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  2. Mactan–Cebu International Airport - Wikipedia

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    The runway was built by the United States Air Force in 1956 as an emergency airport for Strategic Air Command bombers. It was known back then as the Mactan Air Base. [4] It remained a spartan outpost until the Vietnam War in the 1960s when it became a base for a C-130 unit of the U.S. Air Force.

  3. Tam Kỳ - Wikipedia

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    Administration map of Tam Kỳ. The town was established in 1906 under the Nguyễn dynasty as an administrative and tax post. [2] During the Republic of Vietnam, the city was the main base of the US military in Quảng Nam Province (what was then Quảng Tín Province) for the war in Vietnam.

  4. Samsung Electronics - Wikipedia

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    Samsung's mobile cell business began with a car phone in 1984, while its first handheld mobile phone called the SH-100 was made in 1988. [81] It expanded to other markets during the 1990s. Its first smartphone was the Samsung SPH-i300 in 2001.

  5. Television and mass media in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    While the television coverage of the United States and the Saigon Government in the South is increasing day after day, television has not appeared in the North at all. . According to journalist Hoàng Tùng [], former Editor-in-Chief of the Nhân Dân (The People) newspaper, Head of the Central Propaganda Department, in the 1960s, every time he went on a business trip abroad, he used to watch ...

  6. Smartphone - Wikipedia

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    The rise in popularity of touchscreen smartphones and mobile apps distributed via app stores along with rapidly advancing network, mobile processor, and storage technologies led to a convergence where separate mobile phones, organizers, and portable media players were replaced by a smartphone as the single device most people carried.

  7. First Indochina War - Wikipedia

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    Ho Chi Minh blamed Dong Minh Hoi and VNDQQ for signing the agreement with France which allowed its soldiers to return to Vietnam. [ 171 ] [ 172 ] Chinese communist guerrilla leader Chu Chia-pi visited northern Vietnam multiple times in 1945 and helped the Viet Minh fight against the French from Yunnan.

  8. Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia

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    The Viet Minh launched a massed assault against the exhausted defenders on the night of 1 May, overrunning Eliane 1, Dominique 3, and Huguette 5, although the French managed to beat back attacks on Eliane 2. On 6 May, the Viet Minh launched another massed attack against Eliane 2, using, for the first time, Katyusha rockets. [58]

  9. Phuket International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Phuket International Airport (IATA: HKT, ICAO: VTSP) is an international airport serving the island of Phuket and its province in southern Thailand.It is located 32 km (20 mi) north of downtown Phuket in the Mai Khao subdistrict of Thalang district.