I attended earlier this month a good friend and classmate’s wedding in Vietnam, but as usual, I did not do any research about the place I was going to, preferring to let serendipity take me wherever it pleased. My friend’s hometown, Bien Hoa city, is about a 45-minute car ride from Ho Chi Minh City airport. Her husband’s friends and I arrived at our hotel in the late afternoon, which didn’t leave us with much time before we were bussed off to dinner together. That evening, when I returned to the hotel, I searched on my phone for highlights in the city that I thought I might visit after the wedding lunch reception the next day. My google search yielded the following: Workshop highlights dioxin contamination at Bien Hoa Airport en.vietnamplus.vn/workshop- highlights -dioxin... bien - hoa .../67199.vnp o Cached Oct 21, 2014 - Around 250000 cu.m of soil in Bien Hoa City , the southern province of Dong Nai, are contaminated with dioxin at levels ranging from 1000 ppt
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