OLYMPIA, Wash. — For most of 1971, Bothell’s Tom Agnew, a retired U.S. Army medic, flew in countless rescue missions in Vietnam. He did not do it for recognition or awards. “We did it for the troops ...

1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 – Communists in the north ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health, official media said ...

It has been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. It has been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. Most of the country’s 100 million people were born after the fighting stopped. They've ...

In November, during Vietnamese President Luong Cuong’s visit to Chile, a member of his security detail, Lai Dac Tuan, was arrested on accusations of sexual assault. A Chilean judge ordered him to ...

Vietnam has ended its two-child policy in hopes of a resurgence of youth in an aging population. The communist country's National Assembly passed a new amendment that nullifies families from having a ...

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case. The legal reforms in ...

Vietnam's legislature approved a plan on Thursday to reshape the country's administrative borders, merging dozens of provinces and cities in a move that officials say will slash nearly 80,000 ...

Vietnam is rethinking how it copes with floods after a year of relentless storms has collapsed hillsides and turned streets ...