HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — This was going to be fun! Up and down Le Duan Street, where the U.S. Embassy once stood, laughing teenagers in denim and silk were racing their motorbikes, eating ice cream ...

Saigon, South Vietnam, January 1970: Don’t try this at home, especially in front of a police officer. In 1970 Saigon, however, the sight of a father transporting four unhelmeted children on a ...

The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) evokes profound shame of the horrors inflicted in our name during the ...

Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and helicopters roar ...

Waving red flags, troops marched Saturday down the boulevard along which North Vietnamese tanks rolled into this city 30 years ago in a victory ending the Vietnam War. Hundreds of aging veterans, ...

After years of suffering severe congestion, Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, which connects the former districts 7 and 4 with downtown Ho Chi Minh City, is all set to be widened.

The ubiquitous street art, depicting portraits of Ho Chi Minh, flying pigeons, and people waving the national flag, reminded me that this year marks the 50th anniversary of Vietnam’s reunification in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE — Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 1968, as Vietnamese celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Tet as it is known locally, Communist forces launched a wave of coordinated surprise attacks ...

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Typhoon Kalmaegi raged across Vietnam on Friday, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the ...