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Former POW returns to Vietnam and meets pilot who shot him...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:48:06 -0400

By TOM CHARLIER - Pilots always talk with their hands, Jack Trimble says, and that's why he and his Vietnamese counterpart needed little help from interpreters in recounting each turn, dive and maneuver of their aerial confrontation 40 years earlier.

Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:16:31 -0400

HANOI, Vietnam - The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to deliver.

Nixon library hosts reunion for Vietnam POWs

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:59:41 -0400

YORBA LINDA, California - U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War.

Google challenger in Vietnam redirecting queries

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:31:10 -0400

HANOI, Vietnam - A Russian-financed search engine seeking to challenge Google's dominance in Vietnam is redirecting queries for some politically sensitive terms to the American company's search engine, apparently as a way of avoiding government anger or legal liability for sending surfers to sites containing criticism of the ruling party.

Vietnam provider drops foreign news TV channels

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:58:16 -0400

HANOI, Vietnam - A Vietnamese satellite TV company stopped airing international channels including BBC and CNN on Thursday, citing a law that foreign governments have warned would result in international news and entertainment channels ending their broadcasts in a country increasingly cracking down on freedom of expression.

Vietnam imprisons leaflet distributors for 8 years

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:10:20 -0400

HANOI, Vietnam - A Vietnamese court has sentenced two student activists to between six and eight years in prison for distributing leaflets calling on people to demonstrate against China.

40 years on, fleeing Vietnamese take to seas again

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:43:31 -0400

HANOI, Vietnam - Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country's Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again.