It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. It’s also unusual that such a novel ...

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — 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 ...

A remote valley became the graveyard of a colonial empire. At Dien Bien Phu, French forces were encircled by General Giáp’s ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

"Building on archival work undertaken in France and fieldwork undertaken in Southeast Asia, Museum-Making in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia provides a critical analysis of museum histories and ...

The border tensions that continue to trouble mainland Southeast Asia are often mischaracterised as products of modern nationalism or regional rivalry. This explanation is convenient — but incomplete.

THOSE OPULENT DAYS: A Mystery. By Jacquie Pham. Atlantic Monthly Press. 304 pages. $27. It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina ...