French Indo-China is unique from another point of view. Unlike other colonies of southeast Asia -- the Philippines, Burma, Java and Malaysia, for example -- it is not a single, homogeneous country, ...

This is chiefly an account of events in French Indochina following the Japanese occupation up to the fall of Dien Bien Phu and the Communist take-over in Northern Vietnam. The author served on the ...

The French army neurosurgeon and pilot known as “Mademoiselle Helicopter" flew more than 160 wounded men from the battlefields of Indochina to hospitals in Hanoi.

French citizens are returning to set up businesses and foundations that preserve and promote their unique culture ...

Stories categorised in 'French Indochina (Vietnam)'. These stories may contain references to other themes. Day 27 - Ta Ya Koi, Yunnan Province, three miles from Mekong River. To avoid being ...

Long-running border disputes are at a decade high, as protesters in Thailand demand the prime minister's resignation ...

Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose "inspectors" on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France's ...

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers.

INDOCHINA For three years, the French have been fighting a weary, tenacious jungle war against the Communists in Indo-China. To save France's richest prewar colony (and a potentially important ...