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On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. Complete Story...
Vietnam has demanded that China investigate "brutal" treatment of Vietnamese fishermen who sought shelter during a typhoon in disputed South China Sea islands, where officials allege they were beaten and robbed by Chinese personnel.
The conductor of the New York Philharmonic wielded his baton as an instrument of diplomacy Thursday. His words, however, weren't all sweet.
The United States has condemned Vietnam's recent conviction of nine democracy activists, the arrest of a writer and the expulsion of Buddhist monks from a monastery where they practiced the teachings of a renowned Zen master.
A renowned Buddhist teacher has decried the eviction of his followers from a monastery in southern Vietnam, and Vietnamese intellectuals have issued a petition to support them, an unusual move in this communist country where free speech is restricted.
Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher who were forced out of a Vietnamese monastery over the weekend have taken refuge at a nearby pagoda, but they say they have once again been surrounded by police.
A Vietnamese court has sentenced six people to up to 4 1/2 years in prison for arranging more than 300 fraudulent adoptions, a court official said Tuesday.
Typhoon Ketsana roared into central Vietnam on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people as it brought flooding and winds of up to 90 mph (144 kph), disaster officials said. Some 170,000 were evacuated from its path.
A Vietnamese court sentenced two officials to up to three years in prison Friday for collecting $80,000 in rent from Japanese consultants but dividing it among colleagues instead of putting it in state coffers, a court official said.
Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher say police and an angry mob have forced them out of a monastery in central Vietnam, ending a religious experiment in the communist country that turned into a monthslong standoff with authorities.
Multinational companies in Vietnam sell baby formula so aggressively that they routinely stretch and sometimes break laws designed to promote breastfeeding, an AP investigation has found.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is beginning an effort to gather photographs of each of the more than 58,000 men and women listed on the memorial wall in Washington.
A woman who was jailed after writing a blog critical of the Vietnamese government said Monday that she agreed to stop blogging as a condition of her release.
New environmental tests confirm extremely high levels of dioxin, the toxic ingredient of Agent Orange, in people, fish and soil near a former U.S. air base where American troops stored the herbicide during the Vietnam War.
Vietnamese authorities have released a blogger and an online journalist more than a week after detaining them for questioning about postings critical of the Communist government's handling of relations with China.
Vietnamese police arrested another blogger, her mother and diplomats said Friday, as authorities continued a crackdown against writers who have criticized Communist Party policies online.
Coca-Cola Co. says it plans to invest an additional $200 million in Vietnam in the next three years.
Vietnam will release more than 5,000 prisoners as part of an annual prison amnesty, but not a Catholic priest whom U.S. senators have campaigned to have freed, an official said Monday.
A Vietnamese blogger who criticized the Communist Party's policies has been detained by police, his close friend said Monday, days after another popular blogger was fired from his job at a state-controlled newspaper.
The remains of Australia's last two servicemen missing in action from the war in Vietnam were returned to their homeland Monday, escorted by family and members of their air squadron.
A university student angry about flunking his English classes barged into a lecture, threw a bucket of acid at a professor and then stabbed him in the back as he tried to flee, a university official said Tuesday.
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia is visiting Hanoi on the last leg of a Southeast Asian tour. The highlight of his swing through the region was a stop in Myanmar, where he won the release of an imprisoned American man.
The dirt paths that lead to Alpha Company's field headquarters are lined with overgrown grass and weeds. A canvas tent is protected by machine guns, sandbags and Army-green storage boxes. And lurking somewhere outside is the enemy: the Viet Cong.
Tears filled the eyes of some Vietnam veterans who were warmly greeted with cheers from their family and friends Sunday in an re-enactment of their original return from the war, when they were often met with angry demonstrators and harsh headlines.
Top U.S. officials have reached out to a leading Vietnam war scholar to discuss the similarities of that conflict 40 years ago with American involvement in Afghanistan, where the U.S. is seeking ways to isolate an elusive guerrilla force and win over a skeptical local population.
Vietnam sees the funny side of sexVinh, a 24-year-old man, says his parents never talked to him about sex. "But they would make jokes about it so that I know what they expect from me," he says.
A Soldier's Nighmare: Dying for Nothing!The focus of the president, according to news reports, is to devise a strategy with the right accompaniment of military personnel and equipment to meet the objective he establishes.
Troops On Tv: Is Fox News Working For Israel Against America? Fox News is using retired military officers surrounded by uniformed active duty troops in an attempt to derail debate on disengagement in Afghanistan. After 8 years, the US is heading the same way Russia did, the more troops we send, the more die.
One American's Afghan withdrawal - thestar.comAs such, the decorated Marine says, the point of the continued occupation is called into question.
'Good Enough' Isn't Sen. John Kerry, who was so wrong about Iraq, now says our commander in Afghanistan is "reaching too far, too fast" and that a "good enough" policy should suffice. It won't. Offering his advice on how to micromanage the war against the Taliban, Kerry said Gen.
Walkom: Afghanistan sacrifices may have been in vain - thestar.comWhere does the war in Afghanistan go? My sense is that it is finally beginning the long and drawn-out process toward an inglorious end. For Canada, this would mark the finish of the longest – and the least considered – war that this country has ever fought.
Late last night (Wednesday night) the President of the United States of America made an unannounced trip to Dover AFB to greet the bodies of 15 Americans who died a few days ago in Afghanistan.
Vietnam vets finally honored for bloody rescue mission President Obama told the graying ex-soldiers, some of them in wheelchairs, that the treatment of Vietnam veterans has been a "national disgrace."
To Republicans, Libertarians & America's EnemiesI just watched a video at Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs blog of then-candidate Barack Obama telling 7 outrageous lies in a row in 1minute and 46 seconds time, which helped propel him into the White House. This has to be a world record for a politician lying.
There are many differences between our wars in Vietnam and in Afghanistan. There are also similarities we can't ignore, including the vital need for an indigenous government that commands broad-based popular support.
No Place at School for Vietnam's AIDS Orphans - NYTimes.comPrejudice and ignorance is preventing many children infected with HIV to attend school with uninfected children in many rural parts of Asia.
Door Opens to Health Claims Tied to Agent OrangeThe new policy will apply to some 2.1 million veterans who set foot in Vietnam during the war, including those who came after the military stopped using Agent Orange in 1970.
I made the point in Vietnam and Afghanistan that we're in danger of repeating the mistake we made in regard to the Vietnam War -- sending more and more troops into a war we were inevitably doomed to lose.
Six Vietnamese activists jailedA court in Vietnam has sentenced six democracy activists to up to six years in prison for "spreading propaganda" against the government.
Stuck in Kabul, with Saigon blues againPepe Escobar lays out the Afghan situation from the perspective of an opponent to further escalation. Escobar's article "Get Osama! Now! Or else...", was published by Asia Times Online two weeks before the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
When it Comes to the Necessity for War, Mother Knows BestPeg Mullen, mother of a killed soldier, and outspoken campaigner for the end to unjustifiable wars dies at 92. Her voice will be sadly missed.
Viet Nam News Communists want to become SocialistsThis story from an English language newspaper in Vietnam tells how the Party leaders want to take Vietnam into Socialism. Does that mean closer to or farther from Communism? Maybe they really want to be Captalists!
Attack on remote Afghan outposts kills 8 US troopsMilitant fighters streaming from a village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight American soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest gunbattles of the troubled eight-year war.
After 39 Years, Soldiers Honored for Vietnam Rescue Mission On the day Ray R. Moreno came home from Vietnam, the day antiwar protestors called him a baby killer, he decided to pack away his Army uniform for good. Memories and nightmares still intruded, but he rarely discussed them. Battle buddies were forgotten.
Testing Afghanistan AssumptionsThe challenge of making the right decision was dramatized recently by the grim disclosure that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has warned that unless he gets more troops the eight-year war there "will likely result in failure."
Vietnamese Bat Nha Monastery Raid Update.From Help Bat Nha Monastery: All the brothers and sisters have been shipped to a temple Chùa Phước Huệ (address: Đường Trần Phú, Bảo Lộc, Lâm Đồng, Việt Nam). Our Brothers Thay Phap Hoi, Phap Sy, and Phap Tu have been taken away to other areas unknown.
Discussion on the Publication of Photographs of Wounded or Dying Soldiers...a large number of readers believe that journalists who insist on depicting the "horrors of war" are, in fact, advocating a pacifist political agenda — with one eye on a Pulitzer. More Articles
President Barack Obama faces a choice that really is a no-win situation.
Former Army chaplain helps homeless veteransThe Rev. Morson Livingston was stopped at a red light at State Road 54 and Little Road last year when he saw a couple of homeless men standing on the side of the road, wearing parts of their military uniforms. Livingston, who served as a U.S.
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