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Bassein

(bɑːˈseɪn)
n
(Placename) a city in Myanmar, on the Irrawaddy delta: a port on the Bassein River (the westernmost distributary of the Irrawaddy). Pop: 231 000 (2005 est)
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Bas•sein

(bəˈseɪn)

n.
a city in SW Burma, on the Irrawaddy River. 144,092.
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In contrast to the Yunnanese migrants in Bhamo and Mandalay discussed in the previous chapter, chapter 3 investigates stories of maritime Chinese and covers a much wider range of places where Fujianese and Cantonese settled--Pyapon, Moulmein, Bassein, Mergui and Rangoon.
Before assuming charge as Director (Onshore), Moitra headed the Bassein & Satellite (B&S) Asset in Western Offshore, Mumbai - the highest gas-producing and second highest oil producing Asset of ONGC and the country - since 2013.
The field in the offshore include Mumbai High, the nation's largest oilfield and Bassein fields, the largest gasfield.
The higher output will make it among the top producing fields in the country after ONGC's Mumbai High field, located in the Arabian Sea, which produces 210,000 bpd of crude oil, and the Bassein natural gas field, also
Copper uptake by roots and plant susceptibility to Cu toxicity depend on soil texture, pH, hydrous oxide content, and clay mineralogy (BRUN et al., 2001; EPSTEIN; BASSEIN, 2001; MENGEL; KIRKBY, 2001; TOSELLI et al., 2008).
Sofala and Ilha do Mocambique in present-day Mozambique, which had previously been connected to Swahili coastal trading circuits via Kilwa, were now directly connected to Goa and other key ports along the Konkan and Gujarat coast such as Chaul, Dabhol, Bombay, Bassein, Daman and Diu, as well as Colombo (Sri Lanka), Sao Tome (near present-day Chennai) and Malacca (Malaysia).
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