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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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R.E.M - Orange Crush
From the album 'Green' (1988)
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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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Terror in Little Saigon
An old war comes to a new country. By A.C. Thompson.
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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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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’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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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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$4.65 million in counterfeit bills seized from Vietnamese couple at Detroit airport
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport says it has seized $4,650,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency from a Vietnamese couple. The CBP says the couple attempted to import the counterfeit U.S. $100 bills and counterfeit bills in the national currency of Vietnam into the United States. The CBP says the bills were going to be offered as burnt-offerings to the deceased...
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An Inmate Found a Novel Way to Avoid Execution. She Paid to Get Pregnant
Four prison guards in northern Vietnam have been suspended for alleged negligence after a female inmate on death row for drug trafficking became pregnant, which means her death sentence will be commuted to life in prison once her child is born, the AP reports. The Thanh Nien newspaper says Nguyen Thi Hue, 42, was arrested in 2012 for drug trafficking and sentenced to death in 2014. A court rejected her appeal the same year.
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The Dog Thief Killings
No one knows what time Nguyen Dinh Phong left his low concrete home in Nghe An Province, in the heart of Revolutionary Vietnam. The skinny 27-year-old heroin addict had already stolen everything he could from the people he left sleeping at home—his wife, his kids, his aged parents.
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Vietnam's Red River Delta
Dusk falls upon Vietnam's Red River Delta in this beautiful photo.
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Vietnam puts prominent blogger on trial for anti-state posts
A prominent Vietnamese blogger who is a former police officer and the son of a late government minister went on trial Wednesday for alleged anti-state postings. Nguyen Huu Vinh and his assistant, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, are accused of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the state. Vinhh, 59, and Thuy, 35, went on trial Wednesday in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital. They have been in jail since they were arrested in May 2014.
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Millions of dead fish on Vietnam's shores raise industrial pollution fears
The dead started washing up in April: miles and miles of fish, countless clams, the occasional whale. Government researchers eventually concluded that "toxic elements" were responsible for the die-off, which Vietnamese officials described as "unprecedented."
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Facebook blocked in Vietnam over the weekend due to citizen protests
Facebook appears to have been blocked in Vietnam as a part of a government-imposed crackdown on social media, amid public protests over an environmental disaster attributed to toxic discharges from a steel complex built by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics. Dissidents are blaming wastewater from the steel plant for a mass fish death at aquatic farms and in waters off the country’s central provinces. Citizens have been using Facebook to organize rallies, which is likely the cause of the shutdown.
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Vietnamese police offer cash for reporting crimes
A police department in Vietnam is offering cash for tip-offs that lead to crimes being solved or criminals apprehended. Officials in District 12 of Ho Chi Minh City - the country's largest city - say they want to make local residents more engaged in "fighting crime and securing the community", the Tuoi Tre News website reports.
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Obama to make historic visit to Vietnam
US President Barack Obama left Washington on Sunday for his first visit to Vietnam, a trip aimed at sealing the transformation of an old enemy into a new partner to help counter China's growing assertiveness. Four decades after the Vietnam War, Obama was expected use the visit to deepen defence and economic ties with the country's communist government. "What we want to demonstrate with this visit is a significant upgrade in the relationship between the United States and Vietnam...
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The History of Pho
Pho is more than soup. By Andrea Nguyen. (May 24, ’16)
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Hell Sucks
There is a map of Vietnam on the wall of my apartment in Saigon, and some nights, coming back late to the city, I'll lie out on my bed and look at it, too tired to do anything more than just get my boots off. The map is a marvel, especially absorbing because it is not real. For one thing, it is very old. It was left here years ago by a previous tenant, probably a Frenchman since the map was made in Paris.
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Life Along the Canal
Meet the people adjusting to life among the [Mekong River Delta's] rising tides. By Joep Janssen.
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