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Saigon willing for joint call to end hostility

Fifty years ago, the South Vietnamese Government indicated that it was prepared to sign a joint appeal calling for a cessation of hostilities in Vietnam.

The Hindu

All Attraction, A Star Is Born, Loch Lomond, Sea Lion, Saigon and Truth impress

BENGALURU: All Attraction, A Star Is Born, Loch Lomond, Sea Lion, Saigon and Truth impressed when the horses were exercised here on Tuesday morning (June 6)

The Hindu

Rail ‘mayhem’ as thousands stuck in London station queues likened to ‘last train out of Saigon’

Those stuck in huge queues at St Pancras Station described ‘arguing and pushing’ amid ‘limited crowd control’

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London station ‘like last train out of Saigon’ amid Easter travel disruption

Some passengers reported shoving and arguments as thousands were delayed for several hours on Good Friday.

The Independent UK

Fifty years since the beginning of the end of the Vietnam war

On 27 January 1973, all the protagonists in the protracted Vietnam conflict, the Ten Thousand Day War, agreed to end hostilities, and signed the Paris Accords. That did not stop the fighting.

Radio France Internationale

Symbols of strength

In central locations of three major Asian cities -- Singapore, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City -- stand bronze elephant statues. If they could talk, these statues could tell of imperialism, civil war, invasion, anti-colonial struggle, independence, nationhood, and more recently of rapid urban and economic development. Perched high up…

Bangkok Post

Holiday dining at home: Chicago chef Kaze Chan’s recipe for Vietnamese pork

“This recipe has been in my family for generations. I first remember my grandmother making this at her restaurant back in the 1950s in Saigon,” says Sushi-san’s chef Kaze.

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Dover chaos shows your passport isn’t worth what it used to be

Those images of four-mile, six-hour long queues to get into and through the Port of Dover. They’re not quite the last helicopter out of Saigon, but they tell a story of their own.

Evening Standard

Bellbottoms and Bellwethers: Is It the 70s Again?

I was born in 1979, so any anecdotes about the rise of disco or the fall of Saigon have come, at best, second hand. So too are the stories of inflation on a scale so epic it makes 2022 seem like a consumer paradise.

Benzinga

Vietnamisation that never worked

Saigon, May 1: Vietnamisation not only never worked but never happened despite the American pull-out

The Hindu

Dirck Halstead: War zone photographer who ventured into danger

From the Vietnam war to the Middle East, Halstead was unafraid to capture conflict with his lens

The Independent UK

Ukraine crisis: Front pages call it invasion, channels battle for ‘world exclusive’

In an op-ed for the New York Times in 2017, Ronald Steinman, the NBC bureau chief in Saigon in 1966, said that his role in the first televised war – the Vietnam war – was clear: “to supply NBC News with an endless story of the war”.

Newslaundry

Un-pho-gettable

The pandemic hasn't slowed the spirit of entrepreneurs, especially in the food business despite the odds.

Bangkok Post

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