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Secret project wins Chinese scientist a Nobel

October 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Didi Tang Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The time could not have been more hostile for Chinese scientists. Research came to a virtual halt and intellectuals were routinely persecuted. But Tu Youyou, then a 39-year-old researcher, was summoned to join a secretive military project during the Cultural Revolution to find a cure for malaria […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Associated Press, China, Chinese, Cultural Revolution, Ge Hong, New York, Nobel Prize, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Tu Youyou, United States, Vol 34 No 43 | October 17 - October 23

US think tank proposes shake-up of Taiwan defense

January 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Matthew Pennington Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Fears of war between Taiwan and China have eased in recent years, but the growing gap in their military capabilities has prompted a U.S. think tank to lay out a radical new approach in how Taiwan could defend itself if China invaded, relying less on conventional forces […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, China, Chinese, Defense Department, Iran, North Korea, North Vietnam, Obama, PRC, Philippines, Taiwan, US, United States, Vietnam War

Vietnam and U.S. still in conflict over Agent Orange

May 27, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

CAM TUYEN, Vietnam (AP) — Her children are 21 and 16 years old, but they still cry through the night, tossing and turning in pain, sucking their thumbs for comfort.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Bien Hoa, Cam Tuyen, Environmental Administration, Hatfield Associates, Health Sciences, Le Ke Son, Michael Michalak, Nguyen Van Bong, North Vietnam, Phu Cat, South Vietnam, Tran Xuan Thu, United States, Veterans Administration, Vietnam Agent Orange Victims Association, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, Vol 29 No 22 | May 29 - June 4

Unique homecoming to Vietnam for U.S. commander

November 12, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

DANANG, Vietnam (AP) — On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Agent Orange, Blue Ridge, China Beach, Chinese, Colin Montgomerie, DANANG, Ho Chi Minh City, Hung Ba Le, Jeff Davis, North Vietnam, Paracel Islands, Philippines, South Vietnamese, Thong Ba Le, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 28 No 47 | November 14 - November 20

McCain a hero for many Vietnamese people

November 2, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — John McCain’s heroism during the Vietnam War and his efforts in Congress on behalf of Vietnamese refugees are being repaid in a small office wedged between a taekwondo studio and stock trading firm in the back of a strip mall.

Filed Under: News, National News Tagged With: 2008, Asian American, Assemblyman Van Tran, California Republican Party, Communist Vietnamese, Democrat Barack Obama, GOP, Hector Barajas, Joan Le, Little Saigon Outreach Office, North Vietnam, South Vietnamese, Truong Quang Si, United States, Vietnam War, Vietnamese Americans, WESTMINSTER, vol 27 no 45 | November 1 - November 7

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