Jacquie Pham's debut novel, “Those Opulent Days,” begins where many thrillers these days begin: with the site of a death, assumed to be a murder. Readers don't know, at first, who died — it ...

But it wasn’t until French colonists declared Saigon the capital of their protectorate of “Cochinchina” in 1861 that the city really began to flourish and expand. In the 1850s, persecution ...

She struggled to reconcile whether she was French or Vietnamese, frequently reflecting on her past and wondering about her ...

He returned to Vietnam to rule under French control until he was ousted by South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem in a rigged election in 1954. Known popularly as "Big Minh," Duong led the South ...