2,200 foreigners stranded on Phu Quoc
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2,200 foreigners stranded on Phu Quoc
2,200 foreign visitors stranded on Vietnam's biggest island due to typhoon
26 December 2017
HO CHI MINH CITY, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Over 4,000 visitors, including nearly 2,200 foreigners have been stranded on Phu Quoc, Vietnam's biggest island, in southern Kien Giang province as flights and ships were canceled to avoid Typhoon Tembin, Central Vietnam Television (VTV) reported on Tuesday.
The typhoon has weakened into a tropical depression, said the report.
Tembin has caused heavy rain in some southern provinces, including Kien Giang, Ca Mau and Bac Lieu. Earlier, anticipating it would land in the provinces, local authorities have organized evacuation of nearly 1 million people, and temporarily closed schools on Monday and Tuesday.
Vietnam's southern region rarely faces typhoons, but when it does, big losses are reported. Typhoon Linda hit the region in 1997, killing or leaving 3,000 people missing.
http://en.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/6 ... phoon.html
26 December 2017
HO CHI MINH CITY, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Over 4,000 visitors, including nearly 2,200 foreigners have been stranded on Phu Quoc, Vietnam's biggest island, in southern Kien Giang province as flights and ships were canceled to avoid Typhoon Tembin, Central Vietnam Television (VTV) reported on Tuesday.
The typhoon has weakened into a tropical depression, said the report.
Tembin has caused heavy rain in some southern provinces, including Kien Giang, Ca Mau and Bac Lieu. Earlier, anticipating it would land in the provinces, local authorities have organized evacuation of nearly 1 million people, and temporarily closed schools on Monday and Tuesday.
Vietnam's southern region rarely faces typhoons, but when it does, big losses are reported. Typhoon Linda hit the region in 1997, killing or leaving 3,000 people missing.
http://en.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/6 ... phoon.html
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Re: 2,200 foreigners stranded on Phu Quoc
As an old bugger I remember Phu Quoc when it was a nice place, mostly dirt roads before they built the new airport and 6 lane highway and wrecked it. Last I heard it was a Russian Colony with filthy water due to overdevelopment and lack of sewage treatment. Not met anyone who has been there recently. it is actualy a Cambodian island the viets stole and will not give back. Shame, it could have been an overspill from snooky for the chinese
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Yes, it has become a shot-hole. Like elsewhere in Vietnam, construction is crazy but little things like say waste-water treatment, garbage disposal, zoning laws, national parks, and long-term sustainability fall by the roadside.pczz wrote: ↑Tue Dec 26, 2017 9:44 pm As an old bugger I remember Phu Quoc when it was a nice place, mostly dirt roads before they built the new airport and 6 lane highway and wrecked it. Last I heard it was a Russian Colony with filthy water due to overdevelopment and lack of sewage treatment. Not met anyone who has been there recently. it is actualy a Cambodian island the viets stole and will not give back. Shame, it could have been an overspill from snooky for the chinese
As for the history: "the Cambodian king listed provinces and islands, including Koh Trol កោះត្រល់ (Phú Quốc), being parts of Vietnam for several years or decades (in the case of Saigon, some 200 years according to this letter)"
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The Kanzatip crew have a big party planned for NYE on Phu Quoc, complete with ethnic and culturally accurate woman with bangs holding sword and conical hat on the flyer.
Wonder if that will go ahead.
Wonder if that will go ahead.
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It only in Cambodian mythology that the Viets stole the island. There may have been a few Khmer fishermen there hundreds of years ago but that's it. The French annexed it with the rest of Indo China of course. I went there a couple of times and found no Khmers, the museum has hundreds of years of Viet history and it was a hotbed of revolution and had lots of home grown Viet Minh.
The ex prison now a museum has tiger cages and a guillotine and horrendous photos of torture by the French including driving nails into knees etc.
The ex prison now a museum has tiger cages and a guillotine and horrendous photos of torture by the French including driving nails into knees etc.
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Re: 2,200 foreigners stranded on Phu Quoc
Alexander Hamilton's 1718 journal "A New Account of the East Indies Vol 2" establishes that at the time of his visit Koh Tral (Quadrol) was abandoned. The Vietnamese thus probably settled an empty island, they did not colonize a Khmer one. Clearly though there were Khmer settlements on the island up through the 17th century and going back hundreds of years. The museum at Phu Quoc is full of pottery evidencing pre-Vietnamese settlement but the word Khmer doesn't appear, they are labeled Chenla stuff.willyhilly wrote:It only in Cambodian mythology that the Viets stole the island. There may have been a few Khmer fishermen there hundreds of years ago but that's it. The French annexed it with the rest of Indo China of course. I went there a couple of times and found no Khmers, the museum has hundreds of years of Viet history and it was a hotbed of revolution and had lots of home grown Viet Minh.
The ex prison now a museum has tiger cages and a guillotine and horrendous photos of torture by the French including driving nails into knees etc.
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