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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.
Emily and Sarah Kunstler’s father was William Kunstler, the civil-rights attorney best known for representing the Chicago Seven anti-war activists who had protested the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic convention.
Net Nguyen has built a life for herself in the U.S. after being separated from family in Vietnam, but her struggle to learn English has kept her from fulfilling her dreams.
We maintain our 2.9% growth forecast for 2009 after GDP grew by an estimated 3.1% y-o-y in Q109 following a revised 6.18% expansion in 2008. With the economy likely to continue to suffer, we expect further monetary and fiscal stimulus measures over the remainder of the year, but carry doubts about their effectiveness.
Hanoi - Territorial disputes in the South China Sea are likely to drag on for decades, and mounting demand for resources could intensify them, experts said at a conference on the region that closes Friday. The conference addressed one of the most sen...
The two Koreas will conduct a joint survey of industrial plants in China and Vietnam next month in a bid to revive a shared industrial project in the North, officials said Thursday.
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...
PHOENIX -- Across the Valley Thursday volunteers helped make the holiday a little brighter for community members in need. They also served up meals to those who are serving our country. They're calling it “Operation Turkey Day” at Z’Tejas. The restaurant served more than 300 veterans, active members of the military and their families. "I served during the Vietnam era and the welcome home wasn't ...
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 ...
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