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. It’s also unusual that such a ...

Woven into the fabric of modern-day streets, the aging electrical substations of Saigon stand as quiet witnesses to a ...

The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army that fought in both World Wars. According to historians ...

Hanoi architectural works in 1954 - 1986 period are also considered a valuable heritage, which for many decades were ...

The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army that fought in both World Wars. According to historians ...

After Malika and Allal marry, he leaves with the French colonial army to fight in Indochina. She and Merzougue soon learn of his death in combat, and Taia stages a touching scene in which the pair ...

In the International Colonial Exhibition of Paris in 1931 ... A major work by Boullard-Devé is a large portfolio of twenty printed plates entitled “Visions of Indochina”. Published in 1929, the ...

The French are making a lot of movies about their colonial experience in Indochina right now (just as the British were in the mid-1980s). Let's hope the other examples of this trend are more ...

F rom the emerald waters of Ha Long Bay to the lush rice terraces of Sapa, and from the bustling cities of Hanoi and Saigon to the lantern-lit town of Hoi An and the imperial city of Hue, Vietnam has ...

Senegal Commemorates French Colonial Massacre WION Video Team | Updated: Dec 01, 2024, 09:20 PM IST Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for ...