The highway is not to be confused with the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a complex system of primitive ... North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam war. The Ho Chi Minh Highway, also built for military ...

Mountain scenes, quaint villages, chaotic traffic, cheap motels and repetitive noodle soup, punctuated by the occasional flat tyre My partner pokes me in the ribs and points down into a valley beside ...

During the Vietnam War, the United States recruited Hmongs in Laos to help fight against the Communists. Hmong soldiers, led by General Vang Pao, blocked Hanoi’s Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and ...

This week, host Wendy Corr visits with Wyoming adventurer and author Sam Lightner, Jr. From Sam’s passion for mountain ...

Ho Chi Minh City faces potential flooding in low-lying areas due to high tides during the Lunar New Year. Photo credit: Chi Hung The arrival of a strengthening cold air mass will bring chilly ...

A traffic jam on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Thanh Hiep / Tuoi Tre The first script I teach my students is usually about a character's journey. Some event forces ...

Delegates join the dragon and lion eye dotting ceremony at the 2025 Vietnamese Tet Festival at the Youth Culture House in Ho Chi Minh City, January 13, 2024. The ritual, which involves placing a ...

Even though it would be as costly for Putin to end the special operation as to keep it going, there is a way out: he can continue permanent war against the West—by cold means rather than hot. The main ...

For decades, the defining conflict in the region was a “cold war” between Iran and the Gulf Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia. This struggle, steeped in sectarian and strategic divides ...

David Lammy has declared that the hard-won “post-Cold War peace is well and truly over” as he used his first major speech of 2025 to take aim at Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression.

The CWSP is located in the LSE Department of International History, the home of some of the leading scholars of the Cold War in Europe. The CWSP focuses on the history of the Cold War, which uses ...

contend in Foreign Affairs that “Putin is now more committed than ever to the war with Ukraine,” adding that “Putin’s ultimate objectives are to relitigate the post–Cold War order in ...