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In this photo provided by the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, center, speaks from Singapore during a videoconference on COVID-19 between ASEAN Foreign Ministers and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday, April 23, 2020. (Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

US blasts China at Southeast Asian meeting on coronavirus

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Southeast Asian ministers endorse plans for pandemic fund

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2018, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the Liaoning aircraft carrier is accompanied by navy frigates and submarines conducting an exercises in the South China Sea. Despite the coronavirus outbreak, China is keeping up with military exercises around Taiwan at the northern edge of the South China Sea. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP, File)

Philippines backs Vietnam after China sinks fishing boat

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

A woman cycles past closed shops in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, March 27, 2020. Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered to shut down non-essential business to curb the spread of COVID-19. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Vietnam orders non-essential businesses to close for 2 weeks

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A woman takes away signs after the cancellation of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne, Friday, March 13, 2020. The first F1 Grand Prix of the season was canceled two hours before the first official practice was set to start Friday after organizers relented to pressure to call it off amid the spreading coronavirus. (Michael Dodge/AAP Image via AP)

Bahrain and Vietnam GPs off because of coronavirus outbreak

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

In this file photo, President Donald Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Vice Chief of Staff Army Gen. Jack Keane in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Jack Keane gets Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Dove Formation Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

If Taliban initiates any new war offensive in Afghanistan, U.S. must get involved

By Gary Anderson

FILE - In this July 8, 2003, file photo, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and perhaps the most prominent dissident in Vietnam, talks during an interview at the Thanh Minh Zen Monastery in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Do, who became the public face of religious dissent in Vietnam while the communist government kept him in prison or under house arrest for more than 20 years, died Saturday in Ho Chi Minh City. He was 91. (AP Photos/Richard Vogel)

Vietnam dissident Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do dies at 91

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EU adopts Vietnam trade deals despite human rights concerns

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People wear face masks and walk at a shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. People wear face masks as they walk through a shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. According to the Taiwan Centers of Disease Control (CDC) Friday, the tenth case diagnosed with the new coronavirus has been confirmed in Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Coronavirus death toll surpasses SARS

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, photo, a nurse checks on a patient in the isolation ward for 2019-nCoV patients at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. The number of confirmed cases of the new virus has risen again in China on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, as the ruling Communist Party faced anger and recriminations from the public over the death of a doctor who was threatened by police after trying to sound the alarm about the disease over a month ago. (Chinatopix via AP)

Mainland China virus cases rise again after earlier decline

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, photo, South Korean protesters stage a rally calling for a ban on Chinese people entering South Korea near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. A scary new virus from China has spread around the world. So has rising anti-Chinese sentiment, calls for a full travel ban on Chinese visitors and indignities for Chinese and other Asians. The sign reads: &quot;No Entry.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Coronavirus fears trigger anti-China sentiment worldwide

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

'Seabee 71 in Chu Lai' (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Seabee 71 in Chu Lai’

By Paul Davis

In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, photo, South Korean protesters stage a rally calling for a ban on Chinese people entering South Korea near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. A scary new virus from China has spread around the world. So has rising anti-Chinese sentiment, calls for a full travel ban on Chinese visitors and indignities for Chinese and other Asians. The signs read: &quot;No Entry.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Fears of new virus trigger anti-China sentiment worldwide

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

'Autopsy of an Unwinnable War' (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Autopsy of an Unwinnable War’

By Joshua Sinai

In this Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019, photo, Memphis native, Lt. Col. James Williams, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam poses for a portrait in front of his sister's home in Cordova, Tenn. Williams and other veterans returned to Hanoi, Vietnam, to gain closure from their time at war. Williams connected with a Valor Administration representative who notified him of the trip to Vietnam, a golden opportunity to complete part of his living list. (Ariel Cobbert/The Commercial Appeal via AP)

Vietnam War POW meets widow of pilot who shot his plane down

By MAX GARLAND and Commercial Appeal - Associated Press

This July 9, 2019, file photo shows pedestrians walking across the street from the Twitter office building in San Francisco. Twitter says it has removed nearly 6,000 accounts it has deemed tied to a state-backed information operation in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Twitter, Facebook ban fake users; some had AI-created photos

By MAE ANDERSON - Associated Press

In this Nov. 25, 2019 photo, Stacey Pflaum tells the story of finding her Army veteran father through a genealogy search in the back room of Plum Trophy store in Sumrall, Miss. Pflaum knew her father's name was John Richard Hubbard. She knew he was a sergeant major in the Army, but until recently never knew what her father looked like. (Cam Bonelli/Hattiesburg American via AP)

After 52 years, woman finds photo of father she never met

By LICI BEVERIDGE and Hattiesburg American - Associated Press

Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama reacts as she listens to female students at Can Giuoc high school in Long An province, Vietnam on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Mrs. Obama is on a visit to Vietnam to promote education for adolescent girls. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Michelle Obama promotes girls education in Vietnam school

By HAU DINH - Associated Press

Morgan couple wants to honor soldiers killed in Vietnam

By DEANGELO MCDANIEL and Decatur Daily - Associated Press