Long before people posted their thoughts and feelings on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, millions of people were doing just that on a different sort of wall.
Nearly 40 years after members of a U.S. cavalry unit put their lives in peril to save 100 fellow soldiers trapped under blistering enemy fire in Vietnam, they received the Presidential Unit Citation on Tuesday.
The organizers of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Federal Express are issuing a nationwide "call for photos" to help document the stories of those lost in the war.
It was 40 years ago this summer that U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Enrique Valdez was nearly killed by shrapnel in Vietnam and 15 years ago that he died from wounds suffered that August in 1969.
About a hundred family, friends and comrades turned out in a heavy rainstorm Monday to honor 123 Americans whose recent deaths they blame on the war in Vietnam.
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.
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.
Long before people posted their thoughts and feelings on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, millions of people were doing just that on a different sort of wall.
Nearly 40 years after members of a U.S. cavalry unit put their lives in peril to save 100 fellow soldiers trapped under blistering enemy fire in Vietnam, they received the Presidential Unit Citation on Tuesday.
The organizers of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Federal Express are issuing a nationwide "call for photos" to help document the stories of those lost in the war.
It was 40 years ago this summer that U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Enrique Valdez was nearly killed by shrapnel in Vietnam and 15 years ago that he died from wounds suffered that August in 1969.
About a hundred family, friends and comrades turned out in a heavy rainstorm Monday to honor 123 Americans whose recent deaths they blame on the war in Vietnam.
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.
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.
Dongguan City is the the shoe capital of the world: more footwear is made there than anywhere else on the globe. From 2001 to 2007, the value of footwear exports from its province of Guangdong doubled from $4.3 billion to $9.2 billion, according to China's state-run news agency. But in the past year, hundreds of factories have left town, driven out by the rapidly rising cost of doing business in China.
Julius Derico Jr. didn't need to travel to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington to pay tribute to his fallen comrade -- the first casualty of his unit in Vietnam.
The detention of four overseas Vietnamese pro-democracy activists -- including two U.S. citizens -- highlights a changing campaign against the Communist government
Dalat Nuclear Research Institute stands on a mountaintop in Vietnam's southern highlands. The nuclear reactor is not what most Vietnamese think of when they think of Dalat. The town, nestled in pine woods, is Vietnam's favorite honeymoon spot.
U.S.-based private investment banking firm EurOrient plans to invest $1 billion a year in Vietnam in the coming years, state media reported Tuesday, citing a company official.
The director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July is making his fourth movie about the Vietnam War. But this one, he tells TIME, is just as much about Iraq
President Bush on Wednesday told a convention of veterans that America's experience in Vietnam should be a lesson to those who want U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq. Some military analysts question that contention, including a retired general who served in Vietnam.
Vietnam's trade deficit will nearly double to $8 billion this year from $4.8 billion in 2006, but efforts to reduce the shortfall should not come at the expense of investment and growth, a government minister said on Wednesday.
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.
The World Trade Organization Tuesday cleared the way for Vietnam to become its 150th member - a move that boosts its trading access with other countries but doesn't yet allow U.S. businesses to freely set up shop in the Southeast Asian nation.
Vietnam's state-run shipbuilder, Vinashin, has won a contract worth $1 billion to build eight car carriers for an Israeli firm, company officials said on Wednesday.
In a classic David versus Goliath scenario, retail underdog Vietnam has overtaken the Asian behemoth China to become the world's third most-attractive marketplace for U.S. retailers looking to expand overseas, according to consulting firm A.T. Kearney.
Three decades after the end of the Vietnam war, corks are popping in Ho Chi Minh City. The reason might make the man for whom this town was named spin in his grave: Vietnam's stock market is the se...
HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Vietnam's state-run Vietcombank plans to list in Hong Kong or Singapore in the country's first overseas listing, people familiar with the situation said Thursday.
In 1968 Walter Cronkite returned from Vietnam and told Americans that, in his opinion, the Vietnam war had become a stalemate. That was a turning point.
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.
U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday he has accepted an invitation to visit Vietnam, where he will attend next year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
Small-scale farmers across Asia will need to modify their animal husbandry practices if a bird-flu pandemic is to be avoided, world health experts have been told.
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.
United Airlines is launching flights from the United States to Vietnam -- marking the first commercial service between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.
United Airlines is set to make history Thursday by becoming the first U.S. air carrier to offer daily service to Vietnam since the Vietnam War ended nearly 30 years ago.
There was no official announcement, no press release. But make no mistake about it. As demonstrated daily in the language used by those who wage and those who analyze this uninspiring presidential campaign, the historic meaning of the word "patriotism" has been totally rewritten.
The World Health Organization has confirmed two Vietnamese women recently died from bird flu, and say they may have caught the illness from their brother.
A mass slaughter of infected chickens and ducks is the only way of controlling the deadly bird flu sweeping across Asia, the World Health Organization has warned, as the human toll from the outbreak rises.
A mass slaughter of infected chickens and ducks is the only way of controlling the deadly bird flu sweeping across Asia, the World Health Organization has warned, as the human toll from the outbreak rises.
Vietnam has confirmed another human death from bird flu and two new cases of the virus that has stricken or killed millions of chickens in Asia and sparked fears of an epidemic worse than SARS.
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.
Vietnam and Cuba may be on opposite sides of the globe, but these days they send tingles up the spine of the same sorts of people: financiers, investors, and entrepreneurs who peruse cutting-edge e...
Last year's February lifting of the 19-year trade embargo has opened the door a tad for Vietnamese imports. The latest: "33" Export beer (Ba M'Ba, in Vietnamese). That's the same brew GIs once dran...
What if every one of Vietnam's 72 million people bought a pair of shoes? That's today's version of a question that used to be asked about China. No wonder U.S. companies are rushing to do business ...
-- BILL BRADLEY, 50, U.S. Senator (D-New Jersey) on the trial of four Buddhist monks later jailed for organizing political protests in Vietnam: ''It is important that respect for human rights be an...
It is Sunday evening, January 27, and your servant sits at the keyboard shrouded in gloom. Whence his blues? Mainly from the extra-heavy subject of this composition, a guaranteed downer. Also from ...
Here are some of the places that foreign aggressors have annexed. -- Cambodia (pop. seven million): Vietnam invaded in 1979; still supports a puppet regime. -- East Timor (pop. 700,000): Indonesia ...
CARLA HILLS, 56, U.S. Trade Representative: ''I challenge anyone to name a single country that has suffered economically, culturally, or politically because of free trade.''
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...
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