Bien Hoa

/ ˈbjɛn ˈhəʊə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

The U.S. will expand its efforts to address lingering damage from the Vietnam war, which ended in 1975, including increasing funding from $183 million to $300 million for a dioxin remediation project in the Bien Hoa Air Base area.

From Reuters

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