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In Vietnam, 32 years after my family fled, I didn’t find the sense of home I was expecting
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U.S., Vietnam say they hope to deepen ties as Secretary of State Blinken visits Hanoi
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, accompanied by Vietnam's Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son, left, and Ambassador of the United States to Vietnam Marc Knapper, second from right, participates in a groundbreaking for a new U.S. embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, Saturday, April 15, 2023. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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SpaceX, Netflix and Boeing to join ‘biggest-ever’ U.S. business mission to Vietnam
FILE PHOTO: A Netflix logo is pictured in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 15, 2022. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo
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Drone technology is finding unlikely uses across sectors
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On the 50th anniversary of the war’s end, the wounds of Vietnam still haven’t healed
David Shribman
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Vietnam’s president resigns as ruling Communist Party intensifies anti-graft campaign
FILE PHOTO: Vietnam's President Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrives to attend APEC Leader's Dialogue with APEC Business Advisory Council during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, November 18, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand. Lillian Suwanrumpha/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Chinese human-rights activist accepted as refugee by Canada has gone missing
Guangping Dong, a Chinese human rights activist who was accepted as a refugee by Canada in 2015. He was subsequently jailed by China and released again in 2020 and fled to Vietnam. He has been missing in Vietnam since June and his family fears he has been deported to China again.
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Vietnam’s best-ever chess grandmaster turned to Canada when he wanted to improve his game
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Vietnam karaoke bar fire kills at least 12, state media says
This picture taken on September 6, 2022 and released on September 7 by the Vietnam News Agency shows firefighters at the scene of a deadly fire that engulfed a karaoke bar in Binh Duong province, north of Ho Chi Minh City. - A fire tore through a karaoke bar in Vietnam killing 12 people and leaving 11 injured, a local official said September 7. (Photo by Vietnam News Agency / AFP) (Photo by STR/Vietnam News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)
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The life and work of photographer Tim Page, in his own words
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Tim Page, celebrated conflict photographer who captured the horrors of Vietnam War, dies at 78
"Shooting War: Covering 50 Years of Conflict", a Globe and Mail sponsored symposium held June 21-22, 2019 at the Bell TIFF Lighthouse in Toronto. Tim Page, an iconic photographer of the Vietnam War and founder of the IndoChina Media Memorial Foundation to commemorate the work of the dead and the missing. Photo by Glenn Lowson / The Globe and Mail.
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Vietnamese government orders technology firms to store user data onshore
Various photos of ethernet computer cables photographed in studio in Toronto, Ont. Nov. 8, 2010. (Photo by Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail)
international business
Apple suppliers to make Apple Watch and MacBook in Vietnam: report
FILE PHOTO: A display case containing the Apple Watch Sport is seen at Apple's flagship retail store in San Francisco, California June 17, 2015. Wednesday marked the first time customers could pick up and purchase the watch at Apple retail stores. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo
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Manulife agent numbers in China, Vietnam slide on pandemic challenges, regulation
Signage is seen on Manulife Financial Corp.'s office tower in Toronto, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
international business
Adidas posts 28% decline in second-quarter operating profit despite sales increase
FILE Ñ An Adidas store at a shopping mall in Beijing on Feb. 9, 2020. There are 12,000 Adidas stores in China, up from 9,000 in 2015, but the company said it expects China revenue to Òdecline significantlyÓ this year. (Giulia Marchi/The New York Times)
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In documentary The Confession, a South Korean veteran wrestles with taboos and the part he played in Vietnam War atrocities
South Korean pastor Song Jung-geun says he witnessed and took part in atrocities as a marine during the Vietnam War.
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My father was a war correspondent. The job has changed between his time in Vietnam and what reporters are experiencing in Ukraine today
Eric Reguly
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VinFast, the firm built on selling noodles in Ukraine, targets North America with EVs
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Melanie Joly to travel to Indonesia and Vietnam to expand partnerships
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Canada's foreign affairs minister is travelling to Asia for meetings to expand partnerships and engage with nations as part of the government's forthcoming Canadian Indo-Pacific Strategy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Olivier Matthys
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Furniture maker Palliser expanding operations, hiring 700 workers amid high demand
Palliser Furniture Holdings Ltd. in Winnipeg Manitoba, May 3, 2017. Lyle Stafford/For the Globe and Mail
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Spike in COVID-19 cases across Asia follows Lunar New Year celebrations
Thai traditional dancers wearing face masks to help protect themselves from the coronavirus perform at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Thich Nhat Hanh, poetic peace activist and master of mindfulness, dies at 95
FILE PHOTO: Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who left Vietnam in 1966 and lives in France, walks among believers after finishing a speech at the opening ceremony of a requiem mass at the Non Nuoc pagoda in Soc Son mountain, 64 km (40 miles) north of Hanoi, April 20, 2007. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo
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Belgian court jails trafficking gang leader for Vietnamese truck deaths
(From L) Assessor Pieter Druyts, Chairman of the court Bert Salembier and Assessor Amelie Vanbelleghem chair the court during the verdict hearing at the trial of 23 people over the death of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a refrigerated truck found in UK in 2019, in a courtroom in Brugge on January 19, 2022. - Vo Van Hong, 45, was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison for leading a cross-Channel people-trafficking operation that has been linked to a truck that was found full of corpses on an English industrial estate in October 2019. The 2019 discovery on the Grays industrial park east of London was one of the worst involving migrants in recent years. The victims, 31 men and eight women aged between 15 and 44 were all Vietnamese, died from suffocation and hyperthermia in the confined space of the truck, which arrived on a ferry from Zeebrugge. (Photo by KURT DESPLENTER / BELGA / AFP) / Belgium OUT (Photo by KURT DESPLENTER/BELGA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vietnam urges China to urgently ease COVID-19 border controls as trade stalls
FILE PHOTO: People line up in the rain at a nucleic acid testing site following cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Dongxing, a border city with Vietnam, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China December 27, 2021. cnsphoto via REUTERS
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Dissident journalist jailed in Vietnam for nine years for ‘anti-state’ acts
international business
Lego to build new brick factory in Vietnam to keep up with growing demand across Asia
FILE PHOTO: The Lego logo is pictured above the main gate of the new Legoland New York Resort theme park during a press preview of the park in Goshen, New York, U.S., April 28, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
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How supply chain challenges are affecting the investment outlook
NOVATO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Nike shoes are displayed at a shoe store on September 27, 2021 in Novato, California. Nike has had to downgrade its fiscal 2022 revenue outlook as the shoe company faces supply chain shortages that will impact inventories ahead of the holiday shopping season. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Nike’s Vietnam supply hurdles in focus ahead of quarterly results
People walk past a store of the sporting goods retailer Nike Inc at a shopping complex in Beijing, China March 25, 2021.
opinion
Who should represent Myanmar at the UN?
Erik Martinez Kuhonta
world
Vietnam warns of risk of floods, landslides after storm weakens
international business
Lululemon raises full-year forecast betting on strong athleisure demand
FILE - This June 5, 2017, file photo, shows a Lululemon Athletica logo outside a store on Newbury Street in Boston. Lululemon Athletica Inc. reports earnings Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Vietnamese man sentenced to five years for spreading coronavirus to others
A health worker is pictured behind a barrier in a quarantine area amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Hanoi, Vietnam, September 6, 2021.REUTERS/Stringer
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'You learn quickly or you die:' Photojournalist Tim Page on covering the Vietnam War
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