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In November 2002, a VHS and DVD volume was released in Canada by CinéGroupe Star titled "Pig City/Porcité - Volume 1". It contained the Series 1 episodes "Wag the Hog", "Hogtied" and "Porkstars". The VHS versions were released in both separate English and French versions, while the DVD counterpart featured both languages.
Cities in Vietnam are identified by the government as settlements with considerable area and population that play important roles vis-a-vis politics, economy and culture. Status of cities falls into four categories: special, first class ( I ), second class ( II ), and third class ( III ).
Pig City is the title of several works of media: "Pig City" (song), a 1983 song by Brisbane band The Parameters Pig City, a 2004 book about the Brisbane music scene named after the song; Pig City (music festival), a 2007 music festival in Brisbane named after the book; Pig City (symposium), a symposium held the day before the festival
The city covers an area of 486 km 2. The city was promoted from Cẩm Phả Rural District by February 2012. [8] Cẩm Phả was the site of one of the biggest coal mines in south of Asia which has been exploited for almost a century. [9] The coal mine featured on a special commemorative Vietnam stamp in March 1959. [10]
On the first tier, Vietnam is divided into 57 provinces (Vietnamese: tỉnh) and 6 municipalities (Vietnamese: thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). Municipalities are the highest-ranked cities in Vietnam. [1] Municipalities are centrally-controlled cities and have special status equal to a province.
Vienna (Viên in Vietnamese) is the only city whose name in Vietnamese is borrowed from French [citation needed]. Hong Kong and Macau names are borrowed from English by direct transliteration into Hồng Kông and Ma Cao instead of Hương Cảng and Áo Môn in Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation.
Raw pig's blood often contains swine bacteria, and ingesting them may cause severe bacterial infections. [1] For example, a Streptococcus bacterium infection may cause respiratory decline, blood contamination, and severe necrosis in arms and legs, and is potentially fatal. In Vietnam, there are reports of human casualties after eating raw blood ...
On April 27, 1931, Chợ Lớn and the neighboring city of Saigon were merged to form a single city called Saigon–Cholon. The official name, however, never entered everyday vernacular and the city continued to be referred to as Saigon. "Cholon" was dropped from the city's official name in 1956, after Vietnam gained independence from France in ...