Vietnam adds hundreds of acres in South China Sea island-building

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - Vietnam has expanded its island building in the South China Sea's disputed Spratly archipelago in the past year, adding 534 acres (216.1 hectares) of land, and has also ...
NPR

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. This journalist was there

In April 1975, the Vietnam War came to a turbulent close as North Vietnamese forces entered Saigon. April 30 of this year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, ...
Yahoo

For some Americans, the end of the Vietnam War after Saigon fell 50 years ago is still deeply felt

This photo provided by Jeanie Jacobs Huffman shows her on the beach in June 2024, two miles away from where her father's plane and crew were discovered in 70 feet of water, in Thanh Hoa Province, ...
The New Yorker

A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out

The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of ...

Philip Caputo, Who Wrote Blistering Vietnam War Memoir, Dies at 84

A Rumor of War,” about his service as a Marine Corps infantry officer and published in 1977, relentlessly detailed “the ...
Los Angeles Times

Trump threatened Vietnam with a huge tariff. How’s that going over in Little Saigon?

ABC Supermarket in the heart of Little Saigon is like a Donald Trump tariff rant come to fragrant, tasty life. Sorghum liquors from China. Frozen seafood from Malaysia. Thai fish sauce. Japanese ...
USA Today

As Saigon fell 49 years ago, my father flew us onto the USS Midway in a fraught escape

April 30 marks 49 years since the fall of Saigon in 1975, the death of South Vietnam and the beginning of the exodus of a million Vietnamese over the next two decades. This is the story of how a ...