
Today in history: The Vietnam War is over!
Today is the 40th anniversary of the official end of the Vietnam War.

Vietnam considers same-sex marriage
Today I am proud to call myself a socialist. And I am proud to be gay at a historic intersection of two diverse and compatible movements.

Vietnam's Communist Party meets
The goal for the Vietnamese Communist Party's 11th Party Congress was to “enhance the Party's leadership capacity and combativeness, promoting the nation's synergy, comprehensively boosting the doi moi (renovation) process, creating the fundamentals for Vietnam to basically become a modern-oriented industrial country by 2020.”

Clinton issues vague pledge on Vietnam's Agent Orange legacy
Visiting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has lectured her Vietnamese hosts on human rights and issued vaguely worded pledges to help the developing country to tackle the horrific legacy of Agent Orange.

35 years after war’s end, Vietnam pushes friendship
Many still struggle with the scars of the war in Vietnam, 35 years later.


