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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 ...
Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet will make a rare visit to the Vatican next week to reinforce ties between the communist state and the Holy See, the government said Thursday.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.
Bow Town Manager Jim Pitts, a retired Army major, is featured in a new book about the Vietnam War. Author Bill Haponski, a retired colonel who commanded Pitts's platoon, set out to document the experience of his men in One Hell of a Ride: Inside an Armored Cavalry Task Force in Vietnam.
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As the war in Afghanistan enters its ninth year, many people are starting to compare this conflict with the war in Vietnam.
NATCHEZ — Natchez waited seven years for Col. John Joseph “Jack” Pitchford to come home from war; Pitchford spent the next 37 years being a friend and a neighbor to his hometown.
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- The Vietnam Securities Depository Agency said Tuesday that it issued licenses to 13 new foreign institutional investors in November to trade local stocks, raising the total number to 1,129.
As President Obama announced he's sending more troops to Afghanistan, he also took on critics who made comparisons between the current situation and the war in Vietnam.
President Barack Obama is vowing that the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan will not turn into another Vietnam.
HANOI, Vietnam----Cavico Corp. , a leading infrastructure development company based in Vietnam, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cavico Vietnam, was ranked 167 of the Top 500 Vietnamese Largest Private Enterprises, also known as VNR500.
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Foreign investors were net buyers of VND148.9 billion ($8 million) of Vietnamese stocks out of a total VND2.1 trillion traded Wednesday, the Hochiminh Stock Exchange said.
HANOI, Vietnam - When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco. Many become hooked, and the World Health Organization warned Thursday it is a tradition putting the health of both mothers and babies at risk.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- “Las Vegas in Hanoi.” That sign greeted 800 people at a Vietnam investment forum this week, and it was a head-turner.
Hanoi - A 23-year-old man has died of avian influenza, bringing Vietnam's bird-flu death toll to five this year, health officials said Tuesday, also confirming two more deaths from swine flu. The Ministry of Health reported the man, from the north-we...
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (BP)--Shortly before the fall of Saigon in 1975, Le Quoc Chanh, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), came with his wife and young son to the home of missionary Sam James.
