Military officers stoop to inspect slim green cannons along the Saigon River. Construction equipment whines as workers erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and helicopters roar ...

Ho Chi Minh City is often regarded as the most dynamic economic centre in Vietnam. Yet beneath this vibrant bustle, every ...

Red-and-gold banners snapped in the sticky morning breeze above a quarter-mile-long grandstand holding some 5,600 Vietnamese dignitaries and foreign guests. I occupied one of the cushioned seats, ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Wednesday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation with a military parade and a ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Naja Pham Lockwood sat in a corner of the last South Vietnamese ship to leave Vietnam during the harrowing chaos as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. As a multitude of people ...

Andrew Lam remembers walking along the shore of Vũng Tàu, a small coastal city near Saigon. As the North Vietnamese army was making its way to the capital five decades ago, 11-year-old Lam stood on ...

For Americans, Saigon is both a place and a symbol, a welter of impressions and a locus of deep feeling. Between 1955, when President Dwight Eisenhower sent the first U.S. military advisors to counter ...

Women pose for photos outside the Saigon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City on April 8. The country will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on Wednesday. (Tan Qingju / Getty Images) ...