Dan Hauer, who teaches English and is fluent in Vietnamese, had a wide following on social media for his language tips and cultural observations. Then he made a joke about a revered national hero.
Trump declined to say if meeting with Philippine president touched on human rights over Duterte's bloody war on drugs, but the White House says it did come up, briefly.
In a speech that sounded at times like an airing of economic grievances, the president told APEC member nations that the U.S. will no longer tolerate unfair trade practices.
Putting regional pressure on the Kim Jong Un regime is expected to be the main push of the five-country tour that includes Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Almost 50 years ago, a small group of families started a movement to demand an accounting of the nation's POW/MIAs. They changed the way America thinks about its servicemen and women lost at war.
Burns says he and co-director Lynn Novick initially thought they understood the Vietnam War. But when they started putting together their new PBS series, they realized, "We knew nothing."
Germany says an asylum-seeker who vanished in Berlin and turned up in Vietnam was snatched by Vietnamese agents. Vietnam says the man turned himself in. Now Germany is expelling a Vietnamese official.
Pho has a rich role in Vietnamese, Vietnamese-American, and now, American culture. That's why a video featuring a white chef explaining how to eat pho as the next trendy food angered so many.