Southeast Asia

What went wrong at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond?

2013-03-02 13:16:00

Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground has earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties. Viewed from above, the man-made pond looks much darker...

Vietnam, 50 years on

2012-12-28 12:39:00

HANOI, Vietnam -- It has been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. "advisers" to South Vietnam to help battle the communist North and 37 years since the end of that divisive war and the country's unification under Communism. Today,...

Obama needs Hagel in the Pentagon

2013-01-02 10:47:00

Absent from the discussion about whether former Senator Chuck Hagel would make a good secretary of defense is any focus on lessons learned from personal factors like combat in war, as well as loyalty to the president. As I was grousing about this, my...

Brewing trouble in Asian waters

2012-08-22 14:10:00

Although Americans wish to focus on the anemic economy and upcoming election, the wider world may intervene. Competing claims over sovereignty in the waters around China — the East China Sea and the South China Sea — threaten to transform from...

From Owings Mills High School to a cell at Guantanamo

2012-03-03 14:20:00

A studious young man with an aptitude for computers, Majid Shoukat Khan was working as a database administrator in a high-rise office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. After American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the...

Catonsville American Legion Post to honor Vietnam War veterans Saturday

2012-05-22 14:15:00

Veterans of one of the most controversial wars in American history will be honored for their service this Memorial Day Weekend, thanks to the efforts of a determined group of members from the Jackson and Johnson American Legion Post 263 in Catonsville....

A death from cancer, and a search for answers

2011-10-08 13:46:00

Randy White had just buried a daughter, dead at 30 with a brain tumor. Now his other daughter had been diagnosed with growths in her abdomen. When doctors told White in 2009 that their conditions were likely caused by something in their environment,...

Uprooting a mystery

2008-10-13 00:00:00

At first, he thought it must be a hoax. The man in the picture didn't have hands at the ends of his arms; he had what looked like tree branches - two masses of tangled, overgrown bark. In more than 20 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Anthony Gaspari,...

A versatile virus

2005-07-01 00:00:00

The flu season that arrives each fall kills an average of 36,000 people in the United States alone. Far deadlier are worldwide outbreaks, called pandemics, that periodically sweep through human populations. Over the past 300 years, there have been 10...

U.S. intensifies air attacks

2001-10-11 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - As the United States pounded targets in Afghanistan for a fourth day, U.S. forces launched their heaviest attack against the capital, Kabul, igniting explosions around a Taliban military academy, artillery units and suspected terrorist camps....

Terror-linked arrests in Singapore alarm many

2002-01-13 00:00:00

SINGAPORE - Singapore boasts one of the world's most efficient intelligence gathering networks. So when suspected al-Qaida terrorists were arrested here on suspicion of plotting to blow up the U.S. Embassy, it sent an alarming message: If terrorists can...

At Phillips seafood, tsunamis hit close to home

2005-01-07 00:00:00

In devastated villages of southeast India yesterday, the head of Phillips Foods Inc.'s India division spent the day on a truck, delivering rice and water. The head of Phillips in Thailand did the same, in Thai fishing villages where the homes of...

Linda Beuret and her husband, Peter, traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia in January to sail on the Mekong River, which had been a dream of theirs. "We were amazed at the Mekong River and all the people who live on the river without stepping on land," she said.

2013-05-10 18:11:48

. Golden barges shaped like swans and mythical sea creatures glided down the Chao Phraya river that winds through the Thai capital of Bangkok on Friday in a 700-year-old ceremony, with more than 2,000 rowers taking part.

2012-11-09 00:00:00

Prayut Piangbunta, director and chief winemaker, checks the wine in a cellar at the PB valley winery in Khao Yai around 200 kms northeast of Bangkok.

2012-10-14 18:04:11