It was wishful thinking to imagine that Peter Farrelly would go back to making dick and fart jokes with his brother, Bobby, after winning Best Picture for Green Book, whose road to Academy glory began here in Toronto four years ago. How are you gonna keep him on the flatulence farm when he’s seen the […]
Tag: Vietnam
Your Next Hot Fashion Is Made in Vietnam
Xuan-Thu Nguyen hadn’t been back to Vietnam in eight years when she landed in Ho Chi Minh City for the annual Vietnam International Fashion Week last April. Xuan-Thu, a Vietnamese-born, Dutch-raised fashion designer, is based in Paris, where she’s going on her third season as an invited member of the exclusive Paris Haute Couture Week […]
US general made preparations to nuke Vietnam behind president’s back, declassified memo shows
The commander of US forces in Vietnam had devised a secret plan to use nuclear warheads against the communist North during the Vietnam War, before President Johnson halted the ongoing preparations, declassified documents reveal. General William Westmoreland, who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968 had authorized a nuclear weapons […]
Is North Korea the next Vietnam? Don’t count on it
AS AMERICA presses North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons, it has pointed to Vietnam as an example of the prosperity that awaits the isolated state. “It can be your miracle in North Korea as well,” Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, said on July 8th, on a visit to Hanoi. It is not the first […]
Vietnam Airlines Crew Suspended After Aircraft Lands on Closed Runway
Vietnam Crew Suspended After Landing A321 on Wrong Runway Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]
Hip-Hop Is Opening Up Communist Vietnam
A monk intones a parable about life and death over a bubbling keyboard, his words a somber portent of what is to follow. The simple walking bass line builds momentum, programmed beats punch out a lolloping reggae skank, and Cam — one of the three-man Ho Chi Minh City hip-hop crew Hazard Clique — kicks […]
Actor Bill Murray writes op-ed comparing Parkland shooting activists to the students who helped end the Vietnam War
AP Images Actor Bill Murray wrote an op-ed for NBC News Think comparing the student activists of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting to the student protestors who helped end the Vietnam War. Murray also compared the difficulties of ending the Vietnam War to the challenges presented by gun-control reform. In an op-ed written for NBC News Think on […]
52 schräge Momente vom Bachelor bei den Dream Dates in Vietnam
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Stephen Colbert mocks Trump for saying he would ‘run in there’ to stop a school shooter: ‘You got five deferments from Vietnam’
CBS Stephen Colbert blasted President Trump for saying at a US governors’ meeting on Monday that he would have “run in” to stop the Parkland, Florida school shooting. Trump told the meeting, “You don’t know until you test it, but I think, I really believe I’d run in there, even if I didn’t have a […]
A Vietnam War veteran explains the tactical case for the flamethrower
US Marine Corps The US military stopped using flamethrowers in 1978, but there are several potential applications of the flamethrower to modern counter-terrorism operations. Still, the potential for uncontrollable and indiscriminate collateral damage makes them less-than-ideal for prolonged operations in urban terror strongholds like, say Mosul or Raqqa. But there’s no law against them in the […]