By Hoang Tao   July 11, 2020 | 08:08 pm GMT+7 VNexpress

Chuck Searcy (R) poses with Bui Trong Hong, National Technical Officer at Project RENEW. Photo by VnExpress/Ngo Xuan Hien.

For the past 25 years, Chuck Searcy has cleaned up explosives and helped disabled children in Quang Tri Province, a prime Vietnam War battleground.

Chuck Searcy is no stranger to the employees of Project RENEW, a Vietnamese organization that deals with unexploded ordnance left from the Vietnam War. His thin stature and silver hair are a stark contrast to his gregarious, lively persona. Traveling back and forth between Hanoi and Quang Tri Province, a major former battlefield in central Vietnam, Searcy has done all in his capacity to mend wartime wounds.

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dientudacam.vn Thứ ba, 11/06/2019 | 07:32

Tôi, Thiếu tướng Trần Ngọc Thổ, một công dân Việt Nam đã từng kinh qua cuộc chiến tranh chống xâm lược của đế quốc Mỹ và chiến tranh bảo vệ tổ quốc, làm nghĩa vụ quốc tế, đã từng vào ra sinh tử, từng rơi nước mắt trước cảnh đồng đội, những người dân lành của mình bị đổ máu, tan xương nát thịt do bom đạn của Mỹ giày xéo. Ngày hòa bình trở về, chúng tôi luôn hy vọng sẽ có những điều tốt đẹp được bù đắp cho con cháu mình. Nhưng than ôi! Hơn 4,8 triệu người đã bị phơi nhiễm, trong đó có hơn 3 triệu nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin Việt Nam bị hủy diệt từ từ vì ung thư và các loại bệnh hiểm nghèo do chất độc hóa học trong chiến tranh của Mỹ để lại cho dân tộc Việt Nam.

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WU SHANG-SU

Updating a colonial legacy railway might offer more than a
smoother connection between sometimes tense neighbours.

An early morning start in Lao Cai in 2013 (Photo: Biggs/Flickr)

Published 15 Jan 2020 06:00 Lowry Institute

Last year, China and Vietnam unveiled plans to refurbish a colonial-era railway between the two countries. It was an attempt to update a historical legacy – and also signified new bilateral dynamics in a consequential and sometimes fraught regional relationship.

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EUAN GRAHAM

Published 5 Oct 2016 11:14   Lowry Institute

Strategic partnership between Vietnam and the United States may be a bridge too far, especially for China

Whale of a problem: US Defense Secretary Mark Esper extends support to Vietnam, but ExxonMobil may leave the Vietnamese exploration block known as ‘Blue Whale’

HANOI: With repeated Chinese intrusions into oil-rich Vanguard Bank and anticipated departure of ExxonMobil from the Blue Whale project, the South China Sea dispute has reached a turning point. A planned meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Nguyễn Phú Trọng could be pivotal for a strategic partnership, but is unlikely to happen any time soon.

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Ben Sokhean / Khmer Times\

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday slammed critics on social media for misinterpreting the government’s move to hold a disaster rescue exercise with Vietnamese soldiers in Svay Rieng province this week.

Mr Hun Sen during a graduation ceremony on Koh Pich said Cambodian forces are planning to hold the disaster rescue exercise near the Vietnamese border in Svay Rieng tomorrow.

Mr Hun Sen said critics have been accusing the government of planning to allow an invasion by Vietnamese troops.

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TĐH: These Muslim Chams in Cambodia are descendants of the Vietnamese Chams from the Champa Kingdom that VN annexed from the 14th century and completed the annexation in the 17th century. Should the Vietnamese government come to Cambodia and help them?

Future of minority group living along Mekong River unclear as government seeks to ‘beautify’ city before world summit.

DEC 09, 2019 / 12:43 Ngoc Mai

The Hanoitimes – Vietnam agrees to purchase 1,200 megawatts of electricity from Laos in 2020, exceeding the original plan of 1,000 megawatts, and 5,000 megawatts until 2030.

Vietnamese enterprises remain Laos’ third largest investor with 413 projects worth US$4.22 billion to date, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Overview of the meeting. Source: VGP.

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