Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

There was the further complication that the administration had very early concluded that Laos was ill suited to be an ally, unlike its more determined neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams.

A Viet Cong base camp being burned, My Tho, South Vietnam, 1968

* 1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12 / 13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral.

Despite being a superpower and having a superior arsenal of weapons at its disposal, the United States was unable to make substantial gains against North Vietnam's proxy guerilla army in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong.

** Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack a provincial capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians ( 30 of which are children ).

* January 30 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins, as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam.

** Vietnam War: A Viet Cong officer named Nguyễn Văn Lém is executed by Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief.

** Vietnam War: U. S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta ( 235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion are killed ).

* November 1 – The Vietnam War begins between the South Vietnam Army and the North Vietnam Army in which the latter is allied with the Viet Cong.

At the beginning of 1968, the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong orchestrated a major offensive against South Vietnam: the " Tet Offensive ".

The symbol of the phoenix could be found on Vietnamese Bronze Drums, on traditional customs of Au Viet tribes in North Vietnam and South China ( Yunnan, Guangxi ).

Following the Geneva Accord of 1954, the Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam, although the Bảo Đại government continued to rule in South Vietnam.

Finally, in January 1959, under pressure from southern Viet Cong cadres who were being successfully targeted by Diệm's secret police, Hanoi's Central Committee issued a secret resolution authorizing the use of armed insurgency in the South with supplies and troops from the North.

After the Viet Minh victory, numerous pro-French Hmong had to fall back to Laos and South Vietnam.

A report by archaeologist Rakesh Tewari on Lahuradewa, India shows new C14 datings that range between 8000 BC and 9000 BC associated with rice, making Lahuradewa the earliest Neolithic site in entire South Asia.

From the scientific discovery which has been a silent evidence, it has pointed out that the South East Asian civilizations are a of much older civilization compared to the widely researched and well documented east Asians ' ancient civilisations Dong Son culture spread to Indonesia bringing with it techniques of wet-field rice cultivation, ritual buffalo sacrifice, bronze casting, megalithic practises, and ikat weaving methods.

In South Indian snack cuisine, there is an item called HappLa in Kannada / vadam in Tamil, which is a chip made of an extruded rice / sago or multigrain base that has been around for many centuries.

As of 2005, the price of rice in South Korea is about four times that of the average price of rice on the international market, and it was generally feared that opening the agricultural market would have disastrous effects upon the South Korean agricultural sector.

In late 2004, however, an agreement was reached with the WTO in which South Korean rice imports will gradually increase from 4 % to 8 % of consumption by 2014.

Following 2014, the South Korean rice market will be fully opened.

In South Korea, Spam () is popular in households as an accompaniment to rice.

The surfeit of Spam in both North and South Korea during the Korean War led to the establishment of the Spam kimbap ( rice and vegetable filled seaweed roll ).

* Rice was historically an important crop in the coastal areas of South Carolina, leading to local specialties like " Hoppin ' John " ( a mixture of rice and black-eyed peas flavored with salt pork ) and Charleston Red Rice.

Generally speaking, many parts of the Upper South specialize more in pork, sorghum, and whiskey, while the low country coastal areas are known for seafood ( shrimp and crabs ), rice, and grits.

In South Africa, turmeric is traditionally used to give boiled white rice a golden color.

Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampire-like being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain ; this is a theme encountered in myths from the Indian subcontinent, as well as in South American tales of witches and other sorts of evil or mischievous spirits or beings.

Though the plan exaggerated regional divisions, the development of exports — coal from the North, rice from the South — and the importation of French manufactured goods stimulated domestic commerce.

Indian rice cultivars include long-grained and aromatic Basmati ( ਬ ਾ ਸਮਤ ੀ) ( grown in the North ), long and medium-grained Patna rice, and in South India ( Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka ) short-grained Sona Masuri ( also called as Bangaru theegalu ).

Cereals constitute the major source of carbohydrates for humans and perhaps the major source of protein, and include rice in southern and eastern Asia, maize in Central and South America, and wheat and barley in Europe, northern Asia and the Americas.

Other scenes were filmed at Mansfield Plantation, an antebellum rice plantation in Georgetown, Middleton Place in Charleston, South Carolina, at the Cistern Yard on the campus of College of Charleston, and Hightower Hall and Homestead House at Brattonsville, South Carolina, along with the grounds of the Brattonsville Plantation in McConnells, South Carolina.

Many bakeries in South Korea offer doughnuts either filled with or made entirely from the Korean traditional rice dessert tteok.

** Congee, a common East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian dish of boiled-down rice:

South Korea's trade with Japan was US $ 892. 1 million in 2008, with a surplus of nearly US $ 327. 1 million on the Japanese side.

South Korea has been running a trade surplus with China, which hit a record US $ 32. 5 billion in 2009.

In 1670 the Province of South Carolina was founded with surplus persons leaving Barbados.

The climate along with a surplus of fertile, alluvial plains along the South Fork of the Kentucky River make this a possibility.

A museum was founded in 1857 under Bennet Woodcroft from the collection of the Royal Society of Arts and surplus items from the Great Exhibition as part of the South Kensington Museum, together with what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In 1946, KRCC moved to South Hall ( where Packard Hall now stands ) on campus where two students, Charles " Bud " Edmonds ' 51, and Margaret Merle-Smith ' 51, were instrumental in securing a war surplus FM transmitter.

As detailed above, some vehicles were assembled from left-over parts and identified as Studebakers by the purchasers of the Avanti brand and surplus material from Studebaker at South Bend.

Two days later, ten surplus T-28s arrived from South Vietnam ; four were retained by Waterpump so it could resume training operations while the other six were passed on to the RLAF.

From 1966 – 67, a series of surplus modified Redstones called Spartas were launched from Woomera, South Australia as part of a joint U. S .– United Kingdom – Australian research program aimed at understanding re-entry phenomena.

Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.

When the Parkes Government left office in there was a large surplus in the New South Wales Treasury.

Exceptionally, when many of the surplus New South Wales 30 class locomotive were converted from tank engines to tender engines, the tender engines were described as 30T class.

During periods of northwards power flow on the HVDC link, the energy from the South Island is largely used in the Wellington region, and any surplus flows along five lines-four 220 kV lines via the Kapiti Coast and one 110 kV line via the Wairarapa, north to Bunnythorpe near Palmerston North.

The majority of its weaponry until the mid-1970s consisted of US-made surplus ‘ hand-me-downs ’ from both world wars, Korea and Vietnam, partially supplemented by more modern equipment either donated or sold by Israel, Spain, Argentina and South Africa, particularly after US aid was cut in 1978.

The party also came close to picking up other Senate seats in Tasmania ( largely due to preferences from surplus Liberal votes ) and in South Australia where the then party leader Andrea Mason narrowly missed out ( polling 3. 98 percent and receiving Liberal preferences ).

PACUSA / FEAF deployments to Korea prior to the 1948 partition of the country helped in the establishment of the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ), along with the transfer of surplus military equipment and other aid to French Indochina as well as aid to the Nationalist Chinese during the Chinese Civil War which resumed after the end of World War II ( 1945 – 1949 ).

South Africa reported its first budget surplus in 2007.

The South Australian Railways ( SAR ) employed no fewer than four distinct classes of 2-8-2 locomotive, the locally designed 700 and 710 class, the 740 class that was originally built for China by Clyde Engineering and purchased by the SAR after the order was cancelled in the wake of the Chinese Communist Revolution, and the 750 class, a group of ten surplus VR N class locomotives.

In the early 1980's Eskom initiated a massive development program: in 1980 new large power stations at Kriel ( 3, 000 MW ), Hendrina ( 2, 000 MW ) and Camden ( 1, 600 MW ) had been commissioned and in the next few years a number of other new power stations gave South Africa a surplus of generating capacity and many of the 1960's vintage power stations ( including Colenso's refurbishment ) had become uneconomic.

By 2010, the power surplus in South Africa had turned into a power shortage and active proposals were being put into place to build a new coal-fired power station close to the site of the old one.

The Philippine entity has remained focused on manufacturing sport or personal-defense arms and ammunition, and such are generally quite distinguishable from the refurbished military surplus that have been the bulk of the South African entity's business.

South African mines had a surplus of gold, but government regulations prohibited the exporting of gold bullion from South Africa without permits from the central bank, which were very difficult to obtain.

There are surviving Welbikes around the World including the UK, USA ( where many were sold surplus after World War II ), Canada, Australia, South Africa, Holland, India etc.