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Astonishing, rare images of the Vietnam War from the winning side
Photos by North Vietnamese photographers show the war like it’s never been seen.
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Vietnam’s Sacred Turtle Dies at an Awkward, Some Say Ominous, Time
The news that a legendary turtle in Hanoi’s central lake had died prompted an outpouring of sadness across the deeply superstitious and Confucian country. By Mike Ives.
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Mystery space balls land in Vietnam, hitting house and garden
Three mysterious metal spheres that fell from the sky and landed in northern Vietnam on Saturday have been seized by the Vietnamese military and are being investigated, Vietnamese media report. Witnesses reported hearing thunder-like noises in the sky and seeing the objects flying up there early Saturday morning before they crash-landed, Thanh Nien News reported. Two of the metal balls, one 250 grams and one six kilograms, landed in Yen Bai province.
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Vietnam Builds Military Muscle to Face China
Vietnam's military is steeling itself for conflict with China as it accelerates a decade-long modernization drive, Hanoi's biggest arms buildup since the height of the Vietnam War.
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Terror in Little Saigon
An old war comes to a new country. By A.C. Thompson.
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Girl in Vietnam napalm photo receives medical treatment for burns 50 years later
As Kim Phuc fled the aftermath of a napalm attack – her face agape in terror and pain – the nine-year-old unwittingly became a living symbol of the horrors of the Vietnam War. Some forty years later, the 52-year-old is receiving medical treatment for the wounds she suffered after the South Vietnamese military accidentally dropped napalm on civilians in Trang Bang village near Saigon. Mrs Phuc travelled from her home in Canada...
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R.E.M - Orange Crush
From the album 'Green' (1988)
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The CIA paid Vietnam War spies by ordering them stuff from Sears
In Sep. 1966, Jon Wiant, an American CIA operative, arrived in Hue, Vietnam, to head a bilateral operation with South Vietnamese intelligence. The plan involved running assets in and out of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese “secret zones” along the border with Laos. These assets—a mix of mountain agrarians and indigenous Montagnard (or Degar) people—were the CIA’s “eyes and ears on the ground,” Wiant wrote in an article for a 1994 edition of...
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International Recipes: Banh Mi
Have you tried banh mi? It’s a traditional Vietnamese sandwich filled with a variety of ingredients, usually including meat, pickled vegetables and sweet chilli peppers.
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Selecting the best fruits at floating markets
How to select the best fruits at a floating market. Free guide to help you check food at floating markets.
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Hanoi’s Capitalist Revolution
Free markets, private businesses, malls, and a middle class -- not what Ho Chi Minh had in mind. By Michael J. Totten.
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Photos of foreign tourists cleaning up beach lay bare Vietnam's littering problem
Photos of two foreign tourists picking up trash on a beach in northern Vietnam have gone viral on the Internet recently, prompting criticism on the notoriously bad littering habit among many locals. The photos show two women on Cat Ba Beach in Hai Phong City, with one down on her knees and another wading in the water to clean up the beach. Many tourists are either swimming or relaxing on the background.
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An Uunusual Outburst of Cold Weather Hits Northern Vietnam
Vietnam has been going through the hottest year in a decade, when an unusual grip of cold swept over the Sa Pa town on Monday morning, July 6, 2015.The sudden drop of temperatures, reaching 12.6°C (54.7°F), surprised both the locals and tourists.
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John Fogerty Feels Like 'Fortunate Son' With Upcoming Memoir
After nibbling on a few finger sandwiches at teatime, John Fogerty now feels energized to talk about his upcoming memoir and summer concert tour.Aptly called "1969," the 41-city tour represents that prolific year for Creedence Clearwater Revival:
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3,000 children enslaved in Britain after being trafficked from Vietnam
Like many Vietnamese children, Hien was brought to Britain for a life of modern slavery. He ended up in prison on cannabis offences. We report on the gangs expanding across the UK and efforts to help their victims
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Thousands of workers strike for 6th day at Nike, Adidas factory in Vietnam
Thousands of Vietnamese workers at a major footwear factory were on strike for a sixth day Wednesday over a social insurance law in a rare challenge to government policy. Several thousand people at the Taiwanese-owned Pou Yuen factory in southern Ho Chi Minh City began the stoppage last Thursday. Pou Yuen Vietnam, which employs more than 80,000 workers, is a subsidiary of Pou Chen Group and makes footwear for companies such as Nike and Adidas.
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Will the Vietnam War Ever Go Away?
It’s not much fun returning to Vietnam. I don’t mean in person and, no, I did not fight in that sad war. It’s the war we don’t like to think about but can’t quite forget.
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Searching For the Truth About My Mother
Duong Thi Xuan Quy was North Vietnam's first female war correspondent. Forty years after the end of the Vietnam war, her daughter is still searching for her remains.
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Vietnam 40 years On: How a Communist Victory Gave Way to Capitalist Corruption
After the military victory, Vietnam’s socialist model began to collapse. Cut off by US-led trade embargos and denied reconstruction aid, it plunged into poverty. Now its economy is booming – but so is inequality and corruption
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The Other Side of Vietnam: How the Winners Remember the War
How the North Vietnamese remember the conflict 40 years after the fall of Saigon
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