State President Luong Cuong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh cabled congratulatory messages to French President Emmanuel ...

French Ambassador to Vietnam Olivier Brochet has underscored friendship, partnership, and trust as the three motives and ...

There were violent protests against French rule in the semiautonomous Pacific territory last year. The agreement would create ...

Vietnam wanted independence from France, but France wasn’t having it. After a big battle in 1954, Vietnam split into communist North and non-communist South.

US Ambassador Marc Knapper affirmed that the US is ready to continue working with Vietnam to deepen mutually beneficial ...

Vietnam and France have issued a joint statement on the upgrade of bilateral relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership on the occasion of Party General Secretary and State President To Lam ...

Nguyen Thi Thanh visited the Ho Chi Minh Space, as well as the Thang Long Imperial Citadel and Co Loa Heritage Exhibition in ...

Some key dates in Vietnam's history: 1859-83 - France slowly colonises Indochina.. 1940 - Japan takes control of Indochina.. 1945 - The Viet Minh seizes power.Ho Chi Minh proclaims independence ...

In 1945, amid the chaos of World War II, communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed revolution and demanded Vietnam's independence. France responded with armed force.

Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam and his wife, Ngo Phong Ly, with French President Emmanuel Macron, center right, and his wife Brigitte Macron, center left, pose for a photo with ...