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unusual facts about Nong’an



2011 crackdown on Vietnamese youth activists

On March 12, 2012, Media Legal Defence Initiative and eight other NGOs issued a joint letter to the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung calling for the immediate release of bloggers Dang Xuan Dieu, Ho Duc Hoa, Nguyen Van Duyet, Nong Hung Anh and Paulus Le Son.

Anti-Japanese Army for the Salvation of the Country

Li established his headquarters at Fuyu and were in control of the territory round about there and southward as far as Nungan.

Jinong

Whatever its relation with the Chinese title, the Mongol title was rendered in Chinese as "jinong" (Traditional Chinese: 濟農; pinyin: jǐ nóng) or "jinang" (Traditional Chinese:吉囊; pinyin: jí náng).

Li Hai-ching

Li established his headquarters at Fuyu and were in control of the territory there and southward as far as Nong’an.

Japanese forces from the east at Yao-men, tried to fight their way through to Nong′an with the support of bombers but the defenders radio ceased broadcasting, Li's forces having captured the town.

Mekhong Full Moon Party

The film takes a semi-documentary approach to its subject, examining the phenonmenon and its accompanying festival, which draws thousands of people to Nong Khai each year, as well as providing a glimpse at Isan culture, Thai folklore and such practices as eating insects.

Mesoniviridae

A third member of this first species, named Dak Nong virus, has since been found in Culex tritaeniorhynchus populations in Vietnam.

Miss Suwanna of Siam

While research and discussion about Miss Suwanna has long been the province of film historians and scholars, the subject of the film received mainstream attention as a major plot point in the 2006 Thai comedy, Nong Teng Nakleng-pukaotong (literally, Nong and Teng, the Golden Mount Gangsters).

Nong Bua Lamphu Province

This shrine was built to commemorate the visit of King Naresuan to the city of Nong Bua Lamphu in 1574 when he was gathering troops to fight the Burmese kingdom of Taungoo.

Nong Bua Lam Phu is famous as the spot where in the sixteenth century Naresuan, the King-Liberator of Siam, came to learn the outcome of a war between the Lao and Burmese in the area of Vientiane.

Nong Het

The strategical position of Nong Het meant that it was an "important resupply and transshipment point" during the Indochinese and Vietnam War, and contained "approximately a dozen NVA warehouses".

Nong Het has a turbulent history of battles between the Ly and Moua warriors, Red Laotians and the Hmong.

Nong Khai

Nong Khai is connected to Laos via the First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge, which permits direct traffic to Vientiane via road and rail (in the latter case, via Thanaleng Railway Station).

Nong Qunhua

Nong was won of the world's leading women's doubles players of the early 1990s, winning the IBF World Championships in 1991 with Guan Weizhen and in 1993 with Zhou Lei.

Parinya Charoenphol

Nong Toom's life as a kathoey is also part of the book Ladyboys: The Secret World of Thailand's Third Gender by Maverick House Publishers.

Nong Toom was planning another exhibition bout for sometime in 2006 with a female boxer Lucia Rijker, who portrayed the lethal "Blue Bear" in the film Million Dollar Baby.

Ubon Ratchathani

Wat Nong Pa Pong, for example, is a Buddhist forest monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition, which was established by Venerable Achan Chah Subhaddo in 1954.


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