Full Coverage: Vietnam

18.05.2008 Winter Soldier was made in 1971 as a record of testimonies by men and women who has served in the US military during the still ongoing Vietnam war. Is there any point in seeing it today? There most certainly is.

24.04.2008 Asian governments' attempts to manage skyrocketing food prices by restricting rice exports is actually aggravating food shortages in the region, says Peter Timmer in this interview.

09.04.2008 When Andrew Lam was just a boy, his family fled the Vietnam War to settle in the United States. Now a successful journalist, Andrew ventures back to his old house in Vietnam, reflecting on his own history and that of his homeland.

08.04.2008 Shortly after her husband's assassination, Coretta Scott King gave a dramatic speech in his place, elucidating the "10 Commandments on Vietnam" he had written out just before his death. They ring powerfully familiar today.

13.03.2008 A recent U.S. court ruling refuted a civil lawsuit brought by Vietnamese plaintiffs against major American chemical corporations for their manufacture of the herbicide and chemical weapon known as Agent Orange.

12.03.2008 Drowning is the biggest killer of children who die from injuries in Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, according to new surveys.

05.02.2008 This year the vote goes to My World and Viet Tech founder Nguyen Minh Tri from Vietnam. The runner-up in the annual competition to find the best entrepreneur age 30 or under in the Asia-Pacific region is Saloni Malhotra, founder and CEO of DesiCrew Solutions, an outsourcing business that taps IndiaÂ’s workforce in small towns and rural areas.

05.10.2007 Andrew Lam, a Vietnamese refugee who migrated to the United States decades ago, advises an Iraqi refugee about seeking asylum in a country waging war on his homeland and how to share his story with those around him.
From: New America Media

26.09.2007 Scientists claim to have discovered 11 new species of animals and plants in a remote area in central Vietnam.

28.06.2007 Thirty years after fleeing Vietnam, Andrew Lam rediscovers old family letters and tries to recognize the childhood innocence he left behind and decides to write a letter addressing his young self.

14.01.2007 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose life we celebrate this week, was widely condemned during the late 1960s for his public antiwar stance. His speech linking antiwar arguments with civil and human rights priorities is as relevant today as it was then.

15.11.2006 When President Bush meets his Vietnamese counterpart this week, will he "make a strong stand for human rights and true American values, and ultimately help change the fate of those languishing in prison or living in constant fear"? Amnesty International hopes so.

06.07.2006 Vietnamese catfish processor and exporter Agifish plans to turn catfish fat into fuel to run diesel engines, a company official said.

13.06.2006 The European Commission is pressed to reconsider the imposition of anti-dumping duty and ensure that Vietnamese footwear workers do not pay the price of a mounting trade dispute.

31.05.2006 A new cheap laptop trademark produced by an alliance of some local computer hardware companies in Viet Nam has been introduced to public.

31.05.2006 Northern Bac Ninh province has become Viet Nam's first e-government province with the application of electronic monitoring systems at its agencies and organisations.

23.03.2006 A visitor to one war memorial sits thinking about another--a current--war. Attorney, political scientist, and poet David Krieger transports us there.

08.03.2006 Vietnamese workers earn less than $2 a day making stuffed animals and Happy Meal toys for Western consumers, but a series of wildcat strikes has forced the government to raise wages to prevent factories from moving to other countries. Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen report.

03.03.2006 Vietnam's Prime Minister has approved plans to spend $63 million over the next 15 years on agricultural biotechnology.

01.03.2006 Vietnam has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus as a public health problem, the Ministry of Health and the UN announced today.