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 ...

In the 1850s, persecution of French missionaries gave France an excuse to expand their colonial empire into Vietnam. In 1859, French troops destroyed the citadel at Gia Dinh. Skirmishes continued ...

Dalat Railway Station, a national cultural heritage site, houses one of the world’s rarest cog rail systems. The station’s French colonial architecture and the nostalgic charm of steam locomotives ...

However, the influence the French in the trade and politics of Vietnam culminated in Vietnam becoming a French colony in 1887. The colonial rule continued until Vietnam's independence in 1954.

Speaking to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the CPV’s 95th founding anniversary (February 3, 1930 – 2025), De ...

Le Colonial, the San Francisco restaurant that has stoked controversy for its invocation of the French colonial occupation of Vietnam, has closed for good, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Uch Leang, Acting Director of the Department of Asian, African, and Middle-East Studies under the International Relations ...

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 ...

In 1954, the French were finally defeated by the Viet Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. This defeat was formalised in the Geneva Agreement and temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones ...