Coordinates: 16°10′N 107°50′E / 16.167°N 107.833°E / 16.167; 107.833
Vietnam (UK /ˌvjɛtˈnæm, -ˈnɑːm/, US i/ˌviːətˈnɑːm, -ˈnæm/;Vietnamese: Việt Nam [viət˨ næm˧]), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV; Vietnamese: Cộng Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa Việt Nam (
listen)), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2014, it is the world's 14th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. The name Vietnam translates as "Southern Viet" (synonymous with the much older term Nam Viet); it was first officially adopted in 1802 by Emperor Gia Long, and was adopted again in 1945 with the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. The country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and Malaysia across the South China Sea to the southeast. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1975.
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA), a governmental agency, is the official state news provider of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
As the only news agency of the whole country, the state-run VNA is responsible for publishing official information and documents of the party and state, providing information in service of the party leadership and state management, while collecting and providing news via various forms to the mass media agencies, the public and readers of all kinds, both at home and abroad.
The VNA is headquartered at 5 Lý Thường Kiệt Street, Hanoi, in the National News Centre. The organisation’s southern and central representative offices are located at 120 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai Street, Hồ Chí Minh City, and 28 Lê Thánh Tông Street, Đà Nẵng .
The VNA is a media complex consisting of 32 affiliates, including news units (five editorial departments and two source news centres), various publication and press bodies (one publishing house and nine newspapers), and multi-media units (a television channel and e-portal), together with five news support centres and two printing, trade and services companies.
Vietnam is the third studio album by Shockabilly, released in 1984 by Fundamental Records. It released on CD as Vietnam/Heaven in 1990.
Adapted from the Vietnam liner notes.
My walk has staggered
I've become a hazard
To myself and everyone else
My minds depleting
From the earths deceiving
You lied and endangered my health
And I told you once
That without you I'd die
And I told you again
That I would never lie
Now my knees they buckle
With the weight of my trouble
And there's no point now
I've lost the will to survive
And now I'm falling to the ground so roughly
Reaching but grabbing nothing
Crawling on hands and knees
Bleeding out sorrowed pleas
After all of our battles
That we learned to handle
You left and I slowly grew
Into a monster that is pitied not feared
Remaining like this until my dying year
Now my knees they buckle
With the strain from my struggle
There's no point now
I've lost the will to stay here
And now I'm falling to the ground so roughly
Reaching but grabbing nothing
Crawling on hands and knees
Bleeding out sorrowed pleas
Never again
Never again
Never again
Crawling on hands and knees
Bleeding out sorrowed pleas
And now I'm falling to the ground so roughly
Reaching but grabbing nothing
Crawling on hands and knees
Bleeding out sorrowed pleas
Never again
I wont let this happen
Never again
I wont let this happen
Never again
I wont let this happen