“Vietnam: The Real War” (Abrams; Oct. 1, 2013; 304 pages; 300 photographs; US $40.00/CAN $45.00/UK £25.00) UPDATED: Read The New York Times preview. To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press ...

The country is moving closer to a genuine reckoning with painful and politically sensitive realities about the war that pitted Vietnamese against each other. April 30 marked the 50th anniversary of ...

On April 29, 1975, in the last chaotic hours of the war, U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Blue Ridge push a helicopter into the sea to make room on deck for more evacuation flights from Saigon.

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On this day in history, in 1973, the United States, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Accords, which formally brought an end to the Vietnam War. The Paris Peace ...

Every year, as Vietnam marks April 30 – a date it calls the “Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification” – the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) renews its familiar campaign of ...

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We’re no longer a country of war — we’ve moved on,” says my guide, Mr Tien, and I believe him. Hanoi is a city on the move; all around us, hundreds of commuters are hunched over their scooter ...

VietNamNet Bridge - The first banknote in the history of Vietnam's currency is the one called "Thong bao hoi sao" which was issued in 1396 by Ho Qui Ly. More than six centuries later, banknotes ...

HANOI: Heavy rain in Vietnam triggered flooding that killed at least two people and caused more than a dozen landslides, ...

NHA TRANG, Vietnam — Driving into this port city in what used to be South Vietnam, it is impossible not to notice the traffic. Where bicycles were once the most common sight, there are now a buzzing ...