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Followers of a famous Buddhist teacher plan to seek temporary asylum in France after months of pressure from Vietnam's communist authorities to leave pagodas in the country's south.
Vietnam has ordered submarines and fighter jets from Russia, its former communist ally, the government announced Wednesday, in a deal reportedly worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Vatican called a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the president of Vietnam on Friday "a significant stage" in efforts for closer ties between the communist country and the Holy See.
Health officials in Vietnam are reporting what appears to be the largest cluster yet of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cases — seven people who traveled together on a long train ride.
President Barack Obama is vowing that the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan will not turn into another Vietnam.
Remains believed to be those of four American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War were loaded on a plane Tuesday and flown back to the United States for identification.
When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.
Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.
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.
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.
The Norman Transcript - Judge: Bring Simmons home by ChristmasThis has been going on for years over the State Veterans Affairs He went to Dallas for more medical but the State run Veteran Affairs does not want him back! disabled Vietnam veteran is not welcome back........
War Is Too Serious to Involve LiberalsLiberals have only one piece of wisdom to add to any discussion about war: "This war is just like Vietnam!" That's it. Nothing else. Every war is Vietnam, and Vietnam is very bad. That's all they know.
City Brights: Craig Newmark : Fixing Washington, starting with Veterans AffairsVeterans Affairs has needed a fix for over 35 years! Every one who has come and gone from the VA has said THEY will FIX it! Nothing has happen yet but get behind in claims and NOW stands at over one Million waiting and waiting.................
Agent Orange's lethal legacy: For Vietnam War veterans, injustice follows injury -- dailypress.comJack Cooley delivered his final argument in a long, distinguished legal career from a hospital bed. Four months before succumbing to multiple myeloma, the Chicago-area Vietnam veteran
In my reading and with ALL the fuss over Health Care Veterans Need to sign up for VA Health Care soon or be locked out! I have seen many stories on Veterans Care to be changed so some of the past Veterans can't get in the VA health but no one from Veterans Affairs has said one w …
I know we all get upset over claims and delays but Welcome To The U S Government......
Russia, Vietnam sign nuclear, other energy dealsMOSCOW—Russia on Tuesday penned a deal to build Vietnam's first nuclear power plant, and the countries' respective oil and gas giants forged a joint venture, increasing Moscow's outreach into southeast Asia, Russian news agencies reported.
Being a Veteran of a War most have for gotten about (Vietnam) is not the problem with me it's the WAR that still goes on Daily working with and fighting with Veterans Affairs to get compensation! It's an uphill battle with paper work going back and forth. Getting Dr's appointme …
In 1969 I was 13 years old and smoked my first joint. Now I'm not saying that the first time getting high suddenly made me somehow more "aware" (though it may have helped).
There are reports out of Kabul about seriously lewd conduct and sexual misconduct by mercenaries employed by civilian contractors. According to media reports the contract with ARMORGROUP is not going to be renewed. Meanwhile there are 104000 such personnel in Afghanistan.
Prosecutor uses his past, present to inspire foster childrenThe pattern hit Prince George's County prosecutor C.T. Wilson with the subtlety of a blast from a 12-gauge shotgun: The young men he was sending to prison were victims before they were criminals.
HELEN THOMAS: Obama's Afghan War Sure Seems Like VietnamObama won a mandate in 2008 to pull up Bush's war stakes. He should listen to the people, not the generals, not the neocons and certainly not former Vice President Dick Cheney.
I can't say I have not had good care with the VA system over the years the VA in San Antonio and in Oklahoma city's VA I have gotten good care and 98% of my health problems take care of.
Early development The earliest form of the compound triiodobenzoic acid was studied by Arthur Galston as a plant growth hormone. The research was motivated by the desire to adapt soybeans for short growing season.
Iam a Veteran of the Vietnam war serving two years in country 1971 - 1973 and Happy to have served my country! I have been on Disability since 1999 cause of my Heart - I have had two heart attacks I have diabetes type 2 and all related to Agent Orange.
Agent Orange, A Lethal Legacy part 2For Vietnam War Veterans, Injustice Follows Injury Vietnam vets wait years and fight skeptical agency to get disability.
Agent Orange, A Lethal Legacy part 1Memories of the Vietnam War are dimming, but veterans and Vietnamese nationals who were exposed to Agent Orange and other dioxin-laced defoliants are still experiencing devastating health effects, and birth defects have brought the impact into a second generation. Yet the U.S.
Where's the way forward for Veterans?You already know how this Veteran feels about the lack of solid funding for the Veterans' Administration, especially the VA Health System.
Little Britain's Gordon BrownTo make matters even more akin to a black comedy, we have had little Britain's Gordon Brown suddenly taking the Blair mantle of faithfully echoing what the US says, and accusing Pakistan of being responsible for British and, presumably, NATO/US failures.
Text of President Obama's Speech on AfghanistanI have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. Vital to national security with a precise timeline of withdrawal? Does that make sense to anyone here?
If you thought that the "war" in Afghanistan was bad, the most recent disclosures about private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan should make you sicker than any swine's flu. If you thought that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama have nothing in common, think again.
Absurd demands & accusationsOnce again the cacophony of demands from the US and its allies on Pakistan has reached a crescendo. The US is getting increasingly frustrated at its glaring failure in Afghanistan.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown donned the mantle of poodlehood when he made the extraordinary claim that the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan.
Obama vows Afghanistan will be no VietnamWEST POINT, N.Y. — President Barack Obama is vowing that the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan will not turn into another Vietnam.
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