Editor's note: Football fans Daniel and Clinton Rowling were in Vietnam late December when the country won a major tournament for the first time. The event sparked wild celebrations in the South East Asian nation but joy soon turned to carnage as five people died and dozens were injured in the celebrations. They share their story.
Bamboo may prove to be more than the food staple for the giant panda. Considered to be the world's fastest-growing woody plant, it could be a key component in lifting thousands of people in the developing world out of poverty.
China and Vietnam have settled a lengthy border dispute nearly 30 years after a month-long war that left tens of thousands of people dead, state-run media reported.
Pumps ran nonstop in the Vietnamese capital Wednesday to clear water following the city's worst rainfall in 35 years, in storms that sparked flooding across large sections of the country and left 92 people dead
Editor's note: Football fans Daniel and Clinton Rowling were in Vietnam late December when the country won a major tournament for the first time. The event sparked wild celebrations in the South East Asian nation but joy soon turned to carnage as five people died and dozens were injured in the celebrations. They share their story.
Bamboo may prove to be more than the food staple for the giant panda. Considered to be the world's fastest-growing woody plant, it could be a key component in lifting thousands of people in the developing world out of poverty.
China and Vietnam have settled a lengthy border dispute nearly 30 years after a month-long war that left tens of thousands of people dead, state-run media reported.
Pumps ran nonstop in the Vietnamese capital Wednesday to clear water following the city's worst rainfall in 35 years, in storms that sparked flooding across large sections of the country and left 92 people dead
More than 20,000 Vietnamese workers have walked off the job at a Taiwanese-owned plant that makes shoes for Nike Inc., demanding higher pay to keep pace with skyrocketing prices
The detention of four overseas Vietnamese pro-democracy activists -- including two U.S. citizens -- highlights a changing campaign against the Communist government
Forty years after his plane was shot down over North Vietnam and he was taken prisoner, presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's ordeal is included in a 12-minute biographical video.
Japan and North Korea will hold talks on establishing diplomatic relations next week in Ulan Bator, Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said on Tuesday. The two-day talks from September 5 will be held as part of a six-country deal to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear-arms programs in exchange for aid and diplomatic recognition.
Poet and short story writer Grace Paley, a literary eminence and old-fashioned rebel who described herself as a "combative pacifist," has died. She was 84.
Communist Vietnam's prime minister became his country's highest-ranking official to meet a pope on Thursday, an encounter the Vatican called an "important step" towards normalizing diplomatic ties.
On a humid afternoon on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, monsoon-season thunderclouds release torrents of rain. Some of the 1,700 workers at the Danu Vina factory, who make Mickey Mouse and other...
As daylight fades from a musty conference room at the Government Guest House in Hanoi, Ton Nu Thi Ninh, the elegant vice chairwoman of the National Assembly's foreign-affairs committee, leans forwa...
Asia's second-fastest-growing economy is taking its place on the global stage. But Vietnam's leaders say the rough-and-tumble global marketplace has left them a little shell-shocked.
Born in Hanoi and raised in Saigon, Lan Tran Cao started cooking for her family of 13 when she was only 12. She took lessons in haute cuisine from French chefs through her teens, then opened two su...
As daylight fades from a musty conference room at the Government Guest House in Hanoi, Ton Nu Thi Ninh, the elegant vice chairwoman of the National Assembly's foreign-affairs committee, leans forwa...
The morning ritual in Ba Dinh Square in Vietnam's capital involves raising the flag and singing the national anthem, communist overtones that are one of the few signs of the country's roots.
Vietnam will back Australia's bid to be included in a key Asian forum to be held later this year despite Canberra's reluctance to sign a regional non-aggression pact, the Southeast Asian nation's leader told media Thursday.
Thousands of Vietnamese took to the streets of Ho Chi Minh city to celebrate 30 years since the communist victory that ended what is known as the "American War."
The World Health Organization has confirmed a report that a 42-year-old man is suffering from bird flu and is being treated in a hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam.
President Bush starts today as a world leader before morphing back into the education president, meeting in New York with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and the King of Prussia.
The World Health Organization has confirmed a fifth person in Vietnam has died after contracting a bird flu that has been wiping out chicken farms throughout Asia.
Vietnam has reported four more suspected human cases of avian flu, prompting import bans on chickens and increased warnings from the World Health Organization.
Health officials are sounding the alarm over an outbreak of bird flu that has been racing across chicken farms in Asia, and is being blamed for at least three deaths in Vietnam.
SARS is giving fliers another reason to be nervous. Scientists believe a cough or sneeze is enough to pass on the virus. So should you wear a mask on your next flight? "Not unless you're going to o...
The war in Afghanistan is the most high tech in history. But among all the cutting-edge munitions, you can still find a half-century-old military staple. For five decades, the workhorse of the U.S....
Mid-stay in Hanoi, assuming can avoid death by bicycle. Communism tough on business, tougher still on comfort. In Graham Greene suite (each according to his needs!) at grande dame Metropole and fee...
We were awakened at dawn by the strains of "White Christmas" broadcast over Saigon's Armed Forces Radio station--the signal to evacuate. "This is it," confirmed the U.S. embassy. "Everybody out!" C...
Here comes fightin' John McCain. With his fiery crusade against big money in politics and a series of ads reminding voters of his days in a Hanoi POW cell, he's become the hottest thing on the GOP ...
If 1997's stock market madness, long hours in the office or your responsibilities at home have left you badly in need of a vacation but too exhausted to plan a creative one, we're going to tell you...
Weltanschauung confirmation. Yes, friends, that's what it's all about. What any columnizer remembers and cherishes, and keeps going to bat for, is the stuff that confirms and sustains his own world...
Generation Xers are storming Vietnam. Some see it as the place to make their fortunes, others as a smart career move, still others as something cool to do after college. The one thing these adventu...
HAVING LOST one war in Vietnam, the U.S. is on the verge of losing another. Competitors from other countries are grabbing business opportunities in a land poised for an economic surge -- as Hong Ko...
WHAT of Asia's basket cases -- the countries of the war-wracked region formerly known as Indochina, and repressive Burma, which now calls itself Myanmar? Put your money on Vietnam. Yes, Vietnam. Bu...
WHEN HONG KONG consultant Warren Williams flies on business to Bangkok, as he often does, there is a moment when he can make out the small mountain south of Danang where he and fellow Army Green Be...
Nearly 15 years have passed since the fall of Saigon and the reunification of Vietnam under Hanoi's Communist rule. But U.S. policymakers still see Vietnam as an ''enemy'' and continue to ban U.S. ...
Ravaged by decades of war and Communist misrule, the countries of what was once called Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) have devolved into one of the world's poorest regions. Now, drawn by t...
NEW DELHI -- A ''romantic conception of socialism'' . . . destroyed Vietnam's economy in the years after the Vietnam war, Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach said Friday. Addressing a crowded news con...
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Colin Leinster lived in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969 as a correspondent for Life magazine. He recently returned and found a country still divided into North and South. The most the tw...
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