When visiting Vietnam, venture beyond Ho Chi Minh City and the Buddhist pagodas to discover an example of human creativity and tenacity buried beneath the foliage. The Cu Chi Tunnels, located near Ho ...

I had the opportunity to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, which are just outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The tunnel network was started in the late 1940s and used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

This is part of a series of articles by Westporter Robert Stokes based on his recent return to Vietnam for the first time since he covered the war from 1966 to l968 as a freelance journalist and later ...

In the words of Mark Twain “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” I was surprised with myself that I could not smell it. I recently returned from a trip ...

CU CHI, Vietnam (dpa) – Bursts of automatic weapons fire ring out through the eucalyptus northwest of Saigon, and camera-toting tourists are ducking for cover. “A.K., A.K.!” croaks a learing ...

Robert Haldane, 83, an Army officer who led the battalion that discovered the infamous Cu Chi tunnels during the Vietnam War, died of cancer March 5 at his home in Alexandria. Lt. Gen. Haldane was a ...

CU CHI, Vietnam -- When U.S. troops first deployed in large numbers to Vietnam in the mid-1960s, one of the first steps of the Army's 25th Division was to build a large base in the Cu Chi District.

An hour outside of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, a vast network of tunnels are hidden 20 feet below the ground. They're called the Cu Chi Tunnels, and tourists travel from around the world to crawl ...

Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report by Anna Pilawska-Sita and Michał Sita, PIX.HOUSE , Poznań 2019. In 1981 a Polish-Vietnamese heritage conservation mission gave an impulse to transforming the partisan ...

Originally built by Vietnamese guerrillas during the French Indochina War in the late 1940s, the Cu Chi Tunnels were developed further into a sprawling 200-km underground network against the invading ...