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In an interview by Democracy Nows Amy Goodman on October 16, 2007, Ono explained, " He was in French Indochina which is Vietnam actually ... in Saigon.
* May 27 – The territory of Kwang-Chou-Wan is leased by China to France, according to the Treaty of 12 April 1892, as the Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan, forming part of French Indochina.
* November 9 – In Cambodia the Khmer Issarak begins to fight the French Army and the nation joins the First Indochina War but the Kingdom is established.
* May 11 – U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declares that Indochina is important but not essential to the security of Southeast Asia thus ending any prospect of American intervention on the side of France.
* August 1-The First Indochina War ends with the Viet Minh in Vietnam, the Khmer Issarak in Cambodia and the Pathet Lao in Laos emerging victorious against the French Army and the Viet Minh is reorganised into the Viet Cong.
It is now chiefly found in sub-Saharan Africa ; there are also fragmented populations in the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China.
The similar Philippine version common to Indochina is called patis.
Although the name " Indochina " is today a political anachronism, it is still sometimes used to refer to the " Indochinese Region " to mean a major biogeographical region in the Indomalaya ecozone, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom.
Tsushima Strait is the body of water eastward of the Tsushima Island group, located midway between the Japanese island of Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula, the shortest and most direct route from Indochina.
In French Indochina, the colonial administration standardised the tael ( lạng ) as 100 g, which is commonly used at food markets where many items typically weigh in the 100 – 900 g range.
Actinidia () is a genus of woody and, with few exceptions, dioecious plants native to temperate eastern Asia, occurring throughout most of China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan, and extending north to southeast Siberia and south into Indochina.
Born into a lower-class family in Quảng Trị province, French Indochina as Lê Văn Nhuận ; little is known about Lê's family and childhood.
He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and it is widely believed that he refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
The natural range of Pueraria montana in east Asia, is the India, Myanmar, Indochina, China, Korea and Japan to Thailand, Malaysia, the Pacific Islands and north Australia.
Indochine is French for Indochina.
It is an uncommon to fairly common winter visitor to all parts of South Asia, and Southeast Asia from Myanmar through to Indochina and southern China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
It is generally assumed that Islam came to Indochina much after its arrival in China during the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ), and that Arab traders in the region came into direct contact only with the Chams, and not others.
Berrigan stated in the written statement, " This sacrificial and constructive act is meant to protest the pitiful waste of American and Vietnamese blood in Indochina ".
It is partially migratory, with some individuals spending the winter in south China and north Indochina.
Mogambo is a lavish remake of the classic film Red Dust ( 1932 ) set in French Indochina but in the 1950s was the scene of the First Indochina War.
The population in eastern Thailand an Indochina is sakeratensis.

Indochina and former
Historically, Indochina comprises the territory of the former French Indochina:
* Cochinchina, former name used by the French for the southernmost part of Vietnam, when it was ruled by France as part of French Indochina
It was founded in Spain, on January 1961, by former officers, Pierre Lagaillarde ( who led the 1960 Siege of Algiers ), General Raoul Salan ( who took part in the 1961 Algiers putsch or " Generals ' Uprising ") and Jean-Jacques Susini, along with other members of the French Army, including Yves Guérin-Sérac, and former members of the French Foreign Legion from the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 54 ).
French law facilitated the immigration of thousands of colons, ethnic or national French from former colonies of North and West Africa, India and Indochina, to mainland France.
She was born in Gia-Dinh ( a former name for Saigon ), French Indochina ( now Vietnam ), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony.
Mayréna, a former French government official with a dubious history that allegedly involved embezzlement, was in 1888 the owner of a plantation in French Indochina.
Hinduism in Southeast Asia gave birth to the former Champa civilization in southern parts of Central Vietnam, Funan in Cambodia, the Khmer Empire in Indochina, Langkasuka Kingdom, Gangga Negara and Old Kedah in the Malay Peninsula, the Srivijayan kingdom on Sumatra, the Singhasari kingdom and the Majapahit Empire based in Java, Bali, and parts of the Philippine archipelago.
* Chinese and Cantonese-with a significant speaking population, of native Chinese refugees from the former French colony of French Indochina ( modern-day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos ), and their descendants, settled around Paris ( see 13th arrondissement of Paris ).
* " Vietnam " for the former French Indochina
Testimony by Charles W. Yost ( former U. S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations ), Richard A. Falk ( professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University ) and John W. Lewis ( professor, Institute of Political Studies, Stanford University ) on the desirability of setting firm withdrawal date ; policy in SE Asia following withdrawal, including need for Geneva-type conference ; moral aspects of the Vietnam war including debate on the extent to which U. S. war policies may have constituted war crimes ; China's changing role in Indochina ; necessity and means of persuading President of present opportunities to end Vietnam war.
In an attempt to take advantage of the player's new-found fame, a former Czechoslovak Legion began posing as Zakariás after departing from Indochina.
By 1960 France had lost its direct military influence over all of its former colonies in Africa and Indochina.
In the United Nations and alliance with the British and U. S., the French demanded return of their former Indochina colony prior to agreeing to participate in the NATO alliance opposing Soviet expansion beyond the Warsaw Pact countries in the Cold War.
Following the allied victory in World War II, France was hoping to regain control over its former colony in Indochina, which was also claimed by the Viet Minh.
This article presents a concise postal history of Annam and Tongking: former territories of French Indochina that are now part of Vietnam.

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* Project 404, code name for a covert United States Air Force advisory mission to Laos during the later years of the Second Indochina War
* Malay Archipelago, anachronistic name from the European colonial era for the group of islands located between mainland Southeast Asia ( Indochina ) and Australia
Cambodian schoolchildren in French Indochina at one point in the early 1940s began their school-day with prayers to Marshal Philippe Pétain, opening with the words, " Our father, which art our Leader, glorious be thy name ... deliver us from evil ".
It's original name has been forgotten but in 1950 it was renamed the Pathet Lao, when it was adopted by Lao forces under Prince Souphanouvong, who joined the Viet Minh's revolt against the colonial French authorities in Indochina during the First Indochina War.
Kingdom of Funan (; ; Khmer: Nokor Phnom ), was the Chinese name of an ancient kingdom located around the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam and in southern Indochina.
The defense of the common man led to antiparliamentatism ( Poujade called the Chamber of Deputies " the biggest brothel in Paris " and the deputies a " pile of rubbish " and " pederasts ") a strong anti-intellectualism ( Poujade denounced the graduates from École Polytechnique as the main culprits for the woes of 1950s France and boasted that he had no book learning ), xenophobia, and antisemitism especially aimed against Pierre Mendès-France ( claiming " Mendès is French only as the word added to his name "), who was perceived as responsible for the loss of Indochina.
* Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G3M ( Allied reporting name " Nell ") bombers based at Hanoi in French Indochina begin attacks on the Burma Road.
The name is not related to the Tonkin region of Indochina, or to the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War.
The South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was the name given to the campaigns of the Pacific War in Burma ( now Myanmar ), Ceylon, India, Thailand, Indochina, Malaya and Singapore.
The alternative name bonzo comes from the same era, because the Buddhist monks who immolated themselves were often referred to by the term bonze in English literature before the mid-20th century, particularly when describing monks from East Asia and French Indochina.
Cut off from ( Nazi-occupied ) Europe, the Armée de l ’ Air in Indochina became an air force virtually in name only, as lack of fuel and spares kept aircraft grounded, forcing the authorities to strike them off charge progressively as the war progressed.
Kambojas enter India proper with the Indo-Scythian invasion and the name becomes established as the dynastic name of a number of ancient and medieval kingdoms of Bengal, Tibet, South India, Sri Lanka and Indochina
The island is also known after its Malay name as Pulo Condore ( pulo as a corruption of pulau, meaning " island "), while its French variant Poulo Condor was well known during the times of French Indochina.

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