News from Vietnam _ _ _

By Linda May When the members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 9 first moved into their nearly 100-year old building on Woodward Avenue and Temple Street in Detroit in 1980, they were picking up dirty drug needles and chasing off pimps and car ...See all stories on this topic »

The Stewart Houston Times/Mark Hicks Vietnam War medals of Terry Vaughn were recovered from a car that was to be crushed. Top left is a Vietnamese Service Medal, which was equivalent to the US Bronze Star, center. A US Service Medal is at the right and ...See all stories on this topic »

PHOTOGRAPH BY: AP Tay Ninh, Vietnam — Faas captures hovering US Army helicopters pouring machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp near the Cambodian border in March ...See all stories on this topic »Los Angeles Times (blog)

Teen horror film Bay cap 3 (Trap Level 3) by Vietnamese-American director Le Van Kiet has been banned in Vietnam, according to a decision released on May 7 by the Vietnam Cinema Department. The film was produced by Coco Paris for over VND7 billion ...See all stories on this topic »Thanh Nien Daily

(staff writer mgilgerjr@republicanherald.com) Jacqueline Dormer/staff photos Bruce Johnson, Friedensburg, commander of the Veterans of Vietnam War Inc. Post 29, center, escorts Gold Star Mothers and Gold Star Family members, from left, Lois Strouse, ...See all stories on this topic »Republican & Herald

The maternal mortality rate in Vietnam is 75 per 100000 live births, more than five times the rate in developed countries, a conference held by Ho Chi Minh City Health Department was told on Wednesday. HCMC doctors convened the meeting following six ...See all stories on this topic »Thanh Nien Daily

Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer who later was editor of the Associated Press staff in Saigon that produced the most haunting photographs of the Vietnam War, died Thursday in Munich. He was 79. His death was confirmed by ...See all stories on this topic »New York Times