Chemical firms on trial in France over Agent Orange use in Vietnam War
A French court on Monday started hearing a case against more than a dozen multinationals accused by a French-Vietnamese woman of causing grievous harm to her and others by selling the Agent Orange defoliant to the US government, which used…
Vietnam, US finish first part of dioxin cleanup at Bien Hoa airbase
American and Vietnamese personnel have removed dioxin from an area of 5,300 square meters at Bien Hoa airport, the most contaminated spot in Vietnam.
Journalist and Vietnam author Neil Sheehan dies aged 84
Sheehan was the first to obtain the Pentagon Papers, a massive history of US involvement in Vietnam
Vietnam War bomb salvaged near historic Hanoi bridge
A 1.6 meter-long bomb was salvaged Monday from the Red River near Hanoi’s historic Long Bien Bridge.
Glorifying sex and CIA in Vietnam War-era Bangkok
New museum in city’s infamous Patpong red light zone reveals the CIA agents who used to hold court in its go-go bars
The Forgotten history of South Korean massacres in Vietnam
In April, Nguyen Thi Thanh became the first Vietnamese to sue South Korea over atrocities that have been largely forgotten.
Where are the female voices ? Vietnam author asks of war stories
Women bore much of the burden of the Vietnam War but their voices have long been absent from the trove of literature on the topic, says acclaimed author Nguyen Phan Que Mai.
Talking to my mum about escaping Vietnam
« Do you know what day is coming up? » Mum asks me in one of our regular phone conversations.
Vietnam goes online to celebrate 45 years since end of war
Vietnam has largely lifted a nationwide lockdown to contain the new coronavirus, but events will be drastically curtailed when the country celebrates Reunification Day on Thursday.
Move over, Coronavirus : we fought a pandemic during the Vietnam War
Did we learn the right lessons ?
How the 1979 China-Vietnam war forever reshaped Asia
Here’s what you need to remember: Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping used the PLA’s demonstrated shortcomings to consolidate political power and begin a modernization effort, downsizing it by over a million personnel to improve its quality. Thus, the Chinese war intended to “teach…
Shocking defeat : how China lost to Vietnam in 1979
Beijing may have lost the war, but it won in the long-run. Here’s how the conflict helped birth painful but necessary military reforms in the PLA.