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While Vietnam has remained relatively conflict-free since its Cambodia days, tensions have arisen in the past between Vietnam and its neighbors, especially in the case of China since both nations assert claims to the Spratly and Paracel Islands - the two archipelagos in a potentially oil-rich area of the South China Sea. Conflicting claims have ...
When everyone fears the same things. During the Vietnam protests, one might have seen a counter-protester calling demonstrators commies. By the 1970s, most Americans opposed the war (though an ...
The primary social issues in Vietnam are rural and child poverty. Vietnam scores 37.6 in the Gini coefficient index of wealth inequality, with the top 10% accounting for 30.2% of the nation's income and the bottom 10% receiving 3.2%. In 2008, 14% of the population lived below the national poverty line of US$1.15 per day.
Unlike in the Vietnam era, during which Black men were disproportionately sent to the front lines, today's racial justice movement has been spurred by police brutality and economic, social and ...
De jure, the article 43 of the constitution of Vietnam includes a right to a healthy environment. [9] The state is obliged to "…protect the environment; manage, and effectively and stably use natural resources; protect nature and biodiversity; take initiative in prevention and resistance against natural calamities; and respond to climate change."
The Vatican and Vietnam are due to take a major step towards improving their long strained relations by finalising a deal in which Hanoi will allow the Holy See to have a resident representative ...
Although in general, the view of Vietnam and the Vietnamese among the majority in the world is positive since the Vietnamese economic reforms post-1986; Western media regarding the Vietnam War can be a negative for Vietnam's image. The most notable is the use of the term Việt Cộng, which has different interpretations depending on the context.
The leaders of China and Vietnam hailed as "strategic" on Wednesday their decision to strengthen ties and be part of a community with a "shared future", as a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping ...