Viet Nam and USA Sister City Relationships

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:01:04 +0700

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Viet Nam and USA Sister City Relationships

Dear Colleagues,

I have been asked if there are any cities in the USA which have a 'Sister City' relationship with a city in Viet Nam. If you know of any, please contact me as soon as possible (even better if you have details).

Thanks, Vern

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 07:47:48 -0400 (EDT)

From: Daniel Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu>

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: Viet Nam and USA Sister City Relationships

New Haven, Connecicut established what we called the first one back in the 90s. Nicole Vecchi and Kathy Schas and I have all moved on, but Ben Kiernan (History, Yale) would know who's in charge. Certainly other cities did, too. John McAuliff at the Fund for Reconciliation in New York would know which.

Dan Duffy

Graduate student

Department of Anthropology

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

27599 USA

919-932-2624

<dduffy@email.unc.edu>

Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:08:51 -0400

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: Viet Nam and USA Sister City Relationships

At 10:01 AM 7/20/2000 +0700, you wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,

>I have been asked if there are any cities in the USA which

>have a 'Sister City' relationship with a city in Viet Nam.

Wow, I actually outpaced Vern "Mr. Webmaster" Weitzel: Me, myself and I found the following:

Vietnam

Haiphong

Seattle, WA

Hue

New Haven, CT

Ho Chi Minh City

San Francisco, CA

Vung Tau City

Newport Beach, CA

on the following web page:

<http://sistercities.wego.com/go/wego.pages.page?groupId=10442&view=page&pag

Actually, I thought I remembered a lot of ballyhoo recently when SF Mayor Willy Brown visited TPHCM. And note that affluent Newport Beach, 'uncomfortably close' to unforgiving Garden Grove, is big enough to link up with Vung Tau - 'though they both have off-shore oil industries that like to dirty things up!!

sgraw

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Steve Graw

Development Sociology & Southeast Asia Program

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-7801

Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:18:14 +0700

From: Vern Weitzel <weitzel@undp.org.vn>

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: Viet Nam and USA Sister City Relationships

I'd like to collectively thank everyone for responding to my request about sister cities. My colleague, Allen Jennings of the UN Volunteers office, requested this information. And good to see my home town has a sister city relationship. Aside from the US, do other countries have similar relationships?

Cheers, Vern

Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:35:13 -0700

From: "grace chew" <gccldung@hn.vnn.vn>

To: "Vietnam Studies Group" <vsg@u.washington.edu>

Subject: Re: Viet Nam and USA Sister City Relationships

I think Japan has. Call up Jap Embassy in HN and ask.