Jacquie Pham's debut novel, “Those Opulent Days,” begins where many thrillers these days begin: with the site of a death, assumed to be a murder. Readers don't know, at first, who died — it ...

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 ...

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.

A brilliant military tactician, Vo commanded the Vietminh forces that liberated Vietnam from French colonial rule, fought the Americans and the South Vietnamese, and reunified Vietnam as a ...

THE VIETNAM WAR The Landmark Documentary Event by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Returns Thursday, March 27 at 9:00 pm Episode One: “Deja Vu (1858-1961)” After a long and... Read More ...

While many dismissed those worries as frivilous, they exposed a nostalgia for something lost. During the abyss of Vietnam’s struggles with French colonialism, pho, bun cha and other street delicacies ...