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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.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Sumitomo Corp., Japan’s third- largest trading house, will build a 200 billion yen ($2.2 billion) low-emission coal power plant in Vietnam as part of its plans to expand overseas.
As 300 children with facial deformities underwent life-changing surgery this month in Hanoi, Vietnam, Samantha Coxe, a 17-year-old volunteer, knew her service at the hospital would be life-changing for her, too. The San Clemente High School senior is...
Today is the feast of the Martyrs of Vietnam, including St. Andrew Dung-Lac, St. Jean-Theophane Venard, and 115 others. Click here for some details of their lives, their torture, their writings, their deaths.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam’s dong fell to a record low after the central bank devalued the currency to curb quickening inflation and a widening trade deficit. Stocks dropped and headed for the worst week since October 2008.
Bill Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that was Vietnam, used his experience to speak last Friday night to President Barack Obama about what could be an equally disastrous decision to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that is Afghanistan.
A former state official arrested last year for falsifying his military experience in Vietnam is expected to plead guilty in court on Monday, according to a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer. William Devereaux, 64, of Laurel Springs, was accused of...
The dollar fell versus major rivals Wednesday, allowing the euro to again fetch more than $1.50 as overall economic sentiment rebounded and the U.S. Federal Reserve showed no qualms about the U.S. unit's decline.
Forty-three years after Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point that the war in Vietnam was essential to the stability of Asia, President Obama will use the same venue to pitch his plan to salvage the war in Afghanistan. The president will unveil his new strategy for the Afghanistan war in an 8 p.m. address to Americans on Tuesday. The ...
Lou LaCroix didnt know 95 percent of the people gathering around tables and eating a traditional Thanksgiving meal Thursday, but he considers them all family. LaCroix, the commander of American Legion Post No. 6 in Stevens Point and a Vietnam veteran, said he got a call from a World War II veteran Wednesday night who shared with LaCroix he would be alone on Thanksgiving. LaCroix told the veteran ...
COURBEVOIE, France, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- French supermajor Total announced a new discovery of light crude oil off the coast of Vung Tau in the south of Vietnam in the Mekong delta region.
The Veterans Day Ceremony honored all veterans according to Post Commander Lonnie Vaughn. Around four WW II vets attended the event along with six Korean vets, around six from the Vietnam Conflict and two from Iraq or Afghanistan.
An independent study by the Institute of Medicine in October resulted in broadened health coverage by the Veterans Affairs Department for Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange.
HANOI, Vietnam, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Officials in Vietnam said the country's government is not actively blocking the social networking Web site Facebook despite scores of connectivity complaints.
The final chapter of a long story was written on Veterans Day when Air Force Capt. Melvin Ladewig was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Vietnam Service Medal more than 40 years after his death.
BANGKOK -(Dow Jones)- Vietnam's decision to devalue its currency will have little impact on the Thai economy, Thai Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said Thursday.
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