Conversations on Vietnam Development
Chiến tranh đã lùi xa 45 năm, nhưng ở thời mảnh đất từng xảy ra cuộc thảm sát Sơn Mỹ, đến nay vết thương chiến tranh cũng dần nguôi. Trên chặng đường cùng đất nước phát triển, người dân “núi Ấn sông Trà” đã gác lại chuyện quá khứ, hướng đến tương lai. Nhưng có những người Mỹ đã trở lại Việt Nam và Quảng Ngãi để hàn gắn vết thương chiến tranh, để chuộc lỗi.
Vợ chồng bác sĩ Esther Bucher tình nguyện chăm sóc, giúp đỡ trẻ em da cam ở Đức Phổ |
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Nhan Huong inside the Saigon Zoo & Botanical Gardens (Thao Cam Vien) in District 1 is at the exact location the restaurant was when it was a secret base for the People’s Army half a century ago. It was where soldiers held secret meetings before battles. |
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The restaurant was established by Nguyen Van Tung, who was born in 1913 in Tra Vinh Province. He named it Nhan Huong after his late wife. Saigon Zoo was chosen as the location because it was a crowded place which enabled the troops to go in and out easily without drawing much attention. In addition, it was also conveniently located near the enemy headquarters. |
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The relic has been re-created to look exactly as it did half a century ago. |
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The restaurant employees were all relatives of the owner, which enabled him to keep the goings-on there confidential. |
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Among its guests would be U.S soldiers and security personnel, who had no inkling the restaurant was a secret enemy base. |
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The bedroom Vietnamese soldiers used to rest. |
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Also on display are historical documents, images and weapons. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, the restaurant served as an important base for the storming of the Independence Palace. |
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Some weapons used by the communist soldiers are on display. |
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Nhan Huong Restaurant gets many visitors especially during holidays. The place was recognized as a historic relic in 2014. Vietnam celebrates Reunification Day on April 30, which this year marks the 45th anniversary after the fall of the Saigon regime. |
Mac Shin visited to the Tan Trao Safety Zone in 1995. (Photo: Dao Ngoc Ninh)
Chương Bốn
BÁNH XE LỊCH SỬ
Thiên thời Địa lợi Nhân hòa
NGÀY TÀN CỦA NỀN ĐỘC TÀI CÔNG GIÁO
Sự Sát hại 2 Tổng thống Công giáo
(Trích từ “Vietnam: Why Did We Go?”, Chương 15,
của Avro Manhattan)
* Tại sao tòa đại sứ Mỹ đã chống lại cuộc đề cử Diệm * Một sự lựa chọn tai hại * Thế lưỡng nan của Kennedy * Các ưu tiên chính trị tôn giáo của Diệm * So sánh các nền độc tài Ca-tô của xứ Croatia và Việt Nam * Những mục tiêu chính của Diệm và Pavelich * Các hoạt động tôn giáo của Diệm làm nguy hại những nỗ lực chiến tranh của Hoa Kỳ ở Việt Nam * Binh sĩ Phật giáo đào ngũ khỏi Quân đội Việt Nam * Các biện pháp giúp tránh sự tan rã của đội quân * Viện trợ của Mỹ cho Việt Nam bị ngưng * Trưởng CIA bị gọi về * Một “cú lật đổ” Diệm được thả lõng * Diệm và người em bị bắn chết * Tổng thống Kennedy bị giết * Thêm mười năm nữa cho chiến tranh Việt Nam * Cái giá cuối cùng, mạng sống của 58 ngàn thanh niên Mỹ. Tiếp tục đọc “Ngày tàn của nền độc tài Công giáo: Sự Sát hại 2 Tổng thống Công giáo”
It was almost 10 p.m. when she reached Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport with her family. September 12 was going to be a day to remember.
While the family members waited at the arrival gate, Lan insisted on standing at Pillar 12, the rendezvous for Lan and Ken Reesing, an American soldier she’d fallen in love with a lifetime ago.
Tiếp tục đọc “American soldier, Vietnamese girl find lost love after 50 years”
QUANG TRI, Vietnam (Reuters) – Two petite women in protective gear walk slowly down an empty field in Vietnam, carrying a large metal detector that clicks and whirrs, searching for unexploded ordnance.
Medic and safety officer Nguyen Thi Ha Lan supervises her teammates, the “landmine girls” as they are known, preparing to detonate a cluster bomb left behind from the war with the United States that ended in 1975.
It is one of many underneath the soil in Quang Tri province, north-central Vietnam.
Once the team is ready to detonate, Lan warns people to clear the area. A siren goes off and then an earthshattering boom. Tiếp tục đọc “Meet the female squad who clear out Vietnam’s unexploded bombs”
United States Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources, Francis R. Fannon and Vietnamese Vice Minister Dang Hoang An of the Ministry of Industry and Trade signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) memorializing a United States-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership on Energy, September 30, in Washington, DC. Through this partnership, the United States and Vietnam have increased cooperation on energy through more frequent and direct correspondence between U.S. and Vietnamese energy officials at the policy and technical levels.
Tiếp tục đọc “United States and Vietnam Institutionalize Energy Partnership”
Hội Tình lai không biên giới vừa cho biết họ đang ráo riết vận động cho toàn bộ con lai còn ở Việt Nam được đến quê cha đoàn tụ.
Trong hồ sơ vận động của họ có bổ sung những bài viết về con lai đăng trên báo Thanh Niên gần đây.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vận động ráo riết cho con lai còn ở Việt Nam”
HANOI: With repeated Chinese intrusions into oil-rich Vanguard Bank and anticipated departure of ExxonMobil from the Blue Whale project, the South China Sea dispute has reached a turning point. A planned meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Nguyễn Phú Trọng could be pivotal for a strategic partnership, but is unlikely to happen any time soon.
During the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi in February, Trump invited Trọng to visit Washington with discussions expected on the South China Sea, the US-Vietnam strategic partnership and the Blue Whale project. Trọng postponed visits in July and October for unspecified concerns over health or Chinese reactions, and uncertainty lingers as Trump contends with impeachment by a polarized Congress. Tiếp tục đọc “Trump-Trọng Summit Remains in Limbo”
By Nov. 27, 2019 NYTimes.com
(Reuters) – The message appeared on my cellphone with an intriguing opening line: “I am sure you won’t remember hearing my real name, Nguyen thi Phuong Mai…”
By the end of the message, I remembered everything.
Tiếp tục đọc “A Journey to Vietnam and a Connection Between Two Adopted Children”
HO CHI MINH CITY – Vietnam got a double dose of waterway diplomacy from the United States last week.
In the north, in Hanoi, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Wednesday his nation would provide Vietnam with a second coast guard cutter ship to use in the South China Sea, where it has a dispute with China.
In the south, in an unrelated event around the same time, a U.S. consul general toured the Mekong Delta in a dinghy as part of a series of visits related to education, environment, and culture. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Gets Double Dose of US Waterway Diplomacy”
Le secrétaire américain à la Défense Mark Esper effectue une visite officielle au Vietnam du 19 au 21 novembre, sur invitation du ministre vietnamien de la Défense Ngo Xuan Lich. Tiếp tục đọc “Le Vietnam et les Etats-Unis intensifient leur coopération dans la défense – Vietnam and the United States intensify their cooperation in defense”
Fifty years ago today, the Cleveland Plain Dealer — what was, at the time, a daily newspaper — published shocking photos of the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. It was the first outlet in the United States to do so. Tiếp tục đọc “Plain Dealer Published Photos of My Lai Massacre in Vietnam 50 Years Ago Today”
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