With the end of the war and the release of the POWs, many decided to tell their stories about life as a prisoner in Vietnam. Perhaps the worst of the North's prisons, this facility was built to ...

Today, the Vietnamese diaspora is a force of around 5m people, living and working everywhere from America to eastern Europe.

“I was fulfilling my responsibility to the nation.” Among the many weapons in North Vietnam’s anti-aircraft arsenal, few were more feared than the type of missiles Phiet commanded: the ...

As Memorial Day approaches, thoughts turn to the men and women who served in the U.S. military and never came home.

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The holiday involves little explicit reflection on the country’s 15-year-plus conflict, in which North Vietnam and its supporters in the South fought to unify the country under communism ...

SAIGON, Thursday, Sept. 4 – North Vietnam President Ho Chi Minh, 79, who led a 25-year fight against the French and the Americans in an attempt to bring all of Vietnam under Communist rule ...

The end of French Indochina meant major changes in the region, including the partitioning of Vietnam into communist North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and US-aligned South Vietnam. This year marks ...

“It makes me happy,” said Mr. Van Thinh, 73, a retired police chief who fought for the Communist north in the Vietnam War. “All these young people, they have better lives.” Six years ...

More than 58,000 U.S. service members died in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., lists their ...

With the end of the war and the release of the POWs, many decided to tell their stories about life as a prisoner in Vietnam. Perhaps the worst of the North's prisons, this facility was built to ...