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30 unusual facts about Hanoi


Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

At the Leaders' Meeting held on November 19, 2006 in Hanoi, APEC leaders called for a new start to global free-trade negotiations while condemning terrorism and other threats to security.

Bun cha

Bún chả is a Vietnamese dish of grilled pork & noodle, which is thought to have originated from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

Cities of Peace

The project continues, with pieces devoted to other cities such as Hanoi, Seoul and Warsaw.

Francine Parker

Parker's film debuted in 1972, the same week that actress Jane Fonda controversially visited Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam.

Giorgio La Pira

Despite sometimes intense criticism, La Pira paid many visits to Moscow, China and even Hanoi, throughout the Cold War era.

GM Korea

Hanoi: GM Vietnam vehicle assembly (production capacity: est. 11,000/year)

Hanoi Contemporary Arts Centre

The Contemporary Arts Centre is located in Hanoi, Vietnam that showcases modern Vietnamese art.

Hanoi Vocational Education and Training Company

The company, licensed under the Vietnamese Ministry of Education, has its main office in Hanoi, Vietnam and is a member of Vietnamese Vocational Training Association (VVTA).

Hồ Dynasty

Hồ Liêm, Hồ Quý Ly's great-great-grandfather, moved further south and settled in the province of Thanh Hóa (about 100 km south of the modern city of Hanoi).

Hoan Kiem turtle

The Hoàn Kiếm turtle (Rafetus leloii) is a controversial taxon of turtle from Southeast Asia, with one known living specimen in Hoàn Kiếm Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam.

One day, not long after the Chinese had accepted Vietnam’s independence, Lê Lợi was out boating on a lake in Hanoi.

Hòn La Economic Zone

Hon La Economic Zone is situated 60 km north Đồng Hới, around 440 km south of Hanoi, at the foot of Ngang Pass, near the Vung Ang Economic Zone in Hà Tĩnh Province with deep-water Vung Ang Port.

Indochina Expeditionary Army

Japanese forces landed on September 26, and captured the city of Hanoi by evening.

Laser-guided bomb

It was determined that 48% of Paveways dropped during 1972–73 around Hanoi and Haiphong achieved direct hits, compared with only 5.5% of unguided bombs dropped on the same area a few years earlier.

Military history of Vietnam

Vietnam did not mobilize its regular divisions, which was meant to protect Hanoi if necessary, and no troops were pulled out of Cambodia during the war.

Nguyen-Thien Dao

Nguyễn Thiên Đạo (born 1940 in Hanoi, French Indochina) is a French composer of Vietnamese descent who works in contemporary classical music.

Pete Power

Power worked as the Financial Systems Manager for Concern Worldwide until 2009 when he became Chief Operating Officer at Prosperity Initiative, a private sector development NGO based in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Postage stamps and postal history of Vietnam

For this reason they resorted to printing their own stamps at a print shop in Hanoi.

Religion in Vietnam

As late as 1939, the estimated combined population of the Jewish communities of Haiphong, Hanoi, Saigon and Tourane in French Indo-China numbered approximately 1,000 individuals.

The Sun Won't Set

Susan also shares with Mike the fact that she is writing an autobiography based on her life and about her father who was a merchant marine who was murdered in Hanoi during the 1960s.

Thổ people

The Thổ ethnic group (also Keo, Mon, Cuoi, Ho, Tay Poong) inhabits the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, mainly Nghệ An province southwest of Hanoi.

Trần Quốc Hoàn

During the late 1930s he was involved with the student movement in Huế and Hanoi, as well as various youth organizations.

Ung Thị

He gained his law degree and worked as administrator for the Compagnie des Chemin de Fer in Hanoi.

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

--Should "Viện" be part of the name? It's not in the official site but is on the vi:WP page--> is a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, which focuses on the 54 officially recognized ethnic groups in Vietnam.

Vietnam Securities Indexes

Vietnam Securities Indexes (formerly CBV Index), Vietnam's first free float market capitalization weighted indexes, are Vietnam's first equity indexes that compose all stocks listed on the two exchanges in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese art

One Pillar Pagoda: The one pillar pagoda is one of the most ancient structures of Hanoi, its design credited to Emperor Lý Thái Tổ.

In the early 20th century, the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de l’Indochine (Indochina College of Arts) was founded to teach European methods and exercised influence mostly in the larger cities, such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Vinaxuki

Vinaxuki or Xuan Kien Auto JSC is a Vietnamese automaker (and brand name) headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Where Are You Now, My Son?

One side of the album featured recordings Baez made during a US bombing raid on Hanoi over Christmas 1972.

You Gotta Quintet

On December 1, 2005, the program won an Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Award in the children/young people program section) with the notation "that was able to stream down splendor, the pleasure that this program used the doll, and the music had" at the 42nd annual general meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.


2019 Asian Para Games

The 2019 Asian Para Games, also known as the Third Asian Para Games, will be a parallel sport event for Asian athletes with a disability held in Hanoi, Vietnam.

63d Airlift Wing

Arizona Senator John McCain was one of the POWs who flew home on the Hanoi Taxi.

Adler's Appetite

However, they soon pulled out after Adler made disparaging comments about Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy's wife during an interview.

Archimedes Patti

Archimedes L.A. Patti (1913–1998) was an American U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former Office of Strategic Services officer who headed OSS operations in Kunming and Hanoi in 1945.

Citibank Vietnam

Citibank was the first US financial institution to receive a branch license and the first US bank to open a full branch in Hanoi in 1994, followed by another in Ho Chi Minh City in 1998.

CPAF

Cambodian People's Armed Forces; the official name of the Cambodian pro-Hanoi "Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Armed Forces" (KPRAF) during the transitional times that led to the restoration of the monarchy (1989 - 1993)

Demolition 23

Monroe's former Hanoi Rocks bandmate Sami Yaffa played bass guitar on the album and the music was a return to Monroe and Yaffa's punk roots with tracks such as "Same Shit Different Day", "Hammersmith Palais" and covers of songs by Johnny Thunders, UK Subs and The Dead Boys.

Don't You Ever Leave Me

"Don't You Ever Leave Me" made its first appearance on Hanoi Rocks' first album Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, but it had more punky atmosphere and faster tempo.

Hàng Trống painting

Hàng Trống painting (Vietnamese: Tranh Hàng Trống) is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut painting that originated from the area of Hàng Trống (vi) and Hàng Nón streets in the central Hoàn Kiếm District of Hanoi, Vietnam.

Hanoi Taxi

At 9:30 AM on Saturday, 6 May 2006, the Hanoi Taxi touched down for the last time and was received in a formal retirement ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) Area B in Riverside, Ohio near Dayton, Ohio.

History of Yunnan

In fact, between 1904 and 1909 the French had built the 885 km long Sino-Vietnamese Railway which ran from Hanoi to Kunming via Hekou, with an offshoot to Gejiu.

Hot Girls in Love

The Cherry Bombz version is quite faithful to the original, but female vocals by Anita Chellemah (formerly of British New Wave act Toto Coelo, who did "I Eat Cannibals") and the high-energy guitar of Andy McCoy (formerly of Finnish glam band Hanoi Rocks) set it apart somewhat.

Japanese invasion of French Indochina

In early 1940, troops of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) moved to seize Longzhou in south Guangxi, where the eastern branch of the railroad from Hanoi reaches the border, and also tried to move west to cut the rail line to Kunming.

John Everingham

During the Vietnam War he received acclaim from the mainstream media, and disdain from the American military, for his reporting on the effects of B-52 dumping runs on their way back to bases in Udon Thani, Thailand — when bombers didn't drop all their payload over Hanoi, they dumped their bombs in Laos to cut the risk of accidents on landing, which led to innocent rural Lao and Hmong being killed.

John Giorno

Spiro Agnew called Giorno and Abbie Hoffman "would be Hanoi Hannahs" after their WPAX radio broadcasts made to the US troops in South Vietnam on Radio Hanoi.

Joseph Moutschen

His brother Michel Moutschen (1923-1947 in Hanoi) was a war correspondent for the Associated Press.

Lê Dynasty

The best known of the early missionaries was Alexandre de Rhodes, a French Jesuit who was sent to Hanoi in 1627, where he quickly learned the language and began preaching in Vietnamese.

Les Vergers du Mekong

The headquarters are based in Ho Chi Minh City and several branches have been established over the years in Hanoi, Nha Trang, Danang and Phnom Penh.

Phạm Duy Khiêm

Phạm Duy Khiêm (Hanoi, 24 April 1908 – Montreuil-le-Henri, Sarthe, 2 December 1974) was a Vietnamese writer, academic and South Vietnam ambassador in France.

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

Quốc Học – Huế High School for the Gifted

Other schools include Chu Van An High School in Hanoi and Lê Hồng Phong High School in Ho Chi Minh City.

Saigon Hi-Tech Park

The Saigon Hi-Tech Park (abbr.: SHTP) is a park for high technology enterprises located 15 km from downtown Ho Chi Minh City, opposite to Thu Duc University Village, along the Hanoi Highway and on the future line 1 of the HCMC metro (2014).

State of Cambodia

State of Cambodia (SOC), the official name of the Cambodian pro-Hanoi People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK) state during its transitional times until the restoration of the monarchy (1989–1993)

Telford Taylor

Taylor regarded the 1972 bombing campaign targeting the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, as "senseless and immoral"; in December 1972, he visited Hanoi along with musician and activist Joan Baez and others, among them also the associate dean of the Yale Law School.

The Disregard of Timekeeping

It was produced by famed record producer Bob Ezrin, who has noted for working with Alice Cooper, Pink Floyd and Kiss; in addition to his usual production duties, he also co-wrote three of the tracks (almost the same pattern he would take with the Hanoi Rocks album Two Steps from the Move.) The album features Trevor Rabin as a guest, who was then noted for his work with Yes on the albums 90125 and Big Generator.

Thick description

Examples include Michael G. Vann's study of rats and sewers in French government colonial Hanoi.

Trần Cảo Rebellion

However, it is known that he was a charismatic figure who quickly gathered thousands of followers in eastern Hưng Hóa and western Sơn Tây provinces, and moved them directly against the capital Thăng Long, now modern Hanoi.

Tran Quoc An

Trần Quốc Ân (active 1940s) Vietnamese painter, at the Hanoi Art School

Vietnamese boat people

Georges Claude Guilbert Après Hanoï: Les mémoires brouillés d'une princesse vietnamienne (novel, on Vietnamese woman and her boat people family), 2011.

Vietnamese ceramics

One of the noteworthy examples of modern ceramic art is the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural, which is affixed on the wall of the dyke system of Hanoi.

VMFA-333

It was during this deployment that the squadron got its only air to air kill when Major Lee T Lasseter, USMC along with his RIO, Capt. John D. Cummings shot down a MiG-21 over North Vietnam, near Hanoi.

Vũ Cao Đàm

He was one of the alumni of Victor Tardieu's École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine in Hanoi in the 1930s, along with Mai Trung Thứ, Lê Phổ and woman painter Lê Thị Lựu to emigrate to France and make a career in Paris.

William G. Moore Jr.

C-130 Herculess under his command were the first aircraft into Hanoi to prepare for returning prisoners of war, and he commanded the homecoming operation at Clark Air Base under the direction of the commander in chief, Pacific Command.