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Bitexco Financial Tower. / 10.77167°N 106.70444°E / 10.77167; 106.70444. Bitexco Financial Tower ( Vietnamese: Tháp Tài chính Bitexco) is a skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At its completion in 2010, it became the tallest building in Vietnam and kept this status until January 2011, when it was surpassed by Keangnam Hanoi ...
Museum of Ho Chi Minh City ( Vietnamese: Bảo tàng Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh ), formerly known as Gia Long Palace ( Vietnamese: Dinh Gia Long ), is a historical site and museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [1] [2] The museum is situated at the corner of Lý Tự Trọng and Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa streets, located on a 2-hectare block near ...
The Municipal Theatre of Ho Chi Minh City ( Vietnamese: Nhà hát Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, French: Théâtre municipal de Saïgon ), also known as Saigon Opera House, is an opera house in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is an example of French Colonial architecture in Vietnam. Designed by French architects as the Opéra de Saïgon, the ...
Phùng Khắc Khoan (1528–1613), known as Trạng Bùng, was a noted 16th-century Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet during the Later Lê dynasty warlord period . Phùng Khắc Khoan headed the diplomatic corps to China during the Ming, during which he took part in a notable summit colloquy, conducted in writing ...
From that point, the church was called Notre-Dame Cathedral . In 1960, Pope John XXIII erected Roman Catholic dioceses in Vietnam and assigned archbishops to Hanoi, Huế and Saigon. The cathedral was titled Saigon Chief Cathedral. In 1962, Pope John XXIII anointed the Saigon Chief Cathedral, and conferred it the status of a basilica.
Ho Chi Minh Prize. Order of Ho Chi Minh. Spouse (s) Nguyễn Thị Khánh. Trần Đại Nghĩa (13 September 1913 – 9 August 1997) was a Vietnamese scientist, military engineer, and prominent figure in the defense industry of Vietnam. [1] He was a major-general and an academician. He was awarded the Order of Ho Chi Minh and named a Hero of ...
The team was overjoyed by how well the ship fared when it finally took to the sea on March 2, said Robert B. Jackson, photographer and health and safety officer. “For the first time in 4,000 ...
Tân Định church ( Vietnamese: nhà thờ Tân Định) is a Roman Catholic church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Its formal name is the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ( nhà thờ Thánh Tâm Chúa Giêsu, French: Église du Sacré-Cœur de Tan Dinh ). Even though it is in District 3, the parish shares its name with neighbouring ...