Nato's show of force is also about winning hearts and minds
| Generals repeatedly broadcast that fierce fighting lies ahead and warn that there will be inevitable casualties. The biggest offensive since Suez, or Vietnam, or Iraq - depending on which account on...
Taliban go-betweens draw up road map
| By Gareth Porter | KABUL - If peace talks do ultimately begin between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban leadership, they may well follow a "road map" to a political settlement drawn up b...
Lunar New Year tradition blossoms in Vietnam
| FEATURE | 02/09/2010 | HANOI — The naked, spiky-looking tree is not just Le Ham’s pride and joy. It is his meal ticket. | While it might not look like much now, Ham expects it to burst into delicate...
China builds lighthouse to back East China Sea claim
| BEIJING (Reuters) – China has finished building a series of lighthouses and stone tablets on islands and reefs off its coast to delineate its territorial waters in the disputed East China Sea,...
China sentences quake activist to 5 years' jail
| BEIJING -- A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced an activist who investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in the country's massive 2008 earthquake to five years in jail for inciting subver...
Congressman John Murtha ("Jack"), first Vietnam veteran elected to Congress, dead at age 77
| Jack Murtha in May of 2009 AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File | Congressman John Murtha (D-PA), the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress, died Monday, February 8, 2010. He was 77 years ol...
Vietnam vet was a capital P powerhouse in the House
| WASHINGTON - Rep. John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, a gruff ex-Marine who used his immense power in military spending to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to his hard-luck district and who became...
Leonard Pitts: The paradox of blacks in uniform
| It is the enduring paradox of our centuries here. It is the paradox that stood its ground at Bunker Hill, paradox that made a doomed charge on Fort Wagner, paradox that stormed San Juan Hill, advanc...
Vietnam war affected US planning for Iraq - John Reid (Video)
| The "failures of Vietnam" hampered the US in planning for the post-conflict reconstruction of Iraq, the UK inquiry to the war has heard. | Former Defence Secretary John Reid said this "terrible mist...
John Murtha dies at 77; Pennsylvania Democrat forcefully opposed Iraq war in Congress
Reporting from Washington - John Murtha, the Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania and decorated former Marine whose fierce opposition to the Iraq war helped catalyze public sentiment against the c...
Year of the Tiger
| The age-old calendar of birth years is celebrated across the globe, most prominently around the Lunar New Year, when a new animal takes over. | This year - starting on Feb. 14 - brings the Year of t...
Cambodia's Past, Pakistan's Future?
Pratap Chatterjee: U.S. Policy Toward Pakistan 2010 Beginning to Resemble U.S. Policy Toward Cambodia 1969 | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments Page 1 of 2 | Presidents Richard Nixon and Barack O...
John Murtha dies at 77; Pennsylvania Democrat forcefully opposed Iraq war in Congress
Reporting from Washington - John Murtha, the Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania and decorated former Marine whose fierce opposition to the Iraq war helped catalyze public sentiment against the c...
Goin’ to the Chapel…Goin’ to take pictures
A couple together with their entourages take photo shoots at the right side of the Notre Dame Cathedral - Photo: Jessica NguyenNotre Dame Cathedral is one of the notable landmarks in Ho Chi Minh City ...
Binh Duong, T&T Hanoi take the lead; Hoang Anh suffer second loss
Ninh Binh's Rodrigo Mota Farias celebrates after scoring during a V-League football match against Savibank Saigon at Thong Nhat Stadium in HCMC on Sunday - Photo: Ba ChauHCMC - The second round of the...
Major cultural park gets facelift ahead of Tet
Tran Thi Tuyet Nga, who initiated the Mot Thoang Vietnam project, checks to ensure success for the upcoming grand opening of the cultural tourist park - Photo: Mong Binh HCMC - Investors of Mot Thoang...
Berlin film fest looks back at 60 years of scandal
| The Berlin Film Festival, now in its 60th year, was a child of the Cold War, a propaganda tool of the Allies, and a frequent political battleground that reached far beyond the cinema doors. | The an...
Vietnamese officials: Chinese patrol boat seizes fisherman's catch
| Hanoi - A Chinese patrol boat stole a Vietnamese fishing catch last week, Vietnamese officials said Monday. | Trinh Phuoc, head of a Vietnamese Coastal Border Guard post in the central province of Q...
Berlin film fest looks back at 60 years of scandal
| Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick blows the candles on a birthday... | US director Alfred Hitchcock on the beach at Cannes in 1972. The first film... | A portrait of Swedish filmmaker Ingm...
Senior Management Appointments at The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited
| HONG KONG, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited (00045) (HSH), parent company of The Peninsula Hotels, has announced the following senior management changes: Ms. Rai...
Lunar New Year tradition blossoms in Vietnam
| HANOI (AFP) – The naked, spiky-looking tree is not just Le Ham's pride and joy. It is his meal ticket. | While it might not look like much now, Ham expects it to burst into delicate dark-p...
Berlin film fest looks back at 60 years of scandal
| BERLIN - The Berlin Film Festival, now in its 60th year, was a child of the Cold War, a propaganda tool of the Allies, and a frequent political battleground that reached far beyond the cinema doors....
