China accuses US of disturbing region as Barack Obama sets down in Vietnam

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated May 24 2016 - 12:13am, first published May 23 2016 - 11:20pm
A CIA employee (probably O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from from a rooftop near the US Embassy in former Saigon in 1975.

 Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images
A CIA employee (probably O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from from a rooftop near the US Embassy in former Saigon in 1975. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

Bangkok: US President Barack Obama has lifted a decades-old arms sales embargo to Vietnam on Monday during his first visit to the communist country.

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