In a May 10, 2008, article in the Asia Times "The case for invading Myanmar" Shawn W. Crispin writes: A unilateral - and potentially United Nations-approved - US military intervention in the name of humanitarianism could easily turn the tide against the impoverished country's unpopular military leaders, and simultaneously rehabilitate the legacy of lame-duck US....

An article on "Black April": For many in Little Saigon, memories of what they went through still shape their reality. Others -- many born here -- look to Vietnam for opportunities and for ways to improve lives. By My-Thuan Tran, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer (April 30, 2008) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-me-saigon30apr30,1,1738706.story?page=1&track=rss">Lives remembered, lives rebuilt, attitudes changing -- 33 years after South Vietnam fell...

by Antony Duc Le writing for VietWill (April 24, 2008). By all accounts, the Ho Chi Minh City leg of the Olympic Torch relay taking place on the 29th of April is expected to be relatively trouble free for the Beijing government. Most likely, we will not see protesters in support of Tibet or Darfur in the streets due to Vietnam's strict laws governing public demonstrations. However, that does not mean that the Vietnamese people are welcoming the Olympic torch with open arms. On the contrary, for the past months, there have been intense discussions on internet forums and blogs...