At first encounter, Guillaume Richard found himself engrossed in Tran Quynh Anh's talk about the history of Dien Bien Phu Battle and her family traditions, while Quynh Anh admired his grandparents’ ...

A ceremony and parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory, a victory for the Vietnamese people and army in their nine-year resistance war against French colonialists and leading ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers dressed as Vietminh (communist) troops at the time of the Dien Bien Phu battle parade during official celebrations of the ...

Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have dimmed and the two nations have built a friendship atop the positive legacies of French rule. On May 7, Vietnam jubilantly celebrated the 70th ...

The final rehearsal for the national-level celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Battle (May 7, 1954 - 2024) took place in the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien ...

The national archives on the Dien Bien Phu campaign and the Geneva Conference in 1954 have been made public for the first time on the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory and the signing of ...

In the fall of 1953, the fortunes of the Vietminh Communists looked brighter than ever in their seven-year war against Vietnam’s erstwhile colonial masters, the French. General Vo Nguyen Giap, chief ...

The French strong-points at Dien Bien Phu in northwest Vietnam are falling again. Not, as in 1954, to Viet-Minh attacks, but rather to the bulldozers of progress. The entrenched ‘air-land’ camp of ...

War veterans, communist leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu town Wednesday for an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the country's seminal victory over French colonial forces.