It took two years after the American withdrawal from Vietnam for Saigon to fall to the Vietcong. |
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I have been reacquainting myself with the music from Miss Saigon, from a tape which has remained unplayed in a box for ten years or so. |
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In another a distracted soldier is masterfully pickpocketed in a crowd in Saigon. |
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Just as he is about to get to the bottom of the affair, he is warned off by the American ambassador in Saigon. |
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In Vietnam, the most visible resurgence comes from the unconquerable spirit of entrepreneurial Saigon. |
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A Communist push from the highlands to the sea to cut South Vietnam in half and isolate Saigon appeared in the offing. |
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The streets of Saigon teem with people, noises, and smells like no other city in Asia. |
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Its fads and phenomena are dictated as much by a boy in Saigon as a cynical trendspotter in New York. |
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To add to the authenticity, a massive family portrait from 1970s Saigon shows our proprietress at age eight. |
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This was followed by one member of the group singing songs from classic musicals such as Grease and Miss Saigon. |
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The city formerly known as Saigon is a sprawling, bustling metropolis in the south of Vietnam. |
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But the fighting between Vietnamese forces continued until 30 April 1975 when communist troops captured Saigon and reunified the country. |
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Their hopes were soon dashed by the many waterfalls and rapids encountered on their journey upstream from Saigon. |
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Saigon's prosperity starts in the mud, and recently this earth has been good to those who work it in the Mekong River delta south of Saigon, Vietnam's horn of plenty. |
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American weapons, troops, and largesse could never bestow legitimacy on a corrupt and incompetent Saigon regime. |
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He attended a conference in Saigon, on the issue of Vietnamese sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands. |
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Despite its dark past, Saigon has boomed into a seething mass of commercial activity. |
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The General Consul in Bien Hoa sent the following cablegram to the US Embassy in Saigon on the subject of recent command changes in III Corps. |
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The baptized room Saigon, will doubtless allure you with his very great bed with baldachin come from the islands. |
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Then unzip another layer to make room for the Saigon cinnamon doughnuts with Dulce de leche. |
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On April 30, 1975, American troops withdrew from Saigon as the city fell to the North Vietnamese. |
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Upon her arrival in Paris, Uyen informed her children that on 17 August, the flight from Saigon to Ha Noi was on schedule. |
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So we waited, squatting on the platform, drinking Saigon lager and munching dragon fruit. |
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It founds a social medical centre in Saigon in which over a hundred malnourished and sick children are treated daily. |
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He had called for demonstrations against the Olympic torch relay in Saigon on April 29 when he was arrested. |
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A few days later, on April 30, General Duong Van Minh surrendered to the Viet Cong and the Fall of Saigon was complete. |
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More than a decade after she left her mother behind in Saigon, Carina returned to Vietnam to help bring her parents to America. |
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My tanks reached the northern side of the bridge leading to Saigon. |
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He was not the first aviator to bring a powered aircraft to Saigon. |
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There are now so many Taiwanese men with Vietnamese wives that a little Saigon exists outside Taipei. |
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In Vietnam, soldiers got a week of rest and relaxation in Saigon, Bangkok or Honolulu. |
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I yearn to taste Vietnamese pho as good as I ate at Pho Pasteur in Saigon. |
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Do you have anything you would like to say to the people of Saigon listening to this special report? |
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A major forum has been organized to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the impact of communism on Vietnam. |
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In Saigon, things are moving very slowly, the authorized churches are closing doors and forbidding their members to go anywhere else. |
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But you just have to visit the war museum in Saigon to understand that old wounds haven't healed. |
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These 650 hectares, separated from the historic district by the Saigon River, constitute the main development opportunity for the City. |
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During the Vietnam War, the strategic Route 1 that runs through the village became the main supply road from Saigon to Phnom Penh. |
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I say all this to describe the situation in Vietnam, a situation which is not confined to Saigon. |
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From Eskisehir in Turkey, to Bombay, Calcutta, Bangkok and Saigon, the scenario stayed the same. |
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Our members represent a cross-section of the country and the diaspora. We are the university student in Hanoi, the blogger in Saigon, the doctor in Sydney, the engineer in California and the retiree in Paris. |
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The American Administration faithful to their containment policy got involved in South Vietnam until the fall of Saigon in April 1975, when they were forced to withdraw their forces. |
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In September 1858 the expeditionary force captured and occupied the port of Da Nang, and then in February 1859 moved south and captured Saigon. |
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Following the defeat of Vietnamese, the Treaty of Saigon ceded Cochinchina's three eastern provinces. |
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On 14th November, factory worker Hoang Huy Chuong, a member of the newly founded unofficial United Workers-Farmers Organization was arrested in Saigon with his two brothers. |
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To illustrate how that family business works, Hayton pointed to the 2008 wedding in a Saigon luxury hotel that Vietnam war veterans will well-remember, the Caravelle. |
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But it worries urban planners familiar with the city's quixotic campaign to prevent flooding. HCMC, formerly Saigon, has so far been spared a devastating flood, and donors have so far been eager to help. |
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This is vanilla-infused bourbon with lemon, apple cider and Spice Islands Saigon Cinnamon. |
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In recent years, European designer boutiques have supplanted Vietnamese stores in downtown Saigon, where characterless contemporary architecture is in vogue. |
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Since the previous visit to Saigon, a pastoral centre has been opened, making it possible for young lay people to come there in the evenings to pursue a theological and spiritual formation. |
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Almost three decades have passed since the fall of Saigon and since the reasons which, according to some people, could justify limitations on human rights, freedom and democracy have no longer applied. |
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Debate over the public responsibilities of theatre was intensified as a result of the community protests of 1993, which focussed on Toronto productions of Miss Saigon and Showboat. |
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A spokesperson for the Saigon stock exchange relates that EIS never became a listed company, for reasons that are not explained on the available public record. |
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The rest of the Dangs fled Saigon in 1971 like so many others did when the Communists closed in. |
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He had his ear to the ground like no one else in Saigon. |
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The latest news update that we've received says that many people from nearby provinces are heading to Saigon to join forces with the people from Tien Giang. |
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Early this morning, we were able to speak with Ms. Thao, a youth from Saigon who is present at the scene to help the aggrieved citizens and to bring us the latest news update. |
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Nearly thirty years after the fall of Saigon in 1975, a new geopolitical schema is taking shape between the Vietnamese who stayed in the country, the communist government of Hanoi and the overseas Vietnamese. |
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He had also attended a conference that was held in Saigon which looked at the issue of Vietnamese sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands. |
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But the yearning for excitement and importance that took the British to Peking and Kabul and Khartoum, the French to Fashoda and Saigon, and the Americans to Manila has now re-emerged. |
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The veteran now cooks dog. Also redacted were Mr Chinn's reminiscences about Saigon Joe's, a restaurant he started in the early days of opening up. |
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At that same moment, global forces raised the stakes of policing borderlines, so that the fortunes of the Chamizal became involved in those of Havana, Moscow, and Saigon. |
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Their project notably proposes the development of barges floating on the Saigon River, a solution which enables a reservoir of spaces to be created in this densely built up city. |
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Security police in Vietnam detained three members of Viet Tan as they went to visit colleagues who have been held for over four months at a Ministry of Public Security detention center in Saigon. |
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Vietnam Airlines refused to provide any answer. My nieces and nephews had no other option except to report Uyen as a missing person to the French police, particularly when they had no news from her while she did leave Saigon. |
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At the same moment that commemorates the 1975 entry of the Vietcong resistance and their North Vietnamese allies into Saigon, catastrophically evacuated by American soldiers, that war continues to kill. |
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And if the citizens of Saigon cared about the people here and wanted to come and talk with us or find out more information, I think it would be very good for the people here. |
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Vietnamese, or Saigon, cassia is particularly highly esteemed. |
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All UBCV senior monks and nuns in the provinces, from Central Vietnam to the Mekong Delta received similar convications from the local communist authorities, Police and Religious Board, and were forbidden to travel to Saigon. |
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Even after the fall of Saigon he was imprisoned in a re-education camp. |
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The Tenderloin District is home to a large portion of the city's Vietnamese population as well as businesses and restaurants, which is known as the city's Little Saigon. |
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The Khmer Krom are the native people of the Mekong Delta and Saigon which were acquired by Vietnam from Cambodian King Chey Chettha II in exchange for a Vietnamese princess. |
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Since the Fall of Saigon and the opening of a unified Vietnam's economy, French has gradually been effectively displaced as the main foreign language of choice by English. |
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