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Thanh Nien Daily - Sun May 27, 6:33 am ET
In an effort to fight corruption, Vietnam’s government will ask officials to purchase assets of high value through bank accounts, the government’s inspectorate said at a meeting on Friday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat May 26, 3:38 am ET
One of Vietnam's wealthiest people was ousted from the communist parliament Saturday, reports said, after she was accused of failing to disclose that her Vietnamese-American husband was wanted for fraud.
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Thanh Nien Daily - Sun May 27, 6:34 am ET
A doctor has been dismissed as chief of the health clinic at the road management agency for northern Vietnam for violations of employment policies and having an affair with his subordinate.
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Peninsula Clarion - Sun May 27, 1:49 am ET
Vietnam veteran and Ninilchik resident Art Peters said he vividly remembers the first time he saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. in 2007. The memorial, which features the names of 58,272 soldiers killed in the conflict from 1955 to 1975, holds a deep meaning for all those who see it, Peters said, especially those who served. But Peters, a former Army medic, said its impact on ...
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The State Journal-Register - Sun May 27, 8:43 am ET
Louis Ashby says never receiving his high-school diploma was one of his few regrets in life. He changed that on Saturday, at age 64.
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ABC News - 2 hours 50 minutes ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on 50 years since the start of the Vietnam War.
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Yakima Herald-Republic - Sun May 27, 1:22 am ET
Jesse Villanueva, left, and Samuel W. Gatlin look at a photo taken in Vietnam of Villanueva, on the left, and Master Sgt. Marcelino Anguiano, who commanded their unit while on Argonnne Hill, near the border with Laos. Villanueva took over command of the unit after Anguiano was wounded and flown out to a military hospital.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal - Sun May 27, 3:00 am ET
A phone call woke Tara O'Grady early Saturday morning and changed her life. Her father, who had been missing since his plane was shot down over Vietnam 45 years ago, was coming home. "No matter what, this Memorial Day will be different," O'Grady said Saturday. Her
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The Journal News - Sun May 27, 2:49 am ET
The last time Jim Schweickert and Frank C. Cook saw each other was in August 1967, when Cook asked Schweickert to hold a family heirloom for safekeeping as he left on a mission in the jungles of Vietnam.
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DCist - 2 hours 52 minutes ago
Obama will visit the Vietnam War Memorial Wall on Memorial Day [ more › ]
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Thanh Nien Daily - Sun May 27, 6:49 am ET
The Ministry of Education and Training has slapped fines totaling VND250 million (US$12,000) on six universities and institutes for running unauthorized college and postgraduate training courses.
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Thanh Nien Daily - Sun May 27, 6:34 am ET
Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested three people on suspicion of producing fake Heineken beer.
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Washington Post - Sat May 26, 7:56 pm ET
Tom Bozzuto is the 65-year-old chairman of the Bozzuto Group, the Greenbelt-based real estate company that employs 1,200 people, many of them veterans. Bozzuto, a Vietnam veteran, hires fellow service veterans for two reasons: first, they make great employees; second, he has an idea of what they have gone through and wants to help. But Bozzuto, whose company owns or manages tens of thousands of ...
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Thanh Nien Daily - Sun May 27, 6:04 am ET
The Ministry of Finance will review pricing policies and tax payments at six fuel distributors beginning at the end of this month, new website VnExpress reported Thursday.
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Thanh Nien Daily - Sun May 27, 6:00 am ET
The number of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases in Vietnam is 10.2 times higher over the first five months of 2012 than it was for the same period last year.