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 ...

French Indochina . The Battle of Dien Bien Phu and the French Colonial Legacy in Vietnam By Buu Nguyen. Seven decades after the communist victory, memories have ...

“Malraux blamed the French colonial authorities for failing to bring to Indochina the values of the 1789 Revolution and, in particular, the Declaration For Human and Citizen Rights,” said Jennar.

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 ...

By 1934, the PTT had all the trappings of a modern system, with radio, radiotelegraph, airmail, package delivery and a well-organised mail service within Indochina as well as in France. The French ...

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.

A roundtable discussion on his book Indochine Francaise. Souvenirs (French Indochina Memories) was held in Ha Noi on Wednesday on the occasion of the book’s publication in Vietnamese. The book, which ...