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Overloaded Vietnamese Motorbikes That Defy Logic
Forget speeding bullet trains or SUV’s, when it comes to Vietnam the majority of the public whizz around on motorbikes. It’s the cheapest mode of transport to run and ideally suited to the often bustling, narrow and busy streets.
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Tim Page's Vietnam War
Tim Page is a photojournalist of the old school. He arrived in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1965, when he was 20 years old. Over the next few years, Tim saw enough Agent Orange and Viet Cong to last anyone a lifetime, but he didn't stop going to dangerous places and taking incredible photos.
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Women who served as Donut Dollies druing Vietnam were some of first women to serve in combat
Before women served in combat there were Donut Dollies in Vietnam. “We were a touch of home in a combat zone,” said Rene Johnson. The Donut Dollies were all college-graduates between the ages of 21 - 24 years old who worked for the Red Cross. They spent a one-year tour in Vietnam boosting the morale of the American troops.
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McDonald's brings Big Mac to Vietnam
Fast-food giant McDonald's - often seen as a symbol of American capitalism - has opened its first restaurant in communist-controlled Vietnam.
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Cave sunbeam
In photographer Ryan Deboodt's words: "I was on a trip with a few other cavers to do some photography work and I heard stories of an epic sunbeam that occasionally occurred at the entrance to Hang En in Vietnam. The morning was foggy and cloudy so most everyone gave up hope and left. I managed to convince one other person to hang back in the hopes that the clouds would clear. They did just in time and it was stunning."
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New Evidence That Agent Orange's Destruction Spread to Peacetime
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research reveals that Air Force reservists were exposed to higher levels of the toxic chemical than previously known (or admitted). Many of the same aircraft that dispersed Agent Orange during the war were later used as transport vehicles during (relative) peacetime, primarily between the years 1971 and 1982.
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Vietnam says bitcoin transactions are illegal
Vietnam's communist government said trading in bitcoin and other electronic currencies is illegal, and warned its citizens not to use or invest in them. A central bank statement late Thursday didn't spell out penalties for those who disobeyed the instruction, but it said that virtual currencies are linked to money laundering and other illegal activities.
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Vietnam sends blogger to prison for critical posts
A dissident blogger was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for posting online criticism of Vietnam's authoritarian government, drawing an immediate rebuke from the United States. The verdict against Truong Duy Nhat was the latest in an intensifying crackdown against advocates of free speech and greater democracy in the Communist-ruled country, where the Internet is enabling more opportunities for organizing and spreading dissent.
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Deer supposedly extinct 85 years ago discovered in Vietnam
This pair of Roosevelt's Muntjac or Roosevelt's barking deer was caught in a camera trap at a nature reserve in the central province of Thanh...
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Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad
For the most part, American bankers whose rash pursuit of profit brought on the 2008 global financial collapse didn’t get indicted. They got bonuses. Odds are that scandal would have played out differently in Vietnam, another nation struggling with misbehaving bankers. The authoritarian Southeast Asian state doesn’t just send unscrupulous financiers to jail. Sometimes, it sends them to death row.
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The Cambodians who stitch your clothing keep fainting in droves
It should have been an extraordinary scene: more than 100 factory hands fainting in unison as if possessed by spirits. But in Cambodian garment factories, which play a major role in supplying American malls, mass fainting is no longer a freak phenomenon. It’s disturbingly common. The enigmatic problem is persistent despite waves of government studies, activist campaigns and vows to investigate factory conditions by global fashion empires such as H&M.
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Vietnam sentences American man to death for heroin
State media say a court in Vietnam has sentenced an American to death for heroin trafficking. The Liberated Saigon newspaper says Jason Dinh, 41, was convicted of trafficking 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of heroin at a one-day trial by Ho Chi Minh City's People's Court on Tuesday.
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A US soldier searches for his Vietnamese son
Thousands of children were fathered by American servicemen during the Vietnam war. Now in their 60s and 70s, some veterans are desperate to find the sons and daughters they have never known.
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Vietnam War Protests Influenced Popular Music
April 30, marks the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. On this date in 1975, Marines evacuated the last Americans from the embassy in Saigon.
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US: China State-Run Oil Rig Near Vietnam 'Provocative'
The United States says it was "provocative" for China to move an oil rig to an area of the South China Sea also claimed by Vietnam.
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Protesters torch factories in Vietnam
Mobs torched and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in Vietnam following a large protest by workers against China's recent placement of an oil rig in disputed Southeast Asian waters, officials said Wednesday.
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Vietnam, China trade accusations after Vietnamese fishing boat sinks
Vietnam and China traded accusations on Tuesday over the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat not far from where China has parked an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea, as
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Vietnam banking tycoon given 30-year jail term
A Vietnamese court on Monday sentenced a disgraced banking tycoon to 30 years in jail over a multi-million dollar scandal that shocked the nation's already fragile financial markets. Nguyen Duc Kien, 50, was found guilty of fraud, tax evasion, illegal trade and "deliberate wrongdoing causing serious consequences," according to the verdict read at the Hanoi People's Court.
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Vietnam's 'online army'
A string of Vietnamese activists have had their Facebook accounts suspended, and claim to have been targeted by an 'online army' sponsored by the government.
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Vietnam's forgotten Cambodian war
On 30 April 1975, the last American helicopters beat an ignominious retreat from Saigon as the tanks of the North Vietnamese Army rumbled into the capital of defeated South Vietnam. Victory over the US military is remembered each year in Vietnam as a triumph over foreign aggression in a war of national liberation.
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