ON 23 NOVEMBER IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on November 23, 2018
1922: Birth of Vo van Kiet, Vietnamese prime minister (1991-1997) who died on June 11, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B5_V%C4%83n_Ki%E1%BB%87t
1924: Birth of Anita Linda, Filipino actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Linda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNfEN2mySXI
1945: British Foreign Secretary Bevin urges negotiations between the Dutch and the Republic of Indonesia
1946: French Navy bombing in Haiphong, Viet Nam, kills more than 3000 civilians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiphong_incident
http://www.worldhistory.biz/world-war-i/16465-the-haiphong-incident.html
1969: Birth of Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107053/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
http://www.robinpadilla.org/about.html
1970: Death of Yusof bin Ishak, first Singapore president (1965-1970) born on August 12, 1910
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1097_2006-07-28.html
1986: Birth of Maxene Magalona, Filipino actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxene_Magalona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWRur4O44w
1990: Death of Nguyen Van Tam, born in 1893, prime minister of Vietnam from June 1952 to December 1953
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/28/obituaries/nguyen-van-tam-vietnamese-statesman-97.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_T%C3%A2m
2009: In the Philippines, 56 people are killed in an attack. The victims were part of a group of people abducted in aguindanao province by around 100 armed men
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/11/2009112485739115118.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8375588.stm
2010: Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi meets her youngest son for the first time in a decade, some ten days after she was released from a lengthy house arrest by the military junta.
http://www.france24.com/en/20101123-aung-su-suu-kyi-reunited-rangoon-military-junta-visa-burma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11817685
2010: The King of Thailand first public appearance in nearly a year brings joy to the entire nation. Cries of “Long Live the King” resounded along the waterways from Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok to the mouth of the Pho canal in Samut Prakan
http://www.bangkokpost.com/multimedia/photo/207965/A-Special-Royal-Outing
2011: A fact-finding panel of the Office of the Ombudsman found Mike Aroyo the husband of the former President and now Pampanga representative liable for graft charges for the allegedly anomalous sale of helicopters to the Philippine National Police in 2009
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/99407/mike-arroyo-liable-in-helicopter-scam
2011: Thailand lese majeste man jailed for 20 years. The court found Ampon Tangnoppakul, nicknamed ‘grandpa’ and ‘Uncle SMS’ by the local press, guilty of sending messages insulting the monarchy to the mobile phone of the secretary of former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva last year during anti-government protests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15850068