Limestone karsts jutting upward from emerald green water, ancient rivers that snake through dense mangrove forests, misty ...

Southeast Asia is back in the spotlight as developments along this storied river make Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam more ...

South Vietnam's fourth and final president ... Others fled to boats in the Saigon River, only to find communist troops blocking their way to the sea. So the Truong Le family decided to make ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — April 30, 2025, marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Veterans and local officials gathered in Fall River on Wednesday at the Vietnam ...

On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, marking the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam under communist control. Fall River Mayor Paul Coogan joined ...

FALL RIVER — On Quequechan Street ... When the United States withdrew all combat troops from Vietnam in 1973 and left Saigon altogether in 1975, Hornsby said, it was not necessarily a ...

Mr Darr had been flying into Vietnam ... Saigon the following day. "[The pilot] put her down on the mud flats. It killed all the people on the bottom decks and then it skidded towards the Mekong ...

Water troughs are set out like street stalls, displaying snails bigger than my fist, plump clams and glistening river ... Vietnam's banh mi sandwiches. Photograph by Ulf Svane Ho Chi Minh ...

HO CHI MINH CITY — Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment ... For weeks, Vietnam has been preparing this city for the anniversary ...

“It was to find freedom,” said Vinh Nguyen, who was 15 when his family almost died while fleeing Saigon 50 years ago ... “Mark” Merrell wanted Vietnam to know exactly where the Marshall ...

More than 58,000 Americans died fighting in Vietnam — along with an estimated 150 Canadians ... Civilians lined the banks of the Saigon River, cramming aboard barges and boats and making their way to ...