Sentence examples for The mun from inspiring English sources
The Mun River one of the Mekong's most important tributaries drains the majority of the plateau and joins the Mekong at Ban Dan, Thailand.
The Mun rises in the San Kamphaeng Range northeast of Bangkok and flows east for 418 miles (673 km), receiving the Chi River, its main tributary, and entering the Mekong River at the Laotian border.
The MUN domain is structurally similar to the vesicle tethering factors of the CATCHR (Complex Associated with Tethering Containing Helical rods) family (Li et al., 2011), and is necessary for vesicle priming (Basu et al., 2005; Madison et al., 2005; Stevens et al., 2005) through binding to SNARE and Munc18 (Betz et al., 1997; Ma et al., 2011).
It lies near the confluence of the Mun and Chi Rivers and is a major trading centre for rice, cattle, and tobacco.
Something similar happened in 1994, when Thailand, with money from the World Bank, completed a hydropower dam on the Mun river, a major tributary of the Mekong.
Much of that money, in turn, could be used to fund additional development schemes for ordinary Laotians.The World Bank claims to have learned the lessons of equally worthy-sounding schemes that went badly awry, including a dam on the Mun river in neighbouring Thailand, which left many fishermen destitute as their catch disappeared.
Many fled mainland China and began operations in the US, with the Hung Mun — now known as the Chee Kung Tong — rising to become one of the most powerful.
Built in the Tuen Mun district, it's the only beach in the area with a volleyball court.
Section Six also includes the site of the Shing Mun Redoubt, from which Japanese soldiers routed British forces on Dec. 9, 1941, and soon won the battle for Hong Kong.
The widening of the Tuen Mun Road highway in Hong Kong involved construction and subsequent operation in an area of steep rock slopes above a heavily trafficked six lane highway.
The Qing pursued the Hung Mun doggedly, forcing them and other opposition groups to work in secret.
