The flag was presented to the museum by Dao Nguyen Ninh, a Vietnamese expatriate in France in March 1959. It was made in celebration of the success of the August Revolution and the nation’s ...

The French war in Indochina had already endured for seven years when in April 1953, the Viet Minh forces comprising a ragtag army of volunteers decided to take their offensive to Laos, which had ...

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has started commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu battle in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops ...

Vietnam celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French colonial occupation with a parade in a stadium in Dien Bien Phu, today home to 80,000 people.

The 56 days of shelling and direct clashes left 13,000 dead or missing on both sides. More than 3,000 of them were soldiers of different nationalities fighting under the French flag.

Vo Nguyen Giap, whose defeat of a French army in the remote Vietnamese valley of Dien Bien Phu more than a half-century ago symbolized the end of an era of colonial domination, died Friday. He was ...

Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the end of the French occupation of Indoc ...