<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Vietnam</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><description>Vietnam</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[David Hackworth Dies; Esteemed Army Colonel Defied Military Brass]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41501-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41501-2005May6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Retired Army Col. David H. Hackworth, 74, a highly decorated soldier's soldier who as a writer often went to war with "the perfumed princes" of the Pentagon and with a military establishment he considered obtuse and ineffective, died May 4 in Tijuana, Mexico, where he was receiving treatment for bladder cancer.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donald J. Rander Dies; Was POW in Vietnam for 5 Years]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28703-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28703-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Donald J. Rander, 66, who spent five years and two months in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp and then made a career in Army counterintelligence work, died of complications of lung cancer April 21 at Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Fla.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vietnamese Americans March for the Loss of Saigon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28719-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28719-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ April 30, 1975, is a date seared into history. In Vietnam yesterday, the Communist government commemorated its final victory over the Americans with red flags and a festive parade in Ho Chi Minh City; Raul Castro, the brother of Cuban President Fidel Castro, was a guest of honor.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[30 Years Later, Immigrants Shed Vietnam War's Burden]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thirty is now the median age of the 1.2 million people of Vietnamese heritage living in the United States. Thirty is young enough to be haunted by Vietnam, old enough to have created new lives.]]></description><author> Phuong Ly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dark Side to Good News on Bird Flu]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10548-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10548-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vietnamese doctors are reporting that the mortality rate in their country has dropped substantially, but it could mean the outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia is taking an ominous turn.]]></description><author> Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax Suits Every Taste]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5634-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5634-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Asian food might not be the first cuisine that comes to mind when you consider dining in Fairfax County and Falls Church. But perhaps it should be.]]></description><author> Nancy Lewis</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese Garments Restrain Vietnam]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18807-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18807-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Le Thi Ha bent her head over the sewing machine, pressed a bare foot to the pedal and in six seconds turned out a neat armhole seam on a green nylon Pacific Trail  jacket that will retail in the United States for $100, slightly more than her monthly wages.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coast Guard Admiral Richard A. Bauman Dies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54863-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54863-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Richard Arnold Bauman, 80, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral and Merchant Marine officer who saw duty in World War II and in Vietnam, died Feb. 15 of cancer at his home in Annandale.]]></description><author> Joe Holley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officials Urge Farm Overhauls to Avert Bird Flu Pandemic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54542-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54542-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Poultry breeding in Asia must undergo a radical change if a global bird flu pandemic is to be avoided, health and agricultural experts said at the conclusion of a three-day international meeting.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thai Farmers Worry Controls  On Bird Flu Threaten Livelihoods]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19795-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19795-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Recent studies have shown that waterfowl are a crucial link in the spread of East Asia's avian influenza epidemic.]]></description><author> Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[How's the Pho?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7367-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7367-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the fifth or sixth time in less than a week, I am driving through the Lion Arch at the Eden Center in Falls Church, the commercial heart of Washington's Vietnamese American community. At my side, a worn canvas tote bag contains several plastic to-go containers filled with soup.]]></description><author> Ed Bruske</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Brilliant Student' Mourned]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47841-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47841-2005Jan29.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After Linda Trinh made her first trip to her parents' native Vietnam last summer, she returned to the United States deeply moved by the children she met at an AIDS hospice. The Johns Hopkins University senior penned them a poem. Don't feel sad about my departure, she told them.]]></description><author> Lena H. Sun</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumsfeld's Legacy: The Iraq Syndrome?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58318-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58318-2005Jan8.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Just as Vietnam became McNamara's War, Iraq has become Rumsfeld's War.]]></description><author> Lawrence Freedman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[4-Star Army Gen. William Rosson, 86]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6448-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6448-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ William B. Rosson, 86, a retired four-star Army general who was a battalion commander at Anzio, Italy, in World War II and a senior commander in Vietnam and served on the board of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, died Dec. 12 after a heart attack at his home in Salem, Va.]]></description><author> Patricia Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadly Fulfilling Marine's Dream]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41576-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41576-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Binh N. Le had not been back to the land of his birth since he came to the United States with an aunt and uncle at age 4, leaving his parents behind.]]></description><author> Rosalind S. Helderman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence Abroad: In Hanoi, 'Another Beaming American']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62688-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62688-2004Nov19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ My favorite lunch spot in Hanoi isn't much to look at, with only a cluster of knee-high tables and dozens of plastic, kindergarten-size chairs. But the homemade beer costs about a dime and the place is always filled with the Vietnamese lunch crowd: Men taking their daily two-hour break to drink, smoke and eat their fill. In short, it's not a tourist spot. It's the real thing.]]></description><author> Matt Bradley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softened Strike]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56028-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56028-2004Oct23.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sinclair Broadcast Group aired a program that sharply criticized John Kerry over Vietnam, with the anchor declaring: "Some people are trying to suppress the right to free speech."]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesick and Stalled]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46236-2004Oct19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46236-2004Oct19.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Since Sept. 20, a homesick 47-year-old refugee from Vietnam has been virtually stranded at Los Angeles International Airport, having lost the travel documents that would allow him to board any plane departing the United States.]]></description><author> Amy Argetsinger</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinclair Fires Critic of Plan to Broadcast Anti-Kerry Film]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43681-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43681-2004Oct18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Washington bureau chief of Sinclair Broadcast Group was fired after accusing the media company of "indefensible" conduct for planning to air a movie attacking Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam record in the coming days.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Team Wants Time]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36668-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36668-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/vietnam</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 17:01:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Democrat's campaign wants Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. to provide the campaign equal time after broadcasting a movie attacking his Vietnam record.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item></channel></rss>