Prospects seemed positive when the Vietnam government began offering licenses for beach development in the mid-1990s.
In Vietnam the government has eased visa requirements and investment restrictions to encourage the flow back, and since the 1990s thousands of Vietnamese have returned.
In the 1980s the world body allowed the guerrillas' government-in-exile to hold Cambodia's General Assembly seat rather than give it to the Vietnam-backed government Hun Sen headed.
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Back during the Vietnam War, government photographers went to the anti-war demonstrations and took pictures of the demonstrators.
The 12 men and two women were accused of links with the Viet Tan, an exiled organisation in the US, which Vietnam's government considers a militant group.
Vietnam's government often views religious groups with suspicion, analysts say.
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Vietnam's government has responded to all of this by encouraging the growth of the private sector, and by trying to diversify its trade and capital flows, notably through the deal with America.
The central government of Vietnam plans to build a dam nearby to generate electricity.
But early in 1966, Robert Kennedy mooted the possibility of a coalition government in Vietnam.
The communist government of Vietnam announced in April that it will "withdraw" all of its military forces from Cambodia by September of this year.
The notion of public service has been comprehensively trashed in the wake of Vietnam, by the government-hating right as much as by the establishment-bating left.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Dan Baer told a congressional panel that Vietnam's authoritarian government is rightly proud of expanding Internet use, but it has diminished the value by curbing free exchange of ideas.
When United Nations peacekeepers arrived in Cambodia in the early 1990s, it was reckoned that about 10m mines had been laid during the years of conflict involving the Khmers Rouges, the Phnom Penh government and Vietnam.
Journalist Margolis also compared the government of Afghanistan to the government of South Vietnam.
The government-owned Vietnam Airlines operates a duopoly on the route with Hong Kong-based partner Cathay Pacific.
He was one of the first high-ranking communists to enter Saigon when the government of South Vietnam collapsed in 1975.
The chemical manufacturer has had a chequered history, including making napalm and Agent Orange for the US government during the Vietnam War.
Tuan Bendixsen, the charity's Vietnam director, welcomed the government announcement.
When the harvest is poor, the government imports rice from Vietnam and Thailand and the market price drops.
However, Mr Thiraphong does fear competition from places such as Vietnam, because he reckons that the government there is better than Thailand's at cutting red tape.
Fourteen activists have gone on trial in central Vietnam on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.
In my day you went off to war: World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam to get your tuition money from the government.
"His friends and his neighbors stated that he did not trust the government, that he was a Vietnam vet, and that he had PTSD, " Byrd told the civil rights group.
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In 1996, Robert McCloskey, the U.S. government's main spokesman during the Vietnam War, died after a long illness.
Charges of spreading anti-state propaganda and attempting to overthrow the government are often made against dissidents in Vietnam.
In Vietnam, although collectivist economics have gone, the government remains collective and consensual.
Smolan had planned to do just this one book and then return to his photography career, but so much media attention was generated, he began receiving invitations from top government officials in Japan, Russia, Vietnam, Spain and other countries.
But the risk is all on their balance sheet, and the 230, 000-employee Foxconn facility in China could be the next River Rouge if entrepreneurs in Vietnam, with the assistance of their nominally Communist government leaders, are willing to risk billions on the next generation of industrial technology to employ their former agricultural workers and avoid their own civil unrest.
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The only hope for a real full accounting and for genuine democracy and economic opportunity for Vietnam will have to await the fall of the communist government in Hanoi.
But Canada's Conservative government has argued the situation has changed since the Vietnam era because the US military is now an all-volunteer force.
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