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IBM says it’s been hired to build an e-government cloud for Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, the one-time capital of South Vietnam. As a first step it’s supposed to consolidate all of the city government’s e-mail systems and web sites. The work will apparently be done in collaboration with something called Quang Trung Software City (QTSC), which let IBM the contract. QTSC will evidently run the new ...
Retired Air Force Col. Jack Pitchford, a fighter pilot from Mississippi who survived seven years in the notorious Vietnamese prison camp known as the "Hanoi Hilton," has died. He was 82.
Video New V.A. facility to be centrally located at ILM Body Veterans Affairs officials are moving forward with plans for a new VA outpatient clinic in Wilmington. The one hundred thousand square-foot facility will be located in the Wilmington International Airport's business park, which will save veterans an otherwise lengthy drive to get specialized medical treatment. "I was wounded in Vietnam ...
San Dimas, Calif.--Chi Huynh, founder and chief executive officer of Galatea: Jewelry by Artist, is donating the first white South Sea and red coral Galatea Mercy Pearl from his company's new pearl-farming venture in Vietnam for an auction to benefit Friends Without A Border, a charitable organization that supports the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia.
During the Vietnam War, it became clear that America could not afford to simultaneously wage war on poverty and wage war in Vietnam. We could...
In his speech at West Point Tuesday, President Obama rejected the notion that his plan for further involvement in Afghanistan has any parallel to the Vietnam conflict.
MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The governments of Russia and Vietnam are negotiating contracts for the import of Russian submarines and fighters into Vietnam, a Russian newspaper said.
Vietnam vet, former Holstein city official, has foster-parented 27 children.
Serica has agreed to sell a package of assets in Indonesia and Vietnam to KrisEnergy Limited, a recently formed private E&P company based in Singapore.
At a ceremony to retire more than 3,000 U.S. fl ags are, from left, Abby Nowakowski, Aaron Okuley, Samantha Nowakowski, and Larry Barnett of the Lou Diamond Detachment 272 of the Marine Corps League. The flags were collected yesterday as part of Operation Respect. Sgt. Jasmin Tropf cuts the field of stars from the stripes of a small fl ag that was carried by a soldier killed in Vietnam. The ...
Homeless Vietnam veteran Keith Fuller just wants to be left the hell alone.
Mary Behrens has traveled 8,190 miles from her home in Casper for this moment. In a classroom in Vietnam, she is showing an advanced degree nursing student exactly how to tap on a patient’s back to discover pneumonia.
Even though it’s been nearly 35 years since the war in Vietnam ended, there has never been a memorial in Waconia to remember the sacrifices made by local soldiers who served there…until now.
AKRON (MCT) - To people like Rick McPherson, the wording on a memorial bench in a park devoted to Vietnam veterans is hardly a trivial matter. McPherson, a retired Akron policeman, lugs around indelible memories from the time he spent in Vietnam wearing a uniform handed to him by the U.S. Army.
Relying on an independent study by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki decided to establish a service connection for Vietnam veterans with three specific illnesses, based on the latest evidence of an association with the herbicides referred to as Agent Orange.
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Foreign investors were net sellers of VND20.2 billion ($ 1.1 million) of Vietnamese stocks out of a total VND1.47 trillion traded Friday, the Hochiminh Stock Exchange said.
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