Vietnam was set to host an international conference on Tuesday on the effects of the Vietnam War defoliant Agent Orange, bringing together veterans and delegates from at least six countries. Vietnamese civilians and soldiers from all sides of the conflict claim health defects from the chemical that United States forces used to strip away jungle cover and destroy food crops.
A Vietnamese court on Friday convicted former British glam rocker Gary Glitter of sexually abusing two underage Vietnamese girls and sentenced him to three years in prison. The faded 1970s pop star was found guilty of "committing obscene acts with children" — two girls aged 11 and 12 — last year in the South China Sea resort town of Vung Tau.
Like many Americans, Sam Askins has given up tobacco and developed a passion for organic food. Unlike most Americans, he is a sixth-generation tobacco farmer living in the remote Appalachian mountains of southwest Virginia.