ON 25 JULY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on July 25, 2019
1511: First assault on the properous trading city of Malacca, Malay Penninsula, by Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerque
http://khleo.tripod.com/conquest.htm
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Afonso_de_Albuquerque
1928: Birth of Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor, who died on August 27, 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Monténégro
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599369/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVlPeHHf4aM
1933: Birth of Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines (1986-1992) who died on July 31, 2009
http://www.wic.org/bio/caquino.htm
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1914109,00.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASwKyAOio78
1941: Japan announces a “protectorate” over Indochina
http://www.combinedfleet.com/Indochina_t.htm
1941: US president Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1964: US Joint Chief of Staff proposes air strike on North Vietnam
1969: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the “Vietnamization” of the war
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-nixon-doctrine-is-announced
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Doctrines-The-nixon-doctrine.html
1988: Jakarta Informal Meeting of the four Khmer factions, joined later by Vietnam and Asean countries
1988: Birth of Sarah Geronimo ,Filipino actress and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Geronimo
1990: Birth of Andi Eigenmann, Filipina actress
http://www.poklat.com/andi-eigenmann-biography/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gBZ_Lq5XAA
2009: Death of Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter, born on January 25, 1958
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/aug/12/obituary-yasmin-ahmad
http://www.thestar.com.my/story/?file=%2F2009%2F7%2F26%2Fnation%2F4396007
http://www.screendaily.com/territories/asia-pacific/malaysias-yasmin-ahmad-dies-aged-51/5003929.article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vds1cB207_U
2010: Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi warns some countries not to “internationalize” the territorial dispute over the South China Sea that following comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the issue at a regional security meeting
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-07/26/content_11046559.htm
2010: Death of Redford White, Filipino comedian, born on December 5, 1955
http://www.pep.ph/news/26283/Comedian-Redford-White-has-passed-away-at-54
2011: Australian and Malaysian officials have signed a controversial deal intended to stem the flow of asylum seekers travelling to Australia by boat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14271460
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/07/20117254439553573.html
2011: Vietnam’s National Assembly appoints Truong Tan Sang as the communist country’s new president
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20110726000592
2014: Japan rejects a call by a UN watchdog to accept full blame for pressing Asian women into wartime sexual slavery in military brothels, saying it was not obligated to do so
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/623442/japan-rejects-un-watchdogs-call-on-comfort-women
2016: Tran Dai Quang is re-elected as President of Vietnam
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/161022/tran-dai-quang-re-elected-as-president.html
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/300112/tran-dai-quang-sworn-in-as-president.html#JK8SO5JKEWF1DwFr.99