Vietnam

Vietnam government denies blocking networking site The state-run internet service provider says it is trying to fix a fault Vietnamese officials have denied they are deliberately blocking access to social networking site Facebook.

In this article: Facebook and US

LESSONS IN DISASTER: MCGEORGE BUNDY AND THE PATH TO WAR IN VIETNAM Pity our recent secretaries of state. While they fly around the world for photo-ops with minor potentates, real policy is being made in the White House, by the president,...

In this article: Boston, World War II, Groton School, Yale University, Harvard University, Henry L. Stimson, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson

Vietnam will import 6 tonnes of gold this month, state broadcaster VTV said on Thursday, after the central bank last week lifted a ban on imports to stabilise an overheating market. So far, 1.5 tonnes had been imported, 500 kg each by...

...were in fact known - though not publicly admitted - before the United States escalated the war in Vietnam. That difference is important. If the Vietnam disaster was launched in full awareness of the "lessons," why should those lessons be any...

In this article: Lyndon Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Afghanistan, United States, Jonathan Schell, Communism, and The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

South Bend - Former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan plans next year to make his first trip to Vietnam since he spent 11 months as a prisoner of war in Hanoi. Kernan and his wife, Maggie, will be hosts for a February tour that will include stops at...

In this article: Joe Kernan, Hanoi Hilton, South Bend Tribune, All rights reserved, South Bend Silver Hawks, Frank O'Bannon, Mitch Daniels, and John McCain

A consortium including South Korea's SK Energy <0956770. KS>, Vietnam's Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corp and France's Total <TOTF.PA> has produced 4,300 barrels per day (bpd) crude in an invested Vietnamese field, South Korea said...

In this article: South Korea, SK Energy, and France

...devalue its dong and the country has enough reserves to maintain the currency, its president and finance minister said on Tuesday. "Vietnam will not devalue our currency. We will take cautious steps on our monetary policy... We have...

In this article: Nguyen Minh Triet and Singapore

Vietnam's property developer Vincom <VCI.HM> plans to sell $100 million of five year convertible bonds, a source briefed on the plan said on Monday. The bonds are being marketed to investors at a yield of 5-6 percent, the source told...

In this article: Credit Suisse, Danang, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Reuters

...floated by parachute, unconscious, into a city south of Hanoi after his Navy reconnaissance plane was shot down during the war in Vietnam. He was captured, beaten and taken for an extended stay in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. Kernan...

In this article: Joe Kernan, Hanoi Hilton, Pumpkin, E mail, and University of Notre Dame

Vietnam will allow unlimited gold imports by five or six companies, a state-run news web site quoted central bank governor Nguyen Van Giau as saying on Wednesday. The State Bank of Vietnam eased a one-and-a-half year ban on gold imports...

In this article: State Bank of Vietnam