Khmer Krom or Southern Khmer is spoken by the indigenous Khmer population of the Mekong Delta, formerly controlled by the Khmer Empire but part of Vietnam since 1698.

The largest part of the country, about 75 percent, consists of the Tonle Sap Basin and the Mekong Lowlands.

In the northeastern part of the country the Khorat Plateau, a region of gently rolling low hills and shallow lakes, drains into the Mekong through the Mun River.

The Northeastern part is drained by rivers flowing into the Mekong basin, like the Kok and Ing.

The frontier with Cambodia, defined at the time of French annexation of the western part of the Mekong River Delta in 1867, remained essentially unchanged, according to Hanoi, until some unresolved border issues were finally settled in the 1982-85 period.

Trat became part of Thailand again on March 23, 1906 in exchange for many areas east of the Mekong like Battambang, Siam Nakhon and Sisophon.

According to the plan established by ASEAN, this stretch is scheduled for completion by 2020 ; it will form part of the Singapore – Kunming Rail Link project, overseen by the ASEAN – Mekong Basin Development Cooperation ( AMBDC ).

The Yellow River originates in southern part of the province, while the Yangtze and Mekong have their sources in the southwestern part.

The main part of the city consists of four main roads located on a peninsula between the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers.

Recent historical research has shown that the Mongols, who destroyed Nanzhao in 1253 and made the area a province of their empire — naming it Yunnan — exercised a decisive political influence in the middle Mekong Valley for the better part of a century.

Trat became part of Thailand again on March 23, 1906 in exchange for many areas east of the Mekong river like Battambang, Siam Nakhon and Sisophon.

At the time the media regularly portrayed Cabramatta as a " centre of criminality " and the heroin capital of Australia while Newman considered Ngo to have a part in that due to his involvement with the Mekong Club which many believed to be laundering money for the Cabramatta gangs.

The most likely homeland of the Hmong – Mien languages ( aka Miao – Yao languages ) is in Southern China between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers, but speakers of these languages may have migrated from Central China either as part of the Han Chinese expansion or as a result of exile from an original homeland by Han Chinese.

The western part of Salavan province is delimited by the Mekong river while the eastern part is delimited by the Lao-Vietnamese border.

The operation was conducted by the United States Marine Corps and South Vietnamese Marine Corps forces along the Mekong River Delta, as part of the Vietnam War.

Kiệt was born in 1922 into a peasant family in Trung Hiệp village, Vũng Liêm district, Vĩnh Long province in the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, then a part of Cochinchina in what was called French Indochina.

In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force ( MRF ) ( after May 1967 ), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later euphemistically the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the Brown Water Navy.

It is located in the Mekong Delta, in the southwestern part of the country, sharing a border with Cambodia to the northwest.

It is a coastal province, and is situated in the Mekong Delta region of the southern part of the country.

:"... As part of the U. S. Navy's slice of the action, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and his sidekick, Captain Roy ( Latch ) Hoffmann, had devised ' Operation Sea Lords ,' in which the Swift boats would patrol the canals and secondary streams of the Mekong Delta, with particular emphasis on the areas near the Cambodian border.

In preserving a few exotic fish species, they argue that areas such as the whole of South East Asia should be deprived of an improved Mekong river system, which would aid dramatically the economic development of this important part of the world.

Unlike the other parts of Koh Kong, this area became part of Siam ( Thailand ) by the French-Siamese contract in the reign of King Chulalongkorn, in which Siam had to cede the areas east of the Mekong river and provinces of western Cambodia like Battambang, Siam Nakhon and Sisophon.

Other locations and landmarks that have become part of American folklore include: Independence Hall, Ellis Island, Hoover Dam, Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War Memorial, and the Grand Canyon.

Agent Orange is the combination of the code names for Herbicide Orange ( HO ) and Agent LNX, one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U. S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.

File :' Ranch Hand ' run. jpg | Defoliant spray run, part of Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War by UC-123B Provider aircraft.

Democratic Kampuchea established close ties with the People's Republic of China, and the Cambodian-Vietnamese conflict became part of the Sino-Soviet rivalry, with Moscow backing Vietnam.

War dramas again played a big part as Platoon ( 1986 ) showed the horrors of Vietnam.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

Vietnam Civil Defense Force ( Dân quân Tự vệ Việt Nam ) is a part of Vietnam People's Armed Forces. Vietnam People's Militia is under direct command of Local Military Administration.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

The secessions in the first and third points were occasioned in part by factors including the UPCUSA's approval of abortion rights, its stands on world peace and concomitant suspicion of an aggressive U. S. foreign policy ( brought about by the trauma of the Vietnam War ), and its support of controversial social justice causes such as a well-publicized General Assembly contribution to the defense fund of imprisoned activist Angela Davis.

Concurrently, the costs of the Vietnam War took a heavy stateside toll on SAC as many of its bases were either deactivated, transferred to other Air Force MAJCOMs, or transferred to other U. S. military services as part of cost-cutting moves during or shortly after the end of combat operations in Southeast Asia.

In 1969, Nhat Hanh established the Unified Buddhist Church ( Église Bouddhique Unifiée ) in France ( not a part of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam ).

The founding of the party was prompted in part due to concerns about the Vietnam War, conscription, and the end of the Gold Standard.

However, in February 1979, following China's limited invasion of Vietnam, Hanoi complained that from 1957 onward China had provoked numerous border incidents as part of its anti-Vietnam policy and expansionist designs in Southeast Asia.

Before 1975, North Vietnam had maintained that the Central Highlands and the Giai Truong Son were strategic areas of paramount importance, essential to the domination not only of South Vietnam but also of the southern part of Indochina.

Vietnam became a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in 2007, which freed Vietnam from textile quotas enacted worldwide as part of the Multi Fibre Arrangement ( MFA ) in 1974.

The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

Next I refer to our program in space exploration, which is often mistakenly supposed to be an integral part of defense research and development.

This is in large part a code of behavior and a glossary of values: what is it that people do and should do and how one should regard it.

This, no doubt, is part of what Gilbert Seldes implies when he says of the arts, `` They give form and meaning to life which might otherwise seem shapeless and without sense ''.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

And it may be well to recall that to say `` conformity '' is, in part, another way of saying `` orderly human society ''.

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

`` and the more the action claims to be total, the smaller is the part of man engaged ''.

The New York mind is two parts abstraction and one part misinformation about the rest of the country and in fact the world.

More important is the simple human point that all men suffer, and that it is a kind of anthropological-religious pride on the part of the Jew to believe that his suffering is more poignant than mine or anyone else's.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.