Hoang Thanh Tung, chair of the Vietnamese National Assembly's Legal and Judicial Committee, characterized the merger of provinces and cities as "a revolution to streamline the organizational apparatus ...

Vietnam marked a major event this week — the 50th anniversary of the end of the war between North and South Vietnam and the creation of the united country as it stands today. Historic ...

Vietnam celebrates the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace.

THE TAKEOVER UNIFIED NORTH AND SOUTH VIETNAM UNDER COMMUNIST RULE. FORMER AMBASSADOR TO CAMBODIA AND IOWAN KENNETH QUINN SAYS HE PLAYED A ROLE DURING THAT TIME.

The Vietnam War, a conflict within South Vietnam as well as between North and South Vietnam that embroiled the world’s major powers, ended 50 years ago and triggered long-lasting changes in United ...

April 30, 1975 – South Vietnam surrenders to North Vietnam as North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon, ENDING the Vietnam conflict. The war was estimated to cost about $200 billion.

April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the end of South Vietnam and the conclusion of the Vietnam War. The toll it took on both North and South was enormous: 1.1 million ...

Nguyen Cao Ky trained as a pilot in France and North Africa with Vietnam’s army in 1951, and by 1964 he was named commander of South Vietnam’s fledgling air force. The following year the army ...

So when President Dwight Eisenhower sent Edward Lansdale, an air-force officer, to help the government of South Vietnam in its struggle against the communist north, it raised little public outcry.

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 marked the end of a Vietnam divided into the communist North and U.S.-allied South, and the country’s top official told crowds the past decades had led to ...

Vietnam has celebrated the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace.