In “Indochine” Regis Wargnier paints France’s colonial era in Vietnam on a huge canvas, reminiscent at times of “Gone With the Wind.” But while that overrated American classic begins fascinatingly and ...

HANOI, Vietnam — A tall, blond woman in black and a small Asian girl stand at the prow of a gilded barge moving slowly over a wide, junglebanked river. The woman is Catherine Deneuve, star of the 1992 ...

France will repatriate from Vietnam the bodies of six soldiers who died in Dien Bien Phu, the country’s last stand in colonial Indochina, the defence ministry said. The operation will happen “in the ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the French-Indochina War, a colonial conflict in which many Moroccans were enlisted from 1947 to 1954, just as ...

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 novel ...

On the afternoon of May 10, 1937, Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, an Indian social activist and follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was crossing a river at Kampong Luong in present-day Cambodia when he was stopped by ...

This review looks at English- and French-language books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French colonial history published since 1995. It considers issues of ideology, imperial governance, the ...

Paris (AFP) – France is to repatriate from Vietnam the bodies of six soldiers who died in Dien Bien Phu, the country's last stand in colonial Indochina, the defence ministry said. The operation will ...