New U.S.-Vietnam group tackles toxic legacy of war
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Seven prominent Vietnamese and Americans will work together to support humanitarian efforts in cleaning up wartime dioxin, or "agent orange" in Vietnam, a U.S. philanthropy said on Wednesday.
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Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura will participate in a conference call next week to help launch a new group called Operation Truth, an organization being created "to give voice to troops who served in Iraq."
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The nation's gaze may have shifted to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But for the homeless men milling through the lobby of the VA Medical Center in Washington yesterday, memories of Vietnam hung as heavily as the smell of nicotine.
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For a group that promotes the benefits of offshore outsourcing and the need to import foreign workers under the H-1B visa program, the nation&#39;s largest IT trade group seems to be providing fodder for the John Kerry campaign.
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Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.
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A television writer and fund-raiser for John Kerry is the first six-figure donor to a new group that is criticizing President Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War.
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The first visit of a Vietnamese president to the White House since the Vietnam War comes amid harsh criticism by U.S. lawmakers of the communist-led nation's human rights record.
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HANOI, Nov. 17 -- President Bush arrived Friday in Vietnam on a mission to strengthen business ties with the rapidly changing country and ease the bitter memories of the war the United States waged here decades ago.
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A diverse group of organizations has started a long-term project to monitor the Appalachian Trail for environmental problems.
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It took years for the Vietnam war   to "come home" to U.S. moviegoers, but a series of fall films   will soon test the appetite for cinematic tales about U.S.   politics and the human toll of the war in Iraq.
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The lives of two neighbors lying  disfigured and brain-damaged in small Hanoi houses will not be  changed by a U.S. court hearing on Monday about victims of  war-time dioxin, or &quot;agent orange.&quot;
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Trace International, a non-profit group representing US multinational companies, launched Wednesday an Internet site aimed at fighting international bribery and extortion.
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More than three decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam have just completed temporary steps to contain dioxin contamination at a former U.S. air base in Danang.
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A time-tested self-discovery course takes combat veterans into the Colorado mountains to help heal emotional scars.
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The chemical compound, known as TCDD, the world&#39;s most powerful dioxin, was a key part of Agent Orange, used by the United States to clear the Vietnamese jungle, and which left widespread
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Iraq war veterans on the sidelines of the Republican convention say they are sick of the bickering over the Vietnam War records of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry and want a serious discussion of Iraq and veterans' issues instead.
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Not since the Vietnam War more than three decades ago has the United States found itself waging a bloody conflict abroad as a fierce political argument has broken out at home