Ho Chi Minh

[ hoh chee min ]

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1890?–1969, North Vietnamese political leader: president of North Vietnam 1954–69.

Ho Chi Minh

/ ˈhəʊ ˈtʃiː ˈmɪn /

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Ho Chi Minh18901969MVietnamesePOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: nationalist leader original name Nguyen That Tan. 1890–1969, Vietnamese statesman; president of North Vietnam (1954–69). He headed the Vietminh (1941), which won independence for Vietnam from the French (1954)

Ho Chi Minh

A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. Ho Chi Minh led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s ( see World War II ), France in the 1950s ( see Dienbienphu ), and the United States in the 1960s ( see Vietnam War ). He died in 1969.

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Saigon , the former capital of South Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the communist victory there.

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Earlier on Tuesday, Xi visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum to take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the resting place of the former Vietnamese founder and Communist leader.

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“If it really gets implemented like this, the impact is dramatic for the economy,” said Matthieu Francois, a partner at Delta West, a Ho Chi Minh City-based advisory firm that helps businesses expand in Vietnam.

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Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City and had also stalked five of its employees, according to authorities.

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And less than 1,500 feet away is a major river that flows into Ho Chi Minh City, population 9 million.

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As a young activist in Paris, future Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh followed the Irish rebellion closely, and was reportedly inspired by the example of legendary Irish hunger striker Terence MacSwiney.

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Hochhuth Ho Chi Minh City

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