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An overview of the history, geography, economy, government, people, and culture of Vietnam. ... Read more

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Examines the history, geography, folklore, society, economy, and culture of Vietnam. ... Read more

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Examines the origins and outcome of the civil war in Vietnam, discussing the roles played by France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other nations and parties involved in the conflict. ... Read more

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Laos is a major arena of international confrontation despite the Geneva Accords of 1962. Yet there is a dearth of published material on Laos, and the crucial issue of North Vietnam's role in that country has hardly been examined. This important study illuminates the North Vietnamese-Pathet Lao partnership, an understanding of which is so critical to the search for peace in Indochina.

The authors reconstruct dispassionately the politics of the Lao revolution since its beginning after the Second World War. Focusing on North Vietnam's past and present role in Laos they trace the origins, evolution, organization, and leadership of the Pathet Lao organization. They demonstrate that the war in Laos is really three wars--Vietnamese traditional attempts to assert hegemony over regions of Laos important to North Vietnam's security; an extension of the struggle in South Vietnam; and a civil war between Lao Communists and anti-Communists. They show that Hanoi's active role springs from its interest in protecting its borders, gaining access to South Vietnam, and establishing a politically congenial regime in Laos. They conclude that the Viet Minh were a key factor in the genesis of the Pathet Lao and that the Vietnamese have continued to provide guidance and vital assistance to the revolutionary organization which now controls a significant portion of the country. On the other hand, the authors point out that the Pathet Lao share common interests with the North Vietnamese Communists and that, from their own perspective, they have not compromised their legitimacy as a nationalist movement by their heavy dependence on Hanoi.

Langer and Zasloff, experienced analysts of Southeast Asian affairs, conducted extensive field research in Laos. They interviewed a wide variety of persons with intimate knowledge of the Lao Communist movement, including former Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese military and civilian personnel. They talked with Lao, in and out of the Government, who had gone to school with their future Lao or Vietnamese adversaries, were linked to them by family ties, had been in the same political camp, or had confronted them at the conference table. They interviewed specialists on Laos and Vietnam, among them scholars, journalists, officials of international agencies, and foreign government officials. They examined a range of internal Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese documents diaries, letters, party directives, and training guides, as well as textbooks, newspapers, propaganda leaflets, and general literature. They studied Pathet Lao, Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodian, Chinese, and Soviet radio broadcasts and consulted printed materials about Laos from Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow.

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The Geneva Agreements of 1954 were widely welcomed. They ended a seven-year war in Indochina; gave France a dignified exit; averted wider conflict. In later years first Americans and Vietnamese, then Russians, Chinese, Cambodians and even Laotians tried to force Indochina into different patterns of their own devising. These new wars triggered by rejection of the Geneva compromise lasted longer, killed more people, did greater damage and achieved less - for anybody.Perhaps Churchill was right: jaw-jaw is better than war-war. Certainly this lively, first-hand, updated account of the Geneva Conference of 1954 - that triumph of old-fashioned diplomacy, which Britain initiated and France completed - offers a better model for the 21st century to follow. ... Read more

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Presents the life of an eleven-year-old girl and her family in Vietnam, describing her home and school activities and discussing the history, geography, ethnic composition, languages, culture, and other aspects of her country. ... Read more

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Thomas Havens vividly depicts the impact of the Vietnam War on America's most important Pacific ally. "Fire on the opposite shore" is how Japanese often describe a major event of Japanese antiwar organizations to portray the war as much more than a "fire across the sea" and to create new forms of activism in a country where individuals have traditionally left public issues to the authorities. The Japanese rallied, marched, and agitated against American actions in Indochina in the late 1960s, forming the biggest antiwar movement in their history, but they failed to keep Prime Minister Satô from his perhaps reluctant support of the United States. This path-breaking study examines not only the methods of the protestors but the tightrope dance performed by Japanese officials forced to balance outspoken antiwar sentiment with treaty obligations to the United States. The author fully describes the erosion of Japanese awe of the United States, beginning with the first bombings of North Vietnam in 1965, and the growth of antiwar organizations that coalesced into a Japanese "New Left." As in the United States, the issues were complex. Waging the war from vital staging areas in Japan, American decision makers wanted to protect potential Japanese economic opportunities in Indochina. Japan in spite of the protestors, earned at least one billion dollars a year from war-related sales, traded its nonmilitary support of the war for the reversion of Okinawa in 1972, and profited from the conflict generally, as it rose to become the leading economic power of Southeast Asia and eventually to make inroads into U.S. markets. Here is a comprehensive study of how such ambiguities changed Japanese perceptions in the post-Vietnam system of international relations. ... Read more

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In order to gain higher productivity and profitability, the competition between demand and supply of land for different activities plays crucial role in land use morphology that challenges urban and peri-urban land use planners and managers. The transformation of conventional agricultural areas to modern cash crops and urban areas is a current trend in peri-urban Hanoi. The land assessment framework for sustainable peri-urban agriculture was a result of the combined techniques of Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information System (GIS), and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) integrated with local knowledge. The whole framework identifies the urban sprawl dynamics and directions over the last decade, the land use patterns, and the linkages between peri-urban and urban areas, and it prepares a spatial decision scenario for the peri-urban agriculture at different levels of suitability. This empirical framework provides a cost effective, rapid land evaluation framework which can be easily propagated to other areas and may help policy makers, urban and regional planners, and researchers working in developing countries. ... Read more

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This book presents a concrete research study on landuse and land cover changes over the last 50 years ina karst mountain area of Vietnam. The main issues areland use changes, their causes, and implications onthe local environment. The book consists of sixchapters. After the introduction in chapter 1,chapter 2 details historical land use and land coverchange patterns, which were reconstructed usingvarious spatial data sources: satellite images andaerial photos. Chapter 3 explains the variables thatare found in logistic regression models to becorrelated with observed land use changes of bothshort and longer time spans. It is clearly evident inthis study that the factor 'ethnicity' wassignificantly correlated with the observed land usechange patterns. Chapter 4 delineates in-depthresearch on cultural characteristics of differentethnic groups and their land use changes at villagelevel. Chapter 5 focuses on the impact of theobserved land use changes on the local naturalenvironment of the study area. Finally, chapter 6presents the conclusions and prospects of this research. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Northern Vietnam and Southern Vietnam are two general regions within Vietnam.Of the two regions, the older is Northern Vietnam, where the Vietnamese culture originated over 2000 years ago in the Red River Delta, though Vietnamese people eventually spread south into the Mekong Delta. During the Trịnh-Nguyễn War (1627-1673), the country was partitioned between two ruling families, with the border being the Gianh River in Quang Binh Province. From 1954 to 1975, Vietnam was again divided into two separate nations, divided by the Ben Hai River at the 17th parallel, each with its own government. Although the nation has been united since 1975, linguistic, cultural, and other differences serve to delineate the two regions from one another, with accompanying stereotypes. VietnameseRegions.pngThe largest city in the North is Hanoi, the nation's capital, and the largest city in the South is Ho Chi Minh City (formerly called Saigon).Each region consists of four subregions, with often considerable cultural differences between each subregion. ... Read more

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Dong Hoi Airport (Vietnamese: C?ng hàng không ??ng H?i or Sân bay ??ng H?i) is an airport located in Loc Ninh commune, 6 km north of Dong Hoi city, capital of Quang Binh province, in North Central Coast of Vietnam, 500 km South-east of Hanoi by road. The facilities cover 173 ha, on a sandy area, by the coast of South China Sea. The runway approaches near the seashore and nearly parallel to the Highway 1A. The airstrip was built unpaved by French colonists in 1930s to serve First Indochina War and was upgraded by North Vietnam as an airbase for Vietnam War. On 30 August 2004, the renovation (actually reconstruction) of this airport began and was scheduled to be completed in 2006 but not until May 2008 was it inaugurated. On May 18 2008, the airport was officially put into operation with the first commercial flight from Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sa Dec (Vietnamese: Sa ?éc) is a city in ??ng Tháp Province in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam. It is a river port and agricultural and industrial trading center. During the Vietnam War, it was the site of an American Swift Boat base.Before the nineteenth century, it was the capital of Dong Khau Dao, and it was known as one of the largest cities in the Mekong Delta.Today, the town has a population of approximately 103,000. There are three industrial zones in this town, designated by the codes A, C1, and C. They attract a large number of businessmen from the Mekong Delta region. ... Read more

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Highway One is one of the longest and most historic roads in Asia, stretching from the northern part of Vietnam down to the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. Susan Downie was one of the first westerners to travel down the highway when it opened after two decades of war. This book is the story of her journeys there, and provides an account of Vietnam and Cambodia today, 15 years after the fall of Saigon, the Khymer Rouge and the "killing fields". From the author of "Babymaking: The Technology and Ethics", this book aims to offer a new perspective on the two countries, based on their cultures rather than the war. The main concern is the people, Vietnamese, Cambodians and foreigners working in the two countries. Included is the history, ancient and modern, of the two countries - with the periods of French and American presence in Vietnam, and the genocidal misery of Pol Pot in Cambodia. This journey led the author to discover the rich diversity of Cambodian and Vietnamese life. Through the people she met, she offers an understanding of the dramatic impact of politics, religion, war and more recently, western tourism, on this part of Southeast Asia. ... Read more

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Das Mekong-Delta in Vietnam zählt zu den Regionen, die in den vergangenen Jahren mit zunehmender Häufigkeit von extremen Hochwasserereignissen betroffen waren, einhergehend mit gravierenden Folgen für die Bevölkerung. Mit Hilfe von aktiven Fernerkundungssensoren kann die räumliche Wasserausbreitung kurzfristig erfasst und langfristig beobachtet werden und somit einen hilfreichen Beitrag zum Krisenmanagement vor Ortleisten. Diese Arbeit wurde innerhalb des deutsch-vietnamesischen Projektes WISDOM (Water-related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta) in Kooperation mit der Universität Innsbruck am Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Oberpfaffenhofen angefertigt. Sie stellt drei Methoden zur Ableitung von Wasserflächen aus Radardaten in Hinblick auf Genauigkeit, Übertragbarkeit und Automatisierbarkeit gegenüber. Neben einer objektbasierten Klassifikation wurden Homogenitätskriterien zur Analyse herangezogen, sowie ein Schwellwertverfahren untersucht, das inzwischen innerhalb des Projektes eine vollständig automatisierte Erfassung der Wasserflächen ermöglicht. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on April 1, 1996. The length of the article is 677 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Challenges of Highland Development in Vietnam. (book reviews)
Author: David Kummer
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v86Issue: n2Page: p306(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Primary school teaching resource, including DVD, looking at the lives of four children around the world. Suitable for geography and citizenship teaching. ... Read more