Augustine Tan Minh Nguyen was only 11 years old when he and his sister, Cindy, escaped their native Vietnam in a tiny fishing boat, which was carrying 47 others. It was 1984 and the children's parents ...
It's a sistrum and a bowl (patera or phiale) used for libation. The sistrum, a musical instrument used as a rattle, isn't restricted to the cult of Isis; you may encounter it also in the context of the cult of Mithras, too. See also the Encyclopedia Britannica on the sistrum. For the sistrum, cf. this statue of Isis: Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ...
24h: Truy tố nguyên Giám đốc Sở Khoa học và Công nghệ TP HCM Phan Minh Tân
VKSND TP HCM đã truy tố PGS-TS Phan Minh Tân (nguyên Giám đốc Sở Khoa học và Công nghệ TP HCM) và các đồng phạm do gây thất thoát gần 20 tỉ đồng. Ngày 30-6, một nguồn tin cho biết VKSND TP HCM đã hoàn ...
Truy tố nguyên Giám đốc Sở Khoa học và Công nghệ TP HCM Phan Minh Tân
This happened several more times and as a result, nearly 40% of Vietnamese have the name Nguyen. Internet says the name derives from a Chinese name "Ruan." Ruan was a place fairly north in China but its people were displaced and moved south. There is an instrument with the same name.
Vu Hong Lien is a Vietnamese–British historian who has written widely on the history of Southeast Asia. She is a guest lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and the author of Royal Hue: Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam and coauthor of Descending Dragon, Rising Tiger: A History of Vietnam, also published by Reaktion Books - press.uchicago ...