May 7 commemorates the seventieth anniversary of the victory of the Vietnamese people in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, which ended French colonial power throughout the Indochinese peninsula. This battle, together with the Algerian war of independence concluded in 1962 and the battle of Cuito Cuanavale that ended in November 1988 due to the joint action of the Cuban-Angolan ...
On June 6, 1969, the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (FNL) together with other political and social organizations convened a Congress of representatives from the south. This congress gave rise to the creation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (GRP), which would begin to play a decisive role in the formation of ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * “Our mountains will always exist, our rivers will always exist, our people will always exist. With the American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land to make it ten times more beautiful […] Our Homeland will be reunified. Our compatriots from the North and South will meet under the same sky,” President Ho Chi Minh ...
Despite its geographical proximity to China, which became the center of the new coronavirus’ spread in early 2020. The virus spread slowly in the region for the first two months of the year, but there has been explosive growth in cases since mid-March. Thailand: royal isolation In October 2019, Thailand was ranked sixth by the WHO in terms of preparedness ...