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Vietnam: Metropole offering tours of rediscovered wartime bunker
The Metropole, Hanoi’s legendary colonial hotel built in 1901, is offering four daily tours to its recently reopened underground concrete bunker where guests, staff and anti-war activists such as Joan Baez and Jane Fonda sought safety from U.S air...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Culture, Arts and Culture, Vietnam, Travel
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Review: Echoes of war resound in 'Christmas in Hanoi'
With a Vietnamese mother and an Irish American father, Eddie Borey has firsthand experience of what it's like to straddle two diverse cultures. In his world-premiere play “Christmas in Hanoi,” an East West Players production at the David Henry...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Religious Festivals, Arts and Culture, Vietnam, David Henry Hwang
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Report: Dozens detained, jailed in crackdown on Vietnam bloggers
Nguyen Hoang Vi was knocked from her motorcycle in an accident she believes was no accident. The windows of a car she was riding in were smashed nine months later, gashing her arms, legs and face, she told activists. Last spring her passport was taken...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Civil Rights, Arts and Culture, Vietnam, Prisons
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Vietnam releases American activist accused of subversion
An American democracy activist accused of trying to overthrow the Vietnamese government was freed Wednesday and sent home to Southern California to rejoin his family, more than nine months after he was first detained in Saigon. The unexpected decision...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Civil Rights, Corporate Crime, Lawyers, Freedom of the Press
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Letters: Back to Vietnam
Re "Buried history in Hanoi," Opinion, Jan. 20 My wife and I just returned from Hanoi, my first visit since serving as a battalion surgeon in the Marines during the war. We stayed at the Metropole hotel, which Op-Ed article writer Tom Hayden visited... -
Buried history in Hanoi
Out beyond the swank poolside bar at Hanoi's Metropole hotel, which I visited last month, a gated entrance opens onto a dark set of stairs. At the bottom is a dank and musty bomb shelter, and, for those who can read Vietnamese, a sign in golden...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Holidays, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Politics, Elections
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Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'
Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...Tags: Civil Rights, Litigation, Amnesty International, Vietnam, Prisons
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Duy Quang dies at 61; renowned Vietnamese singer
The eldest sibling in Vietnam's most enduring singing family, Duy Quang was known for holding audiences enthralled as he boomed out the ballads of yesteryear, many penned by his father, Pham Duy, who knew how to tug at a listener's heart with songs...
Tags: Music, Vietnam, Lung Cancer, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Entertainment
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Acclaimed Vietnamese dissident poet dies in Little Saigon
L.A. NOWThe poet was a familiar figure, striding through Little Saigon, sipping tea, sharing wisdom. He liked to read through the night, not too tired to dissect a bit of homeland politics.... -
PASSINGS: Edwin Q. White, Bill Dees
Edwin Q. White Saigon bureau chief for AP during Vietnam War Edwin Q. White, 90, who as Associated Press bureau chief in Saigon during the 1960s was part of a fabled crew of journalists who covered the Vietnam War, died Thursday in Honolulu, the...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Wars and Interventions, Journalism, Movies, The Associated Press
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Nguyen Chi Thien dies at 73; poet, Vietnamese prisoner
The poet was a familiar figure, striding through Little Saigon, sipping tea, sharing wisdom, his head covered with his trademark fedora. He liked to read through the night, not too tired to dissect a bit of homeland politics. He lived simply, renting...
Tags: Civil Rights, Arts and Culture, Prisons, Russia, Politics
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Panetta works to repair U.S.-Vietnam ties during historic visit
World NowLeon Panetta, on a nine-day visit to Asia, is in Vietnam for talks with government officials on deepening military ties as the Obama administration is reasserting the U.S. role as a Pacific power after a decade of war elsewhere....
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