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The Straits Times
February 1, 2018
Phuc was invited to meet former US president Barack Obama in 2016 during a visit to Vietnam, but was taken away by security officers before the meeting, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). He was later released, but has been in detention since June last year. Thuan and Dien had previously spentÃÂ ...
VietNamNet Bridge
February 1, 2018
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man received deputy chief of the High Command of the Cambodian Royal Army Guards Dieng Sarun in Hanoi on January 31. Man expressed his belief that under the leadership of the Cambodian parliament and governmentÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
February 1, 2018
The North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong assaults in cities across what was then South Vietnam would become a military defeat for the communists. But the political blast radius of the battle extended to Washington; it helped bring down the administration of President Lyndon Johnson, which hadÃÂ ...
Task & Purpose
January 31, 2018
Almost exactly 50 years after he fearlessly led Marines through the bloody street fighting in Hue, Marine veteran John Canley is close to receiving the nation's highest military award for valor. President Donald Trump signed a law on Monday night that allows him to award Canley the Medal of Honor. The lawÃÂ ...
TIME
January 30, 2018
Red tracer bullets zipped through the sky and firefights were erupting near the centers of power in South Vietnam's capital, the presidential palace and the American embassy. As the sounds of exploding grenades and rockets vibrated through the darkness, I bundled my wife Nina and my young children,ÃÂ ...
VietNamNet Bridge
January 29, 2018
Present at the event in capacity as Special Envoy of President Tran Dai Quang, Vietnamese Ambassador to Mexico and Honduras Nguyen Hoai Duong handed over President Quang's congratulatory letter to the new Honduras President. Earlier, Ambassador Duong paid a courtesy visit to HondurasÃÂ ...
VietNamNet Bridge
January 14, 2018
Regards political ties, the two sides have maintained high-level meetings, with the highlights being visits to Vietnam in 2017 by Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and Japanese President Shinzo Abe. The year also marked a new development step in the relations as the two countries issuedÃÂ ...
VietNamNet Bridge
January 8, 2018
On the occasion of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and President Xi Jinping's visit to Vietnam in 2017, the two sides launched a centre of Chinese culture in Hanoi. Vietnam and China also coordinated to organise successfully photo exhibitions titled “Vietnam in the eyes ofÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
January 8, 2018
With a president who is committed to helping the wealthiest, who rises before dawn to type simple-minded rants and pick fights on Twitter, it might be ... in Johnson's inner circle belatedly admitted America would be no more free and no less safe if its politicians had never sent a single soldier to Vietnam.
NPR
January 7, 2018
SIMON: You obviously, as we mentioned, worked for Lyndon Johnson, which didn't deter you when you were a White House Fellow from writing an article called "How To Dump Lyndon Johnson" over his conduct of the war in Vietnam. And then later, you helped him with his memoirs. A lot of questions wereÃÂ ...
Times of India
January 7, 2018
NEW DELHI: India will host Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang to mark 45 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, both victims of Chinese territorial aggression, official sources said on Saturday. What's remarkable is that the Vietnam President will arrive soon after a visit by the country's PMÃÂ ...
Nhan Dan Online
January 5, 2018
NDO – Karashima Hiroshi, President of the Japan Business Association in Vietnam (JBAV), has affirmed that Japanese firms feel confident to invest in Vietnam, in a recent interview granted to the Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) concerning the efforts made by the Vietnamese Government to improve theÃÂ ...
SOS Children's Villages International
January 5, 2018
“The 1980s were a difficult period of rebuilding in Vietnam, and we are proud that SOS Children's Villages played such a prominent role in caring for children who had lost parental care and in strengthening families who had suffered during the war and its aftermath,” said Dac Huu Dam, President of SOSÃÂ ...
Arizona State University
December 18, 2017
Arizona State University and Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM) are forging a long-term agreement to pursue an array of collaborative ventures aimed at mutual goals in academics, research, global educational leadership and economic development. On Monday, ASU PresidentÃÂ ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
The U.S. recently transferred a Hamilton-class cutter to Vietnam's Coast Guard. That ship, the largest ship in the country's coast guard or navy, was the first U.S. transfer of lethal military equipment to Vietnam. In 2016, then-President Barack Obama lifted a decades-old embargo on U.S. weapons sales toÃÂ ...
VietNamNet Bridge
December 31, 1999
Mentioning the fight against corruption and wastefulness, President Quang said many serious cases were brought into light and strictly handled in 2017 thanks to the drastic direction of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, the Politburo, the Steering Committee on corruption preventionÃÂ ...
VICE News
November 28, 2017
President elect Uhuru Kenyatta, waves to his supporters as he ... A Vietnamese blogger who broadcast live footage of protests arising from one ...
VietNamNet Bridge
November 28, 2017
President Tran Dai Quang hosted a reception for visiting Slovak Prime ... On the occasion, he invited President Andrej Kiska to visit Vietnam.
New York Times
November 28, 2017
29, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that Robert .... be the president who lost Vietnam; McNamara worked to help fulfill that pledge.
thenews.pl
November 28, 2017
Vietnam is open to Polish goods and investment, Poland's President Andrzej Duda told reporters in Hanoi on Tuesday. Polish President ...
Newshub
November 13, 2017
However a Twitter user was quick to point out that another world leader had been cropped from the image - Vietnam President Trần Đại Quang.
BuzzFeed News
November 12, 2017
Putting Turnbull's tweet into Twitter myself, it's clear that the PM had PLENTY of space to mention the Vietnamese president — or at the very ...
The White House (blog)
November 10, 2017
Today, I lead our Nation in somber reflection as we continue the 13-year Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War that ...
ABC News
November 10, 2017
At the close of his speech to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC), President Donald Trump took a philosophical turn, ...
CNN
November 9, 2017
Da Nang, Vietnam (CNN) When President Donald Trump arrived in Vietnam on Friday, he disembarked in a country still scarred by the ...
TIME
November 8, 2017
(MOSCOW) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have a full agenda for their likely encounter on the sidelines ...
The Hill
November 7, 2017
A group of hackers alleged to be backed by Vietnam's government compromised more than 100 websites to use in attacks, according to a ...
Escambray
November 7, 2017
The First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC), Raul Castro Ruz, received Vietnamese leader, Vo Van Thoung, with whom he ...
Poynter (blog)
November 7, 2017
2, 1963, coup that resulted in the murders of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam and long an American-supported despot, and Ngo ...
ABS-CBN News
November 7, 2017
DA NANG, VIETNAM - A planned bilateral meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of ...
VietNamNet Bridge
November 7, 2017
President of Chile Michelle Bachelet will pay a State visit to Vietnam from November 8 to 9 at the invitation of her Vietnamese counterpart Tran ...
VietNamNet Bridge
November 7, 2017
Vietnam considers Japan as an important and long-term partner, President Tran Dai Quang stated while giving a reception for Japanese ...
teleSUR English
November 7, 2017
Chairman of the 25th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, Economic Leaders Meeting and President of Vietnam, Prof. Dr. Tran Dai ...
Salt Lake Tribune
November 7, 2017
(Mike Stack for The Salt Lake Tribune) LDS Hanoi Mission President Lewis Hassell and his wife, Mary Bliss Hassell, in the Old Quarter of Hanoi ...
Xinhua
November 4, 2017
He said the forthcoming visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Vietnam shows that China attaches great importance to the comprehensive ...
South China Morning Post
November 4, 2017
The city will host President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well leaders of other Apec ...
The Providence Journal
November 4, 2017
President Donald Trump, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Germany in July. The two could sit down ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
November 3, 2017
President Donald Trump is embarking on a trip that will start in Hawaii and continue on a multination visit to Asia, and the 12-day itinerary he ...
Xinhua
November 3, 2017
BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Vietnam and Laos from Nov. 10 to 14, China's Foreign Ministry ...
TIME
November 3, 2017
North Korea and trade are expected to top his agenda as he tours Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines, where leaders will ...
Escambray
November 2, 2017
Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message to the leaders and people of Vietnam that local media reproduced today, to testify the Cuban ...
Penn Current
October 26, 2017
The Vietnam War ended in 1975 after 20 years of fighting and more ... mistakes made by the U.S. leadership, the failures of President John F.
Philippine Star
October 26, 2017
Fifteen months into office, President Rodrigo Duterte will have this ... Trump will fly to the Philippines from Vietnam which is hosting this year's ...
WHYY
October 26, 2017
Nixon promised South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu that his future administration would continue to support Thieu's regime against ...
Inquirer.net
October 26, 2017
President Rodrigo Duterte is leaving for Japan on Sunday for talks with Prime ... Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Vietnam in November.
KY3
October 26, 2017
On the 50th anniversary of his capture in Vietnam, Sen. ... McCain also appeared to target the President's Vietnam War-era military deferments ...
The Nation
October 25, 2017
Vietnam's Deputy President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh arrived in Bangkok on Wednesday to attend the Royal Cremation ceremony of HM the late ...
VietNamNet Bridge
October 24, 2017
Nguyen Hong Truong, deputy head of IDG Ventures Vietnam and one of the founders of Vietnam's start-up community, died on October 22 from ...
PBS NewsHour
October 23, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is awarding the Medal of Honor to a retired army medic from Alabama who risked his life during the ...
NPR
October 23, 2017
In a week that saw two of President Trump's predecessors issue thinly veiled warnings about where the country is heading under Trump's ...
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