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Vietnam by Numbers

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March 7th 2007
Greetings Faithful Blog Followers (all 3 of you), I don't want to return to New Zealand and still be in Vietnam (blogwise). Thus, I have decided to describe Vietnam in numbers. It's a quicker way to recount my traveling adventures. So here's Vietnam by Numbers: Number (no.) of times my hair was touched without permission: 3 No of times my hair was braided and twirled without permission: 1 ( ... read more

Asia » Vietnam

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more