Vietnamese Culture, Economy and Society

Culture Economy And Society

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  1. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese language with the correct year: In ______, British lawyer James Richardson Logan detected striking similarities between the Korku language in Central India and V…
  2. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese alphabet with the correct year: People have called the Latinized script of Vietnamese chữ Quốc ngữ at least since ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Chữ Nôm with the correct year: Independence was achieved after the Battle of Bạch Đằng in 938, but Literary Chinese was adopted for official purposes in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Chữ Nôm with the correct year: Four poems written in Nom from the Tran dynasty, two by Trần Nhân Tông and one each by Huyền Quang and Mạc Đĩnh Chi, were collected and publi…
  5. Complete the sentence about Bánh mì with the correct year: Nguyễn Đình Chiểu mentions the baguette in his ______ poem "Văn tế nghĩa sĩ Cần Giuộc".
  6. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese coffee with the correct year: First introduced by the French in ______, the Vietnamese coffee industry developed through the plantation system, becoming a major…
  7. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese coffee with the correct year: The first instant coffee plant, Coronel Coffee Plant, was established in Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai Province in ______, with a production c…
  8. Complete the sentence about Tết with the correct year: The dates of the Vietnamese and Chinese Lunar New Year occasionally differ, such as in ______, when Vietnam celebrated Lunar New Year a month bef…
  9. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Southern Vietnam would later join this change at the end of the Vietnam War in ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese lunar calendar with the correct year: As a result of the shift, North and South Vietnam celebrated Tết ______ on different days.
  11. Complete the sentence about Ao dai with the correct year: When the Ming dynasty occupied Đại Việt during the Fourth Era of Northern Domination in ______, it forced the women to wear Chinese-style pant…
  12. Complete the sentence about Quan họ with the correct year: Quan họ was named as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage practice in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese folk music with the correct year: Royal Vietnamese court music first appeared explicitly in the historical record after a successful seaborne raid against Champa…
  14. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese folk music with the correct year: Before ______, the Vietnamese government repressed hát chầu văn and other forms of religious expression.
  15. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese folk music with the correct year: Nhạc dân tộc cải biên is a modern form of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s after the founding of the Hanoi Conser…
  16. Complete the sentence about Trịnh Công Sơn with the correct year: When he was ten he lived with his father in Huế's Thừa Phủ Prison for a year in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Trịnh Công Sơn with the correct year: In ______, he studied psychology and pedagogy in a school for teachers in Qui Nhơn in an attempt to avoid being drafted into the Repub…
  18. Complete the sentence about Trịnh Công Sơn with the correct year: After the reunification in ______, the government sent Sơn to "retraining" in a labour camp after his family had fled to Canada.
  19. Complete the sentence about Khánh Ly with the correct year: In ______, at 9, she entered a small contest in the city of Hanoi singing "Thơ Ngây"; she did not win.
  20. Complete the sentence about Khánh Ly with the correct year: By ______, she accompanied her mother to the southern regions of Vietnam.
  21. Complete the sentence with the correct year: During a trip to Saigon in ______, she ran into Trịnh on the streets of Lê Thánh Tôn.
  22. Complete the sentence about Đàm Vĩnh Hưng with the correct year: In ______, when the feud between Phuong Thanh and journalist Huong Tra was sent to the court, it was reported that Dam Vinh Hung sent h…
  23. Complete the sentence about Mỹ Tâm with the correct year: After her contract with Vafaco ended in ______, she had her hair cut short and colored to a yellow-brown "Korean style".
  24. Complete the sentence about Mỹ Tâm with the correct year: In ______, Mỹ Tâm released her third studio album, Yesterday & Now.
  25. Complete the sentence about Mỹ Tâm with the correct year: In ______, Mỹ Tâm worked with Korean Record Narimaru Pictures for her fifth album, Fly.
  26. Complete the sentence about Sơn Tùng M-TP with the correct year: Rap artist Hoàng Kê, one of the site's participants, invited the singer to join his Young Pilots hip hop group in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese literature with the correct year: After declaring independence from France in ______, Empire of Vietnam's provisional government adopted a policy of increasing l…
  28. Complete the sentence about The Tale of Kiều with the correct year: In ______ the Nguyễn lord Nguyễn Ánh conquered all of Vietnam forming the new Nguyễn dynasty.
  29. Complete the sentence about Nguyễn Du with the correct year: Nguyễn Du was born on January 3, ______, during the Cảnh Hưng era, in the Bích Câu area just outside the confines of the Imperial Citadel o…
  30. Complete the sentence about Nguyễn Du with the correct year: After defeating Prince Nguyễn Ánh, the most senior survivor of the Nguyễn, in ______, the Tây Sơn brothers embarked on a northward expediti…
  31. Complete the sentence about Nguyễn Đình Chiểu with the correct year: In ______, the French started the conquest of Cochinchina and attacked Gia Định.
  32. Complete the sentence about Nam Cao with the correct year: On 30 November ______, he was killed by French forces while on a mission in Ninh Bình Province at the age of 36.
  33. Complete the sentence about Nam Cao with the correct year: One of their children, Trần Mai Thiên, died during the Vietnamese famine of ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Nam Cao with the correct year: In November ______, Nam Cao moved to Saigon, where he worked for two and a half years as a clerk in a tailor shop owned by Ba Lễ.
  35. Complete the sentence about Nam Cao with the correct year: Following the Japanese invasion of French Indochina in ______, the Công Thành school was requisitioned by Japanese troops to store rice, leav…
  36. Complete the sentence about Bảo Ninh with the correct year: Ninh recounted that American bombing raids during the Vietnam War, beginning in ______ when he was 12-13, destroyed ordinary people's homes…
  37. Complete the sentence about Bảo Ninh with the correct year: Of the five hundred who went to war with the brigade in ______, Ninh is one of ten who survived.
  38. Complete the sentence about Bảo Ninh with the correct year: Ninh won the ______ Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his novel The Sorrow of War.
  39. Complete the sentence about The Sorrow of War with the correct year: By ______, it had become the most translated and published Vietnamese novel in the international book market.
  40. Complete the sentence about The Sorrow of War with the correct year: In ______, fifteen years after its publication, the restriction on the book was lifted, and the English edition appeared across boo…
  41. Complete the sentence about Duong Thu Huong with the correct year: Born in ______ in Thái Bình, a province in northern Vietnam, Dương Thu Hương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent.
  42. Complete the sentence about Duong Thu Huong with the correct year: In ______, Le Minh Khue was still criticized for having a North Vietnamese female soldier daydream about the smile of a handsome Sout…
  43. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese cinema with the correct year: Joseph Mankiewicz's adaptation of Graham Greene's The Quiet American was filmed in and around Saigon in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese cinema with the correct year: American actor Marshall Thompson directed and starred in A Yank in Vietnam, or Year of the Tiger in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Trần Anh Hùng with the correct year: Following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in ______, he immigrated to France at age 12.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bùi Xuân Phái with the correct year: Bui Xuan Phai died on June 24, ______, in Hanoi, the place of his birth.
  47. Complete the sentence about Bùi Xuân Phái with the correct year: In ______, Phai was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize in Literature and Art.
  48. Complete the sentence about Bùi Xuân Phái with the correct year: In ______, Phai became a member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association.
  49. Complete the sentence about Đông Hồ painting with the correct year: A "Đông Hồ Painting Center" was established in ______ by Nguyễn Đăng Chế, one of the few remaining experienced craftsmen of the vill…
  50. Complete the sentence about Caodaism with the correct year: After Trung's death in ______, the Venerable Phạm Công Tắc assumed the role.
  51. Complete the sentence about Hòa Hảo with the correct year: After ______, the Hòa Hảo initiated armed opposition to President Ngô Đình Diệm's American-backed government.
  52. Complete the sentence about Roman Catholicism in Vietnam with the correct year: Two priests, Francesco Buzomi and Diogo Carvalho, established the first Catholic community in Hội An in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Religion in Vietnam with the correct year: The Communist government used to suspend the practice of lên đồng due to its superstition, but in ______, the government legalize…
  54. Complete the sentence about Religion in Vietnam with the correct year: In ______ the Reunited Vietnam authorities forced this religion to go underground.
  55. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese folk religion with the correct year: During a cholera epidemic in ______, which killed over a million people, Huyên was reputed to have supernatural abilities to…
  56. Complete the sentence about Thích Nhất Hạnh with the correct year: In ______, Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
  57. Complete the sentence about Thích Nhất Hạnh with the correct year: After a 39-year exile, Nhất Hạnh was permitted to visit Vietnam in ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Thích Nhất Hạnh with the correct year: Nhất Hạnh was born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo on 11 October ______, in the ancient capital of Huế in central Vietnam.
  59. Complete the sentence about Vietnamese people with the correct year: The relation between China and Vietnam declined following reunification in ______, with Vietnam siding with the Soviet Union agains…
  60. Complete the sentence about Hmong people with the correct year: In ______, Vang Pobzeb registered the term Hmong with the United Nations, making it the proper term to identify the Hmong people interna…
  61. Complete the sentence about Hmong people with the correct year: Without their official classification as the Miao minority after ______, it is unlikely that they would be able to recognize any affinit…
  62. Complete the sentence about Tày people with the correct year: By ______ around 30% of their language was made of Vietnamese loan words.
  63. Complete the sentence about Thái people with the correct year: In ______, Sip Song Chau Tai was incorporated into the French protectorate of Tonkin and became part of French Indochina.
  64. Complete the sentence about Khmer Krom with the correct year: With Japanese support he became the prime minister of Cambodia in March ______ but was then quickly ousted with the return of the French l…
  65. Complete the sentence about Montagnard with the correct year: In ______, the population of the Montagnard people in the Central Highlands was estimated to number as many as one million.
  66. Complete the sentence about Montagnard with the correct year: But in ______, the emperor of Vietnam, Gia Long, planned to pacify the Montagnard tribes.
  67. Complete the sentence about Champa with the correct year: In ______, the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mạng annexed the remaining Cham territories.
  68. Complete the sentence about Champa with the correct year: In his ______ Champa revised, Michael Vickery challenges Finot's idea.
  69. Complete the sentence about Vietjet Air with the correct year: Founded in ______, the airline's founding team included Robert Hughes, an American who led the company through its initial year.
  70. Complete the sentence about Viettel with the correct year: On 13 June ______, the Prime Minister issued Notification No. 3179/DM-DN on the permission for the establishment of Military Electronics and…
  71. Complete the sentence about Viettel with the correct year: On 14 July ______, the Minister of National Defense decided to officially change the company's name to Military Electronics and Telecommunica…
  72. Complete the sentence about FPT Corporation with the correct year: In ______, FPT was one of the first four companies licensed to provide internet services in Vietnam, the year the internet became ava…
  73. Complete the sentence about Vinamilk with the correct year: In September ______, Vinamilk signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chr.
  74. Complete the sentence about Vinamilk with the correct year: In ______, the Southern Milk and Coffee Company was transferred to the Ministry of Food Industry and renamed the Milk - Coffee - Confectione…
  75. Complete the sentence about Vinamilk with the correct year: In ______, Vinamilk constructed an additional dairy factory in Hanoi to develop the northern market, bringing the total number of member fac…
  76. Complete the sentence about Vinamilk with the correct year: In ______, the Can Tho Dairy Factory was constructed at the Tra Noc Industrial Zone, Can Tho, with the aim of better serving consumers in th…
  77. Complete the sentence about Masan Group with the correct year: The group launched on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange on 5 November ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Masan Group with the correct year: The company was founded by its chairman, Nguyen Dang Quang, who following a doubling of the share price in the six months to January ____…
  79. Complete the sentence about Techcombank with the correct year: In ______, global bank HSBC acquired a 10% stake in Techcombank.
  80. Complete the sentence about Techcombank with the correct year: In ______, US private equity firm Warburg Pincus invested $370 million.
  81. Complete the sentence about Vietcombank with the correct year: Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam was founded on 1 April ______ as Bank for Foreign trade of Vietnam.
  82. Complete the sentence about Vietcombank with the correct year: In ______, Vietcombank diversified its services from being exclusively focused on foreign trade to become a mass market commercial bank.
  83. Complete the sentence about Vietcombank with the correct year: In ______ the bank's official name was changed to Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam.
  84. Complete the sentence about Vietcombank with the correct year: In ______, Vietcombank launched a new brand identity system with the slogan "Shared trust - Strong future".
  85. Complete the sentence about Vietcombank with the correct year: In ______, Vietcombank became the first bank to be officially granted the decision to apply Basel II under Circular 41 by the State Bank…
  86. Complete the sentence about Petrovietnam with the correct year: PVFC was founded on June 19, ______ under the name Petrovietnam Finance Company.
  87. Complete the sentence about Petrovietnam with the correct year: In ______, it transformed to Petrovietnam Finance Joint Stock Corporation with VND 5000 billion chartered capital.
  88. Complete the sentence about Grab with the correct year: GrabTaxi expanded to the Philippines in August ______, and to Singapore and Thailand in October of the same year.
  89. Complete the sentence about Grab with the correct year: In ______, GrabTaxi further continued its growth and expansion to new countries: first launching in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in February, and…
  90. Complete the sentence about Vietnam national football team with the correct year: The North as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam only joined FIFA and the AFC in ______ and mainly competed in friendly…
  91. Complete the sentence about Vietnam national football team with the correct year: The country made its return at the ______ SEA Games, marking its reintegration into regional football.
  92. Complete the sentence about Vietnam national football team with the correct year: In the FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Vietnam advanced to the third round for the first time in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Vietnam national football team with the correct year: The introduction of football into Vietnam can be traced back to ______, during the era of colonial French Cochinchina…
  94. Complete the sentence about Vietnam national football team with the correct year: On 20 July ______, the newspaper Southern Luc Tan Van reported on a match between two local Vietnamese teams for the f…
  95. Complete the sentence about Vietnam at the Olympics with the correct year: Vietnam first competed in the Olympic Games in ______ as the State of Vietnam.
  96. Complete the sentence about Vietnam at the Olympics with the correct year: Vietnam won its first medal at the ______ Summer Games in Sydney, when Trần Hiếu Ngân took home a silver in Taekwondo in the…
  97. Complete the sentence about Vietnam at the Olympics with the correct year: With a lack of investment in competing in the Olympics, Vietnam has sent an average of only around 12 athletes per game until…
  98. Complete the sentence about AFF Championship with the correct year: The ASEAN Championship is recognised as an 'A' international tournament by FIFA with FIFA ranking points being awarded since ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about AFF Championship with the correct year: The first ASEAN Championship took place in ______ with the six founding members of the ASEAN Federation competing with four nations…
  100. Complete the sentence about Park Hang-seo with the correct year: Park was the captain of the South Korea under-20 squad which won the ______ AFC Youth Championship.

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