More than 100,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by land mines or other abandoned explosives since the Vietnam War ended nearly 40 years ago, and clearing all of the country will take decades more, officials said Monday.
Tag - war
jeudi 8 décembre 2011
100,000 killed, hurt by abandoned weapons, Vietnam says
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 8 décembre 2011, 21:16 - News in english
jeudi 28 avril 2011
Wartime shell kills two fishermen in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 28 avril 2011, 08:43 - News in english
Hanoi - Two Vietnamese fishermen were killed and two others seriously injured when an artillery shell believed to be left over from the Vietnam War exploded, an official said Thursday.
lundi 14 mars 2011
‘The Best Photographer of the Vietnam War’
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 14 mars 2011, 08:45 - News in english
In January 1966, Associated Press war photographer Henri Huet was on assignment in An Thi, in North Vietnam, when he came across a young, wounded Army medic named Thomas Cole in a muddy trench. Cole’s eyes were wrapped almost entirely in bandages, yet he was tending to fellow injured soldiers of the First Cavalry Division.
mardi 21 septembre 2010
War's loss healed in mothers' embrace
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 21 septembre 2010, 08:38 - News in english
Dan Cheney headed off to war with freshly-earned pilot's wings and the lieutenant's insignia his mother had pinned on his shoulders.
mardi 7 septembre 2010
More soldiers' remains found in Vietnam mass grave
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 7 septembre 2010, 08:04 - News in english
The remains of 44 communist soldiers believed killed during the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive have been found in a mass grave, bringing the number of remains recovered at the site to 74, a military official said Saturday.
samedi 4 septembre 2010
Vietnam's complicated relationship with the US
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 4 septembre 2010, 19:08 - News in english
Cheap facsimiles of $100 bills waft in the tropical breeze, littering HCM City's sidewalks with Benjamin Franklin's face. Elsewhere in Vietnam, US President Richard M. Nixon has become a gritty fashion icon, giving politicised street cred to "urban wear" clothes.
lundi 6 avril 2009
35 soldiers found in Vietnam War mass grave
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 6 avril 2009, 08:35 - News in english
HANOI — Searchers discovered a mass grave of 35 North Vietnamese soldiers killed at a military airport during Vietnam's 1968 Tet offensive, a military official said Sunday.
