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Major rivers of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta become unusually deeper
Vietnamese scientists have warned of the unusual increase in the depth of two major rivers in the Mekong Delta, with sand mining and hydropower dams said to be the cause. (Aug. 16, 2016)
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How a Modest Wooden Boat Became an International Icon During the Vietnam War, Then Disappeared
Al Hugon was lying on the carpet of his vacation home in Santa Cruz, California, staring up at a bookshelf. It was late summer, 1997, and news coverage of Princess Diana’s death was the only thing on TV. Hugon, who ran a printing business in the Bay Area, was gently pestering his girlfriend to move onto his 50-foot sailboat with him. When Hugon had purchased the boat seven years earlier at an auction, a piece of plywood covered a hole in its hull. Lumber was piled on the deck. But despite its sorry shape, Hugon says the boat “just felt right. It smelled good and it felt right.”
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Nixon’s Vietnam Treachery
Richard M. Nixon always denied it: to David Frost, to historians and to Lyndon B. Johnson, who had the strongest suspicions and the most cause for outrage at his successor’s rumored treachery. To them all, Nixon insisted that he had not sabotaged Johnson’s 1968 peace initiative to bring the war in Vietnam to an early conclusion. “My God. I would never do anything to encourage” South Vietnam “not to come to the table,” Nixon told Johnson, in a conversation captured on the White House taping system.
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M.I.A.
Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.
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50 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1967
A half-century ago, protests erupted around the world against the Vietnam War, Montreal hosted Expo ‘67, race riots in the U.S. destroyed parts northern cities, Elvis Presley married Priscilla in Las Vegas, and much more.
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Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones Vietnam
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The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned
Instead of disappearing, the pesky rodents proliferated.
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Vietnam's imperiled bloggers
We examine the government's attempts to silence the country's bloggers.
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Vietnamese banker sentenced to death for fraud that exposed corruption
Vietnam denies the anti-corruption fight boils down to political infighting and says it is government policy to ‘deal with wrongdoing and corruption.’
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The First Time I Met Americans
Before becoming a novelist, I spent six years at war. Years later, I came to America and finally met my old enemies. By Bao Ninh.
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Vietnamese musician and activist evicted after Trump protest
A Vietnamese musician and activist is being evicted from her home after protesting against the US president’s visit to Hanoi by holding a sign saying “Piss on you Trump”. Mai Khoi and her Australian husband Benjamin Swanton were told to leave their apartment in the Vietnamese capital in the early hours of Sunday morning after she staged a demonstration along a route travelled by the US president’s motorcade a few hours earlier.
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Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’ Averaged 6.7M Viewers For PBS, Reached 34M In Live+7
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary The Vietnam War averaged 6.7 million viewers across its 10 nights in Live+7 stats, PBS said today. The epic docu enjoyed a reach of just under 34 million.
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Vietnam jails 22-year-old blogger for his reporting on environmental disaster
The Vietnamese blogger will serve seven years in prison, and will then face an additional three years of house arrest under charges of "conducting propaganda against the state"
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Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight ‘Wrongful Views’
Vietnam is deploying a 10,000-member military cyber warfare unit to combat what the government sees as a growing threat of “wrongful views” proliferating on the internet, according to local media.
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Hang Sơn Đoòng: The Largest Cave on Earth
Georgy Tarasov
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What happened next to create iconic image
Photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War - the very instant of an execution during the chaos of the Tet Offensive. It would bring him a lifetime of glory, but as James Jeffrey writes, also of sorrow.
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Vietnamese oil executive kidnapped in Berlin gets second life sentence
Trinh Xuan Thanh was convicted for embezzling assets from units of Vietnam's state-owned oil company. Germany says the high-profile former oil executive was kidnapped by Vietnamese agents from a Berlin park last year.
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How the Tet Offensive Broke America
Before, troops were convinced they could win the war. After, all they wanted was to go home alive. By Donald Kirk.
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The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
On March 17th, 1968, The New York Times ran a brief front page lede headed, “G.I.s’ in Pincer Movement Kill 128 in Daylong Battle...” By Michael Uhl.
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Max Boot Resurrects the Lansdale Legend
[Per Boot] If only we'd listened to an eccentric CIA operative, we might have won the Vietnam War. By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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