Pleiku, Vietnam News

On completion, the 10.8m high bronze statue and stone relief of 500sq.m showing the love of the Central Highlands' people to President Ho Chi Minh, will be the largest artwork of its kind in Vietnam.

In August 1964, the U.S. Congress authorized President Lyndon Johnson to commit combat troops to Vietnam, but before he could implement his battle plan, Johnson had a more important piece of business to handle: Getting re-elected. With antiwar sentiment building in the U.S. largely on college campuses Johnson did not want to look like a warmonger, ...

For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces.

The 14th Infantry Division, Company B of the 1st Battalion was under heavy fire one February day in 1969 when a 20-year-old staff sergeant from Philadelphia was wounded by an enemy rocket that killed his lieutenant and the radioman standing in front of him.

The Central Highlands has become one of the world's most famous coffee producers.