Bien Hoa

British  

/ ˈbjɛn ˈhəʊə /

noun

1. a town in S Vietnam: a former capital of Cambodia. Pop: 520 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

But, fortunately, Bien Hoa is the only remaining hot spot; three much smaller ones have already been remediated or are currently nearing completion, and Vietnamese evaluations of other potential sites have shown either no dioxin, or dioxin levels well below Vietnamese thresholds for cleanup.

From Washington Post

Dioxin-contaminated soils at Bien Hoa will take several years to be fully cleaned up.

From Washington Post

It was not until 2018 that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who spent 44 years as a Marine, promised to allocate $150 million in Pentagon funds to clean up the toxins Americans had left behind at the Bien Hoa air base outside Ho Chi Minh City, one of many untreated “hot spots.”

From Washington Post

He spent a year in Vietnam, serving in Long Binh, the Army’s largest base located in what was then South Vietnam; Bien Hoa, an air base used to deploy the 173rd Airborne Brigade from Okinawa; Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam; and Phu Bai in central Vietnam.

From Washington Times

He explained that he was sent to Bien Hoa, an air base northeast of Saigon, in 1968 during the Tet Offensive; after rocket attacks hit the base, he and other soldiers assisted the injured — men whose limbs had been blown off, their faces ravaged, who drifted between life and death.

From New York Times