January 9, 2012
Genocidal Khmer Rouge regime was backed by the US in ‘shameful foreign policy episode’ The skulls of Khmer Rouge victims are displayed in a memorial to the genocide at the Killing Fields Museum outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Vietnam had saved his country in the 1970s, not invaded [...]
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December 18, 2011
US soldiers wave at their comrades as they cross the border between Iraq and Kuwait. The last US forces left Iraq and entered Kuwait on Sunday, nearly nine years after launching a divisive war to oust Saddam Hussein, and just as the oil-rich country grapples with renewed political deadlock. The last of roughly 110 [...]
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December 15, 2011
US military personnel in Baghdad lower the US Forces-Iraq colours before they are encased, during a flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq on December 15 nearly nine years after the controversial invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. US forces formally marked the end of their mission in Iraq with a [...]
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December 12, 2011
There are lessons to be learned from America’s complex relationship with Vietnam. Should we perceive the continued involvement of Americans with Vietnam years after the unpopular war as a massive collective guilty conscience or simply as a fascination with the culture, or perhaps both? Any way we look at the situation, American interests are [...]
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November 24, 2011
A protester chants during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement is fighting an almost unwinnable battle against the ghost of Steve Jobs. America’s love affair with entrepreneurship complicates any attempt to mount an effective European-style war of have-nots against haves. To be successful, the new [...]
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November 14, 2011
The Cambodian-American psych-rock powerhouse Dengue Fever. The Cambodian-American psych-rock powerhouse Dengue Fever will return to Southeast Asia for their 2011 Electric Mekong tour - with shows in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia – to promote their new album. The show in Hanoi on November 26 is the band’s second visit to the capital, following its performance at [...]
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November 14, 2011
President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where our interests lay [...]
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November 13, 2011
(L-R) US astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin at a press conference at the Baikonur cosmodrome on November 12. Russia on Monday launches three astronauts for the International Space Station on a key mission Moscow hopes will restore faith in its space program after an unprecedented string of failures. [...]
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November 12, 2011
As Russia marked the 94th anniversary of the October Revolution (November 7), Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Writers’ Association Nguyen Quang Thieu says while the country seems confused by changes under westernization, but it will prove its once powerful culture in the future. For you, as a poet, what is the meaning of Russia? Landscapes and people, [...]
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October 29, 2011
American screenwriter Pilar Alessandra will conduct a three-day script-writing course in Ho Chi Minh City in November. Following the successful three-day filmmaking course by American film instructor Dov Simens in July, House of Wisdom will hold another course featuring screenwriter Pilar Alessandra in Ho Chi Minh City next month. According to HOW, the author of [...]
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