Cholon
Americannoun
noun
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Other foreigners just disappeared, like a reputed millionaire Australian who made his money in duck feathers, Keith Hyland, a trim, debonair 54, who visited his factory in the Chinese suburb of Cholon.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2018
Gallaher obtained a guitar and amp for his work in The Rotations from a shop in Cholon, where a man named Lam Hao made knockoffs, of Fenders primarily, Gallaher says.
From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2015
In a teeming market in the old Chinese district of Cholon, a small mob flocked around us, hands outstretched to hold her.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2010
Today, these size3 executives are supervising factories in Cholon or latching onto pieces of real estate in Saigon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The chief industrial establishments are those for the decortication of rice at Saigon and Cholon; they are in the hands of the Chinese, by whom most of the trade in the colony is conducted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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