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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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At My Lai: The Photographer Who Captured the Massacre
During the Vietnam War, Ron Haeberle documented the murder of civilians by U.S. troops. Fifty years later, he talks with FOTO about how his pictures changed the course of the conflict.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through The Jungle
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Exit scammers run off with $660 million in ICO earnings
A Vietnamese cryptocurrency company Modern Tech launched an ICO for its Pincoin token, raising $660 million from approximately 32,000 people.
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Found: A Rare Tiny Deer in Vietnam
It's called a muntjac, and the last time it appeared was nearly two decades ago.
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Vietnam's government just jailed an activist for 20 years based on his Facebook posts
A court in Vietnam Thursday sentenced an environmental campaigner to 20 years in jail for content posted to Facebook — marking a significant escalation in the government’s use of social media to crack down on free speech. Le Dinh Luong, 53, was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the Communist government after a trial that lasted just five hours. The prosecutor claimed Luong was encouraging people to join the pro-democracy group Viet Tan, which the government labels a terrorist organization.
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Vietnam jails two Americans for 14 years for trying to 'overthrow state'
A court in Vietnam has sentenced two Americans to 14 years in jail for to “attempting to overthrow the state”, state media reported. James Nguyen and Angle Phan were accused of plotting to hijack radio stations to broadcast anti-state messaging and of arranging anti-state protests, as members of the California-based Provisional National Government of Vietnam. The pair had apparently been brought over from the US to “develop their force and direct other members in the country to conduct anti-state activities.”
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Vietnam asks residents not to eat dog meat
Officials in Vietnam's capital Hanoi are urging residents to stop eating dog meat as it could hurt the city's reputation and lead to diseases like rabies. The Hanoi People's Committee said the practice could tarnish the city's image as a "civilised and modern capital". The city office added that consuming the meat could lead to the spread of diseases like rabies and leptospirosis.
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Nearly a tonne of pangolin scales, ivory seized in Vietnam, which has banned the trading of both
Vietnam has seized around a tonne of pangolin scales and ivory hidden inside airline cargo packages, state media reported, as the country struggles to rein in wildlife smuggling across its borders. Both the ivory and pangolin trade have been banned in Vietnam but weak law enforcement in the communist state has allowed a black market to flourish and feed into a global multibillion-dollar industry in animal parts and exotic pets.
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NSFW: Vietnam's dog meat culture clashes with modern tastes [GRAPHIC]
Vietnamese officials in Hanoi have asked residents to stop eating dog meat, citing health and public image concerns. Vendors and enthusiasts now fear a nationwide ban on what they consider to be a traditional delicacy.
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Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
The White House again wants to expel certain groups of protected immigrants, a reversal after backing away from the policy months ago.
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Facebook accused of silencing critical Vietnamese bloggers
Facebook is being used to silence bloggers critical of Vietnam's government, according to Reporters Without Borders. The campaigners said there were 26 imprisoned media workers in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Vietnam Doesn’t Trust Huawei An Inch
China's closest ideological neighbor wants its own 5G network.
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Apple could make AirPods outside China for first time
Apple is gearing up to carry out a trial production of AirPods in Vietnam. This is as part of Apple’s aim to expand manufacturing outside of China. Earlier this summer, Apple asked its suppliers to explore manufacturing in other markets. This was at a time when concerns about possible China tariffs were at their height.
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Vietnam quarantines area with 10,000 residents over coronavirus
More than 10,000 people in villages near Vietnam's capital were placed under quarantine Thursday after six cases of the deadly new coronavirus were discovered there, authorities said. In the first mass quarantine outside of China since the virus emerged there in late December, the Son Loi farming region about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Hanoi will be locked down for 20 days, the health ministry said.
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Vietnam introduces 'fake news' fines for coronavirus misinformation
A new decree took effect in Vietnam on Wednesday introducing fines for the dissemination of ‘fake news’ or rumours on social media, amid the rapid spread of comment online about the novel coronavirus in the Southeast Asian country.
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How this country of 97 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero
Vietnam, a country of 97 million people, has not reported a single coronavirus-related death and on Saturday had just 328 confirmed cases, despite its long border with China and the millions of Chinese visitors it receives each year.
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Rare, Nearly Extinct Parasite May Have Resurfaced in Vietnam, Doctors Say
Doctors in Vietnam this week say that they’ve made a mysterious and—if accurate—alarming discovery: A local resident has been infested with the nearly extinct Guinea worm. But Guinea worm experts are still trying to confirm whether this case is the genuine article, and if so, how the worm managed to reach a country thousands of miles away from its only known remaining refuge in parts of Africa.
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Bats: The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China
The virus may have been born in South-East Asia. An intriguing observation: the low incidence of covid-19 in South-East Asia, particularly in Vietnam despite no lockdowns.
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The Silent Crisis: Vietnam’s Elephants on the Verge of Extinction
As the slaughter of the remaining elephants in Africa continues without interruption, elephants in Vietnam—without media attention and a pack of NGOs calling for their protection—are quietly disappearing. Victim of an intensely and increasingly fragmented habitat, weak environmental laws, human-elephant conflicts, logging, and poaching, elephants in Vietnam are teetering on extinction.
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