Ho Chi Minh (originally Nguyen That Thanh) was born on 19 May 1890 in Hoang Tru in central Vietnam. Vietnam was then a French colony, known as French Indo-China, but under the nominal rule of an ...

Each year’s display has been bigger than the last, and the 60-year-old has now built up a collection of 55,000 LED lights and 15 inflatable figures. She and a friend spend seven days stringing ...