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The National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( N.A.; Vietnamese: Quốc hội nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam) [a] is the unicameral parliament and the highest body of state power of Vietnam. The National Assembly is the only branch of government in Vietnam and, in accordance with the principle of unified ...
Vietnam News Agency ( VNA; Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam ( TTXVN ), French: L’Agence vietnamienne d’information, lit. 'Vietnamese Information Agency' ( AVI )) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaux worldwide and maintains 63 bureaux in Vietnam — one ...
1. International public holiday. From the 2nd last day of the last lunar month to 5th day of the first lunar month. Vietnamese New Year (Tet) Tết Nguyên Đán. 5. Lunar New Year. Largest and most important holiday of the year, occurring around late January to early February. 10th day of the 3rd lunar month.
La Gi (pronounced:/la-yi/) is a District-level town (thị xã) of Bình Thuận province, Vietnam. Under the Republic of Vietnam period, La Gi was the provincial capital of Bình Tuy province (present-day western Bình Thuận Province). After the Vietnam War, it became the capital of Hàm Tân District. It was established in 2005 with the ...
Hội An ( chữ Hán: 會 安) translates as "peaceful meeting place" from Sino-Vietnamese. In English and other European languages, the town was known historically as Faifo. This word is derived from Vietnamese Hội An phố (the town of Hội An), which was shortened to "Hoi-pho", and then to "Faifo". [9]
Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam; French: Martyrs du Viêt Nam), or in the current Roman Missal as Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Vietnamese: Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, collectively Martyrs of Indochina, are saints on the General Roman Calendar who were canonized ...
The president is the head of state of Vietnam, and his main priority is to represent Vietnam internally and externally. [6] The officeholder is elected by the National Assembly of Vietnam, is responsible to it and reports to it. The tenure of the president is five years, the same as that of the National Assembly.
7 million (2020) Official website. Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam. The Catholic Church in Vietnam is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of bishops in Vietnam who are in communion with the Pope in Rome. Vietnam has the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia, after the Philippines, India, China and ...