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Chinatown station is a rapid transit station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Orange Line, located at the edge of the Chinatown neighborhood in the downtown core of Boston, Massachusetts. The station has two offset side platforms, which run under Washington Street from Hayward Place to Lagrange Street. The three ...
During the Vietnam War, soldiers and deserters from the United States Army maintained a thriving black market at Chợ Lớn, trading in various American and especially U.S. Army-issue items. This was the area, near the Quan Âm Pagoda where photojournalist Eddie Adams took his famous execution photograph. [ 8 ]
The Ministry of Construction (MOC, Vietnamese: Bộ Xây dựng) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for state administration on construction, building materials, housing and office buildings, architecture, urban and rural construction planning, urban infrastructure, public services; and representing the owner of state capital in state-owned enterprises.
Chinatown remains a center of Asian American life in New England, hosting many Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants and markets. Chinatown is one of Boston's most densely populated residential districts, with over 28,000 people per square mile in the year 2000. Nearly 70% of Chinatown's population is Asian, compared with Boston's nine percent of ...
Nha Trang station (Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province) Muong Man station (Phan Thiết, Bình Thuận Province) Saigon station (Ho Chi Minh City) Da Lat–Thap Cham: 127 km (79 mi) [27] Metre gauge [27] A locomotive travels on the Đà Lạt–Tháp Chàm line. The town of Đà Lạt was once connected by a rack railway to the main north-south ...
The Chinatown–International District (abbreviated as CID) is a neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.It is the center of the city's Asian American community. Within the district are the three neighborhoods known as Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon, named for the concentration of businesses owned by people of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese descent, respectively.
In Vietnam, she is also sometimes known as the "Lady of the Sea" (Tuc Goi La Ba). [2] Mazuism is frequently syncretized with Taoism and Chinese Buddhism. For example, at the Quan Am Pagoda nearby, the two main altars are dedicated to Thien Hau and Quan Am, the Vietnamese form of Guanyin, the Chinese form of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.
Operation Xay Dung 31 [24] ARVN operation: Bình Long Province: 33: 29 May 1–18: Operation Austin IV [2] 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, 173rd Airborne Brigade and ARVN 45th Regiment operation: Quang Duc Province and Phước Long Province: 101: 9 May 2 – 12: Operation Lihue [1] 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division security operation ...