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Murder Trial To Proceed Against 2nd Woman In Killing Of Kim Jong Un's Half-Brother

7:15am March 14, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

Malaysian authorities dropped charges this week against the Indonesian woman accused of smearing poison on the face of Kim Jong Nam. But they won't drop charges against Doan Thi Huong.

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk during their meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday.

Politics & Government

Trump, Kim Hopeful At Second Nuclear Summit

11:23pm February 27, 2019

President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, continuing the denuclearization talks they began eight months earlier in Singapore.

Pham Ngoc Canh, from Vietnam, met his North Korean wife, Ri Yong Hui, in 1971. They finally were able to marry in 2002 and now live in Hanoi.

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He's Vietnamese. She's From North Korea. They Had To Wait 3 Decades To Marry

1:59pm February 27, 2019

by Michael Sullivan

"I knew I should stop loving him," says Ri Yong Hui. "But I couldn't." She met Pham Ngoc Canh in 1971, when he was in North Korea on an internship. After years of separation, they married in 2002.

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At a war memorial in Bac Giang province, Duong Van Dau views the tombstones of North Korean pilots killed during the Vietnam War. Headstones are etched with the names of the dead in Korean on one side, and Vietnamese on the other.

In Vietnam, There's Hope North Korea Will Follow Its Model For Economic Success

10:24pm February 26, 2019

by Michael Sullivan

Since U.S. ties improved, Vietnam's growth has surged. "North Korea is now like Vietnam in the past. They are looking for new ways to get out of their isolated situation," says a Vietnamese analyst.

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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump walk together at a resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12, 2018.

What To Expect From North Korea At The Next Trump-Kim Summit

12:17pm February 20, 2019

by Anthony Kuhn

Analysts weigh the possible offers North Korea's leader could make later this month in Vietnam.

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Men use tablets and laptops to check news at a coffee shop in Hanoi in 2014. Today almost half of Vietnam's population of over 95 million have access to the Internet. A new and controversial cybersecurity law goes into effect nationwide Tuesday.

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To The Dismay Of Free Speech Advocates, Vietnam Rolls Out Controversial Cyber Law

7:48pm January 01, 2019

by Ashley Westerman

The law requires Internet companies to store locals' data in Vietnam and hand over user information if the government asks for it, among other contentious provisions.

Nheb Thai, a Cambodian refugee who was deported from the U.S., serves a meal to other deportees in Battambang last year. Cambodia has taken in 566 deportees since inking a 2002 pact with the U.S. that opened the door for hundreds with criminal records to

U.S. Deports Dozens More Cambodian Immigrants, Some For Decades-Old Crimes

8:22pm December 18, 2018

Many were granted refugee status after fleeing U.S. bombing during the Vietnam War and the massacres of the Khmer Rouge, and know little about the country where they're being forced to return.

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy (1945-1975), by Max Hastings

'Vietnam' Takes On All Sides With A Critical Gaze

10:02am October 17, 2018

by Tom Bowman

While historian Max Hastings may break no new ground in his tome, it's how he crafts his story with color, detail and pathos that makes it great — and likely to become the standard on the war.

Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang shown during a meeting with Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the Presidential Palace during the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi, Vietnam. Quang died Friday at age 61 due to illness.

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Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang Dies After 'Serious Illness'

9:13am September 21, 2018

by Scott Neuman

In Vietnam, the largely ceremonial post of president is one of three top leadership positions, along with prime minister and secretary-general of the Communist Party.

The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, anchored off the coast in Danang, Vietnam on Monday.

A U.S. Aircraft Carrier Anchors Off Vietnam For The First Time Since The War

4:45pm March 05, 2018

by Michael Sullivan

The USS Carl Vinson, a nuclear-powered carrier, is expected to spend four days at the port of Danang at a time of tensions over China's expansion in the South China Sea.

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