bed types.
Prey Nokor was one of the most important commercial cities of all in Kampuchea-Krom, but the name was first changed to Saigon and then to Ho Chi Minh City by the Vietnamese Communist in 1975.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Ho Chi Minh's declaration of Vietnamese independence after WW II sparked violent confrontations with the French, culminating in the French military defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
Ted was subsequently marched up the Ho Chi Minh trail, and then held in several POW camps in the Hanoi area, to include the infamous Hanoi Hilton.
As Ho Chi Minh stood on a crude wooden platform on 2 September 1946 to pronounce the free and autonomous Vietnam, the reader is left to wonder why--why did the United States not support him and his nation's fight for freedom?
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Ho Chi Minh Trail was the artery of life feeding the Viet Cong fighting in the South with much needed food, ammunition, weapons and medicine.
Ho Chi Minh trail - An informal network if roads running along the Lao-Vietnamese border used by the communists as infiltration routes into South Vietnam and Laos.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail extended into parts of Cambodia, and was used by the North Vietnamese to resupply their armies in the south.
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