War Remnants Museum

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US Navy nurse, jailed for protest, revisits VN

American Navy nurse Susan Schnall was dismissed from service and sentenced to six months of hard labour for protesting against the American war in Vietnam in 1969. In March she visited Vietnam for a fifth time

Photos put focus on VN fishermen

 VietNamNet Bridge – Japanese photographer Murayama Yasufumi plans to organise a photo exhibition displaying 40 photos of Vietnamese residents, including fishermen, living in the central provinces.

Museums learn to think outside the box

VietNamNet Bridge – The War Remnants Museum is filled with the fragrance of grass and rice, punctuated by the lingering smoke of cooking fires. Foreign visitors watch on as old women - one time guerrilla fighters - cook the rice

Domestic tourism surges in first half

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s domestic tourists reached 24 million in the first half of this year, up by 12 percent against the same period last year, and 73.8 percent of this year’s target.

Impact for peace highlights the lethal legacy of a troubled past

The tragic deaths of four children in Vinh Long Province last week served as a timely reminder of the deadly legacy of the unexploded ordnance left throughout rural Vietnam after the American withdrawal of the mid 1970’s.