When a visitor to David Thornton’s home reached out to shake hands good-bye, Thornton slyly slipped a medallion into his palm. The hefty, oval-shaped, gold plated medallion was from the Military Order ...

A new book shares the stories of Americans fleeing from being drafted into the military during the Vietnam War. The author, Joline Martin, will be hosting events in Courtenay, Comox, Port McNeill and ...

In the Kontum Province of Vietnam, near the borders with Laos and Cambodia, there were a surprisingly large number of bizarre reports from U.S. troops on patrols. They claimed to have seen a strange, ...

National Archives records show the Defence Act was amended in May 1965 to provide that conscripts could have to serve overseas and in March 1966, Menzies’ successor Harold Holt announced that national ...

The play, based on what happened to musicians who were outlawed during the Khmer Rouge regime, is a powerful, if uneven, mix of music and history.

A court in Bangkok has sentenced a Thai man who killed an opposition politician from Cambodia to life in prison ...

Thai court sentences gunman to life for killing Cambodian politician in Bangkok - Ekkalak Pheanoi confessed to the January assassination of ex-lawmaker Lim Kimya ...

The recent appearance of Vidkun Quisling in the Khmer-language press underscored a consistent political message: that only the Hun family have Cambodia’s true national interests at heart.

Coming back to the front of his mausoleum (built by the Soviets), Phong relates that Ho Chi Minh was born in 1890 into an educated family – his father was a Mandarin, working for a royal family. In ...

Former US Navy seal and Terminal List creator Jack Carr has written one of the books of the year... buckle up for the most thought-provoking page-turner of 2025 ...

Fan Bingbing’s 'Mother Bhumi' and Zhang Ziyi’s 'She Has No Name' headline the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival.