Vietnam Today
| Wartime
ghosts haunt Vietnamese-U.S. relations
By Carol Clark - CNN
Interactive
(CNN) -- Lan Nguyen was
born in Hanoi in 1974, one year before the Communist victory
ended the Vietnam War. She grew up listening to her parents'
stories about bombing raids on the city by U.S. warplanes.
"They told me how
scary it was," Lan said. "There were times when they
didn't know if they would live until the next day." |
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Billy Kelly - Letters and
Commentary
Associate Editor, and
Charlie Company alumni Billy Kelly spends several months
each year in Vietnam. His personal experiences,
involvement, and intimate knowledge of the country and
the people in Vietnam today, will add a new dimension to
your memories from so many years ago. |
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The only Americans her parents
encountered were prisoners of war who were tied to a bridge linking
Hanoi to another province to try to protect it from bombing.
Today Lan, 26, is committed to
another bridge -- one linking Vietnam and the United States...
"Most Vietnamese companies are
state-run and they don't work very well," Lan said. "I'm more
comfortable with American corporate culture. You can talk to the boss
about what you think. You can give suggestions rather than just follow
what they tell you."...
"I have to admit that Vietnam is a
tough place to do business, but I've worked in a lot of places that are
tough to do business, and Vietnam is my favorite of all of them,"
said Bradley Lalonde, who was the country manager for Citibank in
Vietnam from 1994 to 1999.
"The attitudes of the people are
great," he said. "They're so hard working. There's a general
liking for American goods and services and the way we do business. In
meetings, I never got the idea that they were against an open market.
They're really quite liberal and flexible. So why aren't things moving
faster? It's a real paradox."...
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Legacy of
Agent Orange Worsens..
Almost
30 years after the end of the
Vietnam war, the legacy of Agent Orange
appears to
be worsening.
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Vietnam at
the Crossroads
Wary Communist Party
loosens its hold grudgingly
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Want
to go Back for a Visit?
The
War Veteran Tours has been set up by Vietnamese veterans
for their foreign counterparts who participated in the
two Indochina Wars. These are special tour programs for
those who have served in Viet Nam and now wish to
revisit the former locations and areas of their former
units, the Viet Cong war zones, and especially former
battlefields. |
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By John Christensen CNN Interactive
(CNN) -- Visitors to Ho Chi Minh
City in southern Vietnam are struck by its frenetic pace, by the
modern skyscrapers, by stores bulging with goods and by streets
teeming with industrious Vietnamese.
At night young men and women cruise
the neon-lit streets of the former Saigon on shiny Honda
motorbikes, gathering in coffee bars, discos and restaurants
where they are serenaded by the beeps and chirps of their cell
phones.
Despite the signs of prosperity,
however, Vietnam is at a critical crossroads in its existence... |
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Ho Chi Minh City residents
travel by bicycle and motorbike -- the city's
most popular forms of transportation
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Origins of the Vietnamese-American
Peace Park
"The Peace park is unique because elsewhere in the
world people remind the younger generations of the horror of war by
building war monuments. We are changing that tradition by building a
monument to peace." --Gen. Pham Hong Son
In 1989 Morley Safer and a 60 Minutes
crew traveled to Viet Nam to produce a piece called 'The Enemy'. Many
high-ranking Vietnamese officials were interviewed but the man who
caught the heart of the American people was a professor of English in Ha
Noi named Nguyen Ngoc Hung. Even though he fought for six years during
the war with the Americans Prof. Hung projected a compassionate even
charismatic image and as a result was invited to come to the US in 1990
on a tour promoting peace, friendship and reconciliation. One city he
visited was Madison, Wisconsin. From there he was taken by local
veterans to the Highground, Wisconsin's Viet Nam veterans
memorial...
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