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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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'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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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 wins improved FDI powers, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 7/16/2001; ; 388 words
; ...16-2001 THE northern port city of Haiphong has been given the power to approve foreign...Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with Haiphong officials. City authorities were given...first time, the government has allowed Haiphong to retain half the surplus receipts from...
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Haiphong SOE auction postponed, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 11/5/2001; ; 358 words
; ...2001 AUCTIONING of the state-owned Haiphong Agricultural Mechanical Co has been delayed...The auction is the responsibility of Haiphong's State-owned Enterprise Reform Project...Financial Corporation in cooperation with the Haiphong Enterprise Reform Committee (HERC...
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Haiphong water park suffers land inertia, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 5/21/2001; 351 words
; ...Review 05-21-2001 SUN lovers in Haiphong will have to wait a while longer for...depended on land rents approved by Haiphong authorities. Nguyen Huu Thanh, director of the company, said the Haiphong Tourism and Service Company (HTSC...
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New entertainment center in the Haiphong pipeline, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 11/25/2002; ; 429 words
; 00-00-0000 Haiphong-based Quang Minh Stock Company is...Binh bridge, five kilometers from the Haiphong center, company director Vu Thi Thu...retired people, Minh said. She said the Haiphong entertainment market was largely undeveloped...
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Developers swoop on Haiphong sites, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Vietnam Investment Review; 4/28/2003; 579 words
; ...recreational facility in the northern city of Haiphong, home to Do Son Casino and Cat Ba island. Sources from the Haiphong Tourism Department revealed the city...Asian economic crisis in late 1997. Haiphong Tourism Department director Tran Trung...
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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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Indochina War
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...regarding rights to levy import duty, the French administration demanded the withdrawal of all Vietminh forces from the port of Haiphong. When this was not met, the French bombarded the town's Vietnamese quarter, killing over 6,000 civilians. The French...
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Ardizzone, Edward
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Ardizzone, Edward ( b Haiphong, French Indo-China [now Hai Phong, Vietnam], 16 Oct. 1900; d Rodmersham, Kent, 8 Nov. 1979). British illustrator...
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Burma Road
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...Mandalay and Rangoon. After Japan had captured most of China's coastline in 1938 (see China incident ), and then closed the Haiphong–Yunnan railway (see French Indo-China ) in 1940—when Stalin also closed the one from the USSR...
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