News Vietnam People: Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall stop in Wilmington for first time in 10 years
The wall will be open all day and night through Monday. Curtis Farrison, with the Vietnam Veterans of America, says people can honor the fallen, even if they can’t make the trip to the memorial in ...
News Vietnam People: Black Travel Stories: How A Birthday Trip To Vietnam Strengthened My Courage To Travel Solo
But when I told her I was taking a solo holiday to Vietnam for my 32nd birthday, she introduced a new adjective for me — brave. The more I told people of my plans to visit the Southeast Asian country, ...
News Vietnam People: Vietnam fights people smuggling
Vietnam has worked to fight human trafficking and other transnational crimes in recent decades, a top politician has said. Participants join a photo session at the 14th Ad Hoc Group Senior Officials’ ...
News Vietnam People: For Vietnam’s LGBTQ Community, Life With a Drag Queen Troupe Can Mean Acceptance
This kind of discrimination is common for all LGBTQ people in Vietnam, who lack both social acceptance and legal rights. Gay marriage is still illegal in Vietnam and while the state revised its Civil ...
News Vietnam People: Want a sunny patio spot? Vietnamese bar snacks? Here are 5 new happy hours around Seattle and the Eastside
a great people-watching spot during the summer. Selected beer and wines are $5-$6.50. For something different from all the nachos-and-slider specials around Amazonland, this Vietnamese bistro ...
News Vietnam People: 50 years later, a daunting cleanup of the Vietnam War’s toxic legacy continues
From 1962 to 1971, the American military sprayed vast areas of Vietnam with Agent Orange, leaving dioxin contamination that has severely affected the health of three generations of Vietnamese. Now, the U.S. and Vietnamese governments have joined together in a massive cleanup project.
News Vietnam People: Vietnam teacher arrested for Facebook posts 'undermining state'
A Vietnamese music teacher has been arrested for posting material on Facebook "aimed at undermining" the state, his family and official media said Thursday in the communist country where a crackdown against online critics has gathered pace. Activists, rights lawyers and bloggers have long
News Vietnam People: Back to Vietnam
Vietnam's Communist government has made no public comment on ... "Here is an apostle of peace and nonviolence, cruelly separated from his own people while they are oppressed by a vicious war which has ...
News Vietnam People: In blue Seattle, a B-52 bomber used in Vietnam is dedicated
The Museum of Flight’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park was dedicated Saturday, with former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis giving the keynote. “Having left Washington, D.C.," he said, "and returned to...
News Vietnam People: Marty Walsh says vandal should come to Vietnam memorial service
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh is calling on whoever vandalized the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Dorchester to attend the service Monday and “listen to the roll call of names that are going to be listed off that day.” City and state police released surveillance video image of a suspect wanted in connection with vandalism at the […]
News Vietnam People: She used to ignore her mother’s stories about Vietnam. A professor’s class helped change that.
that if I told my story it would resonate with other people regardless of how specific and how little the Vietnamese American community was at USC. I thought it was fairly timely I was chosen to give ...
News Vietnam People: ‘Black April’ in San Jose gets generations of Vietnamese talking to each other
Refugees commemorate April 30 with stories of sacrifice — those of South Vietnamese and American soldiers who fought in the war — and tremendous loss for lives lost and the people left behind in ...
News Vietnam People: Biz Eats: How Troy got its first Vietnamese bistro
I love serving people. I love entertaining ... I always thought Troy really needed a Vietnamese restaurant. It's the first thing a Vietnamese guy does — where is the nearest place I can go to eat pho? ...
News Vietnam People: Vietnam GP circuit to offer "plenty of overtaking options"
The Hanoi circuit that will host the inaugural Vietnam Grand Prix next year will offer "plenty ... The plans for the track are based on a spectator attendance of up to 100,000 people. The section ...
News Vietnam People: A Beer Run From N.Y.C. to Vietnam Ends Up in Hollywood
But once people saw his photos and met his soldier buddies ... Mr. Donohue’s story began in 1967, as he was attending funeral after funeral of friends who had died in the Vietnam War. He was drinking ...