In the midst of war, South Vietnam represented the hope and chaos of decolonization and nation building during the Cold War. U.S. Embassy officers, State Department observers, and military advisers ...

A top official with the ruling Communist Party in Binh Duong province to the north of Ho Chi Minh City ... in a series of fires in karaoke bars in Vietnam in recent years, raising concerns ...

Back in 1975, photographer Hubert van Es snapped a now-iconic picture of people scrambling into a helicopter on a rooftop in Saigon, at the close of the Vietnam War. Analysts and US lawmakers ...