In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

Vietnam was a French colony when communist-led rebels defeated French troops at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. At that point, the country was divided between north and south, with communists in ...

The elections were never held and the country remained divided: North Vietnam was a communist republic led by Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam was a capitalist republic led by Ngo Dinh Diem. The ...

The government plans to complete the north-south high-speed rail within 10 years ... Infrastructure is among Vietnam’s key pillars in achieving a minimum GDP growth of 8% this year and ...

President of North Vietnam from 1954 until his death ... decided to give its support to the non-communist government of South Vietnam, led by Ngo Dinh Diem. If you were going to pick a political ...

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese veterans and their families are still battling political and logistical ...

An original founder of the Indochina Communist Party, Le served on North Vietnam's Central Committee under Ho, and directed the formation of an underground Communist organization in South Vietnam.

and the narrative of unification of North and South Vietnam in "Mùa Gió Chướng" ("Whirlwind Season") (1978). Allison is a professor of military history at Georgia Southern University.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has announced that construction of the high-speed North-South railway will begin in December 2027, with completion expected by 2035. Vietnam’s high-speed North-South ...