Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging ...

But the students all acted from a common belief that the Vietnam War was wrong. As that conflict escalated, the protests grew in strength, and some turned violent. They also triggered a backlash.

Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen's farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry ...

"Almost all of the Vietnamese people studying in Japan come from poor families who take out loans to enable their children to get there," says Nguyen's father. "The parents want to send their ...