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NEW AT SIX. TODAY IS VIETNAM VETERANS RECOGNITION DAY HERE IN IOWA. THE GOVERNOR SIGNED THE PROCLAMATION BY THE IOWA VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL OUTSIDE THE STATE HOUSE. IOWANS WHO FOUGHT IN THE VIETNAM ...
HO CHI MINH CITY, April 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, in what the country's communist leader said was a ...
HANOI, Vietnam -- HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has approved a $1.5 billion proposal by the Trump Organization and its Vietnamese partner to build golf courses, hotels and real estate projects ...
Tinh Trinh was 21 years old on a barge in the South China Sea, floating away from the Vietnamese coast with his wife and family. The North Vietnamese army had just begun its full-scale assault on ...
When Joseph Dang and his parents fled Vietnam in 1986, they escaped by boat. Dang, then 10 years old, recalls the terror he felt as one of 98 people crammed into the ...
She was one of 2 million “boat people” who fled Vietnam by sea after the fall of Saigon to Communist forces on April 30, 1975, remembered as Tháng Tư Đen — Black April. As the exodus ...
The Vietnamese government has intensified its crackdown on dissent to punish people simply for raising concerns or complaints about government policies or local officials. The Vietnamese ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Half a century after the end of the Vietnam War, many of the survivors ...
Fifty years ago today, as the communist North Vietnamese army took control of Saigon, 16-year-old Chinh Nguyen and his family fled on boats from their homeland. The teenager and seven of his ...
Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Although a child of war refugees, Victoria Ngo got to learn more about her Vietnamese identity only during her college years in the United States in the 1990s.
I set out to write this piece marking 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War with hope ‒ hope for healing and progress. But as I reflected, I saw that we are still a long way from true ...