Fish sauce is the basic condiment for all Vietnamese food, and Phu Quoc its finest incarnation.
He opened a plant in Vietnam, on the tropical island of Phu Quoc, where the small black anchovies are legendary.
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In 1954 some 10, 000 French troops surrendered at Dien Bien Phu to a Vietminh army under General Vo Nguyen Giap.
It is, after all, more than 40 years since the French were routed at the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
Phu Ma Gyi 's home was burnt down and, with her two daughters, she now shares a tent with three other families.
Eisenhower, offered the French two atom bombs to save Dien Bien Phu.
Underscoring the industry's potential, Singapore's government-owned investment company Temasek said in June it was buying a 10% stake of publicly traded Minh Phu Seafood Corp. of Vietnam.
These are some of the code-names from long ago of the defended hill outposts and paratroop drop-zones set in the waving elephant grass of the Indochinese highlands at Dien Bien Phu.
But as Herve Morin this week becomes the first French defence minister to visit Vietnam since Dien Bien Phu, the country's foreign and defence ministries have rejected Gen Bigeard's last request.
Gen Bigeard was a commanding officer during the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, where French troops were surrounded and defeated by the forces of the Vietnamese Communists, the Viet Minh.
The reader can almost hear the parachute canopies cracking open as Operation Castor begins on November 20th 1953, when the airborne elite of the French colonial army was first parachuted into the valley of Dien Bien Phu.
He retells the terrible siege of Dien Bien Phu earlier that spring, when the North Vietnamese commander, Vo Ngu-yen Giap, made thousands of porters drag artillery into the hills surrounding a French base, from where they pounded the foreign army.
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