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Ledo Road
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Ledo Road Stilwell Road a highway constructed by U.S. Army engineers during
World War II, from Ledo, Assam, India, across the Naga Hills, joining the eastern, Chinese-held sector of the
Burma Supply Road near Wanting, Burma. The highway was built as a replacement for the Burma Road, the 717-mile (1,154-km) supply route between Burma and Kunming, China, which was destroyed by the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942. Ledo Road was built at the request of Gen.
Joseph Stilwell and was completed in January 1945. The highway was then renamed for Gen. Stilwell.
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Kunming Steel in "close contact" with Mittal, but negotiations not yet started.
Newspaper article from: China Business News; 4/28/2005; 700+ words
; Kunming Steel in "close contact" with Mittal, but negotiations not...Xiangqing, the PR official with Foreign Affair Department of Kunming Iron & Steel Group (Kunming Steel), the largest steelmaker of Yunnan Province, told Interfax...
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KUNMING AIRLINES TO TAKE 1ST FLIGHT
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 2/13/2009; 632 words
; AsiaInfo Services 02-13-2009 Kunming Airlines to Take 1st Flight KUNMING, Feb 13, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Kunming Airlines Co., Ltd., a regional air carrier located in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming...
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Mittal Steel discusses cooperation with Kunming Steel ahead of Hong Kong listing.
Newspaper article from: China Business News; 3/28/2005; 700+ words
; Mittal Steel discusses cooperation with Kunming Steel ahead of Hong Kong listing <...Mittal Steel Company N.V. (Mittal) and the Kunming Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd. (Kunming Steel) are in contact discussing various...
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Kunming Pharma Corp completes acquisition of Kungming TCM factory.
Newspaper article from: China Business News; 2/9/2007; 589 words
; Kunming Pharma Corp completes acquisition of Kungming...Shanghai. February 9. INTERFAX-CHINA - Kunming Pharmaceutical Corporation Co. Ltd...today it has completed its acquisition of Kunming TCM Factory Co. Ltd. In 2003, shareholders...
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KUNMING TO BUILD RAILWAY AROUND DIANCHI LAKE
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 2/10/2009; 336 words
; AsiaInfo Services 02-10-2009 Kunming to Build Railway around Dianchi Lake KUNMING, Feb 10, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Kunming Railway Bureau, the operator and regulator of railways in Yunnan Province, announces...
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Hong Kong: Kunming link to boost Asian trade.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 7/23/2008; 700+ words
; ...the completion of China's 1,818 km Kunming highway. The highway was opened to traffic...Development Bank and World Bank. It starts from Kunming, capital of Yunnan province in southwestern...project for the next few years is that the Kunming highway stops on the Laotian side at the...
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Kunming Steel's major iron mine project to begin production in late 2006.
Newspaper article from: China Business News; 2/18/2005; 700+ words
; Kunming Steel's major iron mine project to begin production in late 2006 Shanghai. February 18. INTERFAX-CHINA - Kunming Iron and Steel Group (Kunming Steel), a leading steel producer based in Southwestern China...
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WISCO to acquire 48.41 pct stake in Kunming Steel.
Newspaper article from: China Business News; 8/2/2007; 656 words
; WISCO to acquire 48.41 pct stake in Kunming Steel Shanghai. August 2. INTERFAX-CHINA...entered into a framework agreement with Kunming Iron and Steel Group yesterday to restructure Kunming Steel Group's subsidiary Kunming Steel...
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Kunming Steel aims to develop iron ore and manganese resources in Simao Yunnan.
Newspaper article from: China Business News; 1/19/2005; 700+ words
; Kunming Steel aims to develop iron ore and manganese resources in...19. INTERFAX-CHINA - Southwest China's Yunnan based- Kunming Iron and Steel (Group) Co., Ltd (Kunming Steel), plans to develop iron ore and manganese ore properties...
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KUNMING FAIR TO OPEN ON JUNE 6
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 6/7/2004; 321 words
; AsiaInfo Services 06-07-2004 Kunming Fair to Open on June 6 KUNMING, Jun 07, 2004 (SinoCast via COMTEX) -- China Kunming Export Commodities Fair (Kunming Fair) will be held at Kunming International Exhibition Center from June 6 to June...
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Kunming
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kunming , city (1994 est. pop. 1,240,000...machinery, textiles, paper, and cement. Kunming has long been noted for its scenic beauty...often the seat of kings in ancient times, Kunming's modern prosperity dates only from 1910...
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Yunnan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and Laos and Vietnam on the south. Kunming is the capital. The average altitude...traffic has been recently improved, and Kunming is now a transportation center; an important railroad runs from Kunming to Hanoi, Vietnam, while transportation...
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American Volunteer Group
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...were stationed in the Chinese city of Kunming from where they patrolled the Burma Road...when Japanese bombers attempted to raid Kunming on 20 December 1941, and three days later...they joined the other two squadrons in Kunming and were later deployed against Japanese...
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Lee, Tsung-Dao
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...National Southwest Associated University in Kunming, China. Leaves for the United States...opportunity. When one of his teachers at Kunming, a physicist named Ta-You Wu, decided...Chen Ning Yang, whom he had known in Kunming. The two began working together. In...
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Tsung-Dao Lee
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...National Southwest Associated University in Kunming. In 1946, Lee was presented with an unusual opportunity. One of his teachers at Kunming was the theoretical physicist Ta-You...Lee and Yang had been acquaintances at Kunming, but they became very close friends after...
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