HANOI: Grinning widely, Tran Quang Thieu brandishes the day’s haul: 10 kilos of rats caught in rice paddies near Hanoi. A menace to Vietnam’s rice crop, the vermin are regularly trapped -- and ...

He found it in a generation-younger group of local Vietnam War veterans. The 30-member-strong group calls itself the Rat Pack. George Garcia, a retired manager with the Bureau of Land Management ...

The Vietnam War was a complex, controversial conflict ... two Army soldiers who became part of a unit called “The Tunnel Rats” for volunteering to explore tunnels the VC had dug in the jungles ...