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- Thailand expels Gary Glitter to Britain
- LONDON AFP — Former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter left Thailand for his native Britain early Friday, three days after being released from a Vietnamese prison. The British foreign ministry confirmed Glitter's departure to London after Hong Kong refused to let him in early Thursday. "We...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Why Vietnam Loves Mccain
- They jailed him for five years. Now they want him in the White House. John McCain might not recognize Nguyen van Sy, but they used to be neighbors. Back in the 1960s, Sy was left behind as caretaker at the North Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Film Institute after its...
- Research articles 2008-07-21
- In Vietnam, war veterans follow McCain's White House bid
- HANOI AFP — Four decades ago a young Vietnamese army sergeant, Nguyen Van Dai, launched the surface-to-air missile that downed John McCain's bomber jet from the skies above Hanoi. The SAM blew off the right wing of the A-4 Skyhawk and sent the wounded McCain parachuting into a lake,...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Persuasion and coercion in counterinsurgency warfare
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT IS EVIDENT," remarked Secretary of War Elihu Root at the end of the Philippine War, "that the insurrection has been brought to an end both by making a war distressing and hopeless on the one hand and by making peace attractive." (1) Root's appraisal holds true...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Gary Glitter to finish album after Vietnam prison: report
- HANOI AFP — Jailed British pop singer Gary Glitter, serving a three-year term in a Vietnamese prison for child molestation, said he would continue with his unfinished album when freed, state media said. Glitter -- real name Paul Francis Gadd -- was sentenced in March 2006 for committing obscene...
- Research articles 2008-06-24
- A strategy based on faith: the enduring appeal of progressive American airpower
- [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Following the F-16 bombing raid in June 2006 that killed terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, President George W. Bush told reporters: "Zarqawi is dead, but the difficult and necessary mission in Iraq continues. We can expect the terrorists and insurgents to carry on without him. We can expect...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Catholic book editor recounts lifelong moral journey
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The year was 1969 and the nation was being torn apart by the Vietnam War. Some 500,000 U.S. troops were in Vietnam; 33,000 Americans had died, along with hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese. President Johnson had fallen victim to the war's unpopularity, declining to run for a...
- Research articles 2008-02-08
- International Task Force Reports Progress in Addressing Impact of Dioxin in Vietnam
- To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Ford Foundation press office, +1-212-573-5128 Corrosive Legacy of War Gradually Yielding to Cooperative Healing Effort HANOI, Vietnam, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thirty-three years after the end of the Vietnam War, a series of new measures to address the spread and impact of toxic dioxin used...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- FBI chief visits Vietnam: US embassy
- HANOI AFP — United States FBI chief Robert Mueller met top Vietnamese police officials Wednesday, a day before he opens an office for the agency in Phnom Penh that will cover Cambodia and Vietnam, the US embassy said. Meeting senior Vietnamese Public Security Ministry officials on a tour that...
- Research articles 2008-01-30
- US, Vietnam sign deal to repatriate illegal immigrants
- HANOI AFP — The United States and Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding on the repatriation of Vietnamese illegal immigrants from the United States, the US embassy said Tuesday. Under the agreement signed in Hanoi, "Vietnamese nationals who arrived in the United States illegally on or after July...
- Research articles 2008-01-22
- Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks
- WASHINGTON AFP — North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the war. The report was released by the National Security Agency, responsible for...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Asian Mineral Resources Limited Announces Grant of the Ban Phuc Project Mining Licence.
- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Dec 17, 2007 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Asian Mineral Resources Limited ("AMR" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:ASN) announced today that its 90% owned Vietnamese subsidiary, Ban Phuc Nickel Mines has received a mining license allowing it to mine nickel, copper and associated minerals at...
- Research articles 2007-12-17
- Vietnam releases US couple accused of carrying handgun
- WASHINGTON AFP — Vietnam has released a US couple accused of carrying a handgun and bullets after being held at the Ho Chi Minh city's airport, the State Department and US lawmakers who pushed for their release said Tuesday. The Vietnamese-Americans, Le Van Phan and his wife Nguyen Thi...
- Research articles 2007-12-11
- You can't go home again think withdrawal would mean we've left Iraq for good? think again
- GET COMFORTABLE: "The first time Al Qaeda in Iraq blows up our embassy in Amman, Jordan, guess what? We're back in. The first time the Iranian influence becomes so great that they begin to incite and meddle with the Shiites and start causing problems, guess what? We're gonna be back...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Awakened ghosts: President Bush reopens the subject of Vietnam
- 'THE United States has not respected its promises. It is inhumane. It is untrustworthy. It is irresponsible." These words were spoken by South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu in his resignation speech on April 21, 1975. Over the previous seven weeks, the North Vietnamese army had overrun most of his...
- Research articles 2007-09-24
- Czech, Vietnamese premiers back CEZ power plant project
- PRAGUE AFP — The Czech and Vietnamese premiers on Wednesday backed a project for Czech state controlled power company CEZ to build a 3,000 MW coal-fired power plant in Vietnam. "We both expressed our support for this project which will be very significant for cooperation between our two countries,"...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- Educating Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam: Policies and Perspectives
- Findings confirm that economic disparities, geographic isolation, and societal prejudices are underlying causes for the inferior education available to members of minority groups, including women. For many Americans, Vietnam retains an identity and a legacy of wartime controversies and suffering. Though these historical realities may echo in the...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Sustainability of an international business program: a Vietnam experience
- ABSTRACT Australian universities have become increasingly involved in the internationalisation of their education programs as they seek to gain a competitive advantage in international markets. Offshore or transnational programs--those taught in countries outside Australia by Australian universities, usually with an 'offshore' partner--are an important area of international activity in...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Vietnamese turn to spirit mediums in search for war dead
- HANOI AFP — Deep in a trance and with her eyes tightly shut, a Vietnamese woman is lying on the floor surrounded by half a dozen relatives who are eagerly listening to every word she utters. Clenching her shoulder is Hoang Thi Thiem, a professional psychic who says she...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- Victims press Vietnam Agent Orange case in US court
- NEW YORK AFP — Vietnamese and American plaintifs exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam war on Monday presented their court appeal against 37 US producers and suppliers of the chemical defoliant. The case was rejected in 2005 by a federal judge who said the plaintiffs had failed to...
- Research articles 2007-06-18
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