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 ...

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.

The convention divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel into North and South Vietnam. From 1946 to 1954, the United States provided over four billion dollars of aid to the French and Indo-Chinese, ...

Accords were an important milestone for national independence, while recent threats to national sovereignty in South China Sea pose 'considerable challenge' to national independence ...

1954 - At Geneva Conference, Vietnam is split into North and South at the 17th Parallel. 1956 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem begins campaign against political dissidents. 1957 - Beginning ...

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 ...