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Vietnam airline fined for in-flight bikini show

August 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Bored by inflight safety demos? A group of bikini-clad beauty queens in Vietnam recently strutted through a packed airplane as dance music blasted a song with the lyric “I’m crazy for banana” …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Civil Aviation Administration, DANANG, Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang, Vietjet Air, Vietnam, Vietnamese, letter

U.S. starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam

August 20, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The United States began a landmark project last week to clean up a dangerous chemical left from the defoliant Agent Orange — 50 years after American planes fi rst sprayed it on Vietnam’s jungles to destroy enemy cover …

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Agent Orange, Ambassador David Shear, Bien Hoa, DANANG, Environmental Protection Agency, Nguyen Chi Vinh, Phu Cat, South China Sea, South Vietnam, United States, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, poverty, technology

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

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