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Exotissimo unveils two new Vietnam Tour programs in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, featuring cross-cultural exchanges and experiential excursions.
The atmosphere in the Boone County Courthouse rotunda was heavy with emotion Tuesday evening, Nov. 10, as Vietnam veterans, families, friends and supporters crowded together to finally welcome home these veterans properly, perhaps for the first time ever.
The dollar slipped against its major rivals in Asian trading Wednesday, while Vietnam's currency took center stage as the country's central bank said it would again devalue the dong.
His photographs capture combat, but also the beauty of a country he hopes we will all take the time to re-examine
CIBT Education Group Inc. is pleased to report that its subsidiary, Sprott-Shaw Degree College Corp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hanoi Tourism College located in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Rocky Bleier, a former National Football League player, a Vietnam veteran, and a motivational speaker, is to give the keynote address at the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 annual meeting Jan. 27 at Gladieux Meadows in Toledo. The meeting will review the chamber’s key accomplishments of 2009 and its plans for 2010. The organization also will hand out its annual Athena Awards at the ...
TINH BIEN, Vietnam When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus. "They told him, 'There's nothing we can do for you. Just go home and wait to die,'" said Do Thi Phuong. So when she, too, got AIDS, she didn't seek help, fearing that she would also be shunned. Instead, like her husband, she went home to die. Then she heard about a ...
(RTTNews) - Vietnam's central bank raised its key interest rate on Wednesday. The State Bank of Vietnam hiked the benchmark interest rate to 8% from 7%. Also, the central bank narrowed the trading band of dong against the dollar to 3% from 5%, with effect from November 26.
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Farmington V.F.W. Post 5896 recently unveiled a portrait of one of its past members, Paul Ketcherside, Jr., a decorated Vietnam Veteran who died 39 years ago. The portrait was presented to his sister Barbara Ketcherside , shown in center, by Mike White, President of Camp Hope, shown on right, and Tony Carroll, Post Commander, shown on left. The portrait was drawn and donated by world renowned ...
Mike White, president of Camp Hope (right) and Tony Carroll, commander of VFW Post 5896, (left) present a portrait of past member Paul Ketcherside Jr. to his sister Barbara Ketcherside. Paul Ketcherside, a decorated Vietnam Veteran, died 39 years ago. The portrait was drawn and donated by world renowned artist Michael G. Reagan. A portrait artist for more than 30 years, Reagan has drawn ...
There are some emerging markets that are still struggling and Vietnam is one of them, perhaps showing the rest of the world what might happen to it without bail-out packages and stimulus measures. The central bank of Vietnam has devalued the Dong by just over 5% and raised interest rates to 8%.
No one could blame Jim Oien for tearing up Tuesday as U.S. Rep.Steve King awarded to him the four medals he earned during his1967-68 tour in Vietnam.
Still a soldier at 71, Dr. Hector Henry III remembers returning from the Vietnam War to spitting, cursing war protestors and later returning from the Gulf War to a standing ovation at the Philadelphia airport, a welcome so drastically different from the first that the mention of it brings him to tears.
HANOI -(Dow Jones)- Foreign investors were net buyers of VND111.4 billion ($ 6.2 million) of Vietnamese stocks out of a total VND2.2 trillion traded Tuesday, the Hochiminh Stock Exchange said.
From the Civil War to the Vietnam War, it has been called nostalgia, shell shock, soldier’s heart and battle fatigue, but today the diagnosis sounds far more clinical: post-traumatic stress disorder.
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