Hanoi (Vietnam)

Vietnam: Metropole offering tours of rediscovered wartime bunker

2013-04-23 07:45:00

The Metropole, Hanoi’s legendary colonial hotel built in 1901, is offering four daily tours to its recently reopened underground concrete bunker where guests, staff and anti-war activists such as Joan Baez and Jane Fonda sought safety from U.S air...

Review: Echoes of war resound in 'Christmas in Hanoi'

2013-02-18 11:42:00

With a Vietnamese mother and an Irish American father, Eddie Borey has firsthand experience of what it's like to straddle two diverse cultures. In his world-premiere play “Christmas in Hanoi,” an East West Players production at the David Henry...

Report: Dozens detained, jailed in crackdown on Vietnam bloggers

2013-02-12 16:46:00

Nguyen Hoang Vi was knocked from her motorcycle in an accident she believes was no accident. The windows of a car she was riding in were smashed nine months later, gashing her arms, legs and face, she told activists. Last spring her passport was taken...

Vietnam releases American activist accused of subversion

2013-01-30 12:25:00

An American democracy activist accused of trying to overthrow the Vietnamese government was freed Wednesday and sent home to Southern California to rejoin his family, more than nine months after he was first detained in Saigon. The unexpected decision...

Letters: Back to Vietnam

2013-01-26 00:00:00

Re "Buried history in Hanoi," Opinion, Jan. 20 My wife and I just returned from Hanoi, my first visit since serving as a battalion surgeon in the Marines during the war. We stayed at the Metropole hotel, which Op-Ed article writer Tom Hayden visited...

Buried history in Hanoi

2013-01-20 00:00:00

Out beyond the swank poolside bar at Hanoi's Metropole hotel, which I visited last month, a gated entrance opens onto a dark set of stairs. At the bottom is a dank and musty bomb shelter, and, for those who can read Vietnamese, a sign in golden...

Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'

2013-01-09 13:25:00

Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...

Duy Quang dies at 61; renowned Vietnamese singer

2012-12-23 00:00:00

The eldest sibling in Vietnam's most enduring singing family, Duy Quang was known for holding audiences enthralled as he boomed out the ballads of yesteryear, many penned by his father, Pham Duy, who knew how to tug at a listener's heart with songs...

Acclaimed Vietnamese dissident poet dies in Little Saigon

2012-10-02 19:54:13

PASSINGS: Edwin Q. White, Bill Dees

2012-11-03 00:00:00

Edwin Q. White Saigon bureau chief for AP during Vietnam War Edwin Q. White, 90, who as Associated Press bureau chief in Saigon during the 1960s was part of a fabled crew of journalists who covered the Vietnam War, died Thursday in Honolulu, the...

Nguyen Chi Thien dies at 73; poet, Vietnamese prisoner

2012-10-05 00:00:00

The poet was a familiar figure, striding through Little Saigon, sipping tea, sharing wisdom, his head covered with his trademark fedora. He liked to read through the night, not too tired to dissect a bit of homeland politics. He lived simply, renting...

Hanoi emerging as a destination for foodies

2012-03-11 00:00:00

In Hanoi, soup is a way of life — the connective tissue of Vietnamese culture. With noodles, herbs and sinew, it strings together twisting streets and varied lifestyles. Here the bones, crumpled napkins and squeezed limes that litter the ground...

An underground bunker, used during the war in Vietnam, was uncovered at the Metropole hotel in Hanoi.

2013-04-22 19:06:43

Jan. 27 will be the 40th anniversary of the Paris peace agreement, which formally ended direct U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. Above: Veterans attend a celebration show to mark the 40th anniversary of the so-called 'Hanoi-Dien Bien Phu Victory in the air,' in Hanoi, Vietnam.

2012-12-29 00:00:00

A piping hot bowl of bun cha, from a street stall in Hanoi's Old Quarter. The combination of grilled pork, sweet and savory broth with fish sauce, sliced green papaya, rice noodles and fresh herbs is the signature dish of Hanoi.

2012-03-08 17:25:00