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Vietnam Vet Returns Wounded Buddy's Knife

Loyd Cates kept it sharp after friend hospitalized

(Newser) - When Sgt. Frank Cybulski was wounded by a mine in Vietnam in 1970, he was hospitalized and finally sent home, but his hunting knife remained behind. A friend who was beside him when he was injured collected the tool—and has held onto it ever since, sharpening it periodically. "...

Dozens Killed in Vietnam Fireworks Factory Explosion

Others horrifically burned in accident near Hanoi

(Newser) - Fireworks were going off in the northern Vietnam for all the wrong reasons yesterday, when a military-run fireworks factory about 75 miles north of Hanoi exploded, killing dozens and leaving many more injured. The precise death toll is still unclear: the AP puts it at 19, while AFP reports 24,...

US Is Vietnam's Top Source of Tourism Dollars

Americans spent $100M last year

(Newser) - US troops may have left Vietnam about 40 years ago, but US tourists continue to return in a big way. Americans spent $100 million in the country last year, making it the top source of tourist dollars for the nation, reports the Vietnam News Agency . South Korea ($82.6 million)...

Man, Son Spent 40 Years Alone in Jungle Treehouse
Man, Son Spent 40 Years Alone in Jungle Treehouse
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Aug 11, 2013 6:49 AM CDT

Man, Son Spent 40 Years Alone in Jungle Treehouse

Ho Van Thanh fled the Vietnam War and never came back

(Newser) - After a bomb killed Ho Van Thanh's wife and two of his sons during the Vietnam War, Ho took his 1-year-old son into the jungle—and never came back. That was 40 years ago. On Wednesday, officials carried the too-weak-to-move 82-year-old away from the treehouse he and his son...

Vietnam Vet Returns Arm Bones to Amputee

Dr. Sam Axelrad had kept them as memento

(Newser) - An American doctor arrived in Vietnam recently carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966. Dr. Sam Axelrad brought the skeletal keepsake home to Texas as a reminder that when a badly injured North Vietnamese soldier was brought to him, he did the...

Tree Falls, 35% of Vietnam Loses Power

Clumsy crane operator plunges country into darkness

(Newser) - One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid. State electricity company EVN said in a statement today that the blackout occurred yesterday after the crane operator knocked a tree down onto the...

Driver Busted With 53 Cobras: Cops

Their meat is a delicacy in Vietnam

(Newser) - A driver in Vietnam was arrested over some unusual cargo. His car was slithering with snakes—53 cobras in green sacks, to be specific, police say. The driver reported being paid less than $50 to haul the animals, whose meat is a delicacy in the country, the AP reports. If...

Starbucks Opening First Vietnam Cafe

Ho Chi Minh City store will open next month

(Newser) - Starbucks is going to Vietnam: The company will open its first cafe in the country early next month in Ho Chi Minh City as part of its strategy to expand across Asia. It already operates more than 3,300 stores across 11 countries in China and the Asia-Pacific region. "...

Obama Attends East Asia Summit Amid Sea Feud

China at center of multiple territorial disputes

(Newser) - President Obama is in Cambodia today, meeting with East Asian leaders amid a contentious territorial dispute over the South China Sea . Speaking publicly, neither Obama nor Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao responded to reporters' shouted questions about the tensions, the BBC reports. Instead, Obama referred to a "cooperative and constructive...

US Trade Pact With Vietnam Is a Travesty

Allen Weiner says Vietnam has been stifling dissent, violating human rights

(Newser) - The US plans to enter into a trade pact with Vietnam by the end of the year—and in the process "sell out human rights" in the country, professor Allen Weiner writes in the Washington Post . Indeed, Hillary Clinton announced the pact last month just ahead of the one-year...

US Starts Scrubbing Agent Orange From Vietnam

First direct contribution 'a little late': activist

(Newser) - For the first time since the Vietnam War ended, the US is getting its hands dirty in the effort to clear Agent Orange out of Vietnam. Washington is forking over $41 million to support the removal of the herbicide that caused, by Vietnam's count, 150,000 kids to be...

Russia's Plan: Open Naval Base Outside of Russia

Russia looks to project more power with first post-Soviet base abroad

(Newser) - Russia is looking to show off its military muscle by establishing its first post-Soviet-era naval base abroad, the country's naval chief told state-run media today. Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov said the Navy was "working out the issue of creating sites" in Cuba, Vietnam, or the Seychelles, Reuters reports,...

China Dubs Tiny Island a &#39;City&#39;
 China Dubs Tiny Island a 'City' 
Jul 24, 2012 2:20 PM CDT

China Dubs Tiny Island a 'City'

It's the latest move in the battle for the South China Sea

(Newser) - There's a new city in China. OK, by "city" we mean a patch of land so small it can barely hold a single airstrip, and by "in China" we mean a 13-hour ferry ride from China's southernmost province. Yes, Sansha may not look like much—almost...

Worst for Wildlife: Vietnam
 Worst for Wildlife: Vietnam 
Jul 23, 2012 8:07 AM CDT

Worst for Wildlife: Vietnam

New WWF report ranks China second, Laos third

(Newser) - Rhinos, tigers, and elephants don't fare so well in Vietnam: The Asian country is the worst when it comes to wildlife crime, says the WWF in its first report on the matter. Rhinos are in danger there because citizens believe the horns have medicinal value; legalized tiger farms also...

New Hope for MIA Search in Vietnam

Country opens 3 previously restricted sites to US to excavate

(Newser) - Fresh hope for the families of four troops missing in action in Vietnam. The country today announced that it will allow the US to search three restricted areas for the men's remains. The previously restricted areas include two likely plane crash locations and the site of a firefight in...

Bus Plunges 60 Feet in One of Vietnam's Worst Crashes

34 dead, another 21 injured

(Newser) - A crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam last night, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents. The 50-seat coach lost control and ripped through the bridge's guardrails, diving about 60 feet and landing...

Vietnam Seeks Help With Deadly Mystery Illness

Asks WHO, CDC to investigate

(Newser) - Vietnam has asked international health experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171 others in an impoverished district in the central part of the country, an official said today. The infection has mostly affected children and young people. It begins with a high...

SF Mass Murder Suspect Dodged Deportation

Vietnam refused to take Binh Thai Luc back in 2006

(Newser) - The man accused of the brutal murder of five people in San Francisco was only in America because his native Vietnam refused to take him back, the San Francisco Chronicle finds. After Binh Thai Luc served nearly a decade in prison for the 1996 robbery of a Chinese restaurant in...

Pocket of Asia Yields 208 New Species—in 1 Year

Mekong region's amazing biodiversity under threat, WWF warns

(Newser) - It's a region that produces a new species every other day: Carnivorous plants that can eat mice, birds, and lizards. An all-female species of lizard that reproduces by self-cloning. Brightly colored geckos bathed in orange, yellow, blue, and green markings. A noseless monkey that looks like it's wearing...

Poachers Kill Vietnam's Last Rhino

Javan rhino moves closer to extinction

(Newser) - And then there were none. The World Wildlife Fund says poachers have killed Vietnam's last Javan rhinoceros, reports the AP . There were at least two rhinos in a national park in Vietnam as of 2004, the WWF says, and for the last few years they knew of one, but...

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