Photo by Robert Capa/Magnum Scroll through the comments section of any popular YouTube video about Vietnamese history, and ...

In 1790, the founder of the Nguyen Dynasty which ruled Vietnam into the 20th ... government and residential buildings, even erect a European-style cathedral. French soldiers, businessmen ...

Apart from the common universal architecture of the contemporary world, there are also classical French buildings like the ... the national flag of Vietnam. The five points of the star symbolise ...

Binh Dang A few years ago, a French-German TV crew visited my home in Hanoi for an interview on how Vietnam had changed ... holes pocking the walls of the buildings within the Citadel and elsewhere.

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 ...

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 ...