Vietnam war hero dies

One of Vietnam's war heroes, the spy, Major General Vu Ngoc Nha, has died.

General Nha worked as an advisor to three presidents in the South of the country - Presidents Ngo Dinh Dziem, Dzuong Van Minh, known as Big Minh, and Nguyen Van Thieu throughout much of the Vietnam war - all the time feeding information back to the Communist North.

He was eventually caught by American intelligence, the CIA, but was released in a prisoner exchange and sent back to the North in 1973.

General Nha was widely known in Vietnam as Mr Advisor, after a book and TV series on his life.

The General, who was 75, had been suffering from liver cancer.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service