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Last year, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said: "Our job at Facebook is to help people make the greatest positive impact while mitigating areas where technology and social media can contribute to divisiveness and isolation." As a Vietnamese musical artist who grew up in a totalitarian society, I can attest to the positive impact Facebook can make.
Independence Day brings out this country's most patriotic expressions, from marching flag-wavers to parades of fez-wearing Shriners in mini-cars. This year, America celebrates its 242nd birthday, a year when the country actively redefines its concept of greatness.
In this Dec. 1, 2017 file photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., leaves a closed-door session on Capitol Hill in Washington. A possible U.S. Senate vacancy in Arizona would be temporarily filled by a Republican appointee in the event of the death of Sen. John McCain, who is battling cancer, but it's unclear whether an election would be held in November or 2020.
Senator Robert Kennedy & wife Ethel standing at podium, addressing his constituents & the press at the Ambassador Hotel after his CA primary election victory and just prior to his assassination. In this April 28, 1965 file photo, U.S. Marine infantry stream into a suspected Viet Cong village near Da Nang in Vietnam during the Vietnamese war.
On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.
Hanoi, March 4 : A US Navy aircraft carrier will set anchor in Vietnam on Monday, for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War more than four decades ago, the media reported. The four-day visit by the USS Carl Vinson and its contingent of 5,000 sailors and aviators has been deemed as a historic opportunity to enhance the budding friendship that has emerged between the two former foes, reports CNN.
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service recently opened a new office in Hanoi, Vietnam. The office will play a vital role in helping expand the United States' $2.5 billion agricultural export market in Vietnam.
Two U.S. F-22 fighter jets chased Russian Su-25 planes out of the deconfliction zone in Syria on Wednesday using flares. Russian jets moved into the deconfliction zone east of the Euphrates River, but were quickly forced out by a pair of F-22 stealth fighters, which launched warning flares, a Pentagon official told The Washington Examiner on Thursday.
In this Aug. 16, 2017 photo, the national flags of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are lit by stage lights before a news conference, at the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations in Washington. Mexico is taking U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to leave NAFTA more seriously as a second round of talks opens Friday, Sept.
Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct - WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans scrambled on Friday to find a way to block Roy S. Moore's path to the Senate, exploring extraordinary measures to rid themselves of their own Senate nominee in Alabama For Alabama Women, Disgust, Fatigue and a Sense Moore Could Win Anyway - VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. - Sallie Gunter, 61, a freelance court reporter, was having breakfast with her friend Lisa Hicks, 44, a legal assistant, at Panera Bread when the subject of Roy S. Moore came up.
Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct - WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans scrambled on Friday to find a way to block Roy S. Moore's path to the Senate, exploring extraordinary measures to rid themselves of their own Senate nominee in Alabama For Alabama Women, Disgust, Fatigue and a Sense Moore Could Win Anyway - VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. - Sallie Gunter, 61, a freelance court reporter, was having breakfast with her friend Lisa Hicks, 44, a legal assistant, at Panera Bread when the subject of Roy S. Moore came up.
US president sends hardline message on South China Sea and trade protectionism while Chinese leader offers his country as a defender of globalisation No sooner had the leaders of China and the United States patted each other on the back for a swag of business deals in Beijing than they were taking diverging stands on global trade at a regional summit in Vietnam. The two presidents arrived on Friday in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang, a former American military base facing the South China Sea, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO summit, just hours after both lauded the success of US President Donald Trump's first state trip to China.
President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shake hands during a meeting at the Blue House in Seoul on Nov. 7. President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shake hands during a meeting at the Blue House in Seoul on Nov. 7. As he travels across Asia, President Trump is pushing an ambitious if still vague new foreign policy: a "free and open Indo-Pacific" stretching from the West Coast to Japan, down through Southeast Asia to Australia, and west across another ocean to India.
Ca Mau, Vietnam: It could have been 1969 again as US Secretary of State John Kerry stood on the bow of the small boat chugging up the Bay Hap River on Saturday, the wind billowing his sleeves and his eyes darting left and right toward banks shrouded in dark foliage. As a young Navy lieutenant, Kerry commanded a Swift boat along this stretch of churning brown waters in the middle of a free-fire zone.
Secretary of State John Kerry, making his last trip as the top U.S. diplomat, on Friday defended the 12-nation trade pact that the incoming administration said it would scrap and urged countries to refrain from provocative acts in the South China Sea. "I can't predict what the new administration is absolutely going to do with the trade, but I can absolutely tell you that the fundamental reasons for the TPP haven't changed," Kerry told students of University of Technology and Education in southern Ho Chi Minh City, referring to the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.
As I sat talking with John Edwards at Valencia's Corner Bakery recently, it dawned on me that I was speaking with a true American hero right here in our midst. John, an Army brat and his three brothers, grew up on various U.S. Army bases around the country, and the world for that matter.
Donald Trump should be magnanimous and gracious toward those whom he defeated this week, but his first duty is to keep faith with those who put their faith in him. The protests, riots and violence that have attended his triumph in city after city should only serve to steel his resolve.
King Ogabe graced the Laotian people with his omniscient presence, a pleasant distraction from the oppressive Marxist thugs they normally have to applaud for, I'm sure. And in all of you here today - and especially the young people of Laos - we see the diversity that is the strength of this nation.
He met with heads of state, lawmakers and a battery of dissidents, in between lifting a half-century-old trade embargo and negotiating access to key ports. By the time President Obama filed past more than 2 million people lining the streets of Ho Chi Minh City and flew to Japan aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night for a Group of Seven summit, he hadn't publicly uttered the words "Donald Trump" in days.