-(Dow Jones)- The State Bank of Vietnam, or the country's central bank, said Saturday that it has agreed to allow Vietnam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank to sell 25% stakes to four foreign…

Ernie Barbosa, a sergeant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, sat in the moonlight before a replica of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial — 58,256 names etched in white that from a distance loo…

Southeast Asian countries are scrambling to demonstrate that they can lead the international effort to assist cyclone victims in neighboring Burma, with a meeting planned for Monday at which foreign ministers will confront their Burmese counterpart over the government’s response to the crisis.

ARLINGTON, Va. - A small band of former Hmong soldiers and their American advisers gathered at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday to remember comrades killed in the U.S. covert war in Laos.

WORLD REACTION Rising food prices have set off riots and protests in dozens of nations around the world. Actions governments have taken to prevent unrest. PHILIPPINES: Government says it will issue “rice access cards” to the poor to buy subsidized grain and orders a crackdown on hoarders and speculators. THAILAND: The world’s biggest rice exporter proposes an OPEC-style cartel with Laos, …

The United Nations sees renewed momentum for a global ban on cluster bombs as more than 100 nations — but not the world’s top users and stockpilers — gather in Dublin to finalize an anti-cluster munitions treaty.

Support for a ban on cluster weapons has risen sharply since 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, when, according to United Nations estimates, Israeli troops fired some four million Vietnam War-era submunitions, of which a quarter failed to explode.