Last updated: Thursday, October 27, 2011
A worker checks pipes and valves at Amaal oil field in eastern Libya October 7, 2011.
Abdula Altako was killed in March guarding the oil field he worked for, one of the first but by no means the last of Libya’s oil workers to die defending the country’s lifeblood.
Abandoned by their foreign owners during the uprising...
Last updated: Saturday, July 23, 2011
The Agent Orange issue is about much more than scientific evidence
An Agent Orange victim carries food for lunch at a hospice in Vietnam’s central Da Nang City. The US and Vietnam launched the first concrete step toward cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange last month,...
Last updated: Saturday, April 2, 2011
American director Ken Burn is working on his next a project, documentary about the Vietnam War
Following his successful documentary series on World War II, American director Ken Burns has planned to revisit the Vietnam War.
The Public Broadcasting Service announced the new project on Monday and said the 10- to 12-hour...
Last updated: Saturday, July 24, 2010
The period before Western capitalists’ penetration
With the natural features as presented in the part “Nature”, cultivation was early developed. Tropical climate, which is perennially hot and wet with high rainfall and plenty of sunlight in many months of a year are favorable conditions for agricultural development....
Last updated: Saturday, June 5, 2010
The war ended 35 years ago and now people who were once on the two front lines are sitting together to talk about poetry and literature. In this manner, it is apparent that literature is always pregnant with the miraculous, to the point that it helps people erase their former complexes and feuds. In order to have a meeting, Vietnamese and...
Last updated: Saturday, March 20, 2010
The organising board of the War Memorabilia exhibition predicted that only 200 people would attend their opening ceremony, but surprisingly, nearly 1,000 guests arrived for the display and donated freely.
To the officers, veterans and foreigners who experienced the war, the keepsakes have an immeasurable spiritual value. VnnNews – The...
Last updated: Thursday, February 18, 2010
14-year-old Hoang Thi Thien had her right eye, chest, abdomen, and legs injured after a war-time bomb exploded in Quang Tri.VnnNews - There is no peace for those who live in one of the world’s most heavily-bombed areas. Nguyen Van Troi slept through the afternoon, not common practice for a farmer who usually tends fields all day. His...
Last updated: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Traveling to Vietnam challenges American students to rethink their preconceptions about culture, history and the war.
Caitlin Sussman, an undergraduate at West Virginia University, plays a game with children in the Mekong DeltaSmith, who has taught a regular course on the Vietnam War since 2000, has been bringing students here since...
