And it was at that time that my mother got word from the commune chief that the Vietnamese were actually asking for their citizens to go back to Vietnam.

I am not suggesting at all that my Vietnamese brothers and sisters could maybe use a little art class here and there. But ...

The majority opted for resettlement in the United States where there is a strong Montagnard community.

Could the Malayan military strategy to contain the rebellion have been imported? British experts from the Malayan emergency tried to help the Americans in Vietnam obviously without success.

Pham Hoang Mien is disappointed that only few Vietnamese bloggers are writing about the country's tourism potential.

Between 64 and 65 of Japanese and up to 81 of Vietnamese are atheists, agnostics, or do not believe in a god.

But it is worth recalling that China used lethal force to expel Vietnamese from the Paracel Islands in 1974 and 1988.

In Hanoi, activists under the No U campaign called on Vietnamese citizens to come out to the Lake of the Returned Sword to show their support for the PCA.

South Korea dispatched 325,517 troops to fight alongside American, Australian, Filipino, New Zealand and South Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War, with a peak strength of 50,000.

Unlike the North Vietnamese, the Sunni insurgents will have a difficult time taking over a country where they represent only 20 of the population.

Deng wanted to punish the Vietnamese for their own invasion of Cambodia, which ended the genocidal rule of China s allies, the Khmer Rouge.

And William Calley, who commanded the platoon that massacred hundreds of Vietnamese civilians at the village of My Lai in 1968, has now broken his media silence and apologized for his actions.

Now that Manila has laid the groundwork, many Vietnamese civil society organizations are calling for the government to strengthen its position and bring its own case against China, and to vigorously protect Vietnamese fishermen who have faced harassment at sea.

In another memo, Bundy argued that neutrality would be viewed by all anti communist Vietnamese as a betrayal, thus angering a US domestic constituency powerful enough to lose us an election.