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Haiphong
Haiphong
Haiphong Port on the Red River delta,
n Vietnam. Founded in 1874, Haiphong became the chief naval base of French Indochina. It was occupied by the Japanese during World War II and bombed by the French in 1946. During the Vietnam War it was heavily bombed by the USA, and its harbour was mined. Industries: cement, glass, chemicals. Pop. (1999) 1,672,992.
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Vietnam's Haiphong Provincial AIDS Control Center Unveil New Partnership; Dedicate Groundbreaking AIDS Care Center.
PR Newswire; 3/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...Treatment Facility in Thu Nguyen District, Haiphong Province to Aid in ART Delivery, Provide Care, Services HAIPHONG, Vietnam and LOS ANGELES, March 26...America/Caribbean and Asia, and the Haiphong Provincial AIDS Control Center in Haiphong...
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Haiphong: Between North and South
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/8/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...Minh City is all about making money. Haiphong has developed somewhere in between the...quite so prosperous as Ho Chi Minh City, Haiphong's port has allowed greater access and...known as Saigon. Even the bicycles in Haiphong illustrate the difference. The preferred...
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Haiphong hotel and office investor counts the city's charms, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 1/28/2002; ; 665 words
; ...more tour operators are moving to Haiphong when they take tourists to Halong...reason for this is room rates in Haiphong are up to 40 per cent cheaper than...want to see Vietnamese culture and Haiphong has not developed much. The tourists...
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Haiphong stokes up its foreign investment engine.
Magazine article from: Vietnam Investment Review; 8/16/1999; 700+ words
; Haiphong People's Committee Chairman Tran Huy...city economy and, secondly, what is Haiphong doing to attract greater foreign investment...to gradually change the visible face of Haiphong. Annual economic growth was recorded...
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`There's no reason why Haiphong can not draw tourists'.
Magazine article from: Vietnam Investment Review; 4/30/2001; ; 683 words
; THE port city of Haiphong says it is determined to attract more...Long Bay and Cat Ba Island, bypassing Haiphong completely or merely passing through...one night. Even during peak season Haiphong hoteliers complain they can't make...
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'There's no reason why Haiphong can not draw tourists', THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 4/30/2001; ; 507 words
; ...Review 04-30-2001 THE port city of Haiphong says it is determined to attract more...Long Bay and Cat Ba Island, bypassing Haiphong completely or merely passing through...for one night. Even during peak season Haiphong hoteliers complain they can't make...
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The agony and the ecstasy: East of Hanoi, in the port city of Haiphong, heroin is bewitching a new generation. Thanh Hai reports from the city's most notorious drug area and finds HIV-AIDS is adding to the misery of the families who lose their children to the pursuit of the next fix.(Insight)
Magazine article from: Vietnam Investment Review; 9/27/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...was well known and well liked in his Haiphong neighbourhood of Dong Quoc Binh. The...trade is thought to have got going in Haiphong in the late 1990s; about the same time...ulcers. Dat's parents are not the only Haiphong parents grieving for a child pulled under...
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Haiphong investment booms to a record-breaking $1.5bn.
Magazine article from: Vietnam Investment Review; 3/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; FOREIGN investment in Haiphong reached $1.5 billion with 86 projects...full. development, according to a Haiphong Planning and Investment Department...according to Tran Huy Nang, Chairman of Haiphong's People's Committee. "The main...
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Haiphong wins improved FDI powers.
Magazine article from: Vietnam Investment Review; 7/16/2001; 501 words
; THE northern port city of Haiphong has been given the power to approve...Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with Haiphong officials. City authorities were...time, the government has allowed Haiphong to retain half the surplus receipts...
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Haiphong launches charm offensive, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 1/21/2002; ; 664 words
; 00-00-0000 Haiphong's tourism sector is being hindered...number of smaller accommodation options. Haiphong Tourism Administration deputy director...Neither domestic nor foreign investors in Haiphong currently enjoy any kind of incentive...
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Haiphong
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Haiphong , city (1989 pop. 1,447,523...one of the largest ports in SE Asia, Haiphong was developed (1874) by the French and...established. During the Vietnam War , Haiphong was severely bombed by the United States...
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Easter Offensive
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...of American airpower, plus heavy air strikes against Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time since 1968. On 8 May, with Saigon fighting for its life, the U.S. Navy mined Haiphong Harbor to block the flow of Soviet supplies. Ultimately, the...
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Gulf of Tonkin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...mi (240 km) wide, between Vietnam and China. The shallow gulf (less than 200 ft/60 m deep) receives the Red River. Haiphong, Vietnam, and Peihai (Pakhoi), China, are the chief ports. An alleged attack (Aug., 1964) by North Vietnamese gunboats...
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Melvin R. Laird
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...State William Rogers, he strongly and unsuccessfully opposed expansion of the war into Cambodia in 1970 and the mining of Haiphong Harbor in 1972. Laird left the Defense Department at the end of Nixon's first term, but he returned to Washington in June...
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The Christmas Bombing of Hanoi was Justified (1 February 1973, Interview With Henry A. Kissinger)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...clock back about one month, at a time when the United States was engaged in a very extensive bombing program in the Hanoi-Haiphong area. We've never heard any explanation about why that was really necessary. Could you give us your own feeling on that...
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