The novel is set in 1928 Vietnam, which was then under colonial French rule, and the men live ... then four and so on — days before it, slowly revealing the events leading up to the fateful ...

Like the Chinese before them, modern colonial powers also avoided the term Viet. Cochin China was used by the Portuguese to refer to the southern third of modern Vietnam, probably in order to ...

Vietnam's last emperor ascended to ... Nguyen Van Thieu briefly joined the Communist forces before abandoning them and serving in the French-controlled Vietnamese army. He served as the South ...

Those Opulent Days,” the debut novel of Jacquie Pham, is a whodunit and grim coming-of-age story. Pham lays out an enticing, ...

Before World War Two Vietnam had been part of the French Empire. During World War Two it had been invaded by Japan. Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Vietminh, a resistance army which fought for ...

The resulting media attention proved very embarrassing for the defeated French. The outcome of this defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement of July 1954 and temporarily separated Vietnam ...

France's prime minister has visited the site of the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, which led to the end of French presence ... few people have done this before me." ...

Vietnam's last emperor ascended to ... Nguyen Van Thieu briefly joined the Communist forces before abandoning them and serving in the French-controlled Vietnamese army. He served as the South ...