Alexis Pye’s uncle Jessie — affectionately known as Uncle Tootie — told her he lost his eye to a rogue parrot in a jungle when she was 6. Years later, she would learn the truth about his injuries from ...

KIM LIEN, Vietnam — Today’s Vietnam may be striding toward a capitalist future, but it still clings to the memory of a Communist leader born 115 years ago in a thatched, dirt-floor hut ringed by rice ...

The task of safeguarding the embalmed corpse of Vietnam's revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh is gruelling: carefully-selected riflemen work around the clock, watching over the communist nation's ...