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Early life and education Born September 23, 1947, in Racine, Thomas W. Andersen graduated from Washington Park High School in ...

A prominent Vietnamese lawyer has gone on trial for Facebook posts that allegedly criticized the country's former top judge.

A prominent former lawyer went on trial in Vietnam on Thursday over Facebook posts in which he criticised high court officials, as rights groups decried another attack on freedom of expression in the ...

The Vietnamese government initiated legal proceedings on Tuesday against prominent lawyer Tran Dinh Trien for allegedly ...

The U.S. trade deficit with Vietnam exceeded $110 billion in the first 11 months of 2024, latest U.S. figures show, as ...

For Spencer Matteson, the memories of a battlefield "covered with dead bodies" are still painful. But with his help, ...

Murphy Oil announced an oil discovery about 40 miles off the shore of Vietnam.

On January 9, 2025, the People’s Court of Hanoi is scheduled to hear the case of high-profile lawyer Tran Dinh Trien, who was ...

A Vietnamese monk who became an internet hit last year is going international.Thich Minh Tue, 44, is on a 1,650-mile barefoot ...

Like many Vietnam era vets, Ed White weighed his options and got ahead of receiving a draft notice. “I went down and asked ...