In fact, this week representatives of Vaughan-Bassett are in Vietnam meeting with Vietnamese furniture companies.
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Kerry ignored Soviet or Chinese backing of North Vietnam, the North Vietnamese control of the Vietcong, or the Marxist-Leninist ideology that drove them.
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Like many young Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese) returning to Vietnam for the first time, he is disoriented.
Hagel described volunteering for Vietnam, serving a 12-month tour that included the Tet Offensive in 1968 a series of surprise North Vietnamese attacks on South Vietnam and its U.S. ally during a holiday cease-fire and rising to the rank of infantry sergeant.
Such a Vietnam still remains a dream of all Vietnamese, in the country and overseas.
We kept hankering to fight the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese regulars, as if Vietnam were a replay of World War II.
After returning to Vietnam in 2007, he soon became the youth chairman of a fledgling Vietnam Democratic Party, with ties to Vietnamese exiles in California.
He thought we could wage a low-key, limited war in Vietnam la Korea: leave the North Vietnamese in power in the North, and fight to save only the South.
The period that Americans refer to as the "Vietnam War" and the Vietnamese call the "American War" was the US military intervention from 1965 to 1973.
These reach to within 37 nautical miles (68km) of Vietnam's coast, according to PetroVietnam, a Vietnamese state-owned oil firm.
There's a lot of cash in Vietnam today, and more coming in foreign capital remittances from Vietnamese living and working overseas.
In 2008, during a Chinese row with Vietnam over the South China Sea, another suggested teaching the Vietnamese a lesson and published an invasion plan to show how.
Since the Vietnam War ended 25 years ago, more than two million Vietnamese have fled to the West, mainly to the U.S. The youngest of these immigrants, now in their 20s and 30s, are usually well educated, bilingual and reapers of the American dream.
During the Vietnam war, Shalikashvili served as a senior district adviser to South Vietnamese forces in 1968-69.
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The sentences are among the harshest given to any political dissident in Vietnam in recent years, says Nga Pham of the BBC's Vietnamese service.
Many middle-class Vietnamese are feeling the pinch too after putting their savings into Vietnam's sizzling stock market last year, then watching it plummet more than 60 percent since January.
Japanese Prime Minister Kan said Sunday, after meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Tan Dung, in Hanoi, that Vietnam chose Japan as a partner to mine rare-earth metals and to develop nuclear power in the Communist country, the Associated Press reported.
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At the end of the second world war in 1945 Ho Chi Minh, a Vietnamese guerrilla leader who had fought the Japanese, believed that Vietnam would be recognised as an independent country, especially by the United States, which had supplied the guerrillas with arms and money.
In Vietnamese it meant jade, which was all well and fine in Vietnam but meant nothing in Michigan.
The Tet offensive was a series of coordinated attacks in 1968 by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in U.S.-backed South Vietnam.
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Actress Jane Fonda earned the enmity of many veterans and the nickname "Hanoi Jane" when she traveled to Vietnam for two weeks in June 1972 and made propaganda statements for the North Vietnamese.
However, as the war in Vietnam escalated, Sihanouk became more critical of America, accusing Washington-supported South Vietnamese troops of repeated incursions into Cambodian territory.
Nowadays I believe we again share our commitment to a better Vietnam, a Vietnam freed of all types of dictatorship, a Vietnam of freedom, of justice, of prosperity, of equal opportunity for every Vietnamese, regardless of differences in religion, ideology and political opinions.
During the Vietnam war, American spies recruited members of Laos's Hmong ethnic minority to attack Vietnamese supply lines.
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The State Securities Commission (Vietnam's equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission) says it has no idea how many Vietnamese are trading U.S. stocks.
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My first objective is to bring the message to the Vietnamese community abroad that the time is very good for us to speak out for a new Vietnam after the Communist regime is replaced.
When Christmas was still Christmas, a paid-up Jewish liberal like Anthony Lewis could get seasonal outrage out of Nixon's and Kissinger's bombardment of Vietnam, referring with high-minded irony to the "Christmas bombing, " almost as if hardened Vietnamese Marxists would have preferred to be strafed on Labor Day.
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"It is a good thing because the Vietnamese will know better about trading stocks, " says SSC official Le Thao, an expert on Vietnam's securities market.
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