Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Tribeca restaurant Khe-Yo, which served dynamic ...

Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...

From an early age Khe Hy, a nerdy, first-generation Cambodian American kid in New York City turned his attention toward making money. Khe's game plan was simple: if he earned enough money, he would ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War -- the Battle of Khe Sanh. Across the U.S., groups of Vietnam veterans are gathering to ...

Wincing in the unaccustomed sun light, U.S. Marines of the 6,000-man Khe Sanh garrison tumbled out of their bunkers into the open air. Amid shell craters and the wreckage of destroyed Jeeps, ...

SAN DIEGO — When the battle was over, Marines who fought in Vietnam labeled Hill 881 South “a deadly killing zone” in the long siege of Khe Sanh. Twenty-seven Marines were killed and 50 wounded — in ...

THE U.S. last week began to abandon Khe Sanh, the once idyllic valley in South Viet Nam’s northwest corner that early this year became the scene of the war’s biggest and bitterest siege. The news ...

The Battle of Khe Sanh began 50 years ago this week when roughly 20,000 North Vietnamese troops surrounded an isolated combat base held by roughly 5,500 Marines. The marines could not be reinforced or ...

Exclusively for CounterPunch, Matthew Stevenson travels from Haiphong and Hanoi, in what was North Vietnam, to the Central Highlands and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon and the capital, in search of ...

My Khe Beach in Da Nang is absent from this year's list of Asia's most beautiful beaches as voted by Tripadvisor readers, after ranking sixth last year. No Vietnamese beaches made the list, which was ...