Editor's note: This is one in a series of journal entries from Rick Gunn, a South Lake Tahoe photographer, detailing his two-year bicycle journey around the world. Along the ...

The bridge is located along the 17th parallel—the demarcation line from which Vietnam’s demilitarized zone (DMZ) extended for three miles on either side. It was active until the country ...

The war turned Vietnam’s lush landscapes into scorched earth. Entire provinces were reduced to rubble, waterways were polluted, forests decimated, and soil rendered infertile by chemicals ...

VOV.VN - The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team EOD1 from PeaceTrees Vietnam recently safely handled hundreds of explosive ...

In 1954, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh and backed by China and the Soviet Union, was established north of the 17th parallel.

However, it temporarily divided Vietnam into two zones along the 17th parallel, a northern zone governed by the communist party-ruled then Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist ...

The Geneva Accords temporarily divided Vietnam into two distinct parts: the North and the South. This was an attempt made by the French to accept the end of their colonial rule in Vietnam however the ...

Immediately south of the 17th parallel, where the First ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) Division, its fighting qualities sapped by the Buddhist crisis, held the line, ...

Communism and Vietnam ... parallel as provisional dividing line between the zone of French occupation and that of Viet Minh control, its forces retreated to a compromise at the 17th parallel ...