Office worker on her way to work Ninh Binh, Vietnam,2008

Hồ Chí Minh born Nguyễn Sinh Cung (19 May 1890 – 3 September 1969) was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and leader who was prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War until his death.

Worshipers at the Cao Dai great Temple. Adherents engage in ethical practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the minimum goal of rejoining God the Father in Heaven and the ultimate goal of freedom from the cycle of birth and death. Tay Ninh, North of Saigon, Vietnam, 2008