“It makes me happy,” said Mr. Van Thinh, 73, a retired police chief who fought for the Communist north in the Vietnam War. “All these young people, they have better lives.” Six years ...

In his 1999 book Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America’s Most Disastrous Military Conflict, Michael Lind argues that the United States had to fight in Vietnam to prove that ...

Vietnam found the sweet spot in the global economy during President-elect Donald Trump’s first trade war with Beijing: smack in the middle of the U.S. and China. The country became a magnet for ...

From 1962 to 1965, Secord flew 285 combat missions in Vietnam. Graduating from Staff College in 1966 and transferred to Thailand, he was detailed to the CIA’s “Secret War” in Laos.

The election of 1976 was the first presidential election since the end of the Vietnam War. The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the ...

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Vietnam is planning ambitious bureaucratic reforms, slashing ministries, agencies and broadcasters in a bid to reduce red tape and boost growth. The changes risk short-term disruption but may ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- The sale of low-end smartphones has reached the highest level since 2022 in Vietnam, where the phase-out of 2G has forced millions to buy smartphones for the first time.

But the court’s harsh sentencing shows the authorities’ commitment to making Vietnam more transparent and better placed to attract foreign investment, especially if the US-China trade war ...

As the third year of war in Ukraine nears a close as the new year approaches and ahead of the Feb. 24, 2025, anniversary date, new battle lines have once again been established after Russia made ...