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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been 17 years since I last visited Vietnam. I had planned my revisit to this easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula long before the Easter bombing disasters, so it was a trip I had to ...

What you first notice are the shacks with some Vietnamese soldiers. Some of them are bent over their weapons, some are standing guard, and some seem like they have just sat down to catch their breath.

The photographs never quite capture it—those stark black and white images of the Vietnam War that we’ve all seen in history books. But standing at the entrance to the Cu Chi Tunnels, 90 minutes from ...

Hundreds of thousands of British tourists flock to Vietnam every year, from luxurious seaside resorts to backpacking hotels. However, many are also coming to experience a morbid destination. The most ...