Vietnam has been ranked the fifth happiest country in the world in a study by the UK think tank the New Economics Foundation. The Happy Planet Index report measured elements that contribute towards a ...

Like so many other American men during the Vietnam War, Chuck Forsman found himself drafted by the U.S. Army. After completing his tour of duty in 1969, he wasn’t sure if he would ever set foot on ...

HO CHI MINH CITY — People in this bustling city are eagerly awaiting President Obama's visit here Tuesday — not so much to catch a glimpse of the American leader as to show off their fast-developing ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Greater Houston area is home to the second-largest Vietnamese population in the country, with approximately 143,000 people, according to 2019 numbers from the Pew Research ...

Tiptoeing into the political arena, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam this week condemned China's recent deployment of a massive deep sea oil rig off the Vietnam's coast while calling upon ...

Vietnam’s National Assembly has confirmed the country’s top security official, To Lam, as its new president. Vietnam’s presidency is largely ceremonial, but experts say the new role puts Lam in a good ...

A delegation of 90 Vietnamese Catholics and seven bishops traveled to Mongolia last weekend for the chance to see Pope Francis and deliver a special message. “We came to Mongolia to ask the pope to ...

In 2009 poachers shot and killed the world’s last Vietnamese rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus), a subspecies of the Javan rhino, confirms a report from International Rhino Foundation (IRF) ...

(New York) – Vietnam’s Communist Party should use its twelfth National Congress to announce that free and fair elections will be held to elect the country’s leaders, Human Rights Watch said today.

After more than a year in pre-trial detention, five independent bloggers amid other activists stood in a Vietnamese court for two days in January to hear they would live behind bars for up to 13 more ...

Jarvis Jacobs / Special Contributor At a recent naturalization ceremony in Dallas, former first lady Laura Bush rightly emphasized that Texas is "a land of immigrants." Our state, she said, "is a ...

When the world looked to Asia for successful examples in handling the novel coronavirus outbreak, much attention and plaudits were paid to South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. But there’s one overlooked ...