In new role, Kerry back in Vietnam`s Mekong Delta

Last Updated: Sunday, December 15, 2013, 13:15

John Kerry returned on Sunday to the winding waterways of Vietnam`s Mekong Delta region where he once patrolled on a naval gunboat in the search for communist insurgents.

National funeral for revered Vietnam General Giap

Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 21:41

Vietnam announced plans to hold a national funeral for independence hero General Vo Nguyen Giap in the first official statement on the death of the ruthless but brilliant military strategist.

Cold War documents show NSA spied on US senators

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 13:18

National Security Agency eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and boxer Muhammad Ali and critics of Vietnam War in secret "disreputable" program, declassified documents have revealed.

Four kids die playing with bomb in Vietnam

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 10:54

At least four children died when the bomb from the Vietnam War they were playing with blew up, police said Monday.

Vietnam War-era mortar shell blast kills 4 kids

Last Updated: Monday, December 3, 2012, 08:30

A mortar shell left from the Vietnam War has exploded in a southern village, killing four children and seriously injuring five other people.

Vietnam arrests US pro-democracy activist

Last Updated: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 11:44

Nguyen Quoc Quan is accused of planning to hold protests for Viet Tan during this week`s May Day festivities.

Landmark Hanoi hotel unearths Vietnam War bunker

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 23:48

A retired Vietnamese govt doctor recalls sheltering in the bunker in 1972 with American singer Baez and actress Fonda.

40 years after leak, Pentagon Papers are out

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 08:50

It is a secret study chronicling deception and misadventure in US conduct of the Vietnam War.

Laos, US in highest contact since Vietnam War

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 14:36

The US & Laos pledged to up cooperation after their highest-level talks since the Vietnam War.

Vietnam war veteran US officer seeks asylum in India

Last Updated: Friday, May 14, 2010, 21:22

The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to examine the plea by a 72-year old ex-US Navy officer, who had fought in the Vietnam war between 1964-1967, for political asylum in India as he fears persecution in the USA.

Vietnam celebrates 35th anniversary of war`s end

Last Updated: Friday, April 30, 2010, 16:01

Communist Vietnam marked the 35th anniversary of the end of its war on Friday.

Australia`s last missing from Vietnam War sent home

Last Updated: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 14:35

Veterans and family members of the last two Australian servicemen who remained unaccounted for from the Vietnam War gathered on Sunday to send the airmen`s remains home after 39 years.