| July 21, 2007 | - In Baghdad two people died and 15 were wounded in the celebration following the Iraqi soccer team's 2‒0 victory over Vietnam;.
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ESPN
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| July 15, 2007 | - Russia celebrated the 60th anniversary of the AK-47. “On behalf of all my brethren who died in the anti-American war to liberate our country,” said Senior Colonel To Xuan Hue, the defense attaché from Vietnam, "we thank you for inventing this weapon.”
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NYT
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| November 19, 2006 | - President George W. Bush visited Vietnam and avoided all contact with regular Vietnamese citizens. “The president has been doing a lot of waving,” said National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, “and getting a lot of waving and smiles.”
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The New York Times
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| November 15, 2006 | -
Forests were expanding in Spain, Ukraine, Vietnam, and China.
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Times Online
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| October 18, 2006 | - During a debate with his Democratic rival, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana said that President Bush (who this week compared Iraq to Vietnam) has a secret plan for winning the war, but that Bush is not going to share his plan with the world.
| Source 1:
Billings Gazette
Source 2:
FT
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| October 13, 2006 | - A Vietnamese death-row inmate convicted of possessing heroin worth more than one billion dong had her sentence commuted to life in prison when she was discovered to be pregnant.
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BBC
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| July 19, 2006 | - The president of Vietnam told reporters to “stick to their principles” and to “do their utmost in the fight against wrong-doing and crime.”
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Vietnam News
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| June 6, 2006 | -
Donald Rumsfeld, the American secretary of defense, traveled to Vietnam, where he complained that Russia is a bully and China is secretive; he also observed that when Vietnam's first university was founded in 1070 American Indians were still living in mud huts. “That's impressive,” he said.
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New York Times
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| May 14, 2006 | - Bird flu appeared to have been eradicated in Thailand and Vietnam.
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The New York Times
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| March 21, 2006 | - The World Health Organization reported that 103 humans had died from bird flu since late 2003, mostly in Vietnam and Indonesia.
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BBC News
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| March 3, 2006 | - In Vietnam musician Paul Gadd, also known as Gary Glitter, was found guilty of sexually abusing two preteen girls. He will be jailed for three years and must pay the girls' families 5 million dong.
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BBC News
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| February 11, 2006 | -
Vietnam was refusing to allow people to register website names that contained the word "buoi," which, depending on tonal intonation, could mean either "penis" or "grapefruit," or the word "lon," which could mean either "vagina" or "pig."
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| January 7, 2006 | - Hugh Thompson Jr., who rescued Vietnamese civilians from U.S. G.I.s during the My Lai massacre, died.
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AP
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| December 2, 2005 | - The National Security Agency released papers related to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident; one previously secret history, written in 2001, argued that intelligence regarding the incident was “deliberately skewed” to cover up 90 percent of intercepted North Vietnamese communications, so that President Lyndon Johnson and Congress could be more easily pushed into the Vietnam War.
| Source:
SFGate
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| June 21, 2005 | -
President Bush announced that he would visit Vietnam in 2006.
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CNN.com
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| May 4, 2005 | -
Vietnam decided to vaccinate 600,000 birds for avian flu.
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New Scientist
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| May 1, 2005 | - United States veterans commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon by laying a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C..
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BBC News
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| April 30, 2005 | - In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, veterans held a parade and costumed dancers acted out the crashing of U.S. warplanes.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 21, 2005 | - A Vietnam veteran spit tobacco juice in Jane Fonda's face.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 11, 2005 | - A New York judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and several other chemical companies on behalf of 4 million Vietnamese who were poisoned by the 80 million liters of Agent Orange sprayed during the Vietnam War. The judge said that there was no clear link between Agent Orange and the illnesses of the Vietnamese plaintiffs, even though the U.S. government currently pays compensation to ten thousand U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War impaired by Agent Orange.
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VOA
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| February 20, 2005 | - Scientists were waiting for H5N1, an avian flu virus that has killed forty-one people in Thailand and Vietnam, to mutate into a form that can spread more rapidly among humans. If that happens, the flu is expected to kill tens of millions worldwide. Thailand rejected a plan to slow the spread of the flu because the plan's execution—which called for the destruction of millions of possibly infected ducks and chickens and the distribution of face masks—would alarm the public.
| Source:
The Independent
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| February 16, 2005 | - An Episcopal priest who fought in Vietnam, distraught over the war in Iraq, killed himself in Wenatchee, Washington.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| August 12, 2004 | - and three Vietnamese died of bird flu.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 7, 2004 | - It was the 40th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to escalate the war in Vietnam; historians noted its similarity to the October 2002 congressional resolution authorizing the invasion of Iraq, which was also based on falsehoods.
| Source:
Newsday
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| July 7, 2004 | - Avian flu reappeared in Thailand and China and Vietnam.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| February 13, 2004 | -
Republican operatives were looking high and low for anyone who could remember serving in the National Guard with President George W. Bush between May 1972 and May 1973; one group of Vietnam veterans was offering a $1,000 reward for proof that the president met his military obligations.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 9, 2004 | - Foot and mouth disease was killing cattle and pigs in Vietnam.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 14, 2004 | - Disease experts warned that the bird flu infecting humans in Vietnam could combine with the human influenza virus and start a global pandemic.
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 1, 2004 | - It was reported that the CIA is planning to set up a new secret police force in Iraq, modeled after the Phoenix program of the Vietnam War, that will ensure the United States retains control over the country after official sovereignty passes to a native government. The secret plan, of which Dick Cheney was the purported secret author, will cost $3 billion and will be funded from the CIA's secret budget.
| Source:
London Telegraph
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| November 28, 2003 | -
President Bush showed up in Iraq for Thanksgiving wearing an Army
tracksuit; Bush stayed in the country for two and a half hours, the same amount of time spent by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Vietnam, in 1966.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 20, 2003 | - An American warship docked at Ho Chi Minh City.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 14, 2003 | - It was noticed that more U.S. soldiers have died so far in Iraq than in the first three years of the Vietnam War.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 14, 2003 | - There was severe flooding in central Vietnam.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| November 13, 2003 | - The Bush Administration, worried about the political cost of the Iraq war and increasingly plagued by comparisons with Vietnam, decided to speed up its "Iraqification" plan by transferring sovereignty to a provisional native government by June 30.
| Source:
New York Times, USA Today
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| October 13, 2003 | - The United States and Vietnam agreed to open direct commercial flights between the countries for the first time since the Vietnam War.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 8, 2003 | -
President George W. Bush made a televised address to the nation and declared that Iraq was now the "central front" in the war on terrorism.
He called for national resolve and national sacrifice and said that he will ask Congress for $87 billion in emergency funds for the occupation.
It was noted that this new request, which comes on top of $79 billion already approved, will probably push the current budget deficit up to $600 billion. Howard Dean said the speech, which made no mention of Osama bin Laden, was "outrageous" and said it reminded him of Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War.
Senator Bob Graham observed that Bush now wants to spend more on Iraq this year than the federal government will spend on education.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 22, 2003 | - The former head of the U.S. army's Depleted Uranium Project announced that the damage from munitions used in both Gulf Wars will eclipse the Agent Orange fallout of the Vietnam War.
| Source:
Buffalo News
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| December 3, 2002 | -
The Canadian official who called George W. Bush a moron was forced to resign, and the president, who tried very hard to prevent the creation of an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks, named Henry Kissinger to be the commission's chairman. Kissinger, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor, and Chile, said he did not expect to discover any conflicts of interest between his work on the commission and his work as an agent for various undisclosed transnational corporations and foreign powers.
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| May 1, 2001 | - A couple was imprisoned in Vietnam for making a 10-year-old boy stitch up his own mouth with a needle and thread as punishment for stealing 200 dong, less than two cents.
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| April 10, 2001 | - Several Americans died in Vietnam when their helicopter crashed; they had been looking for the remains of American soldiers who were missing in action.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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| November 21, 2000 | - President Bill Clinton drove through the streets of Vietnam in a limo sporting a Vietnamese flag on one fender, a U.S. flag on the other.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, warned of “the Vietnamization of the entire Amazon region.” Vietnam returned the body of a Canadian woman, minus one ear, after she was put to death for drug trafficking.
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