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Paracel Islands , Chin. Xisha, group of low coral islands and reefs in the South China Sea, c.175 mi (280 km) SE of Hainan island. They are rich in guano and are underlain by oil deposits. Prior to World War II the islands were part of French Indochina and served as a weather station. During the war they were occupied by Japan but passed to China in 1945. The islands were also claimed by the South Vietnamese, who maintained a weather station and small garrison there until 1974, when they were attacked and driven from the islands by Chinese armed forces, which then occupied them. Chinese ownership of the archipelago is contested by Vietnam and Taiwan.
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Historic document refers to Paracel islands.
News Wire article from: Vietnamese News Agency April 1, 2009 700+ words Quang Ngai, April 01, 2009 (VNA) -- An original royal edict from the Nguyen dynasty referring to the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago was discovered in the records of a family in central Quang Ngai province. The treasured document has been... |
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Dang family donates historic document refers to Paracel islands.
News Wire article from: Vietnamese News Agency April 10, 2009 700+ words ...Dang family in Ly Son island district has donated an original royal edict from the Nguyen dynasty referring to the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago to the Department for Culture, Sports and Tourism (DCST) of central Quang Ngai province on April 9. The department... |
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Your bit of coral, or mine? (China and Vietnam claim Spratly Islands and...
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 19, 1988 700+ words ...contesting sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, a collection of about 200 specks of...their being astride that sea-lane, the islands are thought to be perched on valuable...Vietnam, which occupies ten of the islands, dates its claim from seventeeth-century... |
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Exhibition affirming sovereignty over Paracel and Spratly held.
News Wire article from: Vietnamese News Agency February 1, 2010 700+ words February 01, 2010 (VNA) -- An exhibition on Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagosentitled 'Quang Ngai...Truong Sa: History of Vietnam's sovereigntyover sea and islands' was opened by the Quang Ngai's Department of Culture... |
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CHINA: BEIJING TIGHTENS ITS GRIP ON ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service January 25, 2008 700+ words ...manage the three archipelagos of Paracel, Spratly and Macclessfield Bank...reports of the planned upgrade of the islands administration from Woody Island...stationed imperial troops on the Paracel Islands as early as 1045. This week Chinese... |
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CHINA: BEIJING TIGHTENS ITS GRIP ON ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire Antoaneta Bezlova January 25, 2008 700+ words ...manage the three archipelagos of Paracel, Spratly and Macclessfield Bank...reports of the planned upgrade of the islands administration from Woody Island...stationed imperial troops on the Paracel Islands as early as 1045. This week Chinese... |
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Vietnamese protest over disputed islands damages ties, says China
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream December 11, 2007 700+ words ...to control over the Spratly and Paracel islands. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman...Vietnam has sovereignty over the islands, a contentious issue between...largely uninhabited Spratly and Paracel islands and surrounding waters are believed... |
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China says Vietnamese protest over disputed islands damages ties
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream December 11, 2007 700+ words ...Vietnamese protest over who controls islands in the South China Sea has damaged...sovereignty over the Spratly and Paracel islands, a contentious issue between...largely uninhabited Spratly and Paracel islands and surrounding waters are believed... |
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Fishing for trouble in the Spratlys. (Spratly islands)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 7, 1990 700+ words ...marines stationed on seven of the islands closest to home. Malaysia's...1979, when it announced that the islands were part of its continental shelf...in 1974, when China seized the Paracel islands north of the Spratlys. Between... |
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Paracel Islands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Paracel Islands , Chin. Xisha, group of low coral islands and reefs in the South China Sea, c.175 mi (280 km...are underlain by oil deposits. Prior to World War II the islands were part of French Indochina and served as a weather station... |
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Vietnam
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations ...part of the Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands, located in the South China...Da Nang, respectively. The Paracel Islands are known in Vietnamese as the...grounds. China has occupied the Paracel Islands since 1974, when Chinese troops... |
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San Francisco peace treaty
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...Japan abandoned its claims to Korea, Formosa, the Pescadores, the Kuriles, South Sakhalin and the Spratly and Paracel islands. The Ryūkyū and Bonin chains were to be controlled by the USA under a United Nations trusteeship... |
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China
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations ...off the south coast. Other islands include the reefs and islands of the South China Sea, extending...xB0; n. These reefs and islands include Dongsha (Pratas...China's claims to the Xisha (Paracel) and Nansha (Spratly) archipelagoes... |
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