America's veterans reflect on lost comrades, time on the front lines Adam Phillips | New York 28 May 2010 Monday, May 31 is Memorial Day in the United States, a time when Americans traditionally take time to honor those who have died in the nation's

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 08 December 2007 International donors have pledged $4.4 billion in development assistance to Vietnam for 2008, $1 billion more than the country received this year. Vietnam's economy is growing fast, but donors say the money i

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 30 August 2007 In March, when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adopted a Vietnamese child, they created one of the biggest media circuses the country had ever seen. But while they were surely the most famous foreigners to adopt i

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 09 July 2007 The West African country of Senegal shares a common French colonial past with Vietnam. Some Senegalese soldiers serving with the French army in Vietnam in the 1930's had children with Vietnamese women. Many of these

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By Scott Stearns White House 22 June 2007 U.S. President George Bush and Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet met at the White House Friday to discuss human rights and commercial ties. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has more about the

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By Matt Steinglass Hue, Vietnam 03 April 2007 Over the past several years, Vietnam's communist government has relaxed restrictions on private business, religious activities and the media. But as the recent conviction of Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly

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By Matt Steinglass Ho Chi Minh City 23 March 2007 Zen Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh sits at the opening of a three-day requiem for those killed on both sides of the Vietnam War, 16 Mar 2007 Eighty-year-old monk Thich Nhat Hanh has been back in his

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 12 February 2007 In January, police in Hanoi ordered a Vietnamese artist to remove his installation - a giant diaper, with a lining composed of hundreds of police shirt pockets - from a German-sponsored exhibition. Although r

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 25 April 2006 The Tenth Party Congress of Vietnam's Communist Party has reelected General Secretary Nong Duc Manh for a second five-year term. The Congress selected a new Poli

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Memorial Day [May 31] is a U.S. national holiday that pays tribute to Americans killed in military service. Each year during the three-day holiday weekend around Memorial Day, the veterans group known as Rolling Thunder rumbles into Washington, D.C.

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The largest cultural exchange ever between the United States and Vietnam wrapped up last month in California. Classically trained musicians from Vietnam and the United States performed together in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in March, and again in Los

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 16 July 2006 Vietnam A high school mathematics teacher in Vietnam has provoked a furor with videotapes of flagrant, school-sponsored cheating on high school graduation exams. The government has congratulated the teacher, but

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 04 April 2006 Dao Dinh Binh (File photo - Dec. 4, 2003) Vietnam's transportation minister has resigned to take responsibility for a huge gambling scandal, and a vice minister

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By Jim Malone Washington 12 January 2007 U.S. President George Bush faces a difficult challenge, as he tries to win support for a new strategy in Iraq, even as opinion polls indicate much of the public no longer believes the war is winnable. But as

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 13 July 2006 A Hanoi museum exhibit recalling the hardships of life under the communist command economy is proving a hit. Through this rare expose of life before Vietnam embraced the free market 20 years ago, Vietnamese are

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 06 April 2006 The World Bank and Britain will send a team of investigators to Vietnam next month to look into possible fraud in aid projects worth tens of millions of dollars.

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12 December 2007 Vietnam has released three of the four Vietnamese-born United States citizens it arrested in November and accused of involvement in terrorism. The release comes a day after the U.S. ambassador criticized the detentions. Matt Steingla

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By Matt Steinglass Hanoi 14 December 2006 Seymour Papert (File) A renowned professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States has been in a coma in a Hanoi hospital since December 5, after being struck by a motorbike. Seymou

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The United States and Vietnam have discussed possible U.S. sales of weapons and spare parts to Vietnam, as well as American military help with disaster relief and a range of other issues. The two nations' first strategic dialogue on political, defen

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By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 30 September 2009 Vietnamese police officers provide goods, foods to flooded area in Quang Tri Province, 30 Sep 2009 The death toll from Typhoon Ketsana has passed 300 as the storm swept across Southeast Asia, destroying th

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