Moments of the Dien Bien Phu battle, in which the Vietnamese defeated the French to reclaim an important valley, were captured by many photojournalists 70 years ago. The Communist Party's Politburo ...

HANOI, May 7 (Reuters) - War veterans, party leaders and diplomats gathered in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu province on Tuesday for an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the country's victory over ...

Dien Bien province is welcoming crowds of visitors, for whom the Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum is an emotional must-see destination. May 7 this year marks the 70th anniversary of the great victory ...

‘And this,’ our guide said, ‘is where Colonel Piroth committed suicide.’ We were standing by a fenced-off scrap of wasteland on the edge of a busy market. The only evidence that anything of ...

A ceremony and parade marking the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory, a victory for the Vietnamese people and army in their nine-year resistance war against French colonialists and leading ...

Amid numerous ceremonies in France this year marking the centenary of WWI and the 70th anniversary of D-day, another war milestone is being conveniently overlooked: the Viet Minh's defeat of French ...

Sixty years ago this week, French troops were defeated by Vietnamese forces at Dien Bien Phu. As historian Julian Jackson explains, it was a turning point in the history of both nations, and in the ...