Qualla: Phu Quoc https://qualla.com/phu-quoc en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Phu Quoc https://qualla.com/phu-quoc Phu Quoc: Introduction https://qualla.com/phu-quoc/ Stand on the northern beaches of Phú Quốc and the land across the water is Cambodia — fifteen kilometres away, close enough to read the shape of the hills. The Vietnamese mainland lies forty-five kilometres in the other direction, out of sight. By every intuition of geography this island ought to be Cambodian. It is Vietnamese because in 1939 a French governor-general drew an administrative line across the Gulf of Thailand and put Phú Quốc on the far side of it, and because a line drawn for colonial convenience hardened, over the following seventy years, into an international border.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/f/phu-quoc-wk/w3cf-phu-quoc-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Phu Quoc: A Line Drawn in 1939 https://qualla.com/phu-quoc/ Jules Brévié's line divided the Gulf islands between the administrations of Cochinchina and Cambodia, but no formal allocation between the two future countries was ever made. When French Indochina dissolved in 1954 the boundary was left undemarcated and the islands unsettled, and...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/f/phu-quoc-wk/w3cf-phu-quoc-a-line-drawn-in-1939.mp3 0:06 2 full Phu Quoc: The Priest and the Fugitive https://qualla.com/phu-quoc/ In the early 1780s, hunted by the Tây Sơn rebellion that had swept his family from power across southern Vietnam, the young prince Nguyễn Ánh twice took refuge on Phú Quốc — in 1782, and again in 1783 after his first hideout was discovered. With him was the French missionary Pign...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/f/phu-quoc-wk/w3cf-phu-quoc-the-priest-and-the-fugitive.mp3 0:06 3 full Phu Quoc: The Coconut Tree Prison https://qualla.com/phu-quoc/ At An Thới, near the island's southern tip, French colonial authorities built a political detention centre in 1949–50. It outlived them. Through the war years the site became South Vietnam's largest prisoner-of-war camp, holding Việt Minh, Việt Cộng and North Vietnamese prisoners...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/f/phu-quoc-wk/w3cf-phu-quoc-the-coconut-tree-prison.mp3 0:06 4 full Phu Quoc: Anchovies, Rattan, and a Dog With a Ridge https://qualla.com/phu-quoc/ Nước mắm from Phú Quốc is made from black anchovies salted aboard the boat and fermented six to twelve months in wooden barrels bound with rattan braided in the island's own hills. A good barrel works for sixty years. Quality is graded in degrees of nitrogen — 30°N is high, 40°N ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/f/phu-quoc-wk/w3cf-phu-quoc-anchovies-rattan-and-a-dog-with-a-ridge.mp3 0:06 5 full Phu Quoc: Rebuilt in a Decade https://qualla.com/phu-quoc/ The international airport that opened on 2 December 2012 south of Dương Đông runs two runways, 3,000 and 3,300 metres, long enough for wide-bodies. Vingroup and Sun Group supplied the rest: the Grand World resort town with its free electric buses, a golf course, a casino, a safar...

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