Casting Aside Cold War Ghosts, Obama Reaches Out To Old Rivals
As his time in office winds down, President Obama has sought to jettison vestiges of the Cold War and reach out to old rivals, from Vietnam to Cuba and beyond.
Vietnam
Teaching Kids In Vietnam To Avoid A Deadly, Everyday Legacy Of War
In Quang Tri province, the most heavily bombed during the Vietnam War, 10 percent of the ordnance never detonated. A former U.S. military intelligence analyst is part of a group cleaning up the bombs.
Obama Announces U.S. Will Lift Arms Embargo Against Vietnam
During a visit to Hanoi, President Obama announced an end to the five-decades-long ban on selling weapons to Vietnam.
In The Lines Of Ocean Vuong, Echoes Of His Family's Past In Vietnam
Award-winning poet Ocean Vuong speaks about his new book Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which weaves growing up in America with his family's memories of a war-torn Vietnam.
An Image Of A Child Can Change The Way We See The World
The photograph of the 3-year-old Syrian refugee who died is part of a long tradition: an iconic picture that shows a child at the mercy of tragedy.
Vietnam Figures Out A New Way To Distribute Condoms
The country has moved up from low-income status. So international handouts are winding down. And that presents some unexpected challenges.
Obama To Meet With Vietnam's Communist Party Chief Amid Concern Over China
Hanoi and Washington hope to strengthen economic and defense ties, especially in the wake of Beijing's construction on a disputed reef in the South China Sea.
China's Island-Building Has Neighbors On Edge, But Tensions May Be Easing
In just 18 months, China has created more than 2,000 acres of new land where before there were just waves and reef, according to the U.S., which sees the work as a threat to regional stability.
The Frightened Vietnamese Kid Who Became A U.S. Army General
Forty years ago, Viet Luong was a 9-year-old Vietnamese boy fleeing Saigon with his family. Today he's the first Vietnamese-American general in the U.S. Army and is helping train the Afghan military.
In Danang, Where U.S. Troops First Landed, Memories Of War Have Faded
U.S. Marines were deployed to the coastal Vietnamese city 50 years ago last month. Now, 40 years after the war's end and amid great change, former Viet Cong and an American reflect on that time.