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  • Vietnam veterans work to honor comrades

    MASON CITY -- Larry Paul of Mason City will be the first one to say that returning from Vietnam in the 1960s wasn't among his happiest moments ...

  • Norway offers hope to mountain village

    Remote Nghet Village in the northern province of Tuyen Quang has new concrete paths and new solid cisterns thanks to finance provided by the Norwegian Red Cross. Nghet Village, located in Yen Son District of Tuyen Quang Province, is home to over 100 families of more than 400 people of the White Dao Quan ethnic group. The local economy is mainly based on a small plot of rice. There is no market ...

  • Christian preacher tests Vietnam’s censors

    The remark was Vujicic's only direct reference to his faith in a night that was otherwise motivational. Most people in the audience were not Christians. Vujicic's appearance is a sign of how a government that once severely restricted religion is now taking a slightly more relaxed attitude. Those associated with Vujicic's Vietnam tour said it was the first by a foreign Christian -- ...

  • Vietnamese Painting Sells for Record $390000 at Christie’s HK

    A painting that was initially valued at just 50 pounds ($75) sold for HK$3.03 million ($390,000), setting a new record for a Vietnamese artist's work at Christie's ...

  • Why youve never heard of these Vietnam vets

    Retired Major General Peter Phillips at home in Canberra with ten-year-old grand daughter Sarah. He says his experiences in Vietnam as a D Company Commander were "life changing". Picture: Ray ...

Movie Review

Sisters [DVD]

Sisters [DVD]

Sisters is Brian De Palma at his vicious, malicious best. An overt homage to Alfred Hitchcock, especially Psycho (1960), and made independently for less than half-a-million dollars, Sisters makes up in visual ingenuity what it lacks in budget. Shot mostly in tight, enclosed rooms, De Palma employs complex tracking shots, long zooms, fast-cut editing, and a now-famous use ... ...

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  • Vietnam POWs reunite at Nixon Library after 40 years

    YORBA LINDA, Calif. (KABC) -- It was an emotional reunion of former Vietnam POWs Friday at the Nixon Presidential Library, 40 years after they were honored at the White House by President Richard Nixon. May 24, 1973, was an unforgettable night for the POWs, as they received a hero's welcome by Nixon and tributes from celebrities during a homecoming celebration. "Given the ...

  • China to make joint effort with Vietnam to advance bilateral relations FM

    Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (2nd R) meets with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem (2nd L) in Bali, Indonesia, July 21, 2011. (Xinhua/Chen Duo)Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said in Bali Thursday that China hopes to make joint effort with Vietnam to advance the bilateral relations on the right track. China and Vietnam have established a ...

  • Vietnam veteran surprised by honor

    Paul Greiner holds his Legacy Stone on May 18 with fellow Vietnam veteran Ken McTier. Both men are from Portage and Greiner helped McTier get disability benefits he earned from exposure to Agent Orange. Greiner is pictured in the front left and McTier is on his side weaing the cap. Friends and family are behind them at The ...

  • Evangelist gets rare opportunity to preach Christianity in Vietnam

    The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to ...

  • Govt urged to provide credit fund support

    Farmers receive a loan from the People's Credit Fund in Bac Giang Province's Luc Ngan District. People's credit funds should be allowed to offer cheap credit services to compete with commercial banks, experts say. -- VNA/VNS Photo Dinh ...

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