The Hanoi air defence grids and all across northern Vietnam defended their skies with bravery in an aerial raids, known in VN as "Dien Bien Phu in the Air" and in the US as the 1972 Christmas bombing.

A special exhibition in Hanoi vividly recreates the fierce struggle by Vietnam’s armed forces and people to defend the ...

HANOI (AFP): Ninety-six-year-old Hoang Vinh proudly shows off a metal badge picturing a communist soldier holding a rifle, a reminder of the battle he fought in Vietnam's Dien Bien Phu to push out ...

Vietnam won the Dien Bien Phu battle 70 years ago, forcing the French government to sign the Geneva Agreement in July 1954 and marking the end of the French military presence in the Indochina. The ...

A legendary journalist’s account of his meeting with President Ho Chi Minh about the battle that ended French colonialism. from Wilfred Burchett, North of the 17th Parallel, 1955 A sun-helmet lay on ...

President Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap are the two leaders who led the Dien Bien Phu Campaign to a victory on May 7, 1954. President Ho Chi Minh and General Vo Nguyen Giap are the two ...

Sixty years ago, French troops were crushed by Vietnamese fighters in a landmark battle that led to the country's independence, dented Paris's prestige and fuelled independence movements in other ...

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 ...

VOV.VN - Vietnam Airlines officially launched its first nonstop air route connecting Ho Chi Minh City and Dien Bien on ...