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Vietnam’s new leader has arrived in China on his first overseas trip since taking the helm
4 months ago

Vietnam’s new leader has arrived in China on his first overseas trip since taking the helm

The Hindu  

Vietnamese leader To Lam started a three-day visit to China on Sunday in his first overseas trip since assuming his country's top post about two weeks ago. His agenda included visiting sites in the southern China city where former Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi Minh spent time, the state-owned Global Times newspaper said in a social media post. The new …

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William Calley, convicted U.S. soldier in My Lai massacre in Vietnam, dies
4 months, 3 weeks ago

William Calley, convicted U.S. soldier in My Lai massacre in Vietnam, dies

LA Times  

The night before 2nd Lt. William Calley shipped out of Hawaii to Vietnam, he was obliged to read his unit a list of rules regarding their behavior in a new land. “I did a very, very poor job.” Three-and-a-half months later, 24-year-old “Rusty” Calley was at the center of the My Lai massacre, one of the darkest chapters in U.S. …

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Opinion: My mother set herself on fire. Why do people choose to self-immolate?
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: My mother set herself on fire. Why do people choose to self-immolate?

LA Times  

Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Mich., kitchen and lit themselves on fire. The year my mother and the woman with her burned, 1971, marked the end of a string of Vietnamese monks self-immolating following Thích Quảng …

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Vietnam President resigns after one year on the job; government says ‘shortcomings impacted public opinion’
9 months ago

Vietnam President resigns after one year on the job; government says ‘shortcomings impacted public opinion’

The Hindu  

The Vietnamese Communist Party on March 20 accepted the resignation of President Vo Van Thuong, the government said in a statement citing "shortcomings", in a sign of political turmoil that could hurt foreign investors' confidence in the country. The government said in a statement Mr. Thuong violated party rules, adding that those "shortcomings had negatively impacted public opinion, affecting the …

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Opinion: The Biden administration has a life-or-death decision to make about Afghanistan
3 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: The Biden administration has a life-or-death decision to make about Afghanistan

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Matt Zeller is a US Army veteran. CNN — As America’s war in Afghanistan comes to an end, many see the inevitable parallels to Vietnam – a long aimless war, a determined enemy ready to out bleed us, and now an evacuation reminiscent of the chaos of Saigon’s final hours. Afghanistan is a landlocked country – we do …

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