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Kevin “Dasher” Wheatley and his mate, Ron “Butch” Swanton, died together in Vietnam in 1965. They have been honoured posthumously with the Medal for Gallantry.

Sixty years after they died together, two soldiers awarded for gallantry

Kevin Wheatley and Ron Swanton died together by a paddy field in Vietnam. Sixty years later, their acts of bravery have earned them Medals for Gallantry.

  • Tony Wright

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Macron kisses his wife Brigitte on election day in 2017.

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It was supposed to be a routine presidential visit. But as the doors of Emmanuel Macron’s plane opened we instead got a rare glimpse of a power couple’s extraordinary dynamic.

  • Susanna Galton
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Macron downplays video showing wife pushing his face away

The moment quickly made headlines in France, with media trying to decipher the interaction that cameras spotted through the just-opened door of the plane.

  • John Leicester
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut (centre) and Kim Phuc (left) holds the “Napalm Girl” photo in 2022.

‘Napalm Girl’ was in the photo. But who was behind the camera?

Questions about the credit for a famous photograph from the Vietnam War have divided the photojournalism community.

  • Benjamin Mullin
Garment workers in Guangzhou’s “Shein Village” district work through their lunch break to churn out fast fashion destined to be sold on Chinese e-commerce site Pindoudou.

‘Because there is no profit, no one is willing to work’: Inside China’s fast-fashion dilemma

Factory workers in Guangzhou’s ultrafast-fashion district are already counting the costs of the US-China trade war as a 90-day truce came into effect this week.

  • Lisa Visentin
The Golden Bridge is lifted by two giant hands in the tourist resort of Ba Na Hills in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Move over, Bali and Japan: The other Asian destination we’re obsessed with

There’s another place blessed with some of the finest food on the planet, landscapes that range from lowlands to mountain highs, plus two of the world’s great cities.

  • Ben Groundwater
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I skipped the big cities for Vietnam’s charming less-visited waterways

The basket boats of Ke Ga’s fishermen and the floating markets on the Mekong Delta are among the many attractions to discover.

  • Belinda Jackson
Vietnamese American Amanda Nguyen.

There’s a reason some Vietnamese restaurants fly a yellow flag, others a red

Duality lives in the bones of my generation divided by conflict: in the way elders hoard plastic bags like wartime rations, in the hesitation when hearing a northern accent.

  • Jenny Tran
Vietnamese female police officers march during a parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City.
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World in pictures this week, May 1, 2025

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors

Dinh Nguyen escaped from Vietnam after more than six years in a “re-education camp” after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

When Saigon fell, Dinh Nguyen was condemned to torment beyond imagining

Dinh Nguyen has lived through pain and loss inconceivable to most of us. But on the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, he says he lives in heaven now.

  • Tony Wright

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