The Party Central Committee, the National Assembly, the State President, the government and the Fatherland Front on April 29 held a grand ceremony to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the liberation of the south and national reunification (April 30). ...

Vietnam Info - myvietnam - 05/01/2010 - 18:58 - 1 comment

In the 1950's the United States began to send troops to Vietnam. During the following 25-years the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Almost 3 million US men and women were sent thousands of miles to fight for what ...

Vietnam Info - myvietnam - 04/30/2010 - 17:22 - 1 comment

A special show with fireworks, lights, fashion shows, and music performed by Vietnamese and Singaporean artists on April 30 at Hanoi’s Thang Loi Hotel. The “Firework Festival” show will start at 8pm and will be aired live on Hanoi Television ...

Vietnam Info - myvietnam - 04/30/2010 - 04:15 - 0 comments

Danang, also spelled Da Nang, is a port city along the coast of the South China Sea. One of the biggest port cities on the South Central Coast of Vietnam and the third largest city in Vietnam, today Danang is home to just over 750,000 people. For ...

Vietnam Info - myvietnam - 04/16/2010 - 14:48 - 2 comments

Top U.S. officials have reached out to a leading Vietnam war scholar who opposes American involvement in Afghanistan in an apparent effort to apply the lessons of the earlier conflict to the fight against the Taliban. NATO's top commander in ...

Business News - myvietnam - 08/07/2009 - 11:50 - 0 comments

HANOI, Vietnam - More than one-third of the land in six central Vietnamese provinces remains contaminated with land mines and unexploded bombs from the Vietnam War, according to a study released Friday. Nearly 35 years after the war's end, Vietnamese ...

Business News - myvietnam - 08/03/2009 - 04:55 - 0 comments

During the war I was a news analyst at Hanoi's American Affairs Department. From the beginning, we could tell that Robert McNamara was the mastermind. Each day, when we held a conference to discuss new developments, we always talked about McNamara first. ...

Business News - myvietnam - 07/31/2009 - 20:06 - 0 comments

An expert panel reported on Friday that two more diseases may be linked to exposure to Agent Orange, a defoliant used by the American military during the Vietnam War. People exposed to the chemical appear, at least tentatively, to be more likely to ...

Business News - myvietnam - 07/31/2009 - 20:02 - 0 comments

Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army. From ...

Business News - myvietnam - 07/05/2008 - 14:08 - 0 comments