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June 2010

 * 30 June 2010


 * ... that Vietnam, one of the world’s richest agricultural regions (pictured), is the second-largest exporter worldwide and the seventh-largest consumer of rice?
 * 25 June 2010
 * ... that, in 2005, the Vietnamese company Vinacafe controlled half of the instant coffee market in Vietnam, and Nestlé another third?
 * 24 June 2010
 * ... that Chey Chettha II's cooperation with the Nguyễn Lords of Vietnam led to the Vietnamese annexation of the Mekong Delta, including the town Vietnamese settlers referred to as Sài Gòn?
 * 18 June 2010
 * ... that Highlands Coffee was both the first private company and the first joint stock company within Vietnam to be registered to an Overseas Vietnamese?
 * 14 June 2010
 * ... that Vietnamese coffee producer Trung Nguyên's Legendee brand coffee is a simulated Kopi Luwak product?

May 2010

 * 21 May 2010
 * ... that the ecosystems of the Cham Islands (pictured) in Vietnam were recognized as a global Biosphere Reserve, the Cu Lao Cham Marine Park, by UNESCO on 26 May 2009?
 * 17 May 2010
 * ... that "Happy Jack" Fellows, a prisoner of war for six-and-a-half years during the Vietnam War, was awarded the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity while interned"?
 * 12 May 2010
 * ... that Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport, a military airfield from which former U.S. Air Force POWs were released during Operation Homecoming, is slated to become a fully functional civilian airport by 2015?